Better career: Lundqvist vs Luongo

[Balance]

Who has had the better career?

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[Machinehead]

This was done not too long ago. Lundqvist won, as he should.

I don't think the gap is huge but it's clearly there.

Both belong in the HOF.

 

[HomeAndHome]

Who has had the better career?

It would help if you included some data/stats/career achievements in your post so I don't have to go searching for it as I don't think most people know their career numbers off hand.

Having watched them for years I have them in a similar spot, but I'd probably pick Lundqvist as a better career.

 

[Fataldogg]

This was done last month and Henrik won.

 

[Asheville]

Lundqvist at their peaks, but Luongo is aging better.

 

[EdJovanovski]

Lundqvist

 

[ESH]

I think the biggest difference maker here is all of Lundqvist's deep playoff runs

 

[izzy]

luingo could finish 2nd all time in wins, id say unless one of them wins the cup thats enough to say luongo had the better career

hank was the best goalie for a decent chunk of his career though, he was the better goalie.

i guess kinda similar to brodeur vs hasek in some ways

 

[Thenameless]

I went with Luongo. He played on a lot of bad times, and when he finally played for a good team, he went all the way to the seventh game of a Stanley Cup Final. This is really close though.

 

[Ace of Hades]

Luongo.

I'd say 2006-07 Luongo is better than any season Lundqvist ever had. Luongo was robbed of the vezina that year.

 

[Lays]

This was done not too long ago. Lundqvist won, as he should.

I don't think the gap is huge but it's clearly there.

Both belong in the HOF.

This

 

[Machinehead]

luingo could finish 2nd all time in wins, id say unless one of them wins the cup thats enough to say luongo had the better career

hank was the best goalie for a decent chunk of his career though, he was the better goalie.

i guess kinda similar to brodeur vs hasek in some ways

If he does finish 2nd in wins, Lundqvist will pass him. He's nearly 4 years younger and has 39 fewer wins.

 

[izzy]

If he does finish 2nd in wins, Lundqvist will pass him. He's nearly 4 years younger and has 39 fewer wins.

Disagree. It's 3 years not 4. Luongo is aging better and is signed longer AND is on a team that is gong to win more going forward. I think both are on their last contract and I doubt Hank passes Luongo

 

[Machinehead]

Disagree. It's 3 years not 4. Luongo is aging better and is signed longer AND is on a team that is gong to win more going forward. I think both are on their last contract and I doubt Hank passes Luongo

After one year, Luongo is aging better? It's the only negative GSAA seasion of Hank's career. He's more likely to bounce back than to continue regressing based on his history. His struggles in the second half have a lot to do with his fighting with the coach, and fatigue from the coach deliberately overusing him as punishment. I expect the idiot to be fired.

Luongo hasn't won more games than Lundqvist since 10-11, including this season. The gap has been closing for 7 years and I don't expect it to stop closing. Luongo had a 5 season head start and has 39 more wins.

I also don't see where the Panthers are significantly better than the Rangers after one season, again, especially if the Rangers remove the cancer behind the bench.

It's pure speculation that Lundqvist is on his last contact. He's already talked about contending again post-rebuild and has given zero indication he's done after this contract.

 

[Ctrain2k]

Quite easily Luongo as a player, career wise it gets a bit more blurry cause Lundqvist has almost always been on better teams.

 

[Machinehead]

Quite easily Luongo as a player, career wise it gets a bit more blurry cause Lundqvist has almost always been on better teams.

He has?

The Canucks won their division five consecutive years with Luongo.

The Rangers were great from 2012-2015 but the Canucks had a similar run from 2009-2013.

 

[bring back the jets]

I'd say Luongo but I can see a case for both.

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

If he does finish 2nd in wins, Lundqvist will pass him. He's nearly 4 years younger and has 39 fewer wins.

Is wins really the best way to judge. I mean Fleury is going to pass both of them.

 

[Machinehead]

Is wins really the best way to judge. I mean Fleury is going to pass both of them.

Not necessarily, but I was responding to a post about wins.

 

[Glen Sathers Cigar]

Quite easily Luongo as a player, career wise it gets a bit more blurry cause Lundqvist has almost always been on better teams.

The Rangers were really only any good from 2012-2015 and even then they were elevated by Lundqvist. Without him even the good teams he played on probably would've just been second round fodder.

Hank and Lu are both Hall of Famers for me. Lundqvist gets the edge both and peak and overall career, but Lu is a close number 2 for their era of goalies.

This was posted on the Rangers board. Here's Lundqvist relative to the rest of the goalies during his career in Goals Saved Above Average (Actually, this chart is missing the first 2 years of his career). Players should be judged not only by all time numbers and ranks, but more importantly how they perform relative to their peers during their career.

 

[Glen Sathers Cigar]

And can someone edit the poll to spell Lundqvist properly?

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