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Originally Posted by MelBridgeman
His lack of rebound control, which is famous, allowed the US to tie it with mere seconds to go.
The more I look at the tying goal, the more i hate it...that rebound was could cost this country the gold...Luongo almost blew it. Brutal
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...and if you look at Fleury's performance in last year's playoffs, it was anything but stellar. In fact Pens fans were going as far as to say they won the cup in spite of his sub par goaltending.
Yet, at the end of the day, he gets the title of being a Stanley Cup winning goalie, and fans (even in the last few posts here) will forever say that he proved he can win the big game.
Those two goals were overblown imo. That first goal that got tipped right in front of the net? If that was Kipper, most Flames fans would have said "oooh that was weak", then saw the replay of the tip and went "Nevermind, it was tipped right in front, you can't fault him for that".
Then the second one, Kane turned around and shot it through a crowd, it hit Langenbrunner's skate, then hit Luongo (it seriously could have easily found it's way through just from the deflection, but Luongo kicked it out), then came out to Parise, and both Neidermyer AND Weber had left Parise all alone in front. So it was an easy goal for Parise.