Canucks: Selecting the all-decade team of the 2010s

At The Canuck Way, we’re takeing one more trip down memory lane for the 2010s.  Here are the votes for the Vancouver Canucks’ all-decade team.

For the first three years of the 2010s decade, the Vancouver Canucks enjoyed their greatest run in franchise history.

They won another Northwest Division title in 2009-10, and it was followed by consecutive Presidents’ Trophies in 2010-11 and 2011-12. The highlight of the decade, of course, was Vancouver’s trip to the 2011 Stanley Cup Final, where they fell to the Boston Bruins in a back-and-forth seven-game series.

They missed the playoffs in five of the next seasons from 2014 to 2019, but the team finally appears to be turning a corner. General manager Jim Benning has drafted numerous stars — namely Elias Pettersson, Quinn Hughes and Brock Boeser — who will hopefully lead this team to a new decade of dominance in the 2010s.

So yes, it was simply a decade full of ups and downs for Vancouver. But before the 2010-11 campaign, Canuck fans had only been able to celebrate two trips to the Stanley Cup Final. They fell just one game shy of reaching the ultimate dream, and for that, it’s safe to say that the decade was largely a successful one for this franchise.

As the decade moved along, Vancouver bid farewell to many of its fan favorites, plus a handful of franchise icons. This included Daniel and Henrik Sedin, Alexandre Burrows, Ryan Kesler, Sami Salo and Roberto Luongo, among others.

With these players gradually leaving over time, Benning and the front office assembled a new young core to build around. But did any of the new core players make our Vancouver Canucks’ 2010s all-decade team?

Nine of us from The Canuck Way voted on the three best forwards, two best defenceman plus the top goalie and head coach for the Canucks of the 2010s decade. Here are the final tallies.