dekedangle_rpfanon | #29 – Lay, Lie, or Laine?

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On the RPF side, it's a newer influx of omgcp fans that have latched onto him and spread it around Twitter. Think of freckledbutt and her group, they're the biggest Fleury stans I know.

Generally I think you saw a lot of national media and bloggers/beat writers/hockey twitter fans of other teams who dismissed or derided Fleury because he earned that terrible playoff reputation. The local writers and the team have almost always been on his side, even if the narrative has shifted from "he's flawed but who can replace him?" to "he's an elite goalie and deserves Vezina votes" like it is now.

I'm sure he's a nice man, but I'll never understand the over the top, hero worship adulation thing that group has for him.

I think it's just how everyone is with their fave. It's amusing to me because I spent so much time in non-RPF fandom, seeing this stuff directed at fictional characters, but the same amount of adulation at a real person somehow feels creepier.

freckledbutt is the wooooooorst

Can't wait to watch the mental gymnastics when Fleury ends up on a team she hates.

she really hates dallas so i'm pulling for them to get him this summer. she said she wants him on the canes too but they already have a mediocre goalie, why would they want a second

The Canes seem bizarrely committed to sticking with Ward. I would honestly be surprised if they tried to upgrade. But I think any team with big $$$ to spend on a goalie is gonna go for Bishop anyways.

I've seen so many people who want Fleury on the canes and act like it'd be such a gift, although he's old and streaky (which the canes goalies are all on their own already lol) and it'd mostly be a favour to the pens to take him on...

Yeah, Fleury's streaky, but significantly less so than either of the Canes goalies. You can maybe chalk some of that up to the team around them, but not all.

At least some of it is marcoux, the goalie coach, who was fired.

I agree that he's better, but not by such an amount that he'd actually improve the Canes significantly. Like, they probably still wouldn't make the playoffs if he was the only factor that changed.

I agree. I think they need to find a youngish goalie that can go the distance with their young players.

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