#29 – Lay, Lie, or Laine?

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Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

TBH it's surprising to me that people still rabidly love MAF because the majority to me seems like they've been screaming for his head, ever since 2012 (sometimes unfairly because yeah he shat the bed in 2012 but the years after were less his fault, more everyone else's). When he signed his last deal I remember people saying this was an affront to Sid and Geno because their best years were going to coincide with his contract.

I guess because it's his last year so people have come out of the woodwork, or everyone has rose-tinted glasses on right now so it's a MAF love-in. I love them both, I know Murray's the future but I'm glad we also have MAF now.

Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

freckledbutt is the wooooooorst

Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

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

Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

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

Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

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...

Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

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

Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: Ask Meme

[(Anonymous)]

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