OT: Around the NHL: Cup or bust for the Leafs and Oilers? Bust it is!

BHD

Here comes Skinner
Dec 27, 2009
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On this day (Dec 19th) 2015, Thunder Bay's Matt Murray played his 1st NHL game, stopping 24 of 26 shots in a 2-1 loss to Carolina. The 21 year-old was called up from the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to back-up Jeff Zatkoff when Fleury suffered a concussion. He went 9-2-1 and then led the Penguins to the Stanley Cup the next spring.

Crazy to think three different goalies (Murray, Fleury, Zatkoff) started during that Cup run. Jarry was on the bench for one of those games too.
 

Ignatius

Utah Direwolf
Apr 28, 2010
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Crazy to think three different goalies (Murray, Fleury, Zatkoff) started during that Cup run. Jarry was on the bench for one of those games too.

Zatkoff started the first game of the 2016 playoffs for us and he looked shaky throughout the game but got the job done with a big fat W. Jarry might have been on the bench for that one.

In 2017 Murray was the starter that ended up winning us the ECF and the Cup but Fleury playing out of his mind and well beyond anyone's expectations was probably the biggest shocker of the entire run. I will admit that I was solidly hating on MAF before the Caps series and thought we were doomed when Murray went down and Fleury became the starter. Tastiest crow I've ever eaten.
 

Turin

Erik Karlsson is good
Feb 27, 2018
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The world would have been a much simpler and better place if Matt Murray could stay healthy/adjust his game a little bit. Goaltending looked locked down for a decade and it wasn’t even locked down for 3 years.
 

Ignatius

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The world would have been a much simpler and better place if Matt Murray could stay healthy/adjust his game a little bit. Goaltending looked locked down for a decade and it wasn’t even locked down for 3 years.

Yes but how many players in any sport will ever be able to say that they won two championships before their rookie campaign ended?
 

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