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Gillis Had No Choice But Sign Luongo
by Paul on 09/02/09 at 02:46 PM ET
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from Pierre LeBrun of ESPN,
I can’t think of a more significant signing this summer than Wednesday’s 12-year contract extension between Roberto Luongo and the Vancouver Canucks.
Super-elite NHL netminders are like super-elite quarterbacks in the NFL; there are only a handful of them and other teams spend years trying to land one.
So credit Canucks GM Mike Gillis for putting aside his personal preference of avoiding the kind of double digit-term deals that have plagued the NHL in the last few years; he made a rare exception because he knew he had no choice.
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ok so who do we end up trading Corey Schneider to? I mean this kid appears to have it, atleaset at the AHL level. heck he will be ready to retire when this contract expires. Seems we got an abundance of goalies and dman
Posted by rdgamblr from Northern Illinois on 09/02/09 at 04:04 PM ET