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Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop
Kiprusoff and Iginla were dominant players in their prime, bringing home individual hardware. Fleury was a bit player on a Stanley Cup team (Al MacInnis, the guy that won the Conn Smythe didn't get his number retired).
34 and 12 are far more likely to hit the rafters than 14.
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I'll admit to maybe going a little overboard in my defense of Fleury that was called out, but to sum up Fleury's career as a bit player on our Stanley Cup winning team is incredibly disingenuous.
Maybe it's because you're old, but for a lot of younger fans he literally was the Flames for the better part of the nineties. Absolutely dominate in skill and singlehandedly put fans in the seats for years. He was one of the best players in the entire league during a large era of time that you completely omitted in your dismissal of his accomplishments.
In fact you literally only gave him credit for his rookie season in the NHL AND used it against him, calling him a bit player.
Yeah there was absolutely nothing dominating about Fleury in his prime. Clueless. And it always seems to be the older posters that have it out for Fleury and hammer him every chance they get like he was a rival star player or something.