RyanKeslord17 Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 OR we play our true No 1 goalie: Cory Schneider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snucks Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Luongo should not be left in a game where he has no D. AV is getting beat by better coaches and tougher teams. There is no tougness on this team plain and simple. Luongo may have an old injury that is not mental. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yeria Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 I hope Lu stand on his head through 4 rounds and sips from Stanley in June. frack the haters right up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trelane42 Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 OR we play our true No 1 goalie: Cory Schneider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brambojoe Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 One the plus side any potential playoff matches reviewing tapes won't be finding any Canuck's strengths to counter. Hopefully the Canucks can refind their game come the post-season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjkaemingh Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Play CS. Sit Lou. This team is just coasting. They know long playoffs may be coming. It is not good. but it is subconscious. We are too nice. No Killer instinct. I know they are trying, but wake the F up. Back to regular D pairing and lines. Sit Raymond. Play CS, play whoever gives you the best chance to win. Right now CS. Bieksa, you wake up too. Start playing the way you can. Less brain farts please. (edler you too) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gumballthechewy Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 I really don't know what the problem is. What's with the mind set of "he's our number one goalie, we have to play him!"? You play who's playing good in my opinion, regardless of who he is or how much he's getting paid. If Lu is hot, you ride him! If Schneider is tearing it up, go with him! It's common sense really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIBdaQUIB Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 MG rolled the dice on Luongo whit his contract and tied the team's success for many years to his ability to carry the load in goal and to the Sedin's ability to be elite scorers. They are either going to get it done with these stars or the experiment has failed. The Sedins have not shown that their style holds up in the playoffs both on the offensive and defensive side of the equation. LU has shown himself vulnerable and inconsistent in the playoffs. He can be lights-out and then he can really crap the bed. Some of us believe, based on a number of playoff runs (with some ugly collapses) the formula needs to be adjusted and this includes how Lu is used now that Cory has grown into a potential star. To blindly stick with a strategy that isn't working because it was "the plan" is a recipe for disaster. Good decisions whether in business or sports ar ebased on being flexible and doing what achieves the desired outcome. Continuing to play non-performers like Raymond, LU (when he's "off), the Sedins together when they are being shut down, is stubborness to stick to a plan that isnlt working. It makes the Nuck spredictable and defeatable. Loyalty to your players is admirable but to allow them to fail beacuse of it, is just bad management. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Get real canuck fans Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 It is impossible for us to know the inner workings of what the real problem is. Lou is a goalie and is not the one who can control who plays. We will not likely know where this really comes from. Did the owners instruct Gillis to sign Lou at any cost. Did Gillis go against his own beliefs of not signing players to long term contracts because he believes so much in Lou or because he was told to by his boss. Is Gillis going to AV and asking him what the hell are you doing man why isnt Cory playing, or is Gillis telling AV that Lou is the man and to pla him and AV is just listening to his boss. Is Lou telling AV that if he doesn't get a vast majority of the remaining starts to "find his game" he will be pissed and the Canucks will be screwed because the trade value of Lou and 10 more years at 5.3 makes him untradable. If he had a couple years left on his deal he would certainly have value. All the fans know is Lou is not playing well and just about every other team that has a number 1 goalie that struggles will put in their backup more often and wait for him to return to form. Halak struggled coming out of the gate and the Blues played Elliot more than they expected I am sure. In Philly Bobrovsky played back to back games several times when Bryz wasn't playing well even though Bobrovsky sucks with a GAA over 3. When Thomas struggled the Bruins played Rask and made TT outplay Rask and earn his spot back. Even Lou came back strong after being injury for 3-4 games and then watching Cory for 3-4 when he was he obviously healthy enough to play or he would not have been dressed as the backup. The problem lies with Gillis, ownership or AV more than Lou. Even if Lou is whining behind the scenes the higher ups should realise no player is above the team and Cory deserves to be playing right now and Lou does not, and every game that this continues the more fans will be frustrated and take it out on Lou because the games will be sold out no matter what, so how else can a fan show their displeasure with whoever is making this idiotic decision to play a goalie who is not playing as well as the other goalie for this season It isn;t like the Sedins situation because there are 10 other forwards who get to play every game, and yes the Sedins are struggling as well, but they have been our best forwards this season, Lou has not been our best goalie and most games Cory does not get to play a minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tocnhockey Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 I hope Lu stand on his head through 4 rounds and sips from Stanley in June. frack the haters right up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfey Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Not again. Luongo plays well and you all shut up. He plays bad and out you come with your pitch forks and tourches. Does it make you feel better? Please support another team if you're not gonna bother with this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyacry Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 The problem is, WHAT IF we don't get the SC this year? (not trying to jinx it). Then what...trade CS and HOPE Lu can do it next season? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dildo_baggins Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Not again. Luongo plays well and you all shut up. He plays bad and out you come with your pitch forks and tourches. Does it make you feel better? Please support another team if you're not gonna bother with this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smurf47 Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 I think when Lou started to struggle last night it put AV between a rock and a hard place.. If he pulls Lou, Lou will lose confidence...if he lets in a bunch more, Lou loses confidence. It was a no win situation, only option was to hope Lou worked out of it...unfortunately...he did not !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilduce39 Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Not again. Luongo plays well and you all shut up. He plays bad and out you come with your pitch forks and tourches. Does it make you feel better? Please support another team if you're not gonna bother with this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smurf47 Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Its only your assumption that Lou will play well again this season...no guarentee. Being a team sport, if everyone is playing hard, it seems only right to play the players that give you the best chance to succeed. At this point in time, it means Schneider. Hes playing better than Lou and has at every opportunity hes been given this year. As someone once said...the buck (puck) stops here !! Lou is a more reflex and intuitive type goalie. When he struggles with that he does not have the technical and sometimes physical ability to fall back on...thus, when hes hot, hes hot and when hes not he sure as hell is not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIBdaQUIB Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 I think when Lou started to struggle last night it put AV between a rock and a hard place.. If he pulls Lou, Lou will lose confidence...if he lets in a bunch more, Lou loses confidence. It was a no win situation, only option was to hope Lou worked out of it...unfortunately...he did not !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIBdaQUIB Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Agree. He has played bad lately, he has played extremely well before that and will again before the season is done. We should continue to let him play to try and work his way out of this funk. He's only the franchise's all-time best goalie. As Ray Ferarro said, "Enjoy the next 10 years." Schneider has proven he can play well with limited time and in the playoffs we can go to him if we need to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onesmallleap Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Robero Luongo is a dimininishing asset , our only hope is to graciously exit the playoffs without him , completly losing all respectability, and to trade his buttocks at the draft.....see 'ya Louie!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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