There was also a horribly ignorant blogger featured on The Star Phoenix who blamed Luongo for the Canucks entire loss on Thursday against the Nashville Predators —even though Cory Schneider allowed three goals on five shots in the first period.
After Luongo played great in a Canucks victory over the New York Islanders on November 13, it was revealed that he was also injured during the game and was forced to miss a couple of starts.
The reality of the Canucks situation is that they have two world class goalies right now. He does this every year and yet he still routinely puts up some of the best goaltending statistics in the league nearly every season.
Just ask the Stanley Cup champions from Boston, who posted a horrific record in October. Since then, they are and are back at the top of their division.
Following his first season with the Canucks, Luongo seemed to lurch from drama to drama while providing a staggeringly consistent level of elite goaltending. Over his first six seasons with the Canucks, he averaged 64 games per season and 37 wins.
His save percentage over those six seasons was a high of. There was also the stuff on the ice to consider. The playoff run is a miniseries of its own — wonder if Tim Thomas still needs his tires inflated? The next year he came back with another stellar regular season before the Canucks were swept in the first round of the playoffs. Then things got really weird. Cory Schneider got really good. What did it take, 15 seconds to read that? But those two years were exhausting and sucked the life out of this franchise while turning Luongo into a wreck.
You can easily make the case the Canucks are still trying to recover from the ordeal. But something positive also happened between Luongo and this market after he was traded. Maybe the good times outweighed the bad in the minds of the faithful. Despite everything that happened, despite all the craziness, we remember the goalie. This imperfect man who played his heart out, who never cheated the fans or his teammates, who played with passion and a purpose.
When everything else fades away he will be remembered for those reasons. Is there more to this story? The Canucks won their seventh in a row last night, battling back to beat Anaheim in a shootout.
Specifically, the fact Robert Luongo allowed four goals on 15 shots and the crowd at Rogers Arena cheered loudly when he was replaced by Cory Schneider. From The Province :. Loose team, with a loose goalie in a mostly mean-nothing game. This is a Vancouver Canucks team with a finite window, whose only real goal is to win it all. This is a Vancouver Canucks team with a backup goalie who started Tuesday with a record, a 1.
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