Hawks not used to seeing only one Sedin

Consider Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville like the rest of us.

He can't tell the Sedin twins apart either.

Quenneville and the Hawks didn't need to make that distinction Wednesday night at the United Center as the Canucks played with just one Sedin for one of the rare times since they came into the league in 2000.

Daniel Sedin missed his fifth game with a broken foot that is expected to keep him out for the next 4-6 weeks. Before the injury, Daniel and Henrik Sedin had played only seven out of 410 games apart since the start of the 2003-04 season.

"I've never actually seen that before, they've always been together and they've always worked off each other," Hawks winger Patrick Sharp said.

Few duos in the NHL work as well together as the Sedins, the Swedish identical twins who know each other's moves and tendencies like the back of their hands.

"They're amazing guys," Quenneville said. "You put them together and their anticipation amongst each other, their precision passing and seeing plays before they evolve is as good as anybody in the game, but I still think one's dangerous without the other one. I still don't know which one's which."

Ebbett vs. Skille: Joel Quenneville stopped short of saying it was more than Jack Skille's $1.25 million salary cap hit that finds the former No. 1 draft pick back in the minors.

Andrew Ebbett made his Hawks debut Wednesday after being acquired from Anaheim on waivers last Saturday, replacing Skille.

"Organizationally, we think he's a real nice asset and a real nice fit for our team," Quenneville said of Ebbett. "It enhances our skill level and provides us some versatility. You're not going to get too many guys that scored 32 points in 48 games (last year)."

Ebbett played left wing on the fourth line with Colin Fraser and Tomas Kopecky, but Quenneville didn't rule out using the skilled forward in other situations on the top two lines.

"You look at his numbers from last year and they're pretty amazing numbers," Quenneville said. "I think he can be very useful in a lot of ways, be it wing or at center or playing with some of our top guys.

"It'll be interesting to see how he fits in right off the bat, but I like what I've seen so far."

The knock on the 5-foot-9, 174-pound Ebbett is he can't play on the third and fourth lines because of his size, which is basically what he admitted the Ducks told him.

Tip-ins: Jordan Hendry played on defense for the first time this season, replacing Brent Sopel, a minus-4 after eight games...Don Lever, named the new head coach of the Chicago Wolves on Wednesday, had been working as a pro scout with the Hawks...There's a feature story on Jonathan Toews in next issue of Sports Illustrated.