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Luongo's home magic disappears in Game 7

"The magic Roberto Luongo displayed at Rogers Arena throughout the Stanley Cup Playoffs wasn't there when the Canucks needed it most.

Luongo's performance in Game 7 won't be remembered for any soft goals or blunders. But on a night when he needed to be perfect, Luongo allowed three goals on 20 shots in a 3-0 loss to the Boston Bruins on Wednesday night. It was just Luongo's fourth loss at home in 14 games during this postseason.

Through the first six games of this series, Luongo was either borderline flawless or maddeningly flawed. In Games 1, 2 and 5 at Rogers Arena, he stopped 95 of 97 shots in three victories. In Games 3, 4 and 6 in TD Garden, he was pulled twice and allowed a whopping 15 goals on 66 shots.

Luongo was somewhere in the middle during Game 7, giving up three goals that he couldn't have done much about. While Daniel and Henrik Sedin and Ryan Kesler talked about being better individually following the game, Luongo talked more about the team aspect of the seven-game loss in the Stanley Cup Final.

"Listen, we're all disappointed. It's a team game," Luongo said. "What are you going to do? We all want to be 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. I think as a team, if we all could've stepped up a notch, starting with myself, we could've gotten that job done.

"I'm not going to overanalyze things right now. I couldn't get the job done in Boston. All in all, we lost. It's tough to analyze something like that.""


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