Roberto Luongo

Luongo is the Big C for Vancouver.  He is definitely one of the most hated athletes to date!

Go El Floppo! 

Reply-to:Now you compare sutter to av, sutter did what needed to get done with a team with the right bench boss far supperior than the canucks bench boss. Just like comparing elfloppo to quick! Eyes wide shut buddy like a lot of people out there but the truth comes out in competition...elfloppo and the ass clown av are watching real hockey teams!

You have a point here, no doubt Sutter turned things around. But did AV get his marching orders to start Loungo for the first 2 games? Hell 99% of the population knew who to start in the series - no brainer - AV is not that dumb. Mike Gillis though has no choice. It is a sad situation. Regretably the Akwilleanies(apologize for spelling) rewarded substandard management. We all know it, El Floppo is the worst thing in history to happen to BC sports.

so gillis gets an extension.....go figure

Sorry, was that a typo? Shouldn't you have said,  "someone without a brain?"

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Someone with a brain.

Reply-to:Luongo is going nowhere....who in their right mind would take on that contract?

Someone with a brain.

Reply-to:Luongo is going nowhere....who in their right mind would take on that contract?

Ro-bert-o  Lu-on-go.

His 6 syllable, pretentious, primadona-sounding name is just as nauseating as the melodrama of where he will end up. The new NHL has clearly passed him by. It took him two full months to find his mediocre game last fall. He couldn't bear to face the Bruins in Boston. Likewise, he couldn't play in Chicago or Minnesota. He is as physically unsuited and unsound as they come, with a fragile psyche and needy ego to match. He is NOT a closer. he was weak on the puck in allowing Parise's last minute tying goal in the Olympics. He's brutal in elimination games. Watch Lundqvist, Holtby, Quick etc. They're so much better than Luongo that they're on a different planet. Luongo's GAA vs LA in the first round was over 3.50, even though the Kings were the 2nd lowest scoring team in the NHL during the reular season.  Schneider was called upon too late to be able to clean up Luongo's mess after he shit the bed - yet again -these playoffs. Meanwhile, all schneider did in relief was put up ridiculously impressive numbers that will keep him on top of the heap for the rest of these playoffs.

Luongo is "done like dinner", as Tiger Williams used to say.

Hey nimrod (15:57:15): No one is crying about the fact that the Canucks play in the weakest division. I was merely saying that Luongo's mediocre stats are even worse than they appear to be, when you factor in the weak, low scoring division the Canucks got to feast on. The Canucks were 20 wins (wins minus total losses) overall in the reg. season. They were 12 wins  vs NW Div. teams in those 24 games. This means they were just 8 wins in 58 games vs the rest of the league.  This reveals just how soft they really were. The Kings were 4 wins vs the tough Central Div., compared to the Canucks' 2 and the Blues' -4 vs the Central Div., so was it really an upset that the Kings eliminated the Canucks and Blues when they were stronger in the reg. season games that mattered most?

The President's Trophy is just a meaningless, distracting consolation prize. It would include bragging rights IF everyone played the same balanced schedule, which they don't.

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I find it absolutely ludicrous that ANY NHL team would consider dealing for this "has been ass clown". Luongo ranks 18th in playoff GAA (out of just 16 starters - go figure), and 16th in playoff save %. He was 16th in regular season GAA and 12th in save %. AND, he accumulated these abysmal stats IN SPITE OF the fact that he played a big part of his schedule against their non-playoff division "rivals" - that's 24 games vs Edmonton, Calgary, Colorado and Minnesota. Except that he didn't play IN Minny, because that's one of his "houses of horror", like Chicago and Boston. Schneider handily took care of those "bullies" for him. Luongo had it just as easy in the SE div. in Florida. If Luongo gets dealt to a team in any other division than the SE, he will get EATEN ALIVE by real, stiff competition.

Roberto Luongo was a myth, and mediocre at best. His past circus saves were a result of his not being athletic or skilled enough to maintain proper body positioning for second and third efforts, especially the generous juicy rebounds he characteristically provides opponents.

His being bow legged, having size 15 skates and unflexible hips means he can't butterfly laterally without falling forward into his famous snow angel position. Watch Cory Schneider keep his torso upright, even when his legs are straight out to the sides - a move that Luongo is physically incapable of. Also note Schneider's superior speed when skating backwards facing shootouts or breakaways. Backward speed allows a goalie to remain uncommitted against a shooter, making him able to wait him out and make the save.

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Luongo's insane contract is a major deterrent to ending up where he'd like to be. I'll bet he didn't consider this scenario when he and his agent hypnotized Gillis into opening the vault for them.

Worst of all is the fact that Luongo is NOT a team player. He has shown himself to be arrogant, inarticulate, selfish, thoughtless and harmful - to his team and his team mates - by way of his comments. He has thought nothing about throwing team mates under the bus when assignments were missed. A class act would have just shut up and made the save, taking his team mate off the hook instead of giving up on the play and gleefully putting goat horns on him.

Look what it takes to win in the playoffs these days - goaltenders capable of allowing just a single goal through triple OT. Goaltenders capable of getting shutouts and stealing games on the road. Goaltenders with superb physical agility, lightning fast reflexes and navy seal mental toughness, none of which Luongo has in his repertoire. Instead of having the ability to rise to the occasion in big games, he is well known to buckle, and even "melt down" when he's needed the most.

No matter where he ends up, Luongo will, in all likelihood, flame out and be done in this league by Christmas. He was a fraud and a pretender in Vancouver, a passenger riding on the coat tails of a skilled team in front of him. His glaring weaknesses and obvious shortcomings will only be exposed to a far greater extent with a team in a truly competitive division.

It turns out that Luongo - just like the fabled naked emperor - wasn't very well dressed after all.

wouldnt it be cool if noone wanted luongo....including his wife......maybe he could move in with taylor or gillis....and phuck them up the ass

Reply-to:I know it doesnt matter but.....lets say a goalies  save percentage is .925.......that is not a percentage.....that is a decimal fraction of one percent.....the proper save percentage is 92.5 percent....not that it matters....and Im not the first person to notice that Ill bet......idle mids idle thoughts.....sunday morning  coming down.....peace

When it involves Roberta it is less than 1%

I know it doesn't matter but.....lets say a goalie's  save percentage is .925.......that is not a percentage.....that is a decimal fraction of one percent.....the proper save percentage is 92.5 percent....not that it matters....and I'm not the first person to notice that I'll bet......idle mids idle thoughts.....sunday morning  coming down.....peace

Luongo still sucks. Even when he's in "no man's land", like he is right now. The Canucks will have to eat at least half his salary, beause his "skills" are on the decline, and he's aging (33 is over the hill for NHL goalies these days, with a couple of rare exceptions). Also, there's a ton of mileage on his weary bones, and physically, he's just not  built for the position  - size 15 skates, bowleggedness, unflexible hips etc.- limitations which cause him to dace plant his snow angels whenever he tries to extend his butterfly laterally, and to create gaping 5-holes.

As someone said earlier on this site, the "Luongo myth" that he is a good goalie stems from the fact that he is often in poor position for followup shots due to his NOT being technically sound,  therefore he is forced to try and make awkward looking "circus saves".

This "naked emperor" has been undressed in Vancouver, and revealed for the fraud that he is. He's a sham, a wannabe, a drama queen, a primadonna, and a waste of cash, time, space and energy,

know what would be really cool?..........If noone wanted luongo  and schneider wanted out...what a fun scenario that would be...although im sure if the canucks ate enough salary someone would take luongo...in the end it doesnt matter ...its just a phukking hockey game full of overpaid athletes playing hockey for the benefit of beer sales.......i used to enjoy the game....but it is now bullshit...and the reason i came to this forum is because assholes like luongo represent what has gone wrong with hockey...dont worry....life will go on without the canucks circus...go utside.....take a walk....shut the goddamned tv off.....peace

To be fair 23 wins but the National Post wrote a article today walrus is not what Toronto needs or wants. Nobody wants loser lu . Never will win a cup.

Reply-to:he gets 30 wins per season because Vancouver is a very good/great regular season team.  Hed get 15 wins max in a place like Toronto

luongo would prefer to go to a team that has a chance for the cup....seems to me he was on a team that had a chance fore a cup.....so..........he wants a team that will gurantee him a cup?.....its obvious that he cannot deliver one

IM AT A LOSS AS TO WHY ANY TEAM WOULD TAKE THAT ABSURD CONTRACT.......HOW MUCH WILL THE CANUCKS HAVE TO EAT................LUONGO WALKS ITO A PUB...THE BARTENDER SAYS....'WHY THE LONG FACE?

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Reply-to:Luongo says He will consider waiving His no trade contract if asked Gilles stated earlier, He would not ask players with no trade contracts to waive them. Postering by Luongo? Who blinks first? Forget whatever Luongo or Gilles says. It all depends on what Aquillini says ! wondering myself, will, the Italian choose the Italian,or,the American ?  

Luongo says He will consider waiving His no trade contract if asked

Giles stated earlier, He would not as players with no trade contracts to waive them

Postering by Luongo? Who blinks first? Forget whatever Luongo or Gilles says

It all depends on what Aquillini says !

wondering myself,will, the Italian choose the Italian,or,the American ?

Reply-to:can hardly wait until all of you turn on schneider! i am sick of the way the fans, sportswriters (gallagher) and management have treated luongo, looking forward seeing schneideer flop!

Ok, You are worse than ANYONE you are complaining about ! I dont know of anyone who when Luongo first came here was wishing and looking forward to Him flopping (something he became very good at on his belly,towards the end). This is something for whatever reason was brought on by him and his personality. Seriously,You sound like some immature Child whose doll was taken away.Wishing ill will on someone who has been a great teammate,no attitude,Polite,respectful is just sick on Your part. Feel free to move where ever Luongo goes (I am sure if You cry hard enough,Your Parents may give in)?

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wait until next season, van. fans aren't too loyal!

Reply-to:can hardly wait until all of you turn on schneider! i am sick of the way the fans, sportswriters (gallagher) and management have treated luongo, looking forward seeing schneideer flop!

He won't flop Don Taylor, he is a athletic techically sound emotionally stable humble goalie - all the things el-floppo isn't

 

iremember hearing a post stanley cup interview with reboundo luzongo after the bruins ventilated him......he said.........and i paraphrase...id like to remain with this team and bring a stanley cup to vancouver....i remember thinking.......phuck off you asshole

Nope, they didn't learn a thing from last season.  Lets hope they learned something from this season. 

Reply-to:last off season they asked canucks to take a paycut so they could afford luongos salary.  thats why christian erhof is gone.  and without him, the sisters cant score.  then came the trade where they shipped cody hodson away for a couple jackasses not worth shit.  then the retards in charge starts luongo as if they didnt learn from last season...thats why the canucks are out in the first round and to the lowly kings at that!