The Vancouver Canucks are an excellent team and Alain Vigneault is an excellent coach. They’re coming off two consecutive President Trophy campaigns, followed by playoff efforts in which they succumbed to none other than the Stanley Cup winner in each respective year. And then there’s Kesler and Bieksa, who are “massive” components of the Canuck machine and their absence from the lineup cannot be over emphasized. The bottom line is that people like Tony Gallagher are social “parasites” who make a handsome living by creating “needless” upset & stress where there is none. In fact, I would argue that Gallagher is in many ways similar to the wealthy “bearded” defense lawyer in a criminal trial, who value-adds positively “nothing” to society, when all is said and done. No, if there’s anything holding this team back at the moment, then in my opinion that would be Roberto Luongo. He needs to be removed from the equation post haste, as I believe that his continuing presence here is having a “debilitating” effect on the psyche of the team as a whole.

Executive Summary: Keeping Luongo around is kind of like dumping a woman, but then agreeing to go on further dates with her in the meantime … if you’re going to cut if off, then do so with “conviction” and absolutely “no” reservations …

Let the Canucks move one of the goalies before the deadline, get a useful piece back plus Kesler and then if they’re not in first place by 6 points Canucks writers should totally complain about AV.

He’s a good coach, and someone will snap him up if he does get fired, but we’ll have to see how the team really responds from here out.