I think we found it hard to play against Shitcago too? Adversity comes in all forms including mental and physical.
Oh my bad, torres a million dollar player got the same amount of goals as henrik, a five mill player? Laughable at best. Specially when you notice torres on the ice more than BOTH the sedins. Go check out nhl.com … It's pretty terrible when your defense scores more than your first line.
Good players adapt to adversity. The sedin's cannot do that one bit and are useless in the playoffs. You can state all you want but the above has been true since they came to vancouver. Regardless of how entertaining they are to watch in the regular season being the leagues leading scorer in the regular season obviously doesn't mean anything in the playoffs. Not to mention boston scored all their goals against the sedin's pitiful defense. A trade is needed whether you like it or not, it really depends if we can get a decent player for them or not.
GRIT is what we need. We didn't have a huge superstar team in 94 when we made it to the cup? We had Bure and a handful of middle of the road players. We came closer then than we did this year…Don't bother trying to state hockey is different fifteen years later either..
This coming from a 20 year canucks fan, not some chinese guy with 20 flags in the windows of his audi who barely knows what offside is.
Chicago is a good example of a team that has the grit, but was lacking in skill and that cost them. You can cherry pick one stat but that doesn't really tell the story. The Canucks took too many penalties throughout these playoffs and that also hurt the Sedins in their scoring.
A trade isn't required whether you think one is or not. Anyway you want to look at it the Canucks made it within a game of taking the cup and Thomas played the best games of his career.
We do need more grit, but you don't get it by throwing out your top scorers. When the Canucks lost, they lost as a team, showing their mental consistency played a big part in their losses. Personally I think giving Kesler the C would go a long way to solve that.
I am not giving the Sedins a free pass on the losses, but people talking about trading them or Luongo are delusional if they think that will mean we can just go out and grab an Ovechkin or that they were not noticeable in the playoffs. They have improved every year that we have had them, and I expect them to be better and hungrier next year.