Luongo takes paycut for old-age pension

Here's hoping he retires after about six to eight of those years.

But this trade actually kicks a significant amount of ass. His cap hit is 5.3 million. Unlike every other ultra-long-term contract player, this contract isn't untradeable.

And for god's sake how cool is Ryan Kesler? I remember somewhere along the line I heard/saw an interview somewhere talking about how he conducted a bit of a team meeting, where he pretty much talked the rest of the team into taking a paycut to start winning.

(I think we already learned how cool Kesler is when the YouTube clip of him beaking David Backes' wife surffaced.)

Started with Burrows taking $2 million a year (He might have been able to double that on the open market). Even Mathieu Schneider took about $4 million less, although he wasn't around for that meeting.

Now Luongo, who over-played his career averages last season, takes a paycut to stay in a place where his family doesn't even like, and for 12 years no less?

Bad ass.