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Roberto Luongo in his Panther Days
Well, no kidding. I saw in the South Florida Sun Sentinel that Florida Panthers General Manager Jacques Martin said in a written report that trading Roberto Luongo to the Vancouver Canucks was the worst trade in history. When asked if he agreed, team captain Olli Jokinen smiled and said “Probably. As far as this franchise, yes. It was shocking. It was a bad move.”

Do you think? However, when asked about it yesterday in a press conference, Coach Martin refused to elaborate, saying it was “old news” and that he thought it was time to “move on”. Instead, he preferred to talk about the Panther’s season opening game against the Rangers.

One more thing I thought interesting was that captain Jokien said they “learned from their mistakes”, so they traded for Tomas Vokoun. “They showed this summer they wanted to clean their mess and got us a goalie that can do the same things Louie was doing here for a long time,” he said.

Hmmmm. Don’t get me wrong here, but isn’t that a bit of a slap at Roberto? And highly optimistic hopes for Vokoun. I guess time will tell if he is right.