Florida Panthers goalie Roberto Luongo announced his retirement from the National Hockey League on Wednesday. He ends his 19-season NHL career on his second stint with the Panthers.
Lunogo finished near the top of NHL career goalie marks at third all-time in wins with 489, second with 1,044 games played, ninth with 77 shutouts and second all-time with 28,409 saves. He will be eligible for the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2022 and is likely have his number 1 jersey retired in the future by the Panthers organization
All the Florida Panthers franchise goalie records are held by him. Luongo had 572 games played, 230 wins, 38 shutouts, 16,068 saves, 13 assists, 75 single-season games played, 35 single-season victories, 2,303 single-season saves and seven single-season shutouts.
He was drafted by the New York Islanders in the 1997 NHL Draft at fourth overall. He played one season with the Islanders in 1999-2000 and was traded with Olli Jokinen to the Panthers for Mark Parrish and Oleg Kvasha on June 24, 2000.
Luongo played five seasons with Florida in his first stint with the club and the team never reached the Stanley Cup Playoffs. He was named a second-time NHL All-Star in 2004.
He was traded to the Vancouver Canucks in a five-player deal on June 23, 2006. Luongo helped that team to a Western Conference title in 2011. They lost in the Stanley Cup Final to the Boston Bruins in seven games.
Luongo returned to Florida in a trade from Vancouver on March 4, 2013 for Jacob Markstrom and Shawn Mattias. He helped the Panthers win the Atlantic Division title in 2015-16 with a team-record 103 points. They fell in the first round to the Islanders in six games.
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