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We can pay 8.8M for our goaltending tandem until the trade deadline or even the upcoming draft until we have a better return in a Luongo trade. Heck, by then if Lu is looking awesome we might just keep him and get a huge return for Schneider. Our hands aren't tied at all, because we have a playoff team without a Lu return. If the season is cancelled, then he might be a good trade piece at a complete lottery draft.

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#1. The premise of the argument you have made is that we have to ditch him at all costs, regardless of the return we get. If there is no trade on the table which gets us a reasonable return now... how are we losing out by waiting? If as the Toronto folks think, he has negative value and we have to take one of their crappy contracts in return for them doing us the favour of releiving us of Luongo... then there is nowhere but up as far as return on the asset goes.

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7 years? Reimer's 24 years old and has played 71 career NHL games. Gustavsson didn't work out, nor did Giguere.

Could it be that maybe it's the team, not not the goalies, that are the problem?

Are you friends with Cory and Roberto? Did they tell you that in confidence?

You honestly think that they wouldn't be distracted by being hounded by the media after every practice and every game? Roberto would not be happy, as the backup, and Cory would not be happy, as he'd have Roberto Luongo hanging out over his shoulder. Use common sense.

And if the deal makes us "worse" (hard to believe, given the relative unimportance of the backup goaltender), it'll just make us even more worse the longer that we wait.

Yes, it is a fact. Roberto Luongo's contract expires in 2022.

He "could", yes, but smart businesspeople need to analyze every possible outcome. If Luongo's contract with the Vancouver Canucks was negotiated in good faith, there's no reason to assume that he'll retire early.

Even if he did retire early, though, the commitment might be until, what, 2020, instead of 2022? Still a major commitment that you're not considering from the other side's perspective.

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The return will be even less "reasonable" with the longer that we wait.

Still waiting for somebody to explain how a 34 year-old backup in 2013 will be more valuable than what Luongo is worth today.

He did say that he didn't expect to be here:

“Two months ago, after what had just happened and Schneids had just signed and I didn’t really see myself being here,” Luongo said in his first comments locally since the end of the season.

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