The Pittsburgh Penguins' season is six games old, and there is no doubt Brent Johnson is playing better in goal than the highly-touted Marc-Andre Fleury.
Johnson has won all three of his starts, giving up fewer than two goals per game. Fleury, the former NHL No. 1 overall draft pick, has struggled mightily in his three starts this season, losing all three games and posting a GAA well above three.
With that said, Fleury still has to be the No. 1 goalie in Pittsburgh. Johnson is playing great right now, but he is a 33-year-old backup. He started for the St. Louis Blues earlier in the decade, but he’s not a starter now.
That’s not a bad thing. He’s a great backup goalie. It’s his niche. He’s been in the league long enough where if he was worthy of still being a starter, someone would have given him the big contract and made him the starter.
There is no doubt Fleury is slumping right now. No one goes through an entire season, let alone an entire career without going through some slumps. He will bounce back. He always does.
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