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Originally Posted by CDSmith
I wasn't saying it's never the goalie's fault. All I was saying was if you don't want to get scored on then try not letting the other team have so many opportunities to shoot. No matter how good your goaltender is if you're letting your opponent swarm around your net all the time the puck is bound to go in at some point.
Sure he made some poor plays and bad decisions, but most of it wouldn't have been an issue had his players in front of him played better D and thus kept the Islanders away from scoring chances.
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I agree. Can't say Fleury is all at fault or all bad, I have to remember he started series with a shutout. Orpik and Letang have seemed to be playing like they were skating pea soup at times, and normally they are a bedrock of consistently good D.
Fleury has bad days like any other goalie but his bad is really bad just as extremely as his really good is amazing.