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Originally Posted by jhunt223
Oh no, I'm not blaming him. I just throw up in my mouth a little every time I see someone still singing his praise on calgarypuck. I'm thoroughly embarrassed about what he's brought to the Penguins these playoffs as a Flames fan.
It's all Fleurys fault. The penguins defense is fine. It's just when a goalie starts practically scoring on himself his team will panic and collapse around him and who can blame them really? What are they supposed to do... have faith in Fleury to make routine saves... buahah. I said that I hoped he tweaked something in game 3 and I still wish he had. The end result would have probably been the same.. no Fleury for the rest of this series, but he wouldn't have been given the opportunity to hand the islanders game 4 on a silver platter.
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This is patently false.
No, Fleury hasnt been as good as he needs to, particularly last night.
But.
the amount of horrendous turnovers the guys in front of him are committing (forwards and defensemen) are so much more to blame for whats happening than any single player.
What has become blatantly obvious is that the Pens are really struggling with the speed of the Islanders and have yet to adjust for it in terms of playing in their own end......again resulting in turnovers all over the ice, which almost always end up in scoring chances.
The Isles have a real shot at this thing now IMO.