Golden Knights fans send Peter DeBoer a clear message about Marc Andre Fleury.

Fans not happy with Peter DeBoer.

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Golden Knights fans send Peter DeBoer a clear message about Marc Andre Fleury.
Marc DesRoisiers-USA Today Sports

The Las Vegas Golden Knights have another goaltending controversy on their hands, at least as far as one segment of their fan base is concerned.

On Sunday night Golden Knights head coach Peter DeBoer made the difficult decision of going with Golden Knights goaltender Robin Lehner for Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Semifinal against the Montreal Canadiens, but it would seem that not everyone is happy with that decision. The Golden Knights have of course been riding the hot hand of veteran goaltender Marc Andre Fleury throughout this playoff run and Fleury has rewarded them with some outstanding performances through the first three rounds, however after a huge mistake in Game 3 of this current series the swap has been made.

Attendance at the Bell Center in Montreal has been extremely limited, only 3,500 fans allowed in the building in one of the most diehard hockey towns in the world, but in spite of that a few Golden Knights fans managed to get their hands on some tickets for Sunday's game. Those fans made it very clear that they are not happy with DeBoer's decision to so quickly give up on Fleury as his goaltender and they went all out to let the head coach know about it in Montreal. Not only did the fans bring a sign that indicates they want Fleury back, the sign read "Bring Back Flower" with Flower being Fleury's nickname, but they actually dressed up in what looked like little flower hats that they wore around their heads.

Take a look for yourself:

Now I suspect that there will be no changing the hearts and minds of those diehard Fleury fans, however I also believe that not every Vegas fan will be of the same mind. Although we are only through one period of play at the time of this writing, Lehner has already made DeBoer look pretty good with some huge saves to start the game. These two saves stopped what looked like a sure goal for the Canadiens, including a shot that just barely failed to cross the goal line, and they seem to have validated the decision from the Golden Knights bench boss so far.


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