Roberto Luongo
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"Roberto Luongo" is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Born in Montreal, Quebec, he is of Italian and Irish ancestry. He employs the butterfly style of goaltending and has previously played in the NHL for the New York Islanders and the Vancouver Canucks. Luongo is a two-time NHL All-Star Team/NHL Second All-Star (2003–04 NHL season/2004 and 2006–07 NHL season/2007) and a winner of the William M. Jennings Trophy for backstopping his team to the lowest goals-against average in the league (2010–11 NHL season/2011; with backup Cory Schneider). He has additionally been a finalist for the Vezina Trophy as the league's best goaltender (2004, 2007 and 2011), the Lester B. Pearson Award as the top player voted by his peers (2004 and 2007) and the Hart Memorial Trophy as the league's most valuable player (2007).

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Every game right now for us is huge. It's fun.

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We had some breakdowns. It was a tough game to be a part of.

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Once you get in a groove early in the game, I start building some confidence. The more the game advances, the harder it is to beat me.

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It's nice to go to the locker room with a two- or three-goal lead. And the nice part about it was we didn't sit back; we came out and played the way we were supposed to play and got the job done.

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They can score goals. All of theirs were from four or five feet in front of me.

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He's the backbone of that team right now. He's opening up a lot of eyes around the league.

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I just tried to weather the storm. That's going to happen often when you play on the road. Teams come out strong.

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All the goals were from 4 or 5 feet in front of me. There was nothing that beat me from that far out. There's going to be games like that in the new NHL.

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I'm not going to say I'm pleased about it, that's for sure. If they want to make sure I'll be in training camp this year, I'll be there. But I don't know what's going to happen with training camps in the future.

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