When Roberto Luongo calls on Friday afternoon, he's sitting on the cold bleachers of an ice rink, watching his 7-year-old son's hockey practice. It's easy to become distracted by professional athletes' cool jobs and just as easy to forget they are members of their communities, too. Luongo is the Florida Panthers' starting goalie. But he's also a hockey dad who lives in Parkland, Florida. He goes grocery shopping. He shuttles his kids to school. His family goes to church.
When the unthinkable happened in Luongo's hometown on Feb. 14 -- a gunman opened fire at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, killing 17 people -- the goaltender reeled.