Marc-Andre Fleury must have been watching the Olympics because the three-time Stanley Cup-winning goaltender debuted a new stick-handling move Monday night against the Los Angeles Kings.
After a Kings clear during a first period Golden Knights power play, the biscuit bounced off the boards and died outside the trapezoid where Fleury could play the puck.
Fleury, who is a notoriously silly human, decided to mess around as he waited for Colin Miller to retrieve the puck.
Fleury turned his goalie stick into a curling broom. Alas, his stick doesn’t have the same powers and the technique totally didn’t work at all because of this very complicated physics equation: Heavy puck + no velocity = fail.
Fleury’s Canadian curlers didn’t medal in the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics for the first time since the sport was reintroduced in 1998, but Team USA had the shock of a lifetime. USA’s Team Shuster defeated Olympic favorite Sweden in the gold-medal match.
It took just one sweep to get the win for Shuster’s squad.
.@usacurl @TeamShuster @tgeorge1323 I don't think I'll ever get tired of seeing this shot. #julie for Gold pic.twitter.com/dNMI0wwZVV
— Mark Lazar (@mlazar11) February 24, 2018
Maybe they can teach MAF how to properly sweep and he’ll never have to handle the puck again.
