He was benched, humiliated. The two-time Vezina Trophy winner was deemed washed up. His playoff demons, which had haunted him for his career, had carried over into the regular season. By the end of the year, he had been effectively replaced in net by a journeyman backup that had won six of the last eight games of the years to put his team into the playoffs. But when this backup struggled in the playoffs, the team desperately returned to their former starter. And now, former Flyers goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky has carried his team into the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in his career.
Former Flyers Goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky is a Playoff Hero for Florida
