Well, I suppose he's lucky this one happened in Binghamton and not in Ottawa, or anywhere in Canada. Here's the full quote from a February article by In Goal Magazine:
“It was nice (to win) because the fans here are really dumb,” Lehner told the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin in of the megaphone-wielding fans in the post-game report. “They scream at you, and one guy has a thing that really sounds a lot in your ears. It’s good for them. They’re helping their team out, of course, and it’s hard to play here. … I got a lot more tired as the game went on; it’s hard to travel five hours before the game, come in and miss half of warmups and all that stuff, but you try to get over it.”
Of course, in his defense, he had been travelling between Ottawa and Binghamton a lot. He added, "every game is a new experience for me and of course I am not going to be calm in new experiences. I need to experience all this stuff and then I can get calm, and when I feel calm, I play better.” I suppose that held true in the spring, because the Binghamton crowd didn't seem to concerned with his comments come playoff time.
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