Luongo was offer sheeted by Detroit in 2006
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The cup winning goalie putting on a smythe worthy performance, twice, was uninspiring?
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Osgood had 1.55GAA & .930 SV% in 2008. 2.01GAA, .926 SV% in 2009. (Playoffs*)
I wouldn't call those numbers uninspiring.
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The guy fell apart in basically every playoffs he was in. Why would the post-lockout wings be any different?
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Very definitely, yes. Not that he had anything close to a Smythe worthy performance in reality, but the averaging stuff is there because the Wings were the best team.
With Luongo, that's a four 1st round pick deal.
The Wings don't do 1st round picks for a while here...
No McCollum (30th, bust), they traded 29 for 32 and 75 at the '09 draft; no Sheahan (21st, 4th liner), in 2011 they traded 24 for 35 and 48.
32 and 75 are Landon Ferraro and Nestrasil - so nothing much there. 35 and 48 are Jurco and Ouellet - not too much there either.
So, the draft picks netted basically nothing for them.
The cap would have been about 7 bills.
Osgood and Hasek were making less than $2 mil combined I think. I'm assuming it's Osgood that gets dealt again...so there's about a mil back. I don't think they net any meaningful asset out of Osgood. Maybe a decent or mid-round pick.
They acquire Bertuzzi in 06-07 and they don't really deal any salary back...so I imagine that deal is off the table. Which is no great loss for Detroit.
I don't want to over-simplify, but this seems to cost the Wings fairly little. I'm sure they'd have to maybe "downgrade" a depth d-man...like the physical, but unreliable Danny Markov.
The Wings go 16-1 in 2008 with Luongo. And depending on how they manage the finances of it all, they're a legit threat to win in '09 and '10 too probably. As much as Luongo is sort of a non-serious player at times, he's so much more talented than Osgood that it's worth the weaker mental game.
2010 they get dumped by San Jose...but they lost that series despite the performance of Nabokov in some respects. If they could have zipped up the net a bit more with Luongo over Jimmy Howard...that's a winnable series. I don't know if they can get by Chicago's firepower, but they'd at least have a shot. I also figure Howard would be dealt for scoring help at this point.
It's always a lot of what-ifs with these...but goaltending was the hole in the death star on these teams, a little bit by design...
Luongo gets a lot of "I told you so" points if this goes down...maybe so much that he and Lundqvist swap positions on our top 60 list.
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Both Osgood and Hasek had better playoff performances than Luongo except maybe his 07. And no you can't blame it on "team strength" either.
And no, Detroit doesn't go 16-1 in 2008 with Luongo because simply there is no evidence of that.
It's such a bizarre world here sometimes when we argue that a goalie who never put up any meaningful playoff performances would all of the sudden do better than goalies that did.
As for the cap. With Luongo they don't just lose Hossa but one of Z and Franzen as well or rather they wouldn't be able to sign Hossa at all and lose Franzen. There is no "maybe they have to downgrade a depth defenseman". They have to shed serious salary to fit Luongo. It's icredibly weird to say that spending more than 3x on what was actually spent on goalies would only effect the roster minimally.
Osgood was better than Luongo, so they probably do slightly worse.
After 09, Luongo was way better than Howard but I dont think the wings were capable of winning by that point.
After 09, Luongo was way better than Howard but I dont think the wings were capable of winning by that point.
Michael Farkas
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Hossa is way off in the future, right? He's in Atlanta still and has to end up in Pittsburgh first. With no Detroit offer, he stays a Penguin probably.
I don't know when Franzen had to be re-signed, but again, the season we're talking about (right?) they brought in Bertuzzi without giving up a roster player and Bert was making like $6 mil or so. So, they had some room somewhere...
No, you're right. There is no evidence of Luongo going 16-1 for the Wings. In which case, we lock the thread now and sit quietly for the rest of the day haha
Luongo hadn't played a playoff game yet, so he didn't get assigned the reputation. The funny thing about goalie reputations is that they can be erased by team situations (see: Bobrovsky...still one of the all time worst playoff players...but something happened more recently, so...).
Luongo in a serious situation coming out of Florida while he's still in his prime...who knows what it does.
Maybe he gets Legace'd or CuJo'd out of the way just as quickly...but that '08 Wings team could have played that playoffs with a dog bed lying in net and won...the only reason why the Pens won a game was because of Osgood, he kept us alive right to the horn in game 6. That was the only hope. I can't imagine Luongo being worse. It's not realistic to expect worse from Luongo considering just how many tiers apart they are.
I don't know when Franzen had to be re-signed, but again, the season we're talking about (right?) they brought in Bertuzzi without giving up a roster player and Bert was making like $6 mil or so. So, they had some room somewhere...
No, you're right. There is no evidence of Luongo going 16-1 for the Wings. In which case, we lock the thread now and sit quietly for the rest of the day haha
Luongo hadn't played a playoff game yet, so he didn't get assigned the reputation. The funny thing about goalie reputations is that they can be erased by team situations (see: Bobrovsky...still one of the all time worst playoff players...but something happened more recently, so...).
Luongo in a serious situation coming out of Florida while he's still in his prime...who knows what it does.
Maybe he gets Legace'd or CuJo'd out of the way just as quickly...but that '08 Wings team could have played that playoffs with a dog bed lying in net and won...the only reason why the Pens won a game was because of Osgood, he kept us alive right to the horn in game 6. That was the only hope. I can't imagine Luongo being worse. It's not realistic to expect worse from Luongo considering just how many tiers apart they are.
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I heard this but I don't see how it works with the cap. In an impossible world where Detroit just drops Luongo in instead of Hasek/Osgood I don't see it making a huge difference. Detroit wins in 2008 regardless. Detroit wins in 2009 if the team is reasonably healthy and part of that is that Osgood was very good in those playoffs. Maybe Luongo makes a difference in 2009 if he can steal a game in the finals, but the main benefit would be if Luongo in net somehow butterfly effected a healthier team. Detroit was outplayed, given how the games were played, in 2007 and I do not think that Luongo changes things.
2010 Detroit would play differently if it had elite goaltending, that's the most interesting year to me. I do not see how Detroit could be the favourite over Chicago in the west, but maybe Babcock figures out a way to play to and emphasize Luongo's strengths since the team was moving adrift by that point. I don't see a Stanley Cup that year.
2010 Detroit would play differently if it had elite goaltending, that's the most interesting year to me. I do not see how Detroit could be the favourite over Chicago in the west, but maybe Babcock figures out a way to play to and emphasize Luongo's strengths since the team was moving adrift by that point. I don't see a Stanley Cup that year.
Come on now. It's like comparing an all star centre with a third line centre. They don't even belong in comparison with each other. Luongo was much better.
