Cory Schneider says the Canucks should retire Roberto Luongo’s number

“I’m the biggest Roberto supporter int he world, I can’t speak highly enough of him,” Schneider said on Thursday’s episode of Sekeres and Price. “For me, I think his number should be retired. I understand the debate though, you know he wasn’t here as long as maybe some of the other guys who do have their numbers retired. but I think the peak he played at for as long as he played it here… I kind of compare it to a guy like Pavel Bure who may not have been there forever but his peak was the absolute peak and not many guys come through organizations like that. You know, Bure, Stan Smyl, Linden, the twins, I would hold Roberto in that echelon of player that came from the organization. It wasn’t like he had three good years and four bad years, he had seven or eight really good years there. Obviously Kirk McLean is in the mix, but Roberto is probably the best goalie to have ever played there. In my mind, if not him, then who? I understand the debate that maybe it wasn’t quite enough of a long enough run here to consider him a retired number, but I would if it was up to me.”