Roberto Luongo willing to waive no-trade clause if Vancouver Canucks want trade -NHL Update
Roberto Luongo is the reason Vancouver Canucks have been making the playoffs for the past two regular seasons as the top team in the National Hockey League (NHL), winning the Presidents’ Trophy back-to-back.
No matter how good the team was this past 2011-2012 NHL regular season, seeing how Vancouver was ousted 4-1 by Los Angeles Kings in the opening round of the 2012 NHL Stanley Cup Western Conference Playoff Quarterfinal series, just gives a reason for people
to think that Canucks have had enough of their goaltender.
Facing the rumours, veteran goalie, Roberto Luongo, commented on the situation by saying that if his team wanted, he would be ready to waive the no-trade clause on his massive 12-year long contract worth $64 million, which would otherwise keep him in Vancouver
till the 2021-2022 regular season.
"Yeah, of course, if they ask me to," Luongo said on Tuesday, April 24, 2012. "I don't want to be one of those guys that's going to stand in the way of anything. I always want to put the team ahead of me first. I don't want to be one of those selfish guys."
No official work has come from Vancouver about the Canucks wanting to relieve Luongo of his services but as he failed to start three of the five matchups against Los Angeles with backup, Cory Schneider, filing in, there is not much hope for him staying on
the team.
"It's a very unique circumstance we're in, where we've got an elite young guy who is probably going to dominate the League for many years," Luongo said. "So I'm not sure what I would do if I was GM. … It's going to be what's best for the team, and whatever
scenario that is, I am OK with it. Whether that involves me being here or not is OK."
Luongo was a big reason by Vancouver Canucks made the 2011 NHL Stanley Cup Finals against Boston Bruins, but many are still of the view that it is why they also lost in Game 7 and why they were ousted to early this year.
The 33-year-old goalie is showing a humble stance in this situation, but there is no telling what might happen as the offseason for Vancouver Canucks progresses.
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