Sorry to kill the mood, but I was there watching Fleury play during that comeback, and there was no way he was making the team. His head and his hands were still there, but the rest was not. I know that he did extremely well in the fitness testing, but his feet had become slow, and he was only playing short shifts because he was gassed after 15 seconds on the ice. He would have been sent down to the AHL, where he would have taken ice-time away from some of our prospects. I think the notion that Fleury was cheated is romanticism.
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