The 39-year-old goaltender is preparing for his 19th NHL season focused on winning, not milestones or career honors.
Luongo, with 471 NHL victories, is 13 behind Ed Belfour for third place on the all-time wins list. He's also 1,602 saves behind Martin Brodeur for the most in NHL history (Luongo made 1,062 in 35 games last season) and he will be honored by the Panthers on Oct. 13 for becoming the third goaltender (Brodeur, Patrick Roy) to play 1,000 games, which he accomplished on April 5.
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"The only career number I look at is [Stanley] Cups, right?" Luongo told NHL.com at the Panthers practice facility this week. "That's the only one I really want."
Luongo, who has never won the Stanley Cup, sees that possibility in a talented Panthers team that finished last season strong, going 25-8-2 over its final 35 games to finish with 96 points, one point behind the New Jersey Devils for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Eastern Conference. Florida, which tied the Winnipeg Jets for the most wins in the NHL over that stretch, since acquired forward Mike Hoffman, who had 56 points (22 goals, 34 assists) for the Ottawa Senators last season and has scored at least 22 goals in four straight seasons.
"The way we finished, adding Hoffman, there are a lot of things to be excited about," Luongo said. "I just wish I was five to 10 years younger so I could be here for a while with them, that's the part that is a little bit scary for me. I feel like we are right there and hopefully it will happen in the next couple of years but if it's five or six years down the road, then I don't think I'll be around for that, and that's scary."
Luongo has four seasons left on the 12-year, $64 million contract he signed with the Vancouver Canucks on Sept. 2, 2009, almost five years before being traded to the Panthers for a second stint in Florida. But with a 40th birthday (April 4) before this season ends, and 89 games missed the past two seasons, his focus is on staying healthy.