Remember the Vancouver Canucks’ 2016 preseason game that Anton Rodin played but didn’t record a point in? No? That’s not surprising — because there was none.
Rodin, a 2009 second-round pick, returned to Vancouver with a splash. In four preseason games so far, Rodin recorded two goals and three assists for five points, making him the team’s top scorer. He is exactly what fans hoped for, but not at all what we expected.
A 25-year-old winger that couldn’t make it in the American Hockey League was supposed to come out of Sweden three years later and be an NHL scorer.