Not everybody confuses Canucks’ Sedin twins
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Inevitably whenever one of the Sedin twins comes out to speak with the media, at least one reporter will lean over and whisper to another and ask: “Which one is that?”
On the ice it’s easy to tell the Canucks’ stars apart. Henrik wears No. 33 and plays center, while Daniel is No. 22 and is a winger.
Off the ice those who are around the identical twins every day can tell them apart by certain features and mannerisms.
“They totally look different to me,” Canucks defenseman Kevin Bieksa said. “I don’t know if it’s me being around them more or what. If you look at some of their draft pictures, they looked exactly the same. Now they look different. They have different mannerisms and they look physically different.”
Last season in the playoffs Blackhawks winger Patrick Kane referred to the Sedins as “the one” and the “other one,” meaning no disrespect.
Some Hawks fans might remember how the Sedins wound up on the same team in he 1999 draft.
Brian Burke was then the Canucks’ general manager, and he made a series of trades to secure the second and third picks in the draft and used them on Daniel at No. 2 and Henrik at No. 3.
One of those deals involved the Hawks, whose GM at the time, Bob Murray, sent the No. 4 overall pick to Vancouver for defenseman Bryan McCabe and a first-round pick in 2000 that turned into the forgettable Pavel Vorobiev.
Burke used that No. 4 pick from the Hawks in deals with Tampa Bay and Atlanta to get the second and third choices.
The Thrashers took center Patrik Stefan first overall, a player who flopped while the Sedins have a chance to wind up in the Hall of Fame.