John Garrett: Why so serious?  Thursday, 14.05.2009 / 12:59 PM /
Features By John Garrett It was a pleasure covering the Canucks
this season. They had a new energy and positive team attitude
that was refreshing and very enjoyable personally as a fan and
professionally.  They believed in themselves at the start of the
year when few people did and built on that belief to get off to
a good start and a tremendous regular season finish.  That is
why it is so disappointing to have the season end the way it
did. The team that for 82 games of the regular season and the
first four of the playoffs looked so poised and so disciplined
fell apart against the Hawks.  You can say they were three
minutes away from taking a 3-1 lead in the series and you would
be right but you can also say they had a lead in all six games
and three leads in their final game and you know how it ended.
You can say all that but it still doesn't change the outcome and
the too-early summer.  Despite all the media what ifs and
analysis of what went