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If the Vancouver Canucks are going to honor Roberto Luongo, Cory Schneider is one more person who believes they should “retire his number.”
The Canucks stated last season that they will induct Luongo into their Ring of Honour, which is a step below retiring his jersey. This week, they announced that the ceremony would take place on December 14th, which happens to be the day the Florida Panthers are in town.
Since the initial announcement, there has been much discussion over whether the Canucks should retire Luongo’s number one instead, and his former goaltender partner is adamant that Luongo should receive the highest honor. Schneider declared, “I can’t speak highly enough of Roberto; I’m the biggest supporter in the world,” on Thursday’s Sekeres and Price episode. “In my opinion, his number ought to be retired. Though he wasn’t here as long as some of the other men who may have retired their numbers, I can understand the debate. yet I believe that this was the pinnacle he performed at for the whole of his performance. It reminds me a little bit of Pavel Bure, who may not have stayed there forever, but at his prime, he was unmatched, and not many players go through groups like that. As Bure, Stan Smyl, Linden, and the twins are, I would rank Roberto among the best players that have come out of the organization. He spent seven or eight incredibly good years there, not three good years and four awful. Although Roberto is arguably the best goaltender to have ever played there, Kirk McLean is undoubtedly still a possibility. If not him, then who, in my opinion? I recognize the argument that he may not have had a lengthy enough tenure here to be regarded as retired, but if it were up to me, I would.
The Canucks have currently retired the jerseys of Henrik and Daniel Sedin, Stan Smyl, Trevor Linden, Markus Naslund, and Pavel Bure. Luongo is scheduled to be honored into the Canucks Ring of Honor as the eighth player. Currently, Orland Kurtenbach, Kirk McLean, Thomas Gradin, Harold Snepsts, Pat Quinn, Mattias Ohlund, and Alex Burrows are part of the Canucks’ Ring of Honor inside Rogers Arena.
Luongo is the franchise’s all-time leader in victories (252) and shutouts (38), and the Canucks celebrated his first-ballot entrance into the Hockey Hall of Fame alongside the Sedin twins last season. Among Canucks goalies with at least 100 games played, Luongo has the highest save % and goals against average.
In 2011, Schneider and Luongo shared the William M. Jennings trophy for the lowest number of goals allowed during the regular season. Earlier this week, Schneider, 37, declared his retirement from professional hockey.
See Schneider’s entire footage below!
Regarding Roberto Luongo, Cory Schneider
“I agree that his number ought to be retired, but I can see both sides of the argument.I liken it to someone like Pavel Bure, who may not have stayed there indefinitely.He reached the pinnacle of all peaks.”
