Despite the long-term injury to Tomas Vokoun, there’s no rush for the Pittsburgh Penguins to go out and acquire another goaltender.
The loss of Vokoun—he will miss three to six months after suffering a blood clot in his pelvis—has been tagged as a major blow to the Penguins, but in reality they can get along just fine without him. And I’m not just saying that because Marc-Andre Fleury posted a shutout earlier tonight.
It isn’t that Vokoun is a poor goaltender. Far from it; he might be the single-most underrated goaltender in the NHL over the last decade, and in last season’s playoffs he was a difference-maker for a Pittsburgh team that might not have made it out of the first round without him. It’s just that, as they did last year, the Penguins can make it through the regular season with Fleury playing the bulk of the games.
Fleury has made the lion’s share of the starts for Pittsburgh over each of the last five seasons, and in that time the Penguins have averaged 106 points per season, which is pretty good.
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Article written by Jonathan Willis