"There are always individual stories within a team game so everyone is wondering what happened to Alex Burrows against the Los Angeles Kings in the opening playoff round.

Burrows led the Canucks in goal scoring during the regular season with 35. He added 32 assists. Against the Kings, he managed just one empty-netter while the team scored 25 times. His mates collected 39 assists in the six-game series and he had none.

One point in six games? That's the Burrows of three seasons ago, the one who had nine points in 81 games. That's not the current model. Where has the current model gone?

"That series is behind me," Burrows declared Monday in a session with reporters at GM Place. "Now it's time to move on and get ready for the second round and make sure I step up my game. It would be nice, I think, if I could get on a streak here and help the team win games. Obviously that's the main goal and any way you can contribute at this time of year is huge."

When Burrows was a three-goal scorer, he had no expectations placed upon him. Now people notice his slumps, write about them, blog about them, tweet about them. There is no where to hide, especially if you were picked in a playoff pool. The empty-netter Monday was Burrows's first goal in 12 games dating back to the regular season.

"I scored almost 30 last year and 35 this year so obviously I put a lot of pressure on myself to score goals," Burrows said. "Obviously people are going to expect goals and I understand that. Sometimes you need some bounces going your way. It's part of the game. It's tough when you're not getting bounces but I battled through it.""