Roberto Luongo has finally damaged his silence, and in case you’re questioning why he waited so lengthy to speak, we finally have our answer. No, we weren’t waiting on him to compose himself, so as to avoid one other emotional “my contract sucks” moment. We had been just waiting for James Duthie’s summer time vacation to end, because he only speaks to James Duthie now. Is your identify James Duthie? No? Then quit. Simply quit.
On Friday morning, TSN aired part 1 of Duthie’s unique, lengthy-awaited sitdown with Luongo (which they break up into two elements — thanks for that), and while there wasn’t much in the best way of latest data, there was some. When you missed it, otherwise you live in America, the place the momentous viewing occasion was unavailable to you, in honour of his seven-week silence, listed here are seven issues we discovered:
1 | Luongo plans to honour his contract
Right off the hop, Luongo was asked if he plans to honour his contract in Vancouver.
“Yeah, little question,” he mentioned. “I’ve a contract. I plan to honour it. There’s loads at stake for me this year. Firstly I want to re-establish myself as one of many top goalies within the league.”
At Duthie’s prompting, Luongo likened the entire scenario to a divorce, admitting that he had “moved on”, so to talk. “The one downside is she… wished me back,” he mentioned, chuckling. I might beg to vary there. Another drawback, as I see it, is that he wasn’t allowed to get divorced.
He ought to have began his own church. It worked for Henry VIII.
2 | When Francesco Aquilini’s at your house, he controls the television
Later in the interview, Luongo described the occasions of draft day, with Canucks proprietor Francesco Aquilini arriving at his home solely moments before Luongo watched Gary Bettman announce the deal on tv.
“He sits on my couch and he asks me to show the TV off.”
Gutsy transfer.
3 | Luongo “blacked out”, which isn’t a slang time period for listening to your old Blackstreet CDs
Asked what he mentioned to Aquilini in that moment, Luongo responded, “I do not remember. I just type of blacked out after that.”
Thank goodness he sprung for that fainting couch from the set of Mad Men.
4 | Luongo “explored each possibility” with regard to getting out of dodge (dodge in this case being Vancouver)
That means, at some point, he investigated faking his own death, and that is awesome.
5 | Luongo by no means really turned down a trade
“I by no means turned down a commerce,” Luongo mentioned, contrary to several experiences that he had nixed a transfer that will have despatched him to Toronto.
“What happened was… one or two days earlier than final 12 months’s draft, Mike [Gillis] simply advised me was there was two or three teams that are interested… and all I stated to Mike was, ‘Mike, if you can, if you happen to may try to do one thing with both Florida or Tampa, I would recognize that. And if it doesn’t work out, then we’ll… move on.’ I believe that was the gist of it. I by no means turned a commerce… there was never a trade on the desk that I turned down.”
6 | On trade deadline day, he cried
Remember when Luongo met the media on trade deadline day, having just discovered that he wasn’t going to be traded, and he looked like he’d been crying? That is as a result of he was crying.
“I might need cried in front of another man,” he stated.
Awkward! In keeping with gender constructs, men are presupposed to be uncomfortable with that.
7 | Luongo is 100% committed to Vancouver
Asked if he nonetheless wished to be traded, Luongo dodged the query somewhat, saying “I don’t have a crystal ball. I do not know what is going on to happen down the highway.”
But when you’re a Canucks fan, you’ll be able to ignore that part, as a result of the next half is more affirming.
“The place I’m, I’m gonna be 100% dedicated to that place. Proper now I’m in Vancouver. I’m one hundred% dedicated to that.”
Good news, everybody! The nightmare is over!
Roberto Luongo breaks his silence: seven things we learned
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