{"id":366362,"date":"2025-12-23T09:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T09:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/366362\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T09:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T09:15:08","slug":"teams-have-checked-with-marc-andre-fleury-to-gauge-interest-in-returning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/366362\/","title":{"rendered":"Teams have checked with Marc-Andre Fleury to gauge interest in returning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun reports that teams have been checking in with goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/marc-andre-fleury\/8470594\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/marc-andre-fleury\/8470594\" target=\"_blank\">Marc-Andre Fleury<\/a> to gauge whether he would consider returning to the NHL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cProbably not surprising but hearing that some teams have checked in on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/marc-andre-fleury\/8470594\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/marc-andre-fleury\/8470594\" target=\"_blank\">Marc-Andre Fleury<\/a> to see if there\u2019s any chance at all he would consider playing again,\u201d LeBrun posted on X. \u201dAgain, not surprised teams with goalie needs would want to check on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Probably not surprising but hearing that some teams have checked in on Marc-Andre Fleury to see if there\u2019s any chance at all he would consider playing again. Again not surprised teams with goalie needs would want to check on it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierreVLeBrun\/status\/2003306573062717477?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 23, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fleury, 41, retired following the 2024-25 season, where he played 26 games for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/minnesota-wild\/30\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/minnesota-wild\/30\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Wild<\/a>, and recorded a 14-9-1 record with an .899 save percentage and 2.93 goals-against average.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Sorel, Que., native played 21 seasons in the NHL after being selected first overall in the 2003 NHL Draft by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 1,051 games (886 starts) with the Penguins, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vegas-golden-knights\/54\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vegas-golden-knights\/54\" target=\"_blank\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a>, and Wild, Fleury posted a 575-339-97 record, a 2.60 GAA, and a .912 save percentage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fleury won the Stanley Cup three times with the Penguins in the 2008-09, 2015-16, and 2016-17 seasons. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He won his first and only Vezina Trophy as a member of the Golden Knights in 2020-21 when he recorded a 1.98 GAA and .928 save percentage in 36 games during the shortened season.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun reports that teams have been checking in with goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury to gauge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[16159,64,63,198876,575,85],"class_list":["post-366362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-marc-andre-fleury-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8470594","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}