Luongo Update

Further to yesterday's quick hit, there was more information released about Roberto Luongo's injury. The injury was discovered to be a fractured rib, which he believes he suffered in the Canucks' game versus the Maple Leafs on Saturday night. The time frame that Luongo is expected to be out varies from source to source. If we were to just collect all of the numbers, we can say that he'll be out anywhere from one to four weeks, missing the next two games in California being the minimum he'd miss.

After a very slow start in the Vancouver net, Luongo had come back to win six games, one by shutout to lift his 2010 point total up to 14 points, ranking him 26th in pool points, eighth among all goalies. That's not a bad start at all, despite losing his first four starts. The overall impact of the injury will likely drop him a number of places, but the number of spots will correspond with the number of games he misses on a ratio basis.

In the Draft, Luongo was taken 4th overall by Clayton, who currently sits 3rd in the pool, as of Thursday afternoon. He has already been without his other goaltender, Jonas Gustavsson, for the last little while, but has since returned to the Maple Leafs net. Still, this is the 1st round pick that is being lifted from the line-up for an exact time that is still relatively unknown.

On the Sheet, Luongo was the most popular goalie taken in Box 15, taken 18 times to Mikka Kiprusoff's 14 selections. As you can see in the new breakdown of points by box in the Sheet pool, both Luongo and Kiprusoff are two points behind the current leaders in the box, so there shouldn't be much panic... yet.