"When it comes to the Canucks' goaltending situation, there were two items of interest which surfaced during the team's wrap-up day with media.

Neither of them was the fact Roberto Luongo said he's good with Vancouver and all it means to play here. He wants to stay. GM Mike Gillis wants him to stay. It was expected.

The bones presented for later chewing were in fact about Luongo's backup, Cory Schneider. On one, Gillis suggested he'll need to be floored, and then have his socks blown clear off, by an offer to consider trading him.

"I don't want to just trade him," Gillis said after the press conference during which he was visibly put-off by a suggestion it may not be fair to keep Schneider, 25, as a backup for the next year or three.

"I really like Cory Schneider - I like having him on our team and I would be more than happy to have Cory Schneider here for the next four or five years.

"If something comes our way that is going to help us improve, of course we're going to look at it. If it doesn't Cory Schneider is going to be on this team next year."

That brings us to No. 2. If Schneider stays, he's ready to compete for the top spot, or at least a bigger share of the starts. He is in a position to play more — if his play warrants it — and not just in the regular season, either.

After playing 25 post-season games in two months, Luongo did not save his best for last. That's not blame, it's reality.

He wasn't good enough in the end. It's fine, because we've all seen it. What may not be fine is Schneider not being an option to start after the first round. Not in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup final, which had a lot of the same elements as Game 6 against Chicago. The travel was a monster, Luongo was struggling and the opponent had all the momentum after dropping an eight-spot on the Canucks."