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Mad Max’s Moment
by Alanah McGinley on 06/12/09 at 10:27 PM ET
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via NBC Sports:
Max Talbot, this is your moment — and Marc-Andre Fleury, too, as he finally quieted the talk he can’t win a big game by making 23 saves in the biggest game of all.
Now, the list of players responsible for the Penguins winning Stanley Cups includes first-round draft picks Lemieux, Jagr, Crosby, Malkin, Fleury — and Talbot, an eighth-rounder and the 234th player taken in the 2002 draft, a proven scorer in juniors who was told he must reshape his game to make it to the NHL.
Retool it he did, becoming a grinder, a role player, a utility man deluxe with a knack of scoring big goals in big games, such as the goal he scored in the final minute of finals Game 5 a year ago, with the champagne on ice in Joe Louis Arena.
And more on Max Talbot from Cam Cole via the National Post
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