NEW YORK — Items that may grow up to be columns, playoff edition:
NOT GOOD ENOUGH: Whatever else they have achieved in this bounce-back season from the John Tortorella disaster, the Vancouver Canucks of the Trevor Linden-Jim Benning-Willie Desjardins administration have not proven they are built for the rigours of the post-season.
Viewed, admittedly, only on big-screen TVs in bars and hotel rooms from the far side of the continent, the impression is that compared to the hit-and-hustle, clog-the-lanes teams that are winning in the playoffs, the Canucks are middling in an awful lot of categories.