I don't really care about those years right now, and I'm perfectly comfortable declaring Murray "awesome". I just use my eyes to tell whether he's good or not. And that's coming from a huge Fleury fan.
The flip side of the coin is that if he sucks when the lean years are here... I can turn around and say to you "of course he sucks, the team in front of him sucks, any goalie would suck in this situation... let's wait and see what he's like behind a really good team."
And that's just dumb.
Lotsa people have gone undefeated. That's also a fact. And nobody in the peanut gallery sat around sayin' "Well, let's see how good they are when they lose... then we'll know for sure whether they're great or not."
That's not it at all. They can have a down year as soon as this year, or the next. A injury, or who knows what else can happen to him or another player. He hasn't even played a full season. These years are the ones where we'll find out about, Murray.
You guys are talking like it's a given even after all this team has gone through the last 8 years.
It's worth talking about even if it's off the beaten path.
This place is la...gging for me. Your last post; Everything just seems to be a given around here even thought the 7/8 years before that shows anything can happen, this year?, next. It's all relative.
Those other goalies have wrecked our team and others have wrecked them. But when they are wrecked, it's usually the team in front of them. Sound familiar?
But they had those times to react too.