Daniel Sedin

Daniel Sedin
Born	September 26, 1980 (1980-09-26) Örnsköldsvik, Sweden
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight	187 lb (85 kg; 13 st 5 lb)
Position	Left Wing
Shoots	Left
NHL team Former teams	Vancouver Canucks Modo Hockey (SEL)
National team	Sweden
NHL Draft	2nd overall, 1999 Vancouver Canucks
Playing career	1997–present

Daniel Sedin (born on September 26, 1980) is a Swedish professional ice hockey winger with the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL) and serves as an alternate captain for the team.

His identical twin brother Henrik Sedin also plays for the Canucks and is the team captain.

The twins have played together throughout their careers. The pair are known for their effectiveness playing off one another: Daniel is known as a goal-scorer while Henrik is known as a playmaker.

Daniel began his professional career in the Swedish Elite League with Modo Hockey in 1997 and was co-recipient (with Henrik) of the 1999 Golden Puck as Swedish player of the year.

He played four seasons with Modo (including a return in 2004–05 due to the NHL lockout), helping the club to two consecutive appearances in the Le Mat Trophy Finals, in 1999 and 2000, where they lost both times.

Selected second overall by the Canucks in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft, he moved to the NHL in the 2000–01 season.

Daniel has spent his entire NHL career in Vancouver. After emerging as a top player in the club during the 2005–06 season, he has since recorded six consecutive campaigns of at least 20 goals and 70 points.

In 2011, he won the Art Ross Trophy as the league's leading point-scorer and the Ted Lindsay Award as the best player in the league as voted by fellow players. Daniel was also nominated for the Hart Memorial Trophy as the league's most valuable player.

In Sweden, he and Henrik were awarded the Victoria Stipendium as the country's athletes of the year.

Internationally, Daniel has competed for the Swedish national team. In addition to being a two-time Winter Olympian, he has appeared in two European Junior Championships, two World Junior Championships and four World Championships.

He won a gold medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy and bronze medals at the 1999 and 2001 World Championships.

Personal Life

Daniel was born six minutes after his identical twin brother Henrik. His father Tommy is a school principal and played for Modo Hockey in the '60s and his mother Tora is a nurse. He has two older brothers named Stefan and Peter.

Daniel began playing organized hockey with his twin when they were eight years old.

They didn't regularly play on the same line until Daniel was fourteen years old when he switched from centre to wing.

The twins attended high school at the Nolaskolan Gymnasium in Sweden while they played professionally for Modo Hockey.

Around 1998, Daniel met his wife Marinette in his hometown. Marinette came with him to Vancouver upon the beginning of Daniel's NHL career in 2000. The couple married in 2005.

Daniel & Marinette have two daughters named Ronja (born in 2006) & Anna (born in March of 2011) and a son named Erik (born in 2008). They reside in the Vancouver neighborhood of Shaughnessy during the NHL season and return to Sweden in the summer.

After Marinette earned a bachelor's degree in psychology at the University of British Columbia, she became involved with the Canucks Family Education Centre, helping female immigrants transition to the English language.

In March of 2010, Daniel and Marinette made a joint $1.5 million donation with Henrik and his wife Johanna to the BC Children's Hospital's $200-million project for a new building.

The two families requested that it be put towards a pediatric intensive-care unit and a diagnostic imaging area Daniel and Henrik are devoted harness racing fans and race horse owners and their most successful trotter so far is the 2013 Elitloppet winner Nahar.