Bieksa and Ohlund's streak due to Sedins

Here's a snippet of Elliott Pap's article from The Vancouver Sun,

Vancouver Canuck captain Markus Naslund hasn't scored a goal in 14 games. Taylor Pyatt has been blanked in eight. Alex Burrows -- poor Alex -- is still looking for his first of the season.

But defencemen Mattias Ohlund and Kevin Bieksa are hotter than a night with a bleached blond heiress in Paris.

Ohlund has collected five points in his last two games, including a pair of goals in Saturday's 6-2 Vancouver trouncing of the Edmonton Oilers. Bieksa, his partner on the power play, has five points in his last four games and 10 in 10.

Who'd a thunk these two, along with the Sedin twins (of course), would be at the forefront of Vancouver's offensive resurgence? The Canucks have scored 15 times since Christmas.

"As a defenceman, scoring goals is not the focus, but for some reason the puck is going in," Ohlund noted Monday prior to the team's departure for Calgary and tonight's date with the Flames. "Earlier in the season, I had chances and the puck wasn't going in.

"The main thing is that, as a team, we're playing better and obviously you'd like to think you're doing a few things better, too."

Lately, even when Ohlund is bad, he's been good. On Saturday, he received a third-period hooking penalty that might have given Edmonton some life. Instead, he emerged from the box, received a breakaway pass from Brendan Morrison and scored on a backhand deke.

The goal made it 5-1 Canucks and it was game over.

"My last breakaway? It was my second season eight years ago and the same thing happened," Ohlund recalled. "I came out of the penalty box in Calgary and went five-hole. I've been in the penalty box a few times and, if you go there enough, sooner or later you're going to get something, I guess."

Canuck head coach Alain Vigneault figures the surge in scoring from Ohlund and Bieksa has pretty much coincided with their work as a power-play pair, especially on a unit featuring the Sedins and Trevor Linden.

The twins are making things happen for everyone, it seems, and now Ohlund and Bieksa are aboard their bandwagon.