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Re: Luongo vs Price

Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 11:27 am
by Cornuck
dbr wrote:That's ages ago, nearly as ancient as Roberto Luongo's Olympic gold medal.

Luongo's devastating playoff meltdowns in 2011, however, are still fresh in the minds of hockey fans everywhere.
Sarcasm rarely works online...

Re: Luongo vs Price

Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 11:30 am
by ClamRussel
dbr wrote:
ClamRussel wrote:
dbr wrote:That's ages ago, nearly as ancient as Roberto Luongo's Olympic gold medal.

Luongo's devastating playoff meltdowns in 2011, however, are still fresh in the minds of hockey fans everywhere.
Those who choose to forget his shutouts & triumphs. If Van had won game 7 the consensus was he would have had the Conn Smythe.
Why am I getting serious responses?
I thought I was agreeing with you. Serious.

Re: Luongo vs Price

Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 12:31 pm
by Topper
Should Carey Price be eligible for a Canadian Passport or as a proud Canadian does he use his status card for cheap smokes and gas.

Re: Luongo vs Price

Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 3:53 pm
by sagebrush
puckdaddy:
Give the assist on Thoreson's goal to Carey Price, who mishandled the puck behind the net and gave it away to the Norwegian attacker. Canada survived, obviously, but with Price battling Roberto Luongo for the starting job coming out of the round robin, the error may have opened the door for Luongo to put in a flawless performance in the second game and steal the starting job for the second straight Olympics.

Re: Luongo vs Price

Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 5:16 pm
by ClamRussel
puckdaddy wrote:Give the assist on Thoreson's goal to Carey Price, who mishandled the puck behind the net and gave it away to the Norwegian attacker. Canada survived, obviously, but with Price battling Roberto Luongo for the starting job coming out of the round robin, the error may have opened the door for Luongo to put in a flawless performance in the second game and steal the starting job for the second straight Olympics.
I would say prevent the starting job from being stolen is more accurate.

Re: Luongo vs Price

Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 5:46 pm
by Topper
Its Finland Norway and Austria. Who cares. Wow, a miss communication with a defender in the first game. Folks are really sucking on their straws to create news.

Re: Luongo vs Price

Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 8:24 pm
by Todd Bersnoozi
Cornuck wrote:
Todd Bersnoozi wrote:Hopefully Lou will play it cool and stay ready if he gets the tap on the shoulder.
Why wouldn't he?
U know how it is, multi-millionaire athletes who have big egos and feels snubbed, then they have bad attitudes that can hurt the team. Granted, Lou has a great track record. He was quite professional with the Schneids taking the #1 job last year, he handled the trade deadline well and even when Schneids got traded when he expected it would of been him.

Re: Luongo vs Price

Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 8:57 pm
by Arachnid
Topper wrote:Its Finland Norway and Austria. Who cares. Wow, a miss communication with a defender in the first game. Folks are really sucking on their straws to create news.
HamHouse played great! :thumbs:

Re: Luongo vs Price

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 5:40 am
by Per
Grabner on (among other things) Luongo:
After facing Finland, it won’t get any easier. Canada looms next, and that’ll be a chance for Grabner to go head-to-head with his NHL teammate John Tavares. The 23-year-old New York Islanders captain currently ranks third in league scoring with 66 points.

“We talked about it the last couple of weeks,” Grabner said. “He’s one of the best players in the world. It’s going to be fun to be on the other side against him. I know how hard he works, how much effort he puts into his game.”

Even though Grabner only played 20 games for the Canucks in 2009/2010, he did get a feel for star goalie Roberto Luongo, who will start for Canada against Austria.

“I know him pretty well from practices,” said Grabner. “He’s a great goalie. He’s big. We’ve just got to get some pucks to the net and traffic and not make it easy on him.”
http://sochi2014.iihf.com/men/news/michael-grabner/

Grabner scored three goals on Tukkaa Rask, who let in four goals on 20 shots! :shock:
Who saw that coming?

The Finns won 8-4 though. Shots 52-20.

Re: Luongo vs Price

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 9:10 am
by rats19
They are saying price is the no 1 goalie for Canada...I was not aware.

Re: Luongo vs Price

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 9:24 am
by Island Nucklehead
I think Luongo has already had to make a better save in the first 10 minutes than Price did in his entire game.

Re: Luongo vs Price

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 11:11 am
by Cornuck
Amazing how much better Luongo looks when his team scores 6.

Re: Luongo vs Price

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 11:12 am
by Lancer
So Lou pitches a shutout. I guess he gets the start against Finland...

with the Eastern vultures circling waiting and praying for him to let in a goal.

Re: Luongo vs Price

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 11:41 am
by sagebrush
Differences in opinion between CBC commentators were interesting, during the game against Austria.

In the second period, Healy said the Norway game was a tougher test, since there was only one NHL player on the Austrian team.

In the third period, Hughson said there were three NHL forwards on the Austrian team, & noted how solid Luongo was in the game. :thumbs:

Re: Luongo vs Price

Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 12:16 pm
by rats19
Lou was good...very good when he had to be....nice job!! :drink:

I am not sure carter was thrilled with Lou not accepting the puck..unless he said you keep it???