Henrik Sedin

Henrik Sedin
Hockey Hall of Fame, 2022
An ice hockey player wearing a white and blue jersey with a logo of a stylized orca in the shape of a "C". He stands relaxed on the ice looking forwards.
Sedin with the Vancouver Canucks in October 2010
Born (1980-09-26) 26 September 1980 (age 44)
Örnsköldsvik, Sweden
Height 6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Weight 188 lb (85 kg; 13 st 6 lb)
Position Centre
Shot Left
Played for Modo Hockey
Vancouver Canucks
National team  Sweden
NHL draft 3rd overall, 1999
Vancouver Canucks
Playing career 1997–2018

Henrik Lars Sedin (born 26 September 1980) is a Swedish ice hockey executive and former centre who played his entire 17-season National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Vancouver Canucks from 2000 to 2018. He additionally served as the Canucks' captain from 2010 until his retirement. Born and raised in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden, Sedin and his identical twin brother Daniel played together throughout their careers; the pair were renowned for their effectiveness as a tandem.[1][2] Henrik, a skilled passer, was known as a playmaker (150+ more career NHL assists than Daniel) while Daniel was known as a goal-scorer (150+ more career NHL goals than Henrik).[3] Sedin tallied 240 goals and 830 assists, for 1,070 points, in 1,330 NHL games, ranking him as the Canucks' all-time leading points scorer.[4]

Sedin began his career in the Swedish Hockey League with Modo Hockey in 1997 and was co-recipient, with brother Daniel, of the 1999 Guldpucken as Swedish player of the year. Selected third overall—one pick after brother Daniel—by the Canucks in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft, Sedin spent his entire NHL career in Vancouver. After four seasons with the club, he became the Canucks' top-scoring centre in 2005–06. He has since won three Cyrus H. McLean Trophies as the team's leading point-scorer (from 2007–08 to 2009–10) and one Cyclone Taylor Award as the team's most valuable player (2010). In 2009–10, he won the Hart Memorial Trophy as well as the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player and leading point-scorer, respectively.[2] He was also named to the NHL first All-Star team that year and again in 2010–11, a season that included an appearance in the Stanley Cup Finals, where Vancouver lost to the Boston Bruins in seven games. That summer, Henrik and Daniel were named co-recipients of the Victoria Scholarship as Swedish athletes of the year. Alongside his brother, Henrik was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2022.

Internationally, Sedin has competed on Sweden's national ice hockey team. He is a two-time Olympian and helped Sweden to a gold medal at the 2006 Winter Games in Turin. In five appearances at the IIHF World Championships, he has won bronze medals in 1999 and 2001 and clinched the world title in 2013. At the junior level, he appeared in one World U17 Hockey Challenge (where he won silver), two European Junior and three World Junior Championships.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference surprise was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b "Sedins set to retire with impressive numbers for Canucks". NHL.com. 5 April 2018. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
  3. ^ Dan DiSciullo (19 April 2010). "Does Sedin have Hart?". Toronto Sun. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
  4. ^ "Henrik Sedin becomes Canucks' scoring leader". NHL.com. Retrieved 15 February 2013.