Hockey Hall of Fame goaltender Roberto Luongo strikes again on social media.
Luongo, who currently works as a special advisor for the Florida Panthers, shared his view at Friday night’s Taylor Swift concert at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens’ Fla. Based on his caption on X (formerly Twitter), he paid a pretty penny for the Eras Tour.
“Upgraded seats but will have to work rest of my life to pay it off,” Luongo wrote.
Swift is holding three concerts on three nights in Miami. Some of the cheapest resale tickets available for the remaining nights cost more than $1,000 on StubHub.
Luongo attended a Swift concert in July as well, and he documented the night in a series of viral posts to X.
“Father of the year award already locked in,” he wrote at the time. “Took the fam all the way to Milan to see T Swift. Mother in the Motherland.”
That said, he was sitting a little further back then.
“Ants? No they’re the backup dancers,” he said in another post.
Luongo also made headlines on more than one occasion during the off-season as the Panthers celebrated their first Stanley Cup in franchise history.
The 45-year-old from Montreal got his day with the Cup in August, bringing it back to his childhood bedroom in St-Leonard, Que., and to a rink named after him. He also had a championship feast by eating gnocchi poutine out of the Cup bowl.
In September, Luongo came in clutch for a beer league hockey team needing a netminder for a playoff game against the five-time defending champions.
Luongo showed up in a Panthers practice uniform and helmet with custom goalie pads that commemorate his playing career with the Vancouver Canucks, Panthers and Team Canada. He also wore them at the 2023 NHL all-star weekend in Sunrise, Fla. The team pulled off an upset 4-2 win.
Luongo played 1,044 regular-season NHL games, posting a 489-392-33-91 record with a 2.52 goals-against average, .919 save percentage and 77 shutouts between the Panthers, Canucks and the team that drafted him fourth overall in 1997, the New York Islanders. He also won gold with Canada at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, two World Championships and one World Cup of Hockey.
But for now, it sounds like he’ll be sticking to his special advisor position with the Panthers to pay off those Swift tickets. But who knows – maybe he’ll be able to shake it off.
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