NUCKS4CUP 28 Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Gillis has dropped another notch in my respect for him as a GM today. This whole debacle should have been avoided from the start. An absolute mess. I am a Lu fan, and I'm also a Schneider fan. I'm also a fan who won't throw Luongo under the bus for the teams complete playoff meltdowns. The way he has been treated, for everything he has done for the organization in the last 7 years, is absolutely appalling. I'm sorry, but when you have a goalie of his caliber, signed to a lifelong contract, you don't shove him in the corner for the backup. This would NEVER happen with Brodeur. Or with any organization that just signed an all-star player to a career long contract with the intent of PLAYING. Last I checked we signed Lu to be our franchise goaltender. I'm disgusted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shazzam Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 yes and nobody denies this unfortunately the rest of the team was terrible and never great in any of the games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jovocop55 Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 This is why u never sign long term contracts. Never happy ending.. Something always go wrong at the end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shazzam Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Good lord, well said. Look how many crappy games and moments Brodeur has had, yet he's been there his entire career and never questioned as the starter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandmaster Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Gillis has dropped another notch in my respect for him as a GM today. This whole debacle should have been avoided from the start. An absolute mess. I am a Lu fan, and I'm also a Schneider fan. I'm also a fan who won't throw Luongo under the bus for the teams complete playoff meltdowns. The way he has been treated, for everything he has done for the organization in the last 7 years, is absolutely appalling. I'm sorry, but when you have a goalie of his caliber, signed to a lifelong contract, you don't shove him in the corner for the backup. This would NEVER happen with Brodeur. Or with any organization that just signed an all-star player to a career long contract with the intent of PLAYING. Last I checked we signed Lu to be our franchise goaltender. I'm disgusted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papayas Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 so do you think no one else showed up for the Canucks in any of those wins? and Luongo "stole" 3 games for us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papayas Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Yes, and the goalie on the other end was standing on his head too.... so how many goals did the Canucks need to score in games : 3, 4, 6 and 7 to win? Answer: too many to have a chance to win, because one goalie continued to stand on his head while the other... everyone knows and will remember the terrible performance in those games. Luo was great and then terrible, although the team was not good enough to beat Thomas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancanwincup Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 yes and nobody denies this unfortunately the rest of the team was terrible and never great in any of the games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sockeye Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 and when Schneider was sitting on the bench watching Luongo play he had never been a #1, he was always a backup. Luongo was a #1 and now has to sit and watch. So as I said not the same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shazzam Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 wtf shows up in those wins when we won two of them with 1 goal each? I don't think you saw the game but it was our goalie who made those insane saves from odd man rush after odd man rush to won us those games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NUCKS4CUP 28 Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 if that is what you want to believe then by all means Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dank.sinatra Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Best goalie in Canucks history, it sucks to see it end like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sockeye Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 If Lu really wants to leave then waive the NTC not just to 2 or 3 teams but to any team in the off season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derr12 Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Gillis has dropped another notch in my respect for him as a GM today. This whole debacle should have been avoided from the start. An absolute mess. I am a Lu fan, and I'm also a Schneider fan. I'm also a fan who won't throw Luongo under the bus for the teams complete playoff meltdowns. The way he has been treated, for everything he has done for the organization in the last 7 years, is absolutely appalling. I'm sorry, but when you have a goalie of his caliber, signed to a lifelong contract, you don't shove him in the corner for the backup. This would NEVER happen with Brodeur. Or with any organization that just signed an all-star player to a career long contract with the intent of PLAYING. Last I checked we signed Lu to be our franchise goaltender. I'm disgusted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avicii Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 I love how the Schneider fans are like "he signed here to be the #1 it's not fair for him to blah blah blah" Guarantee you Luongo signed that deal assuming he'd be the #1 here until he retired. GUARANTEED. And if you're gonna bring up youtube clips of Luongo failing well then here's one for you: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papayas Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Gillis has dropped another notch in my respect for him as a GM today. This whole debacle should have been avoided from the start. An absolute mess. I am a Lu fan, and I'm also a Schneider fan. I'm also a fan who won't throw Luongo under the bus for the teams complete playoff meltdowns. The way he has been treated, for everything he has done for the organization in the last 7 years, is absolutely appalling. I'm sorry, but when you have a goalie of his caliber, signed to a lifelong contract, you don't shove him in the corner for the backup. This would NEVER happen with Brodeur. Or with any organization that just signed an all-star player to a career long contract with the intent of PLAYING. Last I checked we signed Lu to be our franchise goaltender. I'm disgusted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primus099 Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 so do you think no one else showed up for the Canucks in any of those wins? and Luongo "stole" 3 games for us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancanwincup Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 too many to have a chance to win? other than game 6 and game 7, the team all failed to score in two periods when the score was close. Luongo gave the team a chance to score, they just fail to do so much like all the games that we won in that series. THE WHOLE TEAM fail to score goals in that series regardless how long our goalie held out the opponents. Did Luongo have his fault? absolutely yes. But he should not be the main target to blame because he gave us 3 wins literally out of nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joecanada777 Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 You can spout off 8 goals in 7 games all you want but his first period collapses in the 3rd 4th 6th and 7th games cost us big time if you can't see that your blind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papayas Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 And you fail to understand Boston was not scoring, this was going to be a goalie dual and it was... until Luo. Luo was not much better than Thomas in his wins, but Thomas was miles better than Luo in his wins. People fail to realize Luo was not the busier of the two goalies. Canuck fans do not give Thomas credit for having one of the best goalie performances of any goalie in a stanley series in the history of the stanley cup. The real question should be; if Thomas was the Canucks goalie would we have a Cup? More than likely YES! Luo was a huge part in Van getting to the finals of the Stanley cup and he was a huge part of losing the Cup. Could we have had enough scoring with a healthy line up to beat Thomas ? I think not it was his time and thomas was close to unbeatable, Luo could not match Thomas game to game over the 7 game series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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