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Canucks Have No Answers
by Paul on 05/08/10 at 09:58 AM ET
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from Steve Rosenbloom of RosenBlog,
In the playoffs, your best players need to be your best players. Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews had a hat trick and two assists, and that was just in the first two periods of Game 4 of this second-round series. The best you could ask for.
Vancouver’s best players were in the penalty box.
Maybe this will teach Alain Vigneault. The Vancouver coach named Toews the day before, saying it wasn’t Dustin Byfuglien who was terrorizing Vancouver goalie Roberto Luongo despite a hat trick in Game 3, but Toews.
“The guy going to the net hardest for them and getting away with the most is probably Toews,” Vigneault said. “He’s pitch-forked. He’s run Louie. He’s done everything you need to do create offense. And on top of that he’s a real skilled player, so we know what we need to do here.”
Apparently not, unless the plan was to egg on his team’s Neanderthal approach.
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Talk about a sore winner. Guess you better start planning that parade down Michigan Avenue, eh Stevo?
Posted by mrfluffy from Long Beach on 05/08/10 at 11:06 AM ET
Hopefully this will put an end to the Luongo worship by some fans and the media.
The guy chokes. He is not a big-game player. The only reason he won Gold is because he had a team for the ages playing in front of him.
Enough already. Luongo is vastly overrated.
Posted by Red Winger from Sault Ste Marie on 05/08/10 at 11:16 AM ET
The guy chokes. He is not a big-game player. The only reason he won Gold is because he had a team for the ages playing in front of him.
Enough already. Luongo is vastly overrated.
Exactly.
They should have pulled him after the first goal. The guy plays well at times, but when he stinks, he stinks the entire game. And unfortunately he usually stinks for the duration of every playoff.
After watching the way the Canucks chose to play in that game, I’m actually rooting for the Hawks for the first and only time this year. Shane O’Brien is a disgrace and Vigneault is a hack. As much as I do like the Sedin’s, Kesler, the green man fans, and secretly Sammy, they just don’t deserve to win.
Hawks in 5 on the way to another throttling from their Big Brother.
Posted by Throbbing Babcock from The Deep South on 05/08/10 at 12:04 PM ET
The Nucks are their own worst enemy and Vigneault is seemingly oblivious to the obvious.
Posted by SYF from the bottom of my, what, 11teenth pint of Guinness? on 05/08/10 at 02:18 PM ET
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That’s what happens when you choose one Canadian hockey characteristic, gooning it up in the face of adversity, over another, going hard to the net.
Posted by Moq from Denmark on 05/08/10 at 10:12 AM ET