Adrian Aucoin flashbacks. Held the Canucks club mostDman goals in a season at some point. Does he still?
— Kerby B (@kerbjack27) March 8, 2013
Ah, Adrian Aucoin. As far as slapshots go, consider him the Canucks' antecedent to Sami Salo. Aucoin, of course, set that record with a 23-goal anomaly in 1998–99, breaking Doug Halward's 16-year-old mark by four. And yes, the all-time high still belongs to him. Between Ed Jovanovski, Christian Ehrhoff, Alex Edler and the dearly-departed Salo, no Canucks defenceman has come within even five of Aucoin's mark since.¹ In fact, of the 23 markers, his 18 powerplay goals was a league-wide record until Sheldon Souray snapped it by one in 2006–07.² It also remains the Canucks record by four.³ To put that into context, the closest total since was Salo's 9 man-advantage markers in 2005–06.
