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Why Luongo's contract extension is the most significant of the summer

By Pierre LeBrun

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

I can't think of a more significant signing this summer than Wednesday's 12-year contract extension between Roberto Luongo and the Vancouver Canucks. Super-elite NHL netminders are like super-elite NFL quarterbacks -- there are only a handful of them, and teams spend years trying to land one. So credit Canucks GM Mike Gillis for putting aside his personal preference of avoiding the kind of double-digit-term deals that have plagued the NHL the past few years; he made a rare exception because he ...

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