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Yeah but if you follow Scuds, I'm an Apple Core guy, he had to go outside the Pens to do it and it was based pretty much on his skating. You could always see the sense there IMO.Scuderi became a hell of a lot better than he was supposed to be, and he was developed at the same time as the players you mentioned.
Tender Rip said:On the ice! Critique his performances, want him traded, consider it a blemish on the organization that he hasn't been.... I won't say a peep.
But no one here, I think, has enough knowledge of what Fleury is like as a person to use ad hominem stuff as the reason to grill him. To me it simply disqualifies otherwise most often valid criticism. It seems childish if not simply stupid.
Fully agree. I think MAF is a quality person and always puts the team first.
Again I think some of his character flaws even lead back to the Pens. Blowing off mistakes instead of working on them and this don't worry about it attitude has been around the Pens for a long time. Some players have it built into their character to iron out their flaws... others need to be groomed. Players like Whitney, insanely skilled, and MAF were never groomed at least not the right way. That was the Pens yoyo period and you could see flaws coming a mile away.
I remember watching Whitney make mistakes in WB and thinking its part of the learning curve. The I went to a game in Hartford and Whitney looked like Scuds. He rang pucks up and off the glass all night and looked scared to try anything skilled. It was as clear as day that the Pens missed the boat on correcting mistakes and letting a player do the things he should to make him great.