You dont write a lot but you write well.... (so ive noticed over the years)UWSaint wrote:Inevitable in many ways.
Once there wasn't going to be a return for Luongo, the reasonable question is how much better is Cory Schneider than Roberto Luongo over the next two years. Answer -- better, but better than a first round pick?
Personally, I think that Cory Schneider is a hell of a goaltender. As good as Luongo in 2006-7 or 2010-11. Very composed, fundamentally solid, quick. I am going to miss him as a Canuck. I also think the return could have been a little better if the Canucks had been able to take on a roster player, but there are other things at work -- namely the CBA and the Canucks cap situation. GMMG wasn't joking when he said this trade happened when the CBA was signed....
This doesn't make the Canucks better next season, because Luongo < Schneider and the pick isn't making an impact for at least 2 years. But Luongo is still good, might be very good again, and is still ahead of Dan Cloutier and whoever is playing in Toronto next year..... Right? And Schneider was only a Canuck for two more years....
The problem is that is this team's remaining window.... My verdict: not an irrational move, but it shows there is a limit to the owner's purse, because it was this or buyouts. I'll pull for Luongo; I'll pull for the Canucks; but we are in 2005-2006 again, Canuck fans. An aging team without elite goaltending. We don't have a top 10 goalie, and it is very hard to win without one unless you are the Chicago Blackhawks or have Sidney Crosby.
Good luck, CS, you are one of my favorite all-time Canucks. Wish I had seen you play more.
YES, goodbye Cory, life, funny thing sometimes (who would have ever anticpated this a year go?), as Lou Ammarello (sp?) said earlier today, NJ has secured their future. CS is expected to push and eventually take take over from Brodeur (an icon) ,,,, ok he didn't say those exact words, but it was implied. Unbelievable, wasn't it like yesterday when Brodeur took Detroit?? Getting old man. Who knows, maybe one day we'll see Lou vs Schneids for all the marbles?? (stranger things have happened in th is world)