Marc-Andre Fleury had a very rough Olympics. So rough, in fact, that he did not start for the Penguins on Tuesday night. This is obviously another example of players that took part in the Games coming back to their teams both mentally and physically exhausted.
Not really. Fleury was just a bit rusty, it seems.
Fleury was with Team Canada as the third-string goaltender and rarely saw any time even on the bench, let alone in practice. He basically spent two weeks on vacation in Vancouver and came home with a gold medal. And when the rest of his (real) team was getting back on the ice in practices over the weekend, he was doing, well....not much.
Fleury didn’t even get to practice on Tuesday because of heavy traffic in the Pittsburgh area. This is one of the side-effects from the break no one ever considers; the third-string goaltender that everyone forgets about.