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Which camp are you in?

camp 3. there are 29 other teams that would love the problem that we have. its a team game, you are not playing like the #1 you don't get the number 1

I have faith in both goalies Yesterdays game, i don't fault loogongo on the last 3. fans need to realize its a team game. If there is a player out of position as bad as MAG was last night, no-one will stop a puck that close.

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"if your parachute doesn't open up while skydiving, don't worry, you have the rest of your life to figure it out"

My sig might suggest different but I'm Team first and have no qualms with Lou getting the start in game one of the playoffs but after that they'd better be going with whoever is playing best and I actually think that's what they are going to do now, much to my relief.

Oh and yeah if we could find some way to dump Lou's salary I'd be more than happy to do it.

Anyone not saying "Team first" is being kind of silly, but I do lack a bit of faith in the Canucks' coaching staff to handle this entirely the right way, and feel that the best guy won't always be starting. I tend to agree with my cousin's theory that completely irrespectively of how the starter played the game before, you simply keep alternating to screw with the opposition and keep them both sharp yet rested.

That said, I think anyone who doesn't believe that Schneider has been the stronger of the two this season is deluding themselves, but I don't think that means Luongo "can't win" or "isn't good enough", but rather that Schneider has been more solid throughout the season. I do much prefer Schneider's goaltending style in the abstract, however, and think he will show less variation from game to game (and is harder for shooters to solve), and given his age, if there were any way to do it, he'd be the one I would keep long-term. But that almost certainly won't happen, so...

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Lou has been a star for a decade, go with him until he falters. No question in my mind he is the best goalie we've ever had.

All depends on the playoffs, if he carries the team he stays, if Schneider takes over and is brilliant not sure Lou would want to be the guy that forces Schneider to leave knowing he was only #1 because of a NTC, I think he'd want to prove himself elsewhere.

And just think if Lack is everything we hear he is we have two more years of this but with a Lou and Eddie controversy (or perhaps Corey and Eddie).............too many riches are incredibly good problems to have.

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Shoresy, "It's called a sweater"

It does seem strange for this team to have this kind of depth and strength at this position when we aren't that far removed from Alex Auld, Johan Hedberg and Chris Levesque.

in my opinion we gave up on Levesque way to early.

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"if your parachute doesn't open up while skydiving, don't worry, you have the rest of your life to figure it out"

No sooner is a verbal CBA agreement in place than chatter about Luongo begins in earnest. Mirtle tweeted the only thing holding Luongo back from going to Toronto would be Luongo. Certainly hope a trade to Florida doesn't happen--Florida has a much better option at goal already.

i doubt he will get till the summer

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"if your parachute doesn't open up while skydiving, don't worry, you have the rest of your life to figure it out"

Oh. The Flyers are in on the Luongo sweepstakes. I shouldn't be surprised by this.

this...just...got...AWESOME! bidding war!

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"if your parachute doesn't open up while skydiving, don't worry, you have the rest of your life to figure it out"

Holmgren made a pretty vehement denial of any interest in Luongo, which means absolutely nothing.

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Thanks Chuck, E.L. and Harmy!

and what are they going to do with Bryz? trade him?... can they? buy out all those years? Hard to believe that rumour.

It's possible to do. They go into this season with the most expensive goalie tandem in NHL history, then use the free buyout this summer and jettison Bryz. Apparently they have enough LTIR space from Pronger to make this work.

'04 Wings have them beat!

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Thanks Chuck, E.L. and Harmy!

I know it's possible to buy him out just don't think it is very likely at all even for Philly to pay that price tag. See buyouts more going toward one and two year left deal rather than long terms.

Nope, Luongo/Bryz would be higher: $10m for Bryz this year, $6.716m for Luo. I believe Joseph/Hasek were an 8/6 split with like 1.5 for Legace.

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Injustice? Cobain died and Eddy Fucking Vedder lived to haunt us with his shitty fucking voice, trite lyrics and his Eddy Vedderness.



- Ancient Chinese Proverb

Snider has proven time and time and time again that money is no object. If he has a shot at throwing money away to rectify a stupid mistake, improve the team, and have it not impact the cap, he'll do it. Don't forget this is the team that made a HUGE offer sheet to Shea Weber when they had little cap room to do so.

The question is whether the Flyers want to go into the season with what would be an enormous distraction of a disgruntled Bryzgalov and a Luongo miffed that the Russian won't pump his tires.