Ray_Cathode Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 hey luongo haters remember these guys Dan Cloutier Félix Potvin Kevin Weekes Sean Burke Alex Auld Bob Essensa Johan Hedberg Corey Hirsch Arturs Irbe Mika Noronen Maxime Ouellet Garth Snow Kay Whitmore bunch on ungrateful fans are dumping on luongo hes is the elite goaltender that we were crying about for so many years nonis made the biggest trade in canucks history LUONGO IS A GOD ...... VANCOUVER went from a GOALIE GRAVE YARD to a GOALIE HEAVEN and those fans at the game, only time they made any kind of noise at all was to hate on luuuu HOW BOUT CHEERING DURING THE GAME WHEN UR DOWN AND GETTING BEHIND UR TEAM, instead of eating sushi in ur company seats and to all the people saying trade luuuu .....ok fine lets say it happens schnieder and lack combo means the canucks will still lack a cup at the end of the year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray_Cathode Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Maybe 2-3 years from now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray_Cathode Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 The reason vancouver is considered a goalie graveyard is because we get reasonably to immensly talented goalies, expect them to win the jennings, vezina, and stanley cup in the first 2 years they are here, and as soon as that doesnt happen, the fans/media belittle them and show absolutely no confidence therefore turning them into head cases and inevitably ruining their game. Luongo is not the cure to the goalie graveyard, but he will be the greatest goalie destroyed by fans that expect way too much. Since luongo has gotten here he has won the jennings, been nominated for the vezina twice, and been to the stanley cup finals, and yet he gets the most disrespect. There is no one else to blame but the fans/media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryanstorm Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Arturs Irbe in his prime.. Felix the cat was pretty decent too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossram Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 At least Schneider and Lack are less likely to pull a choke job against Chicago, and Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
standoffishy Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Hundreds of people jeering at your own team and singling out a single player on is about as low as you can get. I'm so ashamed of this fanbase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfer53 Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Even Patrick Roy let in bad goals. Unfortunately, most of the people on this board are too young and too verbose to check out clips from the 1993 Stanley Cup Playoffs. The guy had fans chanting "Racicot" many nights during that run, and was replaced more than a few times. Between the fans and Mario Tremblay, they basically humiliated him and he demanded a trade. I'm not saying Luongo will go that far, but if many fans continue this stuff, he may not have a choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wh!stler R!der Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Forgot Tyler Moss, and Wade Flaherty. Never had a main stay with the Nucks but I can't believe the depth we have in goal now and what we had between 1997-2006. Those were dark days indeed. It's too bad that this fanbase is getting fed up with no cup in 41 years. We are bitter from last year but that's no reason to rag on one goalie. It's embarrassing to have a fanbase like ours sometimes. Riots and jeering your team? Give me a break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otherside Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Even Patrick Roy let in bad goals. Unfortunately, most of the people on this board are too young and too verbose to check out clips from the 1993 Stanley Cup Playoffs. The guy had fans chanting "Racicot" many nights during that run, and was replaced more than a few times. Between the fans and Mario Tremblay, they basically humiliated him and he demanded a trade. I'm not saying Luongo will go that far, but if many fans continue this stuff, he may not have a choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaNCiTy 23 Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Maybe 2-3 years from now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kacvan Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Most of the fans who post here arn't old enough to remember some of those goaltenders, I only know of 5 on that list. Vancouver is no longer a goalie graveyard there are other far worse teams out there now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fagin Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 kirk mclean was loved by canucks fan and always will be because he is not a head case like luongo. Heres why we loved kirk: kirk never gave up on the puck and let people just score 3 or 4 consecutive goals in a period. kirk never asked for a salary contract that front loaded him with 10 million dollars per year (overpayment). kirk never expected other goalies to "pump his tires". kirk didn't have problems with breakaways. Cory schneider is a lot like Kirk and will be even better in today's NHL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kacvan Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Haha Corey Hirsch's photo has Trevor Linden in it! Oddly enough I have a Trevor Linden hockey card that says Habs on it but he is in an Iles jersey... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfer53 Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 At this time, I would suggest that we all direct our frustration where it belongs - at the NHL brass, who, in case anyone has been paying attention, has been horribly incapable of managing a decidedly inconsistent group of on-ice officials. Let's face it, the reason Boston defeated Vancouver last year was due to their physicality. But year to year, we see that, depending on the teams involved, that standard changes. The team that bangs up the other isn't always the one who wins, individual and collective talent notwithstanding. Some teams win series on the shoulders of their physical play, while others are golfing after the first round because of it. No wonder we're having a problem with headshots if players don't know the rules. Forget a conspiracy, ladies and gentleman. Let's start with the possibility of sheer incompetence. When you put a man with a background in basketball and expect him to run an entirely different sport with a different culture and different fans on business and legal knowledge alone, you have the current state of professional hockey. Colin Campbell and Brendan Shanahan appear to be doing their best, but as long as the mandate and the people at the top remain the same, you have the state with which we are in and what is driving these discussions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awalk Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Kirk McLean wasn't THAT good. Good playoff goaltender who was pretty clutch and had one amazing run but it's not like he was a superstar goalie. Luongo is a much better goaltender. And if you want to talk about what McLean did for this team versus what Luongo did, what game did Kirk lose in again? And I'm a huge McLean fan ps. Luongo has brought more to this team than any goaltender in the past ever has. Guys like Richard Brodeur and Kirk McLean gave this team a lot of great memories...but Luongo has made this team into an regular season force. He's had some bad playoff series, some really bad ones but he's also had some excellent series (Anaheim for example). Everyone needs to stop freaking out. Who actually wasn't expecting this kind of start, honestly? Pull your head outta yer arse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thirtyfive35 Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 I have always been a Luongo supporter. But I think that the Canucks organization and fans have held Luongo to such a high standard and put him up on pedestal. He has been told his whole career that he is the best goalie in the world. He has always been assured by everyone that he is amazing and many have called him "a God". The problem with that is that he has developed into a cocky, arrogant guy that thinks he is more deserving of things like any start he wants, ridiculous contracts, and even expects other goalies to "pump his tires". I was always a fan until last year's playoff run when he was mediocre at best for the majority of the run, yet still had the balls to take stabs at Tim Thomas' game and style of goaltending, and then follow up his comments with a 5-2 and 4-0 game. The team did not score nearly enough goals to make a difference, but those games were lost in the first half of the game when Luongo crap the bed. To many times have we had to deal with his weaknesses costing the team. The first couple years that he played in a Canuck uniform, he was no doubt, one of the best in the league. But for some reason, he has developed into a lazy goalie that gives up on a play, and has developed a habit of falling to his chest, leaving 90% of the net wide open. Something is definitely wrong with him and his game, and I think the only fix for it is a move from the team and city. He is the kind of goalie that thrives better in small market cities, like Florida. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naslund.is.king Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 How would you know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naslund.is.king Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 more like 4-6 years form now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hudson bay rules Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 I'm gunna hunt down the next poster who gives Loungo a pass for having poor Octobers and minus every friggin' post they make. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naslund.is.king Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Cory will be dealt at the deadline we have a new great goalie in town Lack , who like cory is known as the AHL's best goaltender diffrence between Lack and Cory right now is trade value, If we can get a Parise or so Cory is gone without even thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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