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Why Your Favorite NHL Team Rocks: Canucks To Jets
Vancouver Canucks
Canucks fans have two reasons to have hope. Those two reasons? Daniel Sedin and Henrik Sedin. It’s quite scary how they are twins not just on the ice, but off it as well. Both of them played 17 minutes at five on five without the other in 2014-2015. Yes, they’re aging. However, they’re still awesome and likely will be until they retire. Bo Horvat should be taking on a larger role this year for Vancouver, which is a very good thing because Horvat is awesome.
Washington Capitals
The Capitals probably have the best team that they’ve had since at least the 2009-2010 season right now. Alex Ovechkin is still a goal scoring god who is showing no signs of slowing down. Nicklas Backstrom is criminally underrated as a two-way player. John Carlson is a dark horse Norris candidate. If the Caps go through another Game Seven (let’s not kid ourselves, that’s happening), we’ll get to see who wins between two unstoppable forces (Justin Williams and Braden Holtby in the playoffs) and an immovable object (the Caps in any Game Seven). Evgeny Kuznetsov and Andre Burakovsky look to take on larger roles in 2015 and I’m really excited to see what both of them do. Barry Trotz is a national treasure and a quote gold mine. I envy reporters who get to interview him.
Winnipeg Jets
The Jets finally have a contending team. There’s a lot to like about the Jets. Dustin Byfuglien is a dark horse Norris Candidate. Andrew Ladd and Blake Wheeler are two very good forwards. Bryan Little is quite underrated. Mathieu Perreault is an excellent role player. The Jets, who made the playoffs last season, should be able to return this season even without Michael Frolik.