I agree and disagree about the Sedins. I think it's a joke that people call them soft. That doesn't mean they deliver crushing hits, it means that they are VERY capable of taking constant hits. They are durable.
Their problem is when teams take away their playmaking space. It has ZERO to do with toughness.
Have I mentioned that I can't stand easy cliches?
Edmonton won all those cups with a very soft Wayne Gretzky but they had a goon riding shotgun and the rules were different. Still he was only 1/3 of a line. Sure they had Kurri but no one crunched him. Gretzky basically drew the body checkers and passed out of goon coverage to the open man. When the Sedins are 2/3 of the top line, it's not so easy to continue to make your plays against tight coverage, the type of coverage that always comes with the playoffs.
Basically they are BRILLIANT regular season players and they can't find a way to break open games in the post season. Not saying they aren't still good however. Problem is though that despite Kesler's one off against the Predators two playoffs ago, we have NADA as a scoring option.
Typical Canucks problem that goes back to the West Coast Express days. We were a one line team then too.
Easy to defend against those kind of teams and everyone knows it.
SO ... any deal that Gillis makes now can't just be for rubbish. It needs to net us something (pardon the pun).