Too Much Luongo

They lose, eh. What’s new. Only one team finishes the postseason with a win.

Part of me says this season has wore me out. Part of me says I want to use more playoff tickets we bought.

I’ll be there Tuesday.

But since I read the terms of service my first comment is:

I cannot stand the Detroit Red Wings in any way, shape, or form!

B+ for Blues effort, we need the A team though. Nucks are so close to blowing each game, they won’t make it far IF they do manage to get past us.

For the love of god, where is the PP? If our PP would just fire on 6 cylinders we’d be talking a sweep of these cheap shots.

Slumpbuster or human sacrifice, take your pick. Whatever it takes.

Bobby Sue? He’s good at best, the god hype is just that, all Kool-Aid coming out of Nuckland. Watch him squirm when we get the puck near the goal line. We still haven’t exploited that weakness. Hello MUR, set up the umbrella and pump em like aunt Ethyl used to get it every Christmas

This ain’t over yet. The Blues wanna play with their backs to the wall, well, they can’t paint themselves into the corner any better than now.

Do you think the Canucks are just a better team?

Yes I do.

That being said, I was crapping my pants when the Blues won that last game against the Avs. The closeness of each game justifies my fear.
I do not credit Luongo with stealing any of the games. He has not had to be brilliant. If the Blues are 3 for 20 on the PP, instead of 1/20 (or whatever), this series is probably 2-1 Blues.

That’s an interesting point on Oshie. Something worth watching. Every kid has to make some adjustment like that.

On that note, Perron has really impressed me. The spin and pass tonight was sheer brilliance and took the Canucks D off guard. He has fought through checks all series. And he’s put up with typical playoff taunts and crap from guys like Johnson (previously our erstwhile colostomy bag, now a filthy ’Nuck colostomy bag) without batting an eye.

If any kid was going to do a little youthful wilting in the playoffs, I’d have thought it would be Perron. But he’s shown he doesn’t have Playoff Perimeter Pavol in him.

And there’s no question they’re competing.

But Vancouver is playing physical, aggressive, disciplined hockey, and it helps to know who you have in net.

I’d love to win Tuesday, but I’m not counting on it.

Let’s learn from this and build on it going into next year.

…or is Vancouver really that much faster than the Blues? They are absolutely everywhere on the ice, and the only ones who have either managed to keep up with them (McDonald) or match their physical game (Backes) are the same ones keeping the offensive threat afloat.

Both Perron and Oshie have had strong a strong week, but I think that you nailed the observation (at least on Oshie’s end) that this is just what they do when they clock in for work.

If nothing else, the Blues are getting 4 games worth of hard experience for a list of guys who are the cornerstone of the rebuilding. Erik Johnson is the only one missing out on the party, but I don’t think he’ll have the same growing pains that the bottom half of the Blueliners are having now.

I know he hasn’t been very impressive during this series and seems a bit lost out there, but he’s not getting much playoff experience sitting on that bench. He needs to be on the PP with that rocket.

this is just my observation, but I’m thinking that the kids do have another “playoff level” but it may take many years before they can tap into it. The reason I say this is because players like Datsyuk and Zetterberg who are now considered forces by scoring goals and doing all that shit they are supposed to in the playoffs also committed the same “disappearing act” in the playoffs a few years ago when they were still kids.

Sure this doesn’t help us out now, but don’t freak out because there is still the future.

Good theory on Oshie. i said the exact same thing to averagejoe on the way home from the game tonight. maybe osh is going normal osh speed, and now everyone else is just going osh speed, too.

Now imagine Canuck fan in the corner sucking their thumbs and flicking the light switch on and off

While the drive down wasn’t so bad…living an hour and a half north of StL sucks to drive home after that loss. At least we didn’t sit next to any Canuck fans…or maybe that’s a bad thing since my husband was out for blood.
Even with six seconds remaining…I didn’t lose faith and I still have it for Game 4. Let’s Go Blues

Hey all.
Canucks fans have been used to seeing Luongo let in goals throught the 5 hole this season, but tonight Mason let in 2 that were unacceptable. Between that and the Blues’ failure with the PP, that’s the end of it.
It’s crazy though. I thought the Blues had this one earlier on.

Sean, saw you mentioned Luongo as ‘Dodongo’ in the game thread the other day. If that were true, at least then they’d know how to beat him (bombs to the mouth).

The power play is bad right now. The dump-in to gain possession does not work. The 3-2 umbrella is the opposition’s best PK-er, as the Blues waste more time working the puck around the top than putting shots on goal. My suggestion in the second period was to – gasp! – work it down low, draw the crease defenders, make a quick back-of-net pass to Boyes and either: (a) let him walk out for a snap shot, or (b) have him make a one-time pass into the lane for a cutting center (because Luongo has proven he’s susceptible to this). Problem solved! Pay me my money, Checketts.

Other than that, I think Perron needs more ice time. He’s proven so far that he’s not in awe or in effective because of the playoff atmosphere. Let the guy open up his trick bag because god knows he wants to.

Oh and Blues? You’re not a solid enough team to sit and protect your early leads. All your success this season has come from tenacious offensive tunnel-vision. All of your blown leads have come from protect-mode.

Ever Faithful…Blues in 7.
Other than that

One thing that I have seen is Van’s D-men ability to make that first outlet pass to get out of the zone, and the Blues inability to get a hard puck pursuit because of it.

don’t you all think it’s a good thing we made the playoffs? Valuable experience for the young guys, plus it’ll only be better next year with EJ, Brewer, and Kariya back.

So, I was pondering what the Blues should do on the power play. I wish we still had MacInnis…a real threat from the point that could also keep the puck in the zone and play defense with the best of them. What I would like to do is sit two men in front of the goal for traffic, making the Canucks buckle down in front; place one man in each slot (outside of the faceoff circles) and one man at the point. I think that the physicality of having two men in front might draw even more 5 on 3s (since we’ve had 3 in two games) and it would lead to more soft goals or tip-ins. I just don’t know that we have a point man capable of doing what I’d like here. Oshie and/or Colaiacovo would be the closest to it, but neither is there quite yet. Erik Johnson next year, anyone?