I think somebody might need to pump his tires. He looks a bit flat out there.

I was saying Boo-urns

I keep hoping one of these days that the Mystery Machine shows up, and the Scooby Gang jumps out, tackles Luongo trying to make a getaway, and they go "let's see who this goalie REALLY is?!" and they rip off his face to find......


... DAN CLOUTIER!


/and he would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling hockey fans...

Roberto Luongo has a .852 save percentage. The only other starters worse than him are anderson in ottawa and halak in st. louis.


Anderson and halak have somewhat of an excuse...their teams are TERRIBLE.

Luongo? I've watched several of his games and...the losses are mostly his fault. His patented luongo-flop has failed him utterly.

ArkAngel: I was saying Boo-urns

Came for

Aw don't be so hard on the guy. He just wants to make sure Downtown Vancouver doesn't get torched again anytime soon.


/So how bout that Kessel kid?

Yeah, give Lou a break... He wasn't the only Canuck playing like shiat in the Finals last season.

It's freaking October for fark's sake.

Having said that, somebody pump up his tires, stat!

FiendishFellow05: jekostas: Practical_Draconian: So when does this guy get traded to the NYI for draft picks, a bag of pucks and Nabokov?

/runs

First career-shortening knee injury.

Ironically, he started his career with the Islanders back in the late '90s/2000. They traded him to Florida after they draft Rick "Glass Body" DiPietro. I wonder if they regret that(more like they regret making Mike Milbury GM...)?

Do not remind me.

Now that you've got me started, let me break this down again. In order to have room to draft DP over Heatley and Gaborik, Milbury traded Luongo and Olli Jokinen to Florida for Mark Parrish and Oleg freaking Kvasha. So, to recap:

Could have had: Luongo, Jokinen, Heatley/Gaborik
Ended up with: DP, Parrish, and a waste of space.

The blood, it boils.

Roberto Luongo is in playoff form already.

This is bad news... for Vancouver.

NutznGum: I thought it would the referee's fault that the Canucks were doing so badly. At least that's what we heard ad nauseam in the playoffs last year.

It was the referees fault they stopped falling for all the acting and diving. I haven't seen the Canucks play yet this year, so can't yet tell if the referees are "still" at fault.

blakelynch: He won Gold for Canada, took his team to the Stanley Cup game 7.
Where were the Sedin sisters that series?

Alright, let's not get crazy with the revisionist history here. Canada won gold in spite of Luongo. Early on in the Olympic tournament there was a lot of talk about yanking Lou for the (at the time) hotter Marc Andre Fluery. He did not win that Gold for Canada. He didn't lose it for 'em, but he certainly didn't win it for 'em.

He was also reguarly TERRIBLE in both the first and final rounds of the Stanley Cup playoffs last year. Have we already forgotten Chicago embarrassing him in the first round? And then the Finals...he didn't exactly keep Van in the games, now did he? Indeed, unlike in the Olympics, there's a reasonable argument to be made that Luongo lost games for Vancouver. You might also argue that the Vancouver D was depleted, but isn't that why you pay world-class goaltenders? To steal games when you need them to? What games has he stolen when it's counted?

Let's face it...like his pumped up tires are full of hot air.

4NSpy: Games 1 and 5 in the finals?

36 and 31 saves in 1-0 shutouts.

He won two games at home. Like you're supposed to. And if I remember correctly his team played well in front of him in those games. Stealing games is when your team plays like shiat in front of you and you win 1-0. Like he should have in Boston.

He's not a clutch goaltender.