from Tony Gallagher of the Vancouver Province,

So now the question becomes one of repetition.

Can the Vancouver Canucks duplicate that kind of superb effort — four, five, six or seven times, if necessary — in a potential playoff series against one of the so called ‘heavy’ teams?

To be sure, they walked into Staples Centre and beat the L.A. Kings in a game both teams needed desperatel,y and there were so many outstanding aspects to this tilt from a Vancouver standpoint it’s difficult to list them all and do them justice.

For starters, this gives Vancouver a decent chance to actually make the playoffs, and if and when they do, Eddie Lack will most certainly have had a huge say in this team reaching what has been their team goal all season.

And the best part about that will be how it will ruin the failure scenario likely already being hatched, particularly by media in other markets. It goes like this: “Canucks lose Ryan Miller and miss out on playoffs down the stretch without him.”

While Miller has been very solid this year and there are no complaints about his play whatsoever, the Canucks have had a tremendous goalie in Lack sitting for much of the season, and now he’s showing what he’s all about and certainly questioning the summer strategy of ripping his job away and spending $18 million for three years for a guy to play ahead of him.

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