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Originally Posted by dbaz
I guess you saw the part about se division, raged and posted. I said he also greatly benefited from good canucks teams in front of him every year. The only year he did play up to what hes been hyped to is the year we lost to anaheim in the second round. He played like an elite goaltender that year, I'll give him that. I'm not one to ignore it when he deserves credit. But even if you look at that, whos fault was it for that loss in the elimination game. It comes down to luongo yelling at a ref instead of saving the puck. But seriously, never have I seen an "elite" goalie flop, miss the puck and give up so many shitty goals. As for schnieder I guess since you've only noticed him 2 years in the NHL, nothing else matters. Screw the AHL, NCAA etc. Personally I've seen him playing since college. It's not hard to tell when a goalies gonna be good, and it only helps to judge when you've played goalie yourself. Especially when hes that positionally sound. Your argument about schnieder is basically like saying when stamkos first joined the league: steven stamkos has never played in the league hes going to suck.
I've never been a Luongo fan, I am in no way on his "bandwagon".
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No rage, just rant
Every goalie has their downside. Do you only watch the Canucks? Hasek flopped way more than Luongo (maybe not in shootouts) and is considered an elite goaltender. Every single goalie to ever play the game lets in shitty goals. I assume you watch 82 Canuck games / yr - how can you so matter-of-factly say other goalies don't make the same mistakes? Do you watch every other goaltender's game with as much attention to detail as you do Luongo's? I bet you don't.
And as far as Schneiders accolades, sorry buddy, junior stats dont mean SHIT in the NHL. Kevin Weekes was the goalie of the future! Now he's just a turrible colour
commentator. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to take anything away from Schneider, he's a very good young goalie. I'm just saying you're not comparing apples to apples.
You're not going to be a very happy camper when Schneider gets traded and Lack is Luongo's backup. I would start preparing for that today.. like right now.
