Ha, THANKS.
I'm not sure if I've posted about this before here or not, but I really, really hate Vancouver area hockey fans. Like, moreso than any other fanbase of anything ever pretty much. Like, I won't even get involved in most conversations because it's too frustrating to hear some dumbasses just regurgitate some snippet that they heard from someone else, especially when it comes to the Luongo vs. Schneider. There's room there for an interesting debate on the merits of trading Luongo, clearing up some room, and hoping that Schneider can fair just as well as a starter as he can being a backup goalie...but it's amazing how many people don't know anything about anything and still scream out "trade him! We can get an all star forward for that money"!!! No, motherfucker, because there's a no-trade clause in the contract. Luongo would have to approve any trade before it could be made, AND that's assuming that you're going to find someone willing to take on his 12 year, $65 million-ish contract. It's huge, and considering the calibur of goalie you're receiving, it's not that bad (compared to most monster contracts), but you pretty much have to have a long term strategy and built a team around it. Obviously, no one has. Chances are, you'd have to take a far worse deal in exchange in order to clear the other team's cap/long term burden OR hope the league approves the Canuck's subsidizing his contract for the other team - which I don't THINK counts against the cap, but is pretty retarded regardless...if the league allows it...which they probably won't because they view the contract as cap circumvention anyways.
And even then, you still have to pay Schneider, and he's going to be asking for quite a bit if you're willing to restructure your organization for him and trade off your proven, starting, multiple -Vezina nominated, gold medal winning goalie away to clear room for him. You're probably not clearing that much room, OR you're signing him on a short term contract which could leave you with no tending prospects three years down the road. And he's not at all proven really as anything more than a really, really good backup. It could work out great, or he could end up being injury prone or (more likely) being one of the many many many goalies in the history of the sport who just cooled off and never came back (DiPietro, Raycroft, a million other dudes). Peeps need to just shut up.
