Luongo was offer sheeted by Detroit in 2006

[Michael Farkas]

Then I'd introduce "quote bias" probably...

I thought for sure someone would have swooped in with actual cap stuff from this season...is it actually (practically) gone in a useful form?

 

[Gorskyontario]

Osgood was very good in the 2009 playoffs, and it's the only notable thing he ever really did for Detroit. Luongo was a much better goaltender. It's not close.

This is more canucks fanfiction. Somehow they had all these amazing elite players, and they have won nothing.


Luongo was a good goalie, but lets not get ahead of ourselves.

 

[MadLuke]

I feel Luongo had an excellent argument to be the best in the world if you have to pick someone from say 2004-2012 window and can sound underrated by moment.

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But, Osgood was good and quite experimented for the big moment and got the job done in the playoff for the RedWings for sure:

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.943 save percentage at even strenght in the playoff, .924 overall,....

Hasek was not bad in 2007, so it is not easy for the Wings to get an upgrade the only time it matter, the playoff and it is a bit costly, so I am not sure if the upgrade vs what they loose amount to much in 2007-2008-2009.

Maybe they are able to stay a contender longer after that with such a dominant goaltender too, that said goaltending was far to be an big issue for them in those playoffs.

 

[CokenoPepsi]

That Detroit era wins 0 cups instead of 1.

Luongo just not a big game guy, prone to mental breakdowns.

I know he is looked on more favorably now because he is silly on Twitter but he had a bad attitude as a player and I think the constant finger pointing he did as a player when he let in a bad goal would not go over well in Detroit

 

[JackSlater]

This is more canucks fanfiction. Somehow they had all these amazing elite players, and they have won nothing.


Luongo was a good goalie, but lets not get ahead of ourselves.

Who cares about the Canucks? I'm a Detroit fan. Luongo spent years as a top five goalie in the NHL, including some of the timeframe included here. Osgood spent years as a generally average goaltender, sometimes worse.

That Detroit era wins 0 cups instead of 1.

Luongo just not a big game guy, prone to mental breakdowns.

I know he is looked on more favorably now because he is silly on Twitter but he had a bad attitude as a player and I think the constant finger pointing he did as a player when he let in a bad goal would not go over well in Detroit

It would be hard for Luongo, or almost any goaltender, to blow the 2008 Stanley Cup. Luongo tended to be an excellent goaltender for Canada, big games and otherwise. Obviously with Canada most of his games he played on the more talented team, but that would have been the case with Detroit too.

 

[Hobnobs]

It would be hard for Luongo, or almost any goaltender, to blow the 2008 Stanley Cup. Luongo tended to be an excellent goaltender for Canada, big games and otherwise. Obviously with Canada most of his games he played on the more talented team, but that would have been the case with Detroit too.

Even in the net for Canada, Luongo was shaky in important games most notable vs Slovakia and to a lesser extent Russia in 2010. Versus Russiathe lead was obviously so huge it didn't really matter.

Still don't get this idea that Luongo was this clutch goalie Red Wings would need to sacrifice depth for to win. He has never proven himself to be especially clutch. Is he a better goalie than Osgood? Obviously. Enough to off-set the differences in cap hits. Doubtful.

Pre-cap I would definitely replace Osgood with Luongo. I often argued replacing Osgood with a much better goalie which happened in '02. But in the cap era Osgoods much lower cap hit while still being a capable goalie allowed the Wings to build the type deep team they had.

 

[rmartin65]

Yikes, there are actually people out there that think the Red Wings would have won less with Luongo? That’s quite a take.

And no, I’m not a Vancouver fan.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

Yikes, there are actually people out there that think the Red Wings would have won less with Luongo? That’s quite a take.

And no, I’m not a Vancouver fan.

Seems to be primarily Red Wings fans who have bought in to "their guy".

 

[Hobnobs]

Seems to be primarily Red Wings fans who have bought in to "their guy".

Nope, he's misrepresenting the argument. No one (except one I guess) is saying red wings would win less because Luongo is worse than Osgood.

All thats been pointed out is that Luongo will take up more of the cap ie team overall would miss key players hence it would not be as strong of a team and that Luongo hasn't been clutch in deciding games.

So far no one has actually countered these arguments but instead just repeated Luongo is a better goalie than Osgood which is true but still don't answer the questions of how Detroit still builds a cup contending team with Luongo taking 3-4 times more of the goalie salary budget than that of the of the cup winning team.

 

[rmartin65]

Nope, he's misrepresenting the argument. No one (except one I guess) is saying red wings would win less because Luongo is worse than Osgood.

Sounds like I wouldn't be misrepresenting the argument, then, since by your own admission in this very post, there is someone who thinks Luongo is worse than Osgood.

However, nowhere in my post did I claim that there were fans claiming Osgood was a better goalie than Luongo. You are effectually misrepresenting me here.

All thats been pointed out is that Luongo will take up more of the cap ie team overall would miss key players hence it would not be as strong of a team and that Luongo hasn't been clutch in deciding games.

So far no one has actually countered these arguments but instead just repeated Luongo is a better goalie than Osgood which is true but still don't answer the questions of how Detroit still builds a cup contending team with Luongo taking 3-4 times more of the goalie salary budget than that of the of the cup winning team.

Since Luongo was pretty much 3-4 times the goalie that Osgood was at the time, I think the Red Wings would have been just fine.

 

[WarriorofTime]

Then I'd introduce "quote bias" probably...

I thought for sure someone would have swooped in with actual cap stuff from this season...is it actually (practically) gone in a useful form?

For being firmly all in the internet era, prior year cap data is frustratingly difficult to find. I'm sure someone could pull it together using wayback machine, but it doesn't help that the main site people use has kept changing.