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The Vancouver Canucks Are Fun Again

10/13/2014 at 10:25am EDT

from David Ebner of the Globe and Mail,

The team is, two games in, revived, and the score sheet on Saturday complimented new general manager Jim Benning’s off-season. Three of the four scorers are new players, just as Linden had hoped new faces would drum up fun. Then there’s the Sedins. They had their worst season in a decade under Tortorella and now have eight points between them, four points apiece.

What’s particularly interesting about the early offensive burst from the Sedins is they’re doing it without the favourable deployment they enjoyed under Alain Vigneault, and also Tortorella. The Sedins are taking more defensive zone faceoffs than offensive, a major change compared with the past five seasons, and also are putting in penalty-kill minutes.

The Sedins had a strong October last year, but this feels different. For now, it looks like the Sedins are back.

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