The Time Was Three Past Luongo In Boston
Jim Rome has a saying, “Don’t try and put a fire out with a gas can.” Well, that is what Vancouver Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo did before Game 6, of the Stanley Cup Final in Boston, with his “goalie code” breaking comments about Bruins goalie Tim Thomas. Luongo thought the world should know he would have made the stop on the shot that Thomas let slip by in the Canucks 1-0 win in Game 5. Then Luongo added later that Thomas didn’t “pump his tires.”
While Thomas didn’t let it show in interviews that these comments bothered him, the word out of the Bruins locker room was different and Thomas was steaming. He showed it when he came out for warm ups for Game 6 by doing a Claude Lemieux and shooting two puck at the Canucks net. You would think if you were going to give goalie advice you would take some of it yourself and Luongo did neither.
The Bruins would chase Luongo from the net 8:35 seconds into the first period after a three goals in three minute barrage. I don’t know what advice Luongo gave back-up Cory Schneider, but I hope Schneider didn’t listen. In three games in Boston Luongo has given up 15 goals to Thomas’ three. I guess Thomas could say he could have made some of those howlers Luongo let in. I know Vancouver Coach Alain Vigneault will come back with Luongo for Game 7, because he has been great in Rogers Arena but I have a feeling that it will be Thomas lifting the Conn Smythe Trophy (playoff MVP) and the Stanley Cup.
While Thomas didn’t let it show in interviews that these comments bothered him, the word out of the Bruins locker room was different and Thomas was steaming. He showed it when he came out for warm ups for Game 6 by doing a Claude Lemieux and shooting two puck at the Canucks net. You would think if you were going to give goalie advice you would take some of it yourself and Luongo did neither.
The Bruins would chase Luongo from the net 8:35 seconds into the first period after a three goals in three minute barrage. I don’t know what advice Luongo gave back-up Cory Schneider, but I hope Schneider didn’t listen. In three games in Boston Luongo has given up 15 goals to Thomas’ three. I guess Thomas could say he could have made some of those howlers Luongo let in. I know Vancouver Coach Alain Vigneault will come back with Luongo for Game 7, because he has been great in Rogers Arena but I have a feeling that it will be Thomas lifting the Conn Smythe Trophy (playoff MVP) and the Stanley Cup.
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