Canucks: Presenting the 2010s all-decade awards

Jacob Calvert

Toughest player

This award easily goes to Kevin Bieksa, who played six seasons with the Canucks in the 2010s decade.

Bieksa managed 23 fights over those five seasons. His record as follows is categorized into wins (Bieksa over 50 percent), losses (opponent over 50 percent) and draws (neither over 50 percent) by the voting done on by Hockey Fights, good for a record of 14-3-6. He also recorded a whopping 646 hits from 2009-10 to 2014-15.

Picking anyone else would be impossible.

Best bargain

This award was a toss up with a lot of options, but with this decade being a turning point for the franchise, there are a lot of past bargains that stopped being one a couple of seasons into the decade.

Horvat receives this award, by being on an entry-level contract for three whole seasons and for being the first of the 2010s to dethrone Henrik and Daniel Sedin for the team lead in scoring — which he accomplished in 2016-17 with 52 points.

He also re-signed a fairly team friendly contract at $33 million over six years. There could be a lot of hate on this one, but REMEMBER, its over the whole decade — and some bargains turned into overpayments.

Unsung hero

I don’t think there will be any disagreement that Jannik Hansen was the biggest unsung hero of the decade, his resurgence and commitment to the game was vital for the young players coming up to witness. No praises get sung for Hansen. Personally I can’t remember seeing many if any Hansen jerseys out there prior to 2013.

Most exciting player

For 20 percent of the decade, we have got to witness something so extravagant and spectacular that it makes up for the other 80 percent.

Elias Pettersson has been the most exciting player of the decade, arguably since Pavel Bure. This one was easy!