“He just has a presence.”
Former Pittsburgh Penguins coach Eddie Olczyk made the prescient remark about the team’s first-round pick and first-overall pick, Marc-Andre Fleury , when recounting Fleury’s first professional game.
The moment occurred on Oct. 10, 2003, when a Pittsburgh Penguins crowd starving for good news got their first glimpse of what was to come. Goalie Marc-Andre Fleury made his NHL debut as a remarkably athletic, bright-yellow-pad-wearing, big, toothy, grinning goalie. He made 46 of 48 saves and kept the downtrodden Penguins in the game against the LA Kings in a 3-0 loss.
To finish a two-on-one, LA star Ziggy Palffy had a…
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