Talking about one of the best goalies of all time today.

Luongo was drafted 4th overall in 1997 by the NYI. Just so you know, Joe Thornton and Patrick Marleau were the 1st and2nd overall pick that year...

He played his 1st games in the 1999-00 season with the NYI.

Apparently, he wasn't in Mike Millbury's long term plan so along with OLLI JOKINEN to the FLA Panthers in exchange for Mark Parrish and Oleg Kvasha. Ouch, such an (other) awful trade for Mke Millbury.

He had some very good season with the Panthers, his best one being the 05-06 one, winning 35 games. Ok, he lost 30 but the Panthers weren't exactly an elite team...

After that year he was traded to the Canucks along with Lucas Krajicek and a 6th rounder for Alex Auld, Todd Bertuzzi, Bryan Allen and a conditional 2007 pick.

It was in VAN that he established himself as one of the best G of all time. He quickly dominated the league, being of coure helped by the likes of Henrik and Daniel, two of the best swedes to every play the game.

Perhaps his most memorable moments came in the 2011 SC run that the Canucks had, he was a beast for them during that time.

After that started his iconic «rivalry» with fellow Canuck Cory Schneider. In fact that rivalry started in 2011 because Schneider starter a few games for them during those playoffs.

After Schneider was moved to NJ in exchange for a 1st rounder that became Bo Horvat, Luongo was, once again, the Canucks' sole starter. That situation didn't last very long however, because he was traded back to the Panthers along with Steven Anthony for Jacob Markstrom and Shawn Matthias.

In 2016 the Panthers, led by Jonathan Huberdeau, Jaromir Jagr, Aleksander Barkov, Juusi Jokinen Aaron Ekblad and Roberto Luongo won the Atlantic division but unfortunately lost in the 1st round of those playoffs to the NYI, Luongo's former team, how ironic.

After that, the Panthers were once again a mediocre team for the last year of LUUUUU's career, which ended last year at the very late age of 40, which is very old for a goalie. He retired with 489 wins in 1044 games played.

Thanks dude!

Florida got some of Lu's best years, but that team failed him. 6 playoff games he got. What a waste.

The Isles trade is even worse, Milbury traded Luongo to draft DiPietro.

Basically Milbury swapped Luongo, Jokinen, Heatly/ Gaborik for Parish, Kvasha, DiPietro.