The Pittsburgh Penguins are one of the top Stanley Cup contenders in the NHL heading into the 2013-14 season, but there will be no championship celebration in the Steel City next June if the team's goaltending fails to improve.
The two players who will be tasked with giving the Penguins a strong performance from the game's most important position are Marc-Andre Fleury and Tomas Vokoun.
Both players have their strengths and weaknesses, but the decision on who should start in net should be based on these two goaltenders' postseason ability.
After all, each Penguins season with Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin is judged solely on playoff results.
When you look at Fleury's resume, the first topic of discussion is his mediocre-to-awful playoff performances from the past few seasons.
Following his good-but-not-great performance in the Penguins' championship run in 2008-09, Fleury has failed to finish a postseason with a save percentage above .900 and a sub-2.50 goals-against average.
Those kinds of numbers are tolerable in the regular season, when the Penguins' high-powered offense ...
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Article written by Nicholas Goss
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