VANCOUVER — It’s just not been Roberto Luongo’s summer.
First, the Vancouver Canucks goalie was told he’s not being traded after being led to believe for more than a year that he would be.
Then, a year after finishing in the money at the World Series of Poker, he was bounced from this year’s tournament on Day 2 after running out of chips.
Now he tweets that the tires were stolen off his SUV, apparently overnight on Monday, on what appears to be the driveway of his Florida home.
Luongo, who tweets under the pseudonym @strombone1, kept up his newly discovered sense of humour.
“At least the robbers were nice enough to leave me the car,” he let his 172,974 Twitter followers know, adding #glasshalffull.
Luongo drives a Mercedes-Benz GL-Class.
If he had stock tires on the crossover SUV — say, 21-inch Pirelli Scorpions — they sell for $875 each, a spokeswoman at Vancouver Mercedes-Benz said.
Stock rims go for $1,500 apiece.
And if Luongo had custom Mercedes-Benz tire-valve stem caps, those are $17 a pop.
Add it up and it was a $9,568 heist, before taxes.
The Twitter humour continued as Eddie Lack, a Swedish goalie who ostensibly is meant to compete to be Luongo’s backup as a Canucks goaltender when training camp starts in September, tweeted “I DIDN’T DO IT I SWEAR!!!!!”
To which Luongo replied, “I know for a fact it wasn’t you cuz you’d probably still be out there trying to take the first tire off.”
Luongo has been silent about the Canucks since Cory Schneider, who replaced Luongo as the team’s No. 1 goalie, was traded in June.
During the 2011 Stanley Cup final, Luongo said of his counterpart in the Boston net, Tim Thomas, “I’ve been pumping his tires ever since the series started. I haven’t heard one nice thing he’s had to say about me ...”
To which Thomas replied, “I didn’t know it was my job to pump his tires.”
Boston won the series.
