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Marc Andre Fleury would have been traded at the 2017 deadline if the Penguins would have found a taker, multiple NHL sources contend despite the Penguins public stance they didn’t want to move him.
The Penguins never received one trade offer during the 2017 regular season.
That is about to change.
Despite a tough goaltender market and most clubs leery of Fleury’s salary, signed for two more seasons with a $5.75 million cap hit, the Penguins have at least one option in play to move Fleury after the Stanley Cup Final, and two other clubs, while not all-in on pursuing Fleury, have engaged in talks with the Penguins recently and are mulling a run at trading for Fleury, sources tell TIOPS.
Those clubs better move fast.
The Pittsburgh Penguins and Vegas Golden Knights have held substantive talks on the framework of a deal that would clear significant cap space for the Penguins this summer.
One scenario that’s pretty much done if the Penguins want to move forward with it after the Stanley Cup Final, would send [hide] Marc Andre Fleury, an NHL roster player with term and an NHL ready prospect believed to be Oskar Sundqvist the Golden Knights covet. A draft pick would also be moved per a league source in what would be a win-win for the Penguins in moving salary and giving the Golden Knights enough assets to stay off a couple of players the Penguins will be exposing they don’t want to lose.
Marc Andre Fleury can block being exposed in the expansion draft but he can’t block a trade to Vegas before hand.
Still, the Penguins will let him drive the bus and if this goes down, it will be a mutual decision and peaceful transition.
League sources say Fleury and his camp have not giving the Penguins a final go-ahead but Fleury has become much more receptive to moving on to Vegas than months ago where it was pretty much a non-starter.
Two other clubs lurking are the Calgary Flames and Buffalo Sabres.
Flames GM Brad Treliving returning still opens the door for a run at Fleury, though, I’m hearing the Fleury camp is skeptical that Calgary would commit to Fleury long-term after the 2017-2018.
They’re looking for a situation that will be a final stop and there is more of a trust level with George McPhee.
One intriguing situation to watch is Buffalo.
New GM Jason Botterill is giving thoughts to moving on from goaltender Robin Lehner and his name is starting to pop up in trade talks.
Some Fleury talk is starting to creep out there. There’s a big focus on changing the room, going from Lehner to Fleury would be a big step.
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Yoda, if and when MAF gets moved are you going to that teams rumor sight and sing his praises like you do here?
as soon as the saint is moved yoda is going to get killed off
Hagelin the player with term?
at 4 million per season, that’s my guess
trading the saint to the las vegas golden showers sounds fine by me. #allhail, #smilesstoppucks, #reasonsotherthangoaltending
Gives you hope for a vegas trip where you get your asss torn apart – of course it’s fine by you – it ends with a best case scenario of you playing blackjack on an inflatable donut.
I just hope you keep your promise and fuckkoff after he’s gone
i can’t wait
Of course you can’t wait – it’s vegas / inflatable donut friday once he gets traded there.
Gotta love when Depaoli pulls rumors out of his butt and claims to have sources. The really sad part is that there are actually 3 people that are naive enough to actually believe what D writes.
Why can’t MAF block a trade to Vegas?
The only explaination I can think of is it being a technicality because his NTC allows him to give a list of 12 teams he can’t be traded to and because LV wasn’t actually a team at the time MAF and his management team didn’t think to include them among the 12 teams on the list. It would be a pretty dirty technicality to pull but it’s the only explaniation I can think of. I still think it’s irrelevant either way because they’ve already said it’s going to be a mutaul decision and they’re going to accomidate MAF and trade… Read more »
Ah, that makes complete sense actually… I fucken hate the idea of hockey in the desert again but I will reserve my hatred of the team until after MAF retires lol
#cultist
There’s even speculation as to how that would work – they openly talked about not knowing the answer to how that would work on the Puck Soup podcast with Wysh and Lozo a few weeks ago.
Fleury can absolutely block a trade to Vegas. His 18 team NTC list are ones that he can be traded to. Being that Vegas was not a team when he submitted that list, it wouldn’t have even been possible to consider them. Since Vegas isn’t on his list, he can’t be traded to them without his permission. D’s entire premise of this article is made up bs based on this.
I think you’re wrong on the list seabs, to my understanding the list was the 12 teams he can’t except a trade to not the 18 teams he can be traded to. Under that circumstance it could be a technicality that because LV isn’t on his 12 block list he could not block a trade to them. It’s really irrelevant either way because the Pens are going to accomidate Fleury and trade him where he wants to go.
According to any salary cap site, it’s an 18 team list he’ll accept a trade to.
And that site could totally be wrong – it’s far from an official decry from the NHLPA
But it’s more likely to be right than D.
Well, that’s hard to argue against, yes.
Fingers crossed for a injury in warm ups for Murray!