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Roberto Luongo (; born April 4, 1979) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Born in Montreal, Quebec, he is of Italian and Irish ancestry. He employs the butterfly style of goaltending〔 and has previously played in the NHL for the New York Islanders and the Vancouver Canucks. Luongo is a two-time NHL Second All-Star (2004 and 2007) and a winner of the William M. Jennings Trophy for backstopping his team to the lowest goals-against average in the league (2011; with backup Cory Schneider). He has additionally been a finalist for the Vezina Trophy as the league's best goaltender (2004, 2007 and 2011), the Lester B. Pearson Award as the top player voted by his peers (2004 and 2007) and the Hart Memorial Trophy as the league's most valuable player (2007).〔 Prior to his NHL career, Luongo played in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) for the Val-d'Or Foreurs and the Acadie-Bathurst Titan, winning back-to-back President's Cups and establishing the league's all-time playoff records in games played and wins.〔 Following his second QMJHL season, Luongo was selected fourth overall by the Islanders in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. After splitting his professional rookie season between the Islanders and their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Lowell Lock Monsters in 1999–2000, he was traded to the Panthers. In five seasons with Florida, Luongo established team records for most all-time games played, wins and shutouts. During the 2006 off-season, he was traded to the Canucks after failed contract negotiations with the Panthers. Following his second year with the Canucks, he became the first NHL goaltender to serve as a team captain since Bill Durnan in the 1947–48 season.〔 Luongo served in that capacity for two seasons before resigning from the position in September 2010. In the subsequent 2010–11 season, he helped the Canucks to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals and lost to the Boston Bruins. During his tenure with Vancouver, Luongo has become the team's all-time wins and shutouts leader. Internationally, Luongo has competed for Team Canada in numerous tournaments. As a junior, he won a silver medal at the 1999 World Junior Championships, while being named Best Goaltender in his second tournament appearance. Luongo has won two gold medals at the 2003 and 2004 World Championships and a silver in the 2005 World Championships. He also won the 2004 World Cup championship and appeared in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin as a backup to Martin Brodeur in both instances. He succeeded Brodeur as Canada's starting goaltender during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, winning a gold medal. On January 7, 2014, he was named to the 2014 Canadian Olympic Hockey Team, where he won his 2nd Olympic gold medal in a largely backup role to Carey Price. ==Early life== Luongo was born to Pasqualina and Antonio Luongo in Montreal, Quebec.〔 His father is an Italian immigrant, born in Santa Paolina, Avellino. He worked in the construction and delivery of furniture,〔 while Luongo's mother, an Irish-Canadian〔〔 worked in marketing with Air Canada.〔 Antonio and Pasqualina married in Montreal after Antonio emigrated there in 1976.〔 Luongo has two younger brothers, Leo and Fabio, who were also aspiring goaltenders.〔 Fabio made it the further out of the two, playing Junior A in the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) with the Williams Lake Timberwolves in 2004–05 before succumbing to injuries.〔 He has since become a Junior AAA coach, while Leo is a goaltending coach with HC Lugano.〔http://www.hclugano.ch/index.cfm?u=staff_en&lan=en〕 Luongo and his family lived in St. Leonard, Quebec, a borough north of Montreal with a strong Italian community,〔〔 just four blocks away from Martin Brodeur, who became the goaltender for the New Jersey Devils six years before Luongo entered the NHL. Luongo is fluent in English, French and Italian.〔〔 His father spoke Italian and his mother spoke English with a little French at home.〔 Luongo graduated from Antoine de St-Exupéry in Montreal, a Francophone high school, in 1996. He began playing organized hockey at the age of eight as a forward.〔 His father taught all his sons soccer and Luongo played until he was 14, at which point he decided to concentrate on hockey.〔 Although he initially had the desire to play in net, his parents wanted him to develop his skating first.〔 Several years later, after Luongo was cut from a peewee team, he made the switch to goaltender.〔 At 11 years old, his team's usual goaltender did not show up and after begging his mother, still hesitant about Luongo playing the position, he went in net and posted a shutout. In August 2009, the arena in which Luongo played his minor hockey in St. Leonard was named after him as the Roberto Luongo Arena. It is the second arena in the community to be named after an NHL goalie after the Martin Brodeur Arena was renamed as such in 2000.〔 By 15, Luongo was playing midget with Montreal-Bourassa, the same team that produced NHL Quebecer goalies Brodeur and Félix Potvin.〔 Luongo has credited Hall of Fame goaltender Grant Fuhr as his inspiration growing up, citing an admiration for his "spectacular glove saves".〔 He had the opportunity to first meet Fuhr before a game against the Calgary Flames during his rookie season with the Islanders.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roberto Luongo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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