Riviera82 Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 What the hell? If you're going to compare him to Brodeur, why don't you compare the fact that Luongo had to play in two of the crappiest organizations ever? (NYI and FLA) It's pretty spectacular that he has that many wins playing half his career on crap teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riviera82 Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Which games was his GAA above 6 aside from game 3. Also Boston scored as many goals in that game as we scored in the entire series which is equally pathetic, the whole team imploded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winacup Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 his gaa in the games he lost was 5. 8+4+4+4 = 20/4 = 5 gaa = big time choke. (keyboard error has been corrected in earlier post) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dildo Faggins Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Call me unreasonable, but I would think that surrendering 8 goals in game 3 would warrant being labelled as choking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mountain Dew Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Linden doing charity work while Naslund doing "basically nothing" for the community? Stop trying to come up with lies to make your arguments look good. Pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merci Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 hmmmm that sounds swedishly familiar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuck nit Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 hmmmm that sounds swedishly familiar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuck nit Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 gaa of 5 in games he lost is by any measure a big time choke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avicii Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 I was most definitely NOT comparing Luongo to Brodeur. What I wrote was in reference to Luongo being in 2nd place on the active shutouts list, who is number 1? Marty with 119. Also, Luongo barely played for the Islanders, somewhere between 20-30 games. Yes the Panthers sucked at the time, which dispells the illusion that Luongo can carry any team into the playoffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winacup Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Call me unreasonable, but I would think that surrendering 8 goals in game 3 would warrant being labelled as choking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TowelPower12 Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Luongo single handedly put us back in the series with a shutout in game 5, you would think that would swing the momentum back the other way. But it didn't because nothing was going to spark our offense in that series. 1.14 goals for a game, i'd like to see any goalie win a series with that. Look at vs the Kings, even after Schneider went in and put up a 1.33GAA we still lost 2 of the 3 games he played. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VMR Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Not getting 4 shutouts in the finals is choking? cause that's pretty much what we would have needed to win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dildo Faggins Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 his performance in that game cost us the series. it removed any doubt the bruins had after the first two games of their ability to get enough goals to avoid elimination. the confidence they gained by ventilating luongo in that game carried them to the cup. the playoffs are all about momentum. look at the kings this year. they grabbed it and never let go of it. with luongo in goal we've never had that option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuck nit Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Luongo's play was always supplemented by the quality of d men in front of him. That is true of almost any goalie -anywhere. The Canucks had one d man that was not injured and a rookie that has never scored an NHL goal left to play against Boston. Give up the hatred and smell the salt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHIPS Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 I vote for Ring of Honor. Not sure if we should retire him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watermelons Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 luongo had his chance to win a cup and secure his place in history but he choked on it big time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riviera82 Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 Ahhh, a recent Canucks fan. He single handedly carried our team into the playoffs in 2007. I don't know what you're talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riviera82 Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 More like, the Vancouver Canucks had a chance to win but the players decided not to score goals. Hockey is a team game, can't put all the blame on one player Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watermelons Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 You cant put all of the blame on one player but on the other hand Luongo played the most important position on the team. As an "elite" goaltender, it is his job not to let games get out of hand especially when they are the most important. He has allowed that to happen numerous times in all of his playoffs after 2007. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riviera82 Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 While that may be true, he also had many great games in the playoffs and made numberous important saves when the team needed them most (Sharp in OT, Smyth against the Kings back in 2010 etc.) And I also think that his groin injury forced him to change his game, and firing his goalie coach didn't help with that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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