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As Vancouver Canucks coach Alain Vigneault paced the bench behind his beleaguered team in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup finals Monday night, this scene weirdly came to mind: Sean Connery, playing Irish cop Jimmy Malone, is shot to bits by Al Capone's men in his Chicago apartment in "The Untouchables." Before he dies, he challenges Kevin Costner's Eliot Ness with this urgent question: "What are you prepared to do?"