St. Louis Blues vs Canucks || November, 4, 2011

Canuck fans know that we should be blowing all of these teams out, we know that Vancouver isn't playing close to their potential.  When they do, it's a blow out.  Look at the Calgary game.  We played probably, 90% of what we could, maybe less.  It wasn't even close.  That's what we, as fans, are used to seeing.

So when we watch games like this one, against the Blues, where we know that we can be playing better - it hurts us.  Especially coming off of the teams self-proclaimed "worst game they've ever played".  Although, the Canucks are a special team right now, we have some of the most potent offensive tandems - not flashy necessarily, but potent - and we have maybe the best goalie pairing in the league.  Although, for the latter point, sometimes it doesn't seem that way, but in reality, we do.  St. Louis are one of those bubble teams for making the play offs, yet we can't seem to figure them out right this season.  Vancouver can't seem to figure out themselves at this point.

Yes, this game was a fast paced one, I barely noticed the whistles it went by so quickly.  You can't really pin it on Luongo, because he did his part.  It was the team as a collective whole, everybody just wasn't clicking.  Too many people are trying to make things happen by themselves rather than doing what they did so well last year, which was a 5-man unit moving up the ice like a tidal wave.  Teams couldn't stop them.  The Canucks was the best team in the league last year when it came to the quick transition game.  It was so efficient and flawless that, when you see them struggle to do it now, you wonder how anybody does it...ever.

The only real positive thing to being a Canucks fan right now - and in that case, Bruins fans too - is that you know that you are going to play better.  The team is so good that it is almost physically impossible not to play better than they are now, on a consistent basis.  Bruins fans though, not so much, you guys just bullied your way into a championship.  We all know that if the...ANYWAY, I digress.

Vancouver will find it's groove.  They will dominate the league, maybe not like last season, but they will finish on top again.  Vancouver will be one of those teams that other teams don't want to play because it would be like playing a machine on auto-pilot.  There is no stopping it. However, that's just not happening right now, which is the frustrating part.  You know, as fans.  I'm sure the Canucks have their own problems to deal with.

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