Canucks lead the league - in complaining

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Is there another team in the NHL that complains as much as the Canucks?

The newspapers here on Wednesday were filled with stories of the Canucks getting all worked up about how Blackhawks forwards such as Andrew Ladd, Dustin Byfuglien, Adam Burish and Ben Eager treated goalie Roberto Luongo in Game 2.

Ladd elbowed Luongo, Byfuglien bumped him, Eager and Burish gave him a snow shower.

"O'Brien disgusted by Hawks' crashers," read a headline in the Vancouver Province.

"They're not calling it," Canucks defenseman Shane O'Brien said. "They're trying to get in Louie's face - and give them credit, because they're not calling it."

These are the Stanley Cup playoffs, and crease-crashing is all a part of what teams do.

To his credit, Luongo hasn't complained, at least publicly.

"I'm just doing my job, fighting through screens and contact and that stuff and focusing on making the saves," Luongo said.

The Canucks can do the same thing, you know. If they don't like what the Hawks are doing to Luongo, there's Antti Niemi at the other end, have at it.