Making amends to Canucks fans

It's time to apologize to all the Vancouver Canucks fans with whom I've been conversing the past two years.

I've been accused of saying their goaltender is awful, their team stupid, their players gutless, their big guys soft, their twins scared, and their city incapable of understanding that they can't win a playoff series against a smarter team possessing so much more mental toughness.

Of course, that's all true.

But I'm sorry I left out the part about their coach being incompetent and unwilling to make adjustments in a long series in which the opposing coach embarrassed him over and over again.

This is two years in a row that Joel Quenneville has made Alain Vigneault look clueless, though Quenneville is hardly the first.

Vigneault's teams in Vancouver have gone out in the second round in four of the last five years, with the lone exception being the year they didn't make the playoffs.

So, yes, I owe the Canucks' faithful an apology for not mentioning often enough that Vigneault is as vapid as some of his penalty-stricken players and unable to see what a team is repeatedly doing to his weak-minded club.

If they meet again next year, assuming Vigneault is still around, I'll try to make the case against Vigneault stronger - and more often.

My apologies.

Oh, CanadaAs for the provinces outside of B.C. angry because I've said for months that the Canadians won the gold in spite of Roberto Luongo, not because of him, what you saw against the Blackhawks is exactly what you would have seen in the Olympics had you really been paying attention.Luongo is overpaid, overrated and now overexposed, and if you take off your maple-leaf colored glasses you will be able to see it.And if you don't believe me - and based on your e-mails, you quite obviously disagree - ask any one of his gold-medal winning teammates and they'll probably tell you the same thing.Second thoughtsIt's bad enough Gordon Beckham is swinging with a wet newspaper these days, but he made a couple plays Wednesday that indicate he's starting to press in the field, too.On Denard Span's single to right that scored Delmon Young to make it 3-2 (the final score), Beckham stumbled and fell into a dive to his left as he was attempting to get to the ball.Maybe he wouldn't have thrown out Span if he gets there, but since he fell awkwardly we'll never know.And on Alex Rios' fabulous catch in left-center that took a 2-run homer away from Michael Cuddyer, Beckham juggled the throw in from Rios and that ended his chance to double off Joe Mauer at first, after Mauer had gone all the way past second.John Danks got the next hitter, Jim Thome, to end the inning anyway, and again we don't know if Beckham would have had Mauer, but it sure looked like he had a play.Either way, those aren't major-league plays and it gives ammunition to those who believe Beckham needs some time in the minors to get his head together.Milk carton timeTyler Colvin has started 10 games out of the first 35, but only once in 11 games in May, and it just doesn't seem to make much sense having him in the big leagues if he's not going to play.After only two DNPs in April, there's already been five games in May in which he hasn't seen the field at all.On fireWhenever a guy does what Rajon Rondo's doing for Boston, it's always a treat to go back and look at his draft class.Rondo was taken 21st in 2006, which in Chicago is known as the LaMarcus Aldridge-Tyrus Thomas draft, but there are some other beauties in here.Also taken before Rondo were the likes of Adam Morrison (3), Shelden Williams (5), Patrick O'Bryant (9), Saer Sene (10), Hilton Armstrong (12), Thabo Sefolosha (13), Rodney Carney (16), Shawne Williams (17), Oleksiy Pecherov (18) and Quincy Douby (19).The best selection, naturally, belongs to that great wrecker of franchises known as Isiah Thomas, who took Renaldo Balkman for the Knicks one pick before Rondo went to Phoenix.The Suns traded Rondo to Boston for a first-round pick that became Rudy Fernandez.Make me laughSome of David Letterman's Top Ten Thoughts That Went Through Dallas Braden's Mind While He Threw His Perfect Game:"Now maybe Justin Bieber will notice me.''"I must not tell the world I'm Iron Man.''"Even I've never heard of me.''"I should give up one hit so I won't have to do Letterman.''"Maybe I can give Kate Hudson a call.''Best headlineSportspickle.com: "Steroids user becomes first Texans player anyone can name.''And finally -ABC's Jimmy Kimmel: "Tiger Woods' swing coach announced that he is quitting. Apparently, he discovered that Tiger had 19 other swing coaches around the country.''bull; Listen to Barry Rozner from 9 a.m. to noon Sundays on the Score's "Hit and Run" show at WSCR 670-AM.