I can't give Luongo a pass because he repeatedly does himself absolutely NO favors. He's an idiot that doesn't understand he should just shut his mouth. Telling the press that he likes playing at the United Center? Talking silly shit about Thomas in the finals? So stupid.
The only guys on that team that I will give a pass- the Sedins. It's fun to shit on them for being soft and say that they're members of the Canadian swim team but that's just how they are. They're not tough guys and they shouldn't ever have to be. If the rest of that team wasn't such chickenshits, the microscope wouldn't be on the Sedin's toughness. Was Gretzky's toughness ever a serious issue? No, because he had McSorley making sure nobody touched him.
What do the Sedins have for protection? Kevin Bieksa? :lol: Yeah, he'll stop Viktor Stalberg from beating you up and that's about it. I find it harder and harder to really blame the Sedins. They're flat out skill guys that need to be protected as such. They don't get that protection so they do what they can- they try to draw calls and they take repeated punches in the face hoping the stripes will make the right call. Now their whole team has a shitty reputation of being cowards and divers... they're kinda screwed.
Add to all that them being counted on as team leaders AND the pressure of being European leaders in a Canadian city that is scarily into their team and it's just not a good mix. Lidstrom was able to lead the Wings but that was only after a lot of years gaining a lot of respect in an organization that is run in a much more professional way than the Canucks (the coaching difference alone is laughable).
I can't believe I just spent that much effort defending the Sedin's, but there it is. I don't hate them and I think they're in a real shitty situation through very minimal fault of their own.
