THE CANUCK COMPENDIUM (IAIN MACINTYRE'S COMPLETE VERSION)
Best player: Henrik Sedin.
Best player runnersup: Sami Salo (plus-12 on a team that has 13 "minus" skaters) and Daniel Sedin (15 goals and 38 points).
Player whose season is better than it looks: Ryan Kesler.
Player whose season is worse than it looks: Rory Fitzpatrick.
Players whose season is exactly as it looks: Roberto Luongo (GAA is 16th in the NHL; has been very good, but can be great).
Most disappointing player: Marc Chouinard.
Most disappointing player, *: Markus Naslund (12 goals in first 25 games, none in last 16, but still even).
Most encouraging player: Kevin Bieksa.
Most depressing statistic: Scoring (29th in the league with 2.39 average).
Most impressive statistic: Penalty killing (second in the NHL at 87.6 per cent).
Second most impressive statistic: Overtime/shootouts (Canucks are 8-1 after regulation time).
Most predictable shootout move: Kesler (drag to backhand deke).
Most effective shootout move: See answer above.
Most unorthodox shootout move: Naslund.
Best goal: Brendan Morrison, Willie Mitchell, Matt Cooke (shorthanded tic-tac-toe vs. Calgary).
Best clutch finish: Morrison.
Most surprising finish: Alex Burrows (scores first goal in Game 40 with gorgeous move on Flames netminder Miikka Kiprusoff).
Worst finish: Josh Green.
Best coaching move by Alain Vigneault: Using Trevor Linden for right shot with Sedins on the power play.
Second best coaching move: Partnering Kevin Bieksa and Willie Mitchell on a shutdown pairing.
Worst coaching move: Using Green, Kesler and Burrows while trailing in final minute vs. the Red Wings
Best quote from Vigneault: "You guys lied to me. You told me it never snowed here. And you never told me about the brown water."
Best quote from GM Dave Nonis: "Someone said to me: 'You know why Lou Lamoriello sleeps in New Jersey? Because he has Martin Brodeur.' Lou calls Marty at night and asks: 'Everything okay? Good.' Then he goes to sleep because he knows his team is going to be in every game. I'd like to sleep at night. Roberto Luongo will keep us in every game, and even on nights when we're not as good as we'd like to be, he'll get us points."
FAN FORUM
We asked you to grade the Canucks and you responded, with 265 of you voting in our online poll on Thursday. Here's a sneak peak at who you thought was hot -- and who may need a little more work on his game. Keep on voting at
www.vancouversun.com -- we'll run complete results Tuesday on Page 2.
THE HOT: GRADE As
Henrik Sedin (72.83 per cent of you, or 193 voters, gave Hank an A)
Daniel Sedin (72.45%, 192 votes)
Roberto Luongo (57.74%, 153 votes)
Kevin Bieksa (53.21%, 141 votes)
The not: GRADE Cs
Rory Fitzpatrick (Vote for Rory? We think not: 56.60% of you, or 150 voters, gave Rory a C, while 21.89% gave him a D and 4.53% gave him an F)
Markus Naslund (45.66% of you, or 121 voters, gave the Canucks' captain a C, while 26.04% gave him a D and 6.79% gave him an F)
Dany Sabourin (42.64% of you, or 113 voters, gave the Canucks' back-up goalie a C, while 34.34% of you gave him a D and 10.57% an F)