Roberto Luongo declined Wings offer sheet prior to the 06-07 season

[redwings8831]

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[wingsfannn919191]

Probably would have won another cup with him with lidstrom still in the mix for 6 years ... he got 0 cups so he's a ham for having said no lol

 

[cjm502]

Having Luongo would have been real nice, but Osgood making 800k in 07-08 still got the job done in spectacular fashion and was damn close to doing it back to back.

 

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

I certainly would've rather had Luongo in '06 than Manny friggin Legace.

But it's hard to know what impact that contract would've had on the rest of the team.

 

[redwings8831]

I certainly would've rather had Luongo in '06 than Manny friggin Legace.

It was the summer after that season. Seems like now that Hasek coming out of retirement happened once Luongo said no.

 

[Realgud]

I certainly would've rather had Luongo in '06 than Manny friggin Legace.

But it's hard to know what impact that contract would've had on the rest of the team.

Probably wouldn't have been able to extend Dan Cleary

 

[Frk It]

Would have been cool to see him play for Detroit, he was one of (if not) my favorite goalies of that era.

 

[wingsfannn919191]

Wasn't a cap back then ,think we win another cup .... can talk about Osgood all we want but he wasn't the one up for goalie awards

We add that with lidstrom for 6 yrs and hank and pavel etc... I think we get another cup . Course we'll never know but that's my take

 

[Realgud]

Wasn't a cap back then ,think we win another cup .... can talk about Osgood all we want but he wasn't the one up for goalie awards

We add that with lidstrom for 6 yrs and hank and pavel etc... I think we get another cup . Course we'll never know but that's my take

The cap was there already in 06-07, unless I misunderstand what you said.

 

[wingsfannn919191]

The cap was there already in 06-07, unless I misunderstand what you said.

Guess I was wrong didn't know it was already 18-19 yrs of this cap hell lmao man life goes by fast haha

I'd have to look at the players and cap numbers etc... but if we added a vezina/hart goalie in this prime with our core guys I still think we win another cup if it means losing Franzen ...hes just the only guy to comes to mind , again I'd have to check the roster

 

[SoupNazi]

Man, how sweet it would have been to watch him play behind those teams.

 

[Winger98]

The guy we don't get is Hossa, which it turns out wouldn't have hurt us at all.

 

[FabricDetails]

The guy we don't get is Hossa, which it turns out wouldn't have hurt us at all.

But what about Red Wings message boards and all the Franzen/Hossa threads and all the friends we made along the way?

 

[wingsfannn919191]

But what about Red Wings message boards and all the Franzen/Hossa threads and all the friends we made along the way?

Franzen was a rookie back in 06 so he wouldn't have been affected if we got luongo ... i cant find the salaries of the teams back then but obviously one of hasek Osgood would be gone maybe lang??

If anyone can find the 2006 2007 teams salaries let me know I could just find the rosters

 

[SirloinUB]

The guy we don't get is Hossa, which it turns out wouldn't have hurt us at all.

He was 5th on the team in playoff points and 4th in playoff goals. To this day he is the most recent 40 goal scorer on the team. He was a legit piece here regardless of final outcomes.

 

[Bench]

We have the next Luongo at home.

 

[wingerdinger]

Im still going to blame Babcock for this

 

[13to40]

I still think he needed this franchise more than they needed him.
Wings went on to win a cup, continued that historic playoff streak.

Bobby Lu never won a cup, seemed to not enjoy his time in Vancouver, but at least he got paid a boat load I guess…

 

[The Zetterberg Era]

This is tantalizing talk, also maybe my favorite locker room guy in terms of the legendary Bobby Lu stuff that went around in hockey circles. With two chances on high end guys in Cossa or Augustine, I really do think our goalie woes are coming to an end.

 

[Pizza!Pizza!]

lol it was for more money than Van gave him too. Lou done goofed.

 

[Killer Orcas]

Franzen was a rookie back in 06 so he wouldn't have been affected if we got luongo ... i cant find the salaries of the teams back then but obviously one of hasek Osgood would be gone maybe lang??

If anyone can find the 2006 2007 teams salaries let me know I could just find the rosters

Can't seem to find team caps going that far back but this link you can type in player and will give you his contract history.

HockeyZonePlus - Salary History - Faceoff

hockeyzoneplus.com HockeyZonePlus HockeyZone NHL Salary History Salaries career earnings net worth salaires / Franchise value

www.hockeyzoneplus.com

 

[Spitfire11]

One things for sure, we wouldn’t have missed those compensation draft picks..

Nice to see Holland was proactive back then though. Those few years after the cap was implemented was when he did his best work. Then everything went to shit after he missed out on Suter/Parise.

 

[norrisnick]

One things for sure, we wouldn’t have missed those compensation draft picks..

Nice to see Holland was proactive back then though. Those few years after the cap was implemented was when he did his best work. Then everything went to shit after he missed out on Suter/Parise.

Brendan Smith, Tom McCollum, Landon Ferraro (we traded back 3 spots at the draft), and Riley Sheahan if we assume four 1sts. Oh darn.

 

[Spitfire11]

Brendan Smith, Tom McCollum, Landon Ferraro (we traded back 3 spots at the draft), and Riley Sheahan if we assume four 1sts. Oh darn.

Yea complete crap.. They obviously should have blown up all the “future” to really go for it those years they had Datsyuk/Zetterberg. Hearing this story maybe Holland was trying various bold things that just didn’t pan out. A big RFA signing seems like one of the most un-Holland like moves

 

[tabness]

wow i loved Luongo never knew we were so close to getting him

think of the songs we'd have made for him as a Wing