Mattias Ohlund spend the majority of his career with the Vancouver Canucks where he provided solid defensive play, which he combined with six 30 Point Seasons.  An All-Star in 1999, the Defenseman had a respectable 343 career Points and he represented Sweden four times in the Olympics where he would help his country win the Gold in 2006.

In a 15-year NHL career Jyrki Lumme enjoyed a lot of blueline success.  Lumme, who played nine of his seasons with the Vancouver Canucks was often regarded as the team’s top defenceman and he would have four 40 Point seasons with the team.  Lumme was never an All Star, though he certainly could have been considered for one or two.

Regular visitors of Notinhalloffame.com know that we are slowly working on the top 50 of every major team in the NHL, NBA, NFL and MLB. Once that is done, we intend to look at how each team honor their past players and executive.  As such it is news to us that yesterday the Vancouver Canucks have announced that they will be installing Alex Burrows into their Ring of Honour next season.

This announcement comes at the same time that the team announced that the Sedin Twins will have their numbers retired.  The Canucks have a secondary accolade where they don’t retire numbers but place their name permanently in the arena.  

Burrows would play at Left Wing from 2005-06 to 2016-17 for 822 Games where he was one of the better defensive forwards in the Game.  The native of Quebec received Frank J. Selke Award votes six season in a row and he would score 384 Points as a Canuck. 

Burrows joins Orland Kurtenback, Kirk McLean, Thomas Gradin, Harold Snepts, Pay Quinn and Mattias Ohlund in the Vancouver Canucks Ring of Honour.

Regular visitors of Notinhalloffame.com know that we are slowly working on the top 50 of every major team in the NHL, NBA, NFL and MLB. Once that is done, we intend to look at how each team honor their past players and executive.  As such it is news to us that yesterday the Vancouver Canucks have announced that they will be retiring the numbers of both the Sedin (Daniel & Henrik) in February.

The Sedins were drafted 2^nd(Daniel) and 3^rd(Henrik) respectively in the 1999 Draft and the twins would play all 17 of his seasons with the Canucks and it when it was all said and done the brothers would become the best players in franchise history and they are the only siblings to exceed 1,000 Points each. 

Daniel Sedin is first all-time in Goals (393), and is second in Assists (648), Points (1,041) and Games Played (1,306). He would win the Art Ross Trophy and the Lester B. Pearson Award in the 2010/11 season and was also a First Team All-Star.  The season before he was a Second Team All-Star.

Henrik Sedin is first all-time in Points (1,070), Assists (830) and Games Played (1,330).  He would win the Hart Trophy and Art Ross Trophy in the 2009/10 season and that year and the one after he would be name a First Team All-Star.

Daniels’s #22 and Henrik’s #33 joins Pavel Bure (#10), Stan Smyl (#12), Trevor Linden and Markus Naslund (#19).

Not only are they having their numbers retired, the Canucks will be celebrating their accomplishments over three home games.   Danieland Henrikare eligible for the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2021 and will likely both enter on their first year of eligibility.  

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate Daniel and Henrik Sedin for earning this very prestigious honor.

It did not take long for the number two choice of the 1988 NHL Entry Draft to establish himself as a force on the Vancouver Canucks.  Trevor Linden would be named the Canucks captain at the age of 21, and his nickname of “Captain Canuck” could be one of the most appropriate monikers in Hockey.

Right when Todd Bertuzzi was hitting his stride in the National Hockey League, he derailed his career. His attack on Steve Moore from behind (which ended his career) caused Bertuzzi to be suspended for over a year. When he returned, he was not nearly the productive player he was, as the burly forward was a two-time All-Star and a power play stud prior to the suspension. Stat wise, Todd Bertuzzi finished his career with very good numbers, but it could have been so much more.

One of the better two way defensemen in Hockey, Ed Jovanovski is not the player that will put up monster point totals, but he will contribute and consistently shut down attackers. He is also one of those great teammates that does all the little things well and makes your team automatically better. In all likelihood when his career is over, Ed Jovanovski will likely not be considered for induction in Toronto, but he has a body of work that should make him closer to consideration than just his stats show.

Now we have a real test of the reduced scoring totals of the new millennium as the career tallies of Markus Naslund do not approach many of Hockey Hall of Fame inductees, but were among the best of his time.