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Originally Posted by Kovaz
The thing is, every single one of those approaches works if you get great goaltending, and most of them fall short if you don't. Fleury is having a season for the ages, and he was incredible from game 1 of the season. I don't know if anyone remembers, but that team was bad at the start of the year. They were totally disjointed, couldn't make a pass to save their lives, and spent entire periods in their own zone. But they started the year 8-1 on the back of some unreal goaltending, and that snowballed into some extremely confident play. If you add up Fleury's regular season and playoff stats this year, he's had a very similar year to Carey Price's Hart season a few years ago.
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Fleury only played the first 4 games of the regular season, the missed the next 2 months due to injury. The Knights played well despite playing in front of their third or fourth string backups. I can't recall if Subban/Legace/Dansk were making ten-bell saves or not, but surely that was the team playing so well as a whole that it didn't matter who was in net.