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Originally Posted by Ronin
Were we watching the same games? Before between November and February, Lu was lights out. He's only been terrible since March. It wasn't his fault lots of those games went to OT...the Canucks couldn't score. Since November, Lu has only given up 4 goals 3 times (twice to Anaheim). He was playing some of his best hockey midseason but like the entire team, he flopped in March.
You're all nuts if you think Luongo isn't a top-5 goalie. Maybe not statistically this year but I bet if you asked all 30 NHL GMs, they would put him in the top 5.
All you people saying Halak/Elliott are on crack. Of course, these are the same people that say contracts shouldn't be awarded for one good season and forget that Elliott was dumped by Ottawa and then Colorado where he was awful. Is it any coincidence that he became a star when Ken Hitchcock, defensive genius, took over? Halak? If you count OTLs as losses, he was below .500 last year and 27-21-7 isn't much better.
So if Lu isn't a top-5 goalie, then Tim Thomas must not be a top-5 goalie anymore either. The reigning Vezina winner has near identical numbers to Luongo and the Bruins are even worse off than the Canucks right now. They might even miss the playoffs if they slide any further.
If I were to build an NHL team from scratch, I'd have either Henrik Lundqivst or Pekka Rinne, who are probably the best two goalies in the league at the moment but after that, it's a log jam for spots 3-5 between Lu, Thomas, Fleury, Miller, Ward, Howard and Quick.
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I would entertain arguments for and against Lu being a top 5 goalie this season. Not much lower than that for sure.
My top 5 in no particular order would be
Elliot
Quick
Lundqvist
Howard
Rinne
If Rask and Schneider played more games, I would definitely include both of them
Luongo I'd put in top 10, maybe. Top 5 definitely not, there were lots of better goalies than Lu this season.