How Many Stanley Cups Has Marc Andre Fleury Won

Marc-Andre Fleury will play for the 2018 Stanley Cup. And this time he volition exercise and then on the ice, non from the demote. The Vegas Golden Knights magical run fueled by the perpetually smile goaltender Fleury connected to the Stanley Cup Final, Sunday when the Gilded Knights shell the Winnipeg Jets in the Western Conference Final. The Aureate Knights not only won the Western Conference Last, but they also did it in merely five games over the powerful Jets.

Fleury stopped 31 of 32 shots. Fleury didn't outright steal the series, merely he did have more than from the Jets than one-armed bandits take from grandma's fanny pack on a weekend in Vegas.

Winnipeg pressed and attacked, throughout the series. And information technology was Fleury who barricaded the net.

To add a little more common salt to Pittsburgh Penguins fans wounds, Ryan Reaves scored the game-winning goal. The Penguins sent Reaves to Vegas in a three-mode bargain at the trade deadline in exchange for the Gold Knights picking upwards role of Penguins conquering Derick Brassard'south salary. Reaves is as well from Winnipeg.

Fleury has been a constant highlight reel with Vegas. Beyond his diving saves on Jets center Mark Scheifele in Game 3, Fleury was defenseless giving Jets forward Blake Wheeler a "wet willy." And, days after the Olympics, Fleury created endless replays and laughter when he imitated Crimper sweepers to guide the puck into the trapezoid.

Did Marc-Andre Fleury merely try to sweep a hockey puck similar a curling stone in the centre of a game?! pic.twitter.com/Pwf2F51QcZ

— Mike McIntyre (@mikemcintyrewpg) Feb 27, 2018

It'due south been a storybook year for Vegas and Fleury, which volition continue to the final stage.

One year ago, Marc-Andre Fleury was the sentimental story with the Penguins. "The Blossom" was the Penguins best player in their Round 2 win over the Washington Capitals simply was replaced in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Terminal past head coach Mike Sullivan with Matt Murray. Fleury never again played for the Penguins, the team which traded up in the 2003 NHL Draft to select him first overall.

Murray carried the Penguins through the remainder of the Eastern Conference Final and Stanley Cup Concluding.

Unlike 2016 when he started simply one of the Penguins playoff games, last season Fleury took a generous skate with the Stanley Loving cup. He felt like he earned information technology. He told Pittsburgh Hockey Now that he "tried to focus on the outset three rounds" when he skated with the Cup.

Fleury stood in the tunnel before exiting the ice to join the Penguins locker room celebration. He listened to the several hundred Penguins fans who remained at the Bridgestone Loonshit in Nashville dirge his name. In the bitter-sugariness duality of that moment, Fleury knew what only a few others knew; he was on his way to Las Vegas in the Expansion Draft. And so he paused, soaking the last moments of his thirteen-year Penguins career.

At present, Fleury will again play for the Stanley Cup. This time, there will be no young franchise goalie to take away Fleury's cyberspace. At that place will non be obstacles other than the opponent to hoist the Stanley Cup. This time a Stanley Loving cup victory would be with full knowledge and pride it was his team which won.

Fleury is far and away now the Conn Smythe favorite. Win or lose, Fleury may hoist the playoff MVP trophy.

Fleury is one of five former Penguins on the Golden Knights roster. In addition to Fleury and Reaves, James Neal, David Perron, and Deryk Engelland. Engelland is a Las Vegas resident who gave the emotional speech communication on opening dark to honor kickoff responders and victims just days after the Las Vegas mass shooting.

Engelland not merely touched the Clarence Campbell Trophy, just he also grabbed information technology and skated with it, which broke long-standing tradition to avoid touching the trophy. The Penguins as well broke tradition and touched their conference trophy in each of the by two years. Mayhap that was another Fleury contribution to Vegas.

There is certainly no shortage of Fleury contributions. Four more wins and he will walk with Vegas forever.