Beat you to it

I know everyone is going to second guess the picking of the Canadian Team and I know that people are going to use Bertuzzi as a goat. 

I grant you the fact that he did not play as well as he did earlier in the tournament.  To paint him as the goat would be wrong though.  We needed at least one goal to win the game, which we couldn't even get.  We had a lot of chances but it wasn't meant to be.  When you lose 2 Norris trophy candidates weeks before the tournament and your two other Norris trophy candidates are injured it really hurts.  Offense starts with the defense and the inability to cleanly move the puck out of our zone and join in the rush cost us. 

Still, I was pleased with the effort of the Canadians today.  I especially liked the effort from Lecavalier.
Smyth and Thornton also had very good games. 
Oh well, as long as we win gold in Vancouver everything will be ok again.

As for the Canucks.  They took a big hit in this tournament.  They lost Ohlund, Salo and were already without Jovo. 
Bertuzzi will be a scape goat so it will be interesting to see how he responds.  He is already under enough pressure as it is and this will only add to it.