"After all the botched save attempts and soft goals, the ultimate miss came when Patrice Bergeron was sliding toward Roberto Luongo, the puck pushed toward the goal along with the Bruins forward. And as Bergeron passed through the crease, so did the puck, leaking past Luongo and into the net. In that moment, the focus and the game had slipped away from the Vancouver goalie.

By the end, when the Bruins were hoisting the Stanley Cup after their 4-0 win last night in Game 7, Luongo had allowed three goals on just 20 shots. He had proven to be a sieve, looking bad in game after game of the Final. The goals slid past him as the Bruins scored again and again and claimed their title.

"Listen, we're all disappointed,'' Luongo said, when asked if he took responsibility for the Canucks' loss. "It's a team game. We all wanted to do better, myself, we all want to be better. That's the bottom line. It's a team game. We're not going to point fingers at one individual. If we all would have stepped up a notch, starting with myself, maybe we could have gotten the job done.''

It wasn't only Luongo's fault — Vancouver scored just eight goals in seven games — but the goaltender didn't make the offense's job any easier.

So the quotes were repeated throughout the Canucks' locker room after the loss, as the few players available kept talking about the team concept, about winning and losing together, about how the series loss can't be blamed on Luongo."