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Vancouver Canucks face penalty in lieu of Roberto Luongo’s retirement

First of all, congratulations on an amazing career Lu, you will always be a Vancouver Canucks legend. Thanks for everything you gave to this organization, and to this city.

Roberto Luongo announced his retirement in an open letter addressed to Florida Panthers fans, in which he touched on the physical and mental toll playing hockey at his age has taken on him. Luongo called it “one of the toughest decisions he’s faced in his life, that took him a long time to make.”

After thinking about it a lot over the past two months and listening to my body, I made up my mind.