A few notes from the last few seconds of the Canucks loss Ducks game:
- Do not stop playing until the whistle blows. It’s your friend so often, treat it with respect.
- Don’t try to call a penalty. No matter how right you think you are, you do not have a whistle, you are not wearing the sweater, and you probably aren’t that smart anyways.
A note to all hockey fans:
Don’t tell me you want the players to decide the outcome of the game, then cry that the refs didn’t blow the whistle when you wanted them to. Cry like a man, cry like a girl, your crying will only comfort you. This goes for every game, every series, every time.
So, the Canucks are out, and the Ducks complete the first half of the Highway 1 series prediction for next round. I am really happy for the Ducks. Aside from removing the Canucks from the playoffs, they have played like they deserve to move on. They worked hard, Giguere has been great, and the defense has been as good as the offense (which you can’t say about the Canucks).
So, the questions are, what was Luongo complaining about on the first goal (he was embarrassing himself there), and why was he calling a penalty at the end.
Hey, you know what? For all the talk of the Statue of Liberty goal on Patrick Roy, Luongo just had his. Glove in the air, not ready to make a save, not playing hockey, dumb, dumb move. He didn’t even make the initial save. Canucks fans are going to ask where the penalty call was, while the rest of the world are going to ask where the penalty was. As well as Luongo played, as much as he kept them in the game, he gave the game winner to the Ducks. Not the refs, not the defense, no one else. All Luongo.
Great run by the Canucks. The lesson is one they should have learned from the Avs in all their seasons of winning: Winning a division does not guarantee anything.
Good night, Canucks fans. That’s the way the puck bounces.
5 responses to “Free Lessons for Goalies”
Wings fell victim to this same problem the other night, Hasek thought a penalty should be called and stopped playing, oops, the Sharks scored. Luckily (well for me anyway as I am a Wings fan) the Wings still found a way to win the game. Never stop playing until the whistle blows, isn’t that hockey 101?
That’s sports 101. You can hear coaches at any field/court/rink throught every country saying that
HC and Colin – It should be 101 for these guys. And while the Canucks faithful is focusing on the upside of the Luongo performance (he was stellar until the end), they are saying nothing about what I would consider a rookie mistake.
Also, I read one comment about how the Duck player being pushed into Luongo by his own teammate was the fault of the Duck going hard to the net. Denial is a sad, sad thing.
Well honestly the bloggers and commenters I have seen have been pretty good. I haven’t seen too much denial or hatred spewed yet… maybe it’s because I avoid those sites when they get bad
Oh yeah, I don’t think you’ll find many Canuck fans (well, maybe some) who are going to disagree with your two main points there: Luongo did make a boneheaded play to end it and winning the division means nothing. To his credit, he did admit it which is why that picture of him lying on his stomach after it went in is so priceless.
The thing that’s tough to swallow with game five is that Luongo WAS the only one playing that game for them. So it’s just a swifter kick to the groin that our best player made the mental mistake that ended it.