nhl.fanhouse.com - 11/23/2008
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Now it looks like the NHL has lost another elite goalie to injury after Vancouver Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo left this afternoon's game against the Pittsburgh Penguins with an apparent groin injury.
Luongo Out
hockeyprogram.blogspot.com 11/22/2008 — Roberto Luongo left today's game early in the first period with what is being termed a lower body injury. It appears to be his groin but late word out of Pittsburgh is that he will not return to today's game at least. You can follow the game online at nhl.com on gamecenter live. More updates coming
Penguins’ Effort Falls Short Against Canucks
nhlpens.com 11/23/2008 — The Pittsburgh Penguins suffered their first regulation loss during the month of November on Saturday afternoon as they fell 3-1 to the Vancouver Canucks. Despite an apparent groin injury to Canuck’s tender Roberto Luongo early in the first period that sidelined the two-time Vezina finalist, ...
Injuries And The Vezina Race —
Kuklas Korner
Before the season began, most people would have predicted the Vezina Trophy would go to one of Martin Brodeur of the New Jersey Devils, Roberto Luongo of the Vancouver Canucks or Evgeni Nabokov of the San Jose Sharks but each of them has missed time to injury. Brodeur had surgery on his ...
News and Notes: Luongo out for a while —
IllegalCurve.com
Roberto Luongo (abductor strain) is listed by the Canucks as being week-to-week . The original word was five weeks so this injury isn’t minor. Obviously it is a huge blow to the Canucks.
Joe Sakic will miss tonight’s game for the Avalanche because of a root canal. For a guy ...
Luongo out 4-5 weeks; Sanford in, Schneider ready —
Roto Arcade
Vancouver backup goalie Curtis Sanford is currently owned in about 19 percent of Yahoo! leagues. That leaves at least 81 percent of Roberto Luongo owners either asleep at the wheel or apparently not too concerned about the groin injury that we learned today will sideline the Canucks captain for ...
NHL News from Around the League - Nov. 24th —
Movable Type System Activity
The Vancouver Canucks will announce the severity of Roberto Luongo's injury later today . Luongo left the first period the Canucks' game in Pittsburgh on Saturday afternoon. He appeared to have a "lower body injury" and wasn't putting any weight on his left leg as he was helped from the ice. If ...
Who Hurts More: Dallas or Vancouver? —
Kuklas Korner
Both the Dallas Stars and Vancouver Canucks lost some important guys in their lineup over the past few days. We don’t know the extent of Roberto Luongo’s injury, but two things are certain: 1) he’ll be out a significant amount of time and 2) groin injuries on goalies can ...
Wings won't face Luongo on Monday —
Snapshots
The Vancouver Canucks defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-1 on Saturday afternoon, but they also lost Roberto Luongo to a groin injury of unspecified severity. The Vancouver Sun's Iain MacIntyre reports that the Canucks plan on starting Luongo's back-up against the...
Down goes Luongo —
From The Rink
Vancouver Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo left the game against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday with a groin injury.
Luongo, a two-time NHL all-star, was injured while making what appeared to be a routine save on a shot by Philippe Boucher about five minutes into the game. He slowly ...
Luongo injures groin, Canucks down Penguins anyway, 3-1 —
Kuklas Korner
Turns out that a potentially serious groin injury to Roberto Luongo didn’t make much difference to the Canucks.
Turns out that playing their third game in about seventy-two hours didn’t make much difference to the Canucks.
Helped out by a pretty putrid effort by the Penguins ...
Video: Canucks fans clench collective sphincter for Luongo —
Puck Daddy
As a Devils fan, I can only sympathize with how Vancouver Canucks fans must be feeling right now after seeing Roberto Luongo go down with an injury against the Pittsburgh Penguins today. The Associated Press claims that Luongo left with "an apparent left leg injury," but the ...
Luongo Hurt and Balsillie Buying into Preds? —
HockeyBuzz.com: Daniel Tolensky
Just moments ago, Roberto Luongo was helped off the ice after an apparent leg/groin injury in Pittsburgh. He wasn't putting any weight on his left leg as he was taken off.
Sanford is in and all we know so far is that Luongo won't return in this one.
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Here's the update from the never-ending ...