Roberto Luongo’s Early Days
Sep 28th, 2007
Roberto Luongo was born in 1979 on April 4th in Montreal, Quebec in Canada.
He got his start in junior hockey when he was 18 after joining the Val-d’Or Foreurs in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) for the 1994-95 season and the following year managed to get 31 wins, an all-time club record. The year after that, Luongo pushed the Foreurs to the Memorial Cup finals and secured yet another league record, this time for most single-season shutouts (He had eight of them that year).
Midway through the 1998-99 season, he was traded to the Acadie-Bathurst Titan, again pushing toward the memorial Cup, but he was prevented by a career with the NHL.
Roberto Luongo was picked 4th overall in the first round of the 1997 NHL draft by the New York Islanders. Because of problems with his contract, he did not play an NHL game until November 28 of 1999, when he managed to block 43 pucks during a 2-1 over the Boston Bruins.
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