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Even though the 2013 Vancouver Canucks season came to an end on Wednesday, the hockey season is not over for Daniel and Henrik Sedin, Alexander Edler, and Nicklas Jensen. All four players will be heading to Sweden and Finland to participate in the 2013 IIHF World Championship.

The Sedins and Edler could arrive as early as this Saturday to participate in Sweden’s game against Slovenia.

“These are obviously great players that will give the team a boost,” Swedish national team coach Pär Mårts told IIHF.com. “Another good thing is that this ends our process of adding players and this will give the team peace of mind to focus on the game.”

Jensen is also slated to join Denmark on Saturday in time for the game against Switzerland.

Fellow Dane and teammate, Jannik Hansen, declined to join the national team after he sustained an undisclosed injury in Game 4 against the San Jose Sharks. He finished the third period, but did not play in overtime.

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The Vancouver Canucks presented its team awards prior to Thursday’s game against the Anaheim Ducks.

Captain Henrik Sedin took home the Cyrus H. McLean Trophy as the team’s leading scorer through 46 games played. The Three Star Award, which is awarded to the player with the most three star selections, will be determined after Saturday’s game against the Edmonton Oilers.

The rest of the winners were determined by fan voting held on Canucks.com.

Winger Jannik Hansen took home the award for Most Exciting Player and ‘unsung hero’. Dan Hamhuis was voted the team’s best defenceman and goaltender Cory Schneider was deemed the  ’most valuable player’.

Ballots for the NHL Awards have been sent out to members of the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association (PHWA) and winners will be announced at the end of the season at the league’s annual awards gala. The date and venue have yet to be announced.

It was reported back in February that the awards won’t be held in Las Vegas this year because of the shortened season. The awards have been held in ‘Sin City’ since 2009.

Summary of 2012.13 Vancouver Canucks Awards:

• Cyclone Taylor – “Most Valuable Player”: Cory Schneider
• Walter (Babe) Pratt – “Best Defenceman”: Dan Hamhuis
• Most Exciting Player: Jannik Hansen
• Fred J. Hume – “Unsung Hero “: Jannik Hansen
• Three Star Award: “Most Three Stars Selections”: To be determined
• Cyrus H. McLean – “Leading Scorer “: *Henrik Sedin

*Leads the Canucks in scoring through the first 46 games played

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Vancouver Canucks captain Henrik Sedin is a ‘Good Guy Greg‘ as shown by his actions against the Nashville Predators on Monday night.

Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne lost his blocker and goal stick in the second period trying to pokecheck Daniel Sedin,who is cutting to the net with Predators defenceman Shea Weber draped all over him.

Rinne played the next little bit with his right hand behind his back a la a baseball catcher (as play-by-play announcer John Shorthouse called it) before the referees blew the whistle.

We can see in the video Henrik kicks the blocker in Rinne’s direction possibly out of frustration that the play gets blown down with the Canucks controlling play and applying pressure in the offensive zone.

As Rinne is picking up his blocker, we can see Henrik circle around the other way to pickup Rinne’s goal stick and hand it back to him.

When do we ever see a random act of kindness like this from the opposition team in a NHL game? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it before.

Last year, we saw Dallas Stars forward Adam Burish throw Winnipeg Jets winger Tanner Glass‘s glove into the stands. Kevin Bieksa threw his own glove at Minnesota Wild forward Cal Clutterbuck in an attempt to get at him.

More recently, we saw Wild forward Mikko Koivu take Alexandre Burrows‘s glove off of him on a line change and bring it to the Wild bench.