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Langley kid Danton Heinen looks like he might fit well with J.T. Miller and Brock Boeser, but so does Dakota Joshua
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Boston Bruins Danton Heinen is greeted by team-mates after scoring first period goal against the Montreal Canadiens in Montreal Thursday March 14, 2024. Heinen will be playing for his hometown team the Vancouver Canucks this season. Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette
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Alex Burrows proved to be the perfect winger for the Sedin twins.
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Danton Heinen grew up a fan of Burrows and the Sedins.
Can he play the Burrows to a modern Canucks dynamic duo?
When you pencil in the Vancouver Canucks 2024-25 lineup, it sure looks like Heinen will be lined up next to J.T. Miller and Brock Boeser.
A defensively responsible winger with a touch of scoring talent, Heinen is a fascinating add by the Canucks.
Danton Heinen scores against new teammate Thatcher Demko in February. Photo by Rich Gagnon /Getty Images
He’s mostly played as a depth winger for his three previous teams, the Boston Bruins, Anaheim Ducks and Pittsburgh Penguins, but he’s still produced. Twice in the past three seasons he’s hit the upper teens in goals.
There’s little doubt he’s a perfectly suited third line winger, but could he be more? To play with Miller and Boeser means facing top-end opposition night in, night out, and being ready to be an aggressive forechecker.
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Heinen admitted this week he’s excited about signing for his hometown team but was modest in replying to a question about what it is the Canucks said they’re looking for from him.
“This is a good team. It’s close to winning,” he said.
But you know that the chance to play for a high-tempo team like head coach Rick Tocchet’s Canucks has great appeal for Heinen.
“Can he be more” can also be asked of Dakota Joshua, the Canucks’ incumbent left winger on the third line. His game is more rambunctious than Heinen’s, but he’s similarly smart in his own end and has a nose for the net as well.
Canucks winger Dakota Joshua helped hold Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl to just one assist in Game 7 of the second-round playoff series. Photo by Derek Cain /Getty Images
Joshua was on pace for 20 goals last season before breaking his hand in a fight. He was a quality third-liner for the Canucks, but given the growth in his game, could he be more?
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The man himself thinks he can still do more. He’s hoping to hit the ground running this season; last season he was criticized by Tocchet during training camp for not being as prepared as he should have been. The message landed then and Joshua quickly got himself up to speed. He doesn’t want that to happen again this year.
“Last year was great for the confidence. Building off that heading into this year, maybe not looking for my footing as much to start the year, but already rolling in there with the ability to do what I can,” he declared.
After signing a lucrative contract to remain in Vancouver, a statement by the Canucks that he can repeat the success of last season, one might think Joshua is feeling pressure. He’s not, he insists.
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“I feel like my game has got to stay the same. So not so much pressure I wouldn’t say, just got to show up every night,” he said, with his customary smile.
The loss to the Oilers in the second round of the playoffs stung, as it did for everyone involved with the Canucks.
“It doesn’t go away. I don’t know if it ever will,” he said of pushing away the memory of taking their rivals to a seventh game but not being able to find success. “But all you can do is get back there and give yourself another chance to right the wrongs. It’s not a good feeling, but at the same time, you know, we’re right there and very capable of a better outcome.”
Dakota Joshua #81 of the Vancouver Canucks and Corey Perry #90 of the Edmonton Oilers get into an altercation during the second period in Game Three of the Second Round of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs at Rogers Place on May 12, 2024 in Edmonton, Alberta. Photo by Codie McLachlan /Getty Images
IRBE ON SILOVS
Former Canucks netminder Arturs Irbe told Latvian news outlet Delfi that Arturs Silovs should be fine for the start of the season, despite the young goalie having to be held out of Latvia’ Olympic qualifier this weekend in Riga with knee inflammation. “He had a very productive and busy summer, but unfortunately he got overloaded somewhere. You have to learn from it, you need breaks, but Arturs is a person who likes to work and who likes to feel a healthy fatigue. Obviously at some unfortunate moment some small discomforts started to appear. … Like any hockey player, he tried to get work through it,” Irbe said. Silovs took some time off, but that set his preparation back and so he wasn’t 100 per cent ready to play this week, and so Irbe and his colleagues (and one suspects the Canucks) decided to sit him.
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Arturs Silovs skates onto the ice during warmup before Game Seven of the Second Round of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Arena on May 20, 2024 Photo by Derek Cain /Getty Images
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