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Jacob Fowler and Apophenia
One save inspired a goalie. The work, the miles, and the connections we only notice later, shaped him.
A shot. A pad save. A rebound. Two pushes. A shoulder save.
That sequence made Marc-Andre Fleury a Stanley Cup Champion. And it’s what made the Montreal Canadiens’ Jacob Fowler a goaltender.
“I sent [Canadiens’ goalie coach Marco Marciano] the clip of the Fleury double-push save on Lidstrom to win the Cup,” Fowler said on Episode 339 of the InGoal Radio Podcast. “And I told him, kind of jokingly, but seriously, ‘that save made me a goalie.’”
Still ahead in this article:
What Marciano said back about that Fleury clip — and the apophenia rabbit hole it opens — starts in the next paragraph.
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