Perhaps our last-ever excuse to use the sword picture: Vegas has traded Vezina-winning goalie and team institution Marc-Andre Fleury to the Chicago Blackhawks.
In exchange for Fleury, Chicago sends Vegas absolutely nothing (okay virtually nothing). It’s a blatant salary dump, and oh yeah MAF found out via Twitter, and now he’s probably gonna retire.
By Peter Hassett 2 months ago
Your preferred hockey team has probably already been eliminated from the Stanley Cup playoffs, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still participate. Let’s all be sickos about the goalie drama with the Vegas Golden Knights.
After Marc-Andre Fleury‘s mondo goof-up in Game Three, it looks like Robin Lehner will start Game Four tonight.
By Peter Hassett 3 months ago
The second-round series between the Vegas Golden Knights and Vancouver Canucks does not begin until late Sunday night, but the drama begins right now. On Saturday afternoon, Marc-Andre Fleury‘s agent, Allan Walsh, shared on Twitter a photo of his client getting impaled by a sword.
The sword’s blade is inscribed with the name of Vegas coach Pete DeBoer, who had just announced that Robin Lehner would start in net for the Knights.
By Peter Hassett 1 year ago
Marc-Andre Fleury has found a second life in Las Vegas since being selected in the expansion draft in 2017. The French-Canadian goalie has won 75 of his 124 starts in Sin City. The three-time Stanley Cup champion (all with the Penguins) also led the Golden Knights to the Stanley Cup Final during their inaugural season in the NHL.
Tuesday, Fleury made perhaps the greatest save of his career against the Toronto Maple Leafs. You’ve probably seen it already, but if you haven’t, take a look.
By Ian Oland 2 years ago
During the Flames-Knights game on Wednesday night a brawl broke out after Matthew Tkachuk skated into Marc-Andre Fleury, and we almost got a goalie fight.
Marc-Andre Fleury set his stick on the ice, but and shook his blocker, while having a stare-down with David Rittich.
But Rittich toed the (blue) line, and even though he looked ready to go, he didn’t cross it.
By Brennin Weiswerda 3 years ago
Knights goalie Marc-Andre Fleury saved 23 of 26 shots he faced in Washington’s 5-3 loss to Vegas. Fleury’s in-game performance was solid but unremarkable. It was just a satisfactory game that gave MAF his 15th win of the season.
But then, in the post-game celebration, Fleury went too far. As Flower embraced Nate Schmidt, the goalie mocked Evgeny Kuznetsov’s world-famous and universally beloved bird celly.
Absolutely despicable. Unspeakably vicious. Indescribably brutal.
By Peter Hassett 3 years ago
Marc-Andre Fleury will be be in the desert for a few more years. Fleury and the Vegas Golden Knights announced Friday a new three-year contract that will kick in after next season, when Fleury will be 34 years old.
By Peter Hassett 3 years ago
Alex Ovechkin has become a very superstitious hockey player during this year’s playoff run. From moving bar stools to a certain place, eating heavy Italian food, or screaming at TJ Oshie, Ovechkin has a very specific set of routines he must complete so that his world is aligned and his luck earned. But the Vegas Golden Knights have tried to get in his head.
Ahead of Game Three of the Stanley Cup Final, Golden Knights forward Jonathan Marchessault trolled Ovi with a hot lap at Capital One Arena. During Game Two, Marc-Andre Fleury squirted Gatorade over Ovechkin’s spot on the ice, mocking his superstition.
Ovechkin got MAF back, however, Thursday night in Vegas.
Alex Ovechkin has a long list of superstitions and pregame routines. From chest bumps, high fives, cup checks, and screaming at TJ Oshie, Ovi’s becoming rookie year Karl Alzner in front of our eyes.
Wednesday, while on the ice for warmups ahead of Game Two, Ovechkin squirted a bottle of gatorade on the ice around the bench. He does this before both home and away games, and Marc-Andre Fleury took special notice to this last night.
By Cara Bahniuk 3 years ago
The Caps got a lead early in the third. How, you ask, implicitly, by reading this article, and here is your answer:
A Marc-Andre Fleury own goal!
