Roberto Luongo was perhaps the best goalie in the division equalled only by the Wild’s Niklas Backstrom. At 30 years old he was signed to a 12 year, $64 million contract that should be the last of his career.
After relatively unimpressive stints with the Islanders and Pathers from 1990-2006 when he was traded to the Canucks. In exchange for Luongo, Lukas Krajicek, and Sergei Shirokov the Pathers received Todd Bertuzzi,Bryan Allen,and Alex Auld.  To this point it looks like the Canucks got the better end of the trade with Bertuzzi  only playing a few games for them and with Allen [...]

 It took a while for it to shake out but Pouliot is now off the hook for his drunk driving incident that took place in 2006.
It was clear that Pouliot elevated to a new level of  arrogance with his antics asking “do you know who I am?” and asking for his unlce who is a local official.
Even with that I just thought he was just considered an underachiever by most fans and not really that hated. However, after reading Russo’s post about it and the comments that followed I started to think just maybe he could be the most disliked [...]