Bonnie Leydig,Contributing JournalistThe Washington Capitals announced on June 17th, 2011 that they had re-signed goaltender Dany Sabourin to a one-year, two-way contract. Shortly after reading about this, my immediate thought was about how unhappy some of the fans in Hershey would be over this news, as it is no secret among them that Dany is not a fan favorite. However, what a lot of fans failed to realized is that Sabourin ended the season with a record of 14-9-0 in the twenty-three games he played in. If you ask me, fourteen wins isn’t nearly bad enough to get the kind of treatment Sabourin gets from fans. I admit, I was guilty early in the season of saying to a friend “the guy you’re seeing is as reliable as Dany Sabourin” referring to his poor start to the season, though I’m very glad that as the season progressed Dany had me eating my words as he won game after game while Braden Holtby was in Washington. As many are aware, Dany’s season was cut short on January 21st, 2011 when...
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