Had their parents pushed them towards water unfrozen, it’s conceivable Daniel and Henrik Sedin could have become the world’s greatest male synchronized swimmers.
So fluid and in sync are the Swedes that their passes to one another are never blind. They only look that way sometimes.
Precisely 33 years after the identical twins were born, the birthday boys brought a little bundle of joy to a pre-season game in Vancouver.
Watch as Daniel, positioned behind the New York Rangers goal, takes a pass from Henrik, then spins and “blindly” passes backhanded to Henrik. Hank then duplicates the action to get the puck to Alex Edler at the point. Henrik — whose age now matches his number (more symmetry!) — then completes the play by knocking in the rebound. Poetry.
The goal would hold up as the game-winner, as John Tortorella’s Canucks blanked Alain Vigneault’s Rangers 5-0 and AV learned what it’s like to be on the business end of the twins synchronized play.