Roberto Luongo (born April 4, 1979, in Montreal,
Quebec) is a Canadian professional ice hockey
goaltender with the Vancouver Canucks of the
National Hockey League.
Luongo began his major junior hockey career at the
age of 15. He joined the Canadian Hockey League's
Val-d'Or Foreurs for the 1994-95 QMJHL season, and
the next year, he notched 31 wins, a club record.
The year after that spectacular season, Luongo
backstopped the Foreurs to the Memorial Cup finals
and established a league regular-season
single-season record with 8 shutouts. After he was
traded through 1998-99 to the Acadie-Bathurst Titan,
he again pursued the Memorial Cup, but midway
through that season the NHL intervened.
