Memorial Cup hullo?

So, the Memorial Cup is Canada's biggest trophy in Junior Hockey. And two of the teams going to the big party are the Lewiston MAINE-iacs (from the Q) and the Plymouth (Michigan) Whalers (from the OHL). Go figure. And the other two participants-to-be are still playing each other in the WHL best-of-seven, to be decided tonight. May the best team win and all that, but I gotta say that I'll be cheering for Medicine Hat and Vancouver above the other two options and it won't entirely be because the WHL is the part of the CHL covered by where I live.

Canucks gone -- New Jersey gone

I hear Roberto Luongo took responsibility for the Canucks' overtime loss. Before we give that to him, we should also give him the responsibility for the Canucks being in the playoffs at all, let alone into the second round, as indeed the commentator who mentioned his tearful mea culpa also said. Don't cry too hard, Lu II (after Lui Passaglia, the longtime BC Lions kicker). 07/08 is another season and you've made Nonis look like a genius already.

I also read that it was Brodeur who couldn't carry New Jersey through to the third round, to which I won't dispute or agree strongly. I am glad to see Lou Lamoriello's idiocy in firing his winning coach days before the playoff start paid back in the most fitting manner imaginable. You da man, eh, Lou? I don't think so.

And what are the odds that a good coach will ever go to New Jersey so long as such caprice might be exercised against him? I think the ownership of the Devils would be wise to encourage Lou's retirement (at least from the top job) before they go out looking for a bench boss appropriate to the level of talent that still fills their locker room.