The Boston Bruins play-by-play announcer isn’t a very big fan of Roberto Luongo.
During an interview with Brady & Lang on Sportsnet 590 The Fan Monday morning, Jack Edwards of NESN questioned Luongo’s mental toughness after the Vancouver Canucks decided to start Cory Schneider in place of him in Saturday’s 4-3 win in Boston.
“I think it’s a mark of his character,” Edwards said. “I can’t imagine the roles being reversed and Tim Thomas going to (Claude) Julien and say he’s not the starter in Vancouver. This is what sports is about. It reveals your character. In the end the way you play, way you perform defines the person you are.”
Edwards added he’d have a hard time ever accepting Luongo as a Vezina Trophy winner and thinks it’s a stretch to call him one of the top goalies in the NHL.
“He dodged this game,” Edwards explained. “I was at TD Garden. Saw him get bombed out of the building…Saw embarrassing skates he made to bench…If you’re the best goalie in game, you put in right where it counts. They were afraid he couldn’t take it. We accept that.”
As for Luongo the veteran goalie said he understood the decision to start the Boston-native Schneider on Saturday.
“I knew it could go either way,” Luongo told the Vancouver Sun. “At the end of the day … I think the win is what matters the most. Cory (Schneider) doesn’t get a chance to come here very often and play in front of his family and friends.”
Luongo, who struggled in three road losses during last season’s Stanley Cup final, is 11-2-2 as a starter since November.
