It's all in the numbers

Not much to do at work today, so I started thinking about what jersey number I would wear when the Canucks finally draft me. My obvious number one choice would be 23. I'm not trying to draw comparisons to Jordan, it's the date I was born. I've tried to wear 23 for just about everything I've done. However, one Alex Edler is currently wearing my jersey number. The previous Canuck players that have worn the famed '23' have not done it justice. Not since Martin Gelinas has there been a worthy enough player to wear 23.

Alex Edler,, who currently wears 23, has immense potential, he's unbelievably calm, so I'll let him wear it for now. Which leads me to my dilemma, what number would I wear then? As a kid I wore number 0 because I used to play in net, but no one wears the number 0 in the NHL. Other jersey number possibilities I could wear: 15 (one less then the great Trevor Linden), 29 (as a tribute to Gino Odjick), 21 (all around good number), or 37 (16+7+14, that's right those are the numbers for the 'Life Line').

Some numbers that are off limits: the retired numbers [12, 16], the greats from '94 [1, 7, 10, 14], the greats from the West Coast Express [19, 44, 2], and the miscellaneous numbers I would not wear [89, 96].

This doesn't leave me many options, all other numbers are ugly numbers. Luckily I've figured out which number I should use. The answers been here all along, I've always known which number I should be wearing. This number may even be more awesome then 23. This number is:



In commemoration of the year that the cup was stolen from us, the year in which we should have won, the year in which we came within one Nathan Lafayette goal post away, the year in what would have been the greatest dramatic finish in Stanley Cup history, in memory of the year in which I will always remember as 'what if.' I can wear no other number other then 94 until the Canucks finally win the Stanley Cup. When they do then I'll switch back to 23.