Vancouver gets bounced. Who’s to balme?

So the Vancouver Canucks get bounced for the 2nd year in a row by the Chicago Blackhawks and we all know the finger pointing starts now. So who is to blame? There is enough blame to go around to everyone that is for sure. Roberto Luongo will get a large majority of the “fingers” but I do not think it is really all that fair. Roberto played in varying degrees from Good to Great. Sure to Advance you need great almost night in night out. And when your goaltending isn’t great you need someone to pick up some slack.

Roberto did not get that slack picked up. It was either he was great or the better Chicago team beat them. In fact after the series ending loss Luongo even said about the Hawks “I don’t think they’re a better team than us, but maybe a smarter team,”. Guess what Roberto, they are both.

But I feel the biggest let down was the Canucks’ blueline. They were banged up and over extended and they could not offer the support that Luongo needed on off nights. If you look at game six every goal that Hawks’ scored the goal scoring player comes in either untouched or also all alone. The D had a mountain to climb to hold back a very talented Chicago team and they were just to dinged up for the task. Injuries will kill a Cup run and there is just nothing you can do to prep for that.

So who is to blame? It certainly isn’t the Green Men Sully and Force. They did their part. There is no blame to be passed. The Canucks just got dinged up on D and were matched against a team that I feel would have beaten them anyway. Sure a player or two needed to step up when it really mattered. But I don’t think that would have been enough to get by the Hawks’. So pick your heads up guys. You played and you played hard. You just had a lot on your plate and it Beat you. And your D was banged up and eaten up.