[krynski]

Originally Posted by wretched34

Cause you know, every stacked team decides, "Hey, we're awesome this year, we'll win the cup for sure, lets call up a rookie and let him play, won't hurt us"...
Thankfully Fleury came up, and put up big points, in 36 regular season games, he had 34 points, putting him 12th in team scoring, at that pace, if he had played 79 games like the top scorers, we was on pace for 74 points, tying him with MacInnis for 5th in team scoring. He was 8th in team scoring, and 10th in points through the stanley cup run as well, ahead of the likes of Macoun, Peplinski, Hunter and McDonald.
Now remember, this is also his rookie season, so he wasn't getting top line minutes.

I'm just not sure how you can say his contributions were unneeded, and he was just lucky to be a part of the team so he could get a ring.

Easy. The team was STACKED. He was lucky to be on that team. Sure, he contributed, but his contributions were not needed. I'm just saying, he was not a difference maker who carried that team to a cup.