Set the awe-inspiring tribute video, that will undoubtedly be shared by two players whose illustrious careers have basically been mutually exclusive, to the Twilight Zone theme. For, in biding farewell to a building they've both called home for far longer than two brothers who are interested in maintaining their own sanity ever should, Henrik and Daniel Sedin reminded us that stranger things really haven't happened. It's incredibly rare for one player to spend seventeen years worth of playing days employed by a single organization, never mind twin brothers doing so together after being drafted as one and being purposefully pegged as a package deal so often that their usage rates are as indistinguishable as their head shots. Hell, the Sedin brothers have probably shared more purely constructed lines than the Sheen brothers, and the former have somehow blown a hell of a lot more minds in the process. Still, the fact that they have remained inseparable clones in a league whose business side has broken up more rewarding relationships than the rock 'n' roll lifestyle isn't even the oddest thing about them. That designation would have to go to the twinning telepathy that, at one point or another, we just became accustomed to them exhibiting on the ice. The no-look passes, the give-and-go's, the organic understanding of one another's yet-to-be-thought process that can apparently only be met by being simultaneously forged within the same vaginal walls. To put it insanely lightly, when it comes to the success of two players who differ in number and first initial only, there is more than meets the eye. Now, I don't know that having chemistry that can be described in no other way than biological is what allowed for the Sedins to seemingly control the clock and scheme the stats. I'm no ESP expert, but - as I understand it - even the most psychic of powers aren't capable of manipulating professional athletes so as to allow for coincidental scoring during the most memorable of occasions. Still, it's impossible to deny that having said coincidental scoring provide the grand finale to extraordinary careers in Vancouver was perfectly fitting of hockey lives that were lived atop the "you can't make this shit up" scale.
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