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Luongo Has To Be Better
by Paul on 04/20/10 at 01:22 PM ET
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from Adam Proteau of The Hockey News,
To be fair, Luongo hasn’t been uniformly horrendous in this series. And the team in front of him hasn’t helped him atone for his mistakes the way the Canadian Olympic team did at the 2010 Winter Games.
But let’s face reality for a second: Luongo is arguably the biggest reason the Canucks’ penalty killing has been so abysmal – 41.7 percent efficiency, by far the worst of any current playoff team – against the Kings.
Moreover, the 31-year-old has been thoroughly outplayed by 24-year-old Kings goalie (and playoff rookie) Jonathan Quick in the series and richly deserved to get pulled by Canucks coach Alain Vigneault after surrendering the fourth goal to L.A. on Monday (on just 16 shots against him).
It doesn’t matter what your excuse is – when you’re promoted as ‘The Guy’ and compensated accordingly, you shouldn’t be easily forgiven or excused for having the third-worst save percentage (.880, ahead of only Jose Theodore and Brian Elliott) of all goalies who’ve played in this post-season.
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That fourth goal he gave up last night to the Kings’ Richardson was pitiful. It was a bad angle shot right along the goal line that went between his skates.
Posted by SYF from the bottom of my, what, 11teenth pint of Guinness? on 04/20/10 at 03:12 PM ET
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Posted by mike from austin on 04/20/10 at 02:23 PM ET