Fleury saves the season

Postby **meecrofilm** » Mon Apr 11, 2016 10:59 pm

I'm a little worried about Fleury coming in cold.

Reasonable, considering he looked like mud the first couple games after returning from the first one.

Postby **count2infinity** » Tue Apr 12, 2016 10:26 am

I'm a little worried about Fleury coming in cold.
Reasonable, considering he looked like mud the first couple games after returning from the first one.

I don't recall this... what did his stats look like coming back?

Postby **NTP66** » Tue Apr 12, 2016 10:29 am

I'm a little worried about Fleury coming in cold.
Reasonable, considering he looked like mud the first couple games after returning from the first one.
I don't recall this... what did his stats look like coming back?

I thought he looked good (against the Isles). 38 saves on 40 shots, .950 %, and a 5-2 win.

Postby **meecrofilm** » Tue Apr 12, 2016 10:33 am

I guess I'm misremembering. I recalled him having way more stinkers post-concussion than he had before.

Postby **NTP66** » Tue Apr 12, 2016 10:35 am

He definitely had a few (Calgary being the most notable, IMO), but I'm not terribly worried about him coming in cold. Hell, it's basically the same scenario for Zatkoff, who I wouldn't trust even if he was coming off of playing 20 straight.

Postby **meecrofilm** » Tue Apr 12, 2016 10:44 am

Indeed indeed. I guess ideally we'd have a healthy Murray, but uh...

Postby **count2infinity** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 7:48 pm

At least it looks like he's soooooo close to coming back. Might just be one game without him. We'll see.

Postby **dodint** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 8:42 pm

So, like, do we start another Fleury injury thread?

Postby **columbia** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 8:48 pm

So, like, do we start another Fleury injury thread?

Keep it up and you might get an injury thread.

Postby **NTP66** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 9:01 pm

Chirpin' Dodint.

Postby **dodint** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 9:23 pm

Reported.

Both of you.

Postby **NTP66** » Thu Apr 14, 2016 7:38 am

Hopefully, this is more of a "Fleury isn't 100% yet, so we're taking our time" thing rather than a "Fleury had a setback/failed the concussion protocol" thing. Who the hell knows with Murray, since we have zero updates on him. Even if he was ready to return to practice, he's probably still a week away from being able to think about starting.

Postby **dodint** » Thu Apr 14, 2016 8:22 am

The fact that JZ knew the night before he was starting feels worse to me for some reason. But then Fleury was having pucks shot at him in practice so I highly doubt he was just out there as a feint to fool the Rangers. Really weird situation.

Conspiracy theory is maybe he's 95% ready to go and could have been the back-up, but they didn't think the team would get fully behind JZ if Fleury was there so they sat him. Looking down the bench and seeing some junior high kid that they stuck in Jarry's jersey probably makes JZ look pretty appealing. That's evil genius stuff, though, and would have had to have come from the folks that thought it was a good idea to start Murray against Philly so there is probably nothing to it.

Postby **Avyran** » Thu Apr 14, 2016 8:44 pm

Bit of "news" from Fleury (via Yohe, paywall):

Fleury was asked if he decided not to play, or if doctors told him not to play in Game 1.

“I guess a little bit of both,” he said. “We talked. I just was not right to play yet. That’s the reason why I didn’t play.”

He claims he didn’t have any setbacks this week during or after his workouts.

“No, no,” he said. “That’s actually good, to get some exercise. Get some movement. I’ve got to watch what I say. It was good.”

More in the article, but being respectful to DK & his main source of income.

Postby **meow** » Thu Apr 14, 2016 8:50 pm

Who cares. We have Zakoff and his 946 save percentage.