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“Teams will certainly try to bring Marc-André Fleury out of retirement”
Félix Forget
“Teams will certainly try to bring Marc-André Fleury out of retirement”
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Marc-André Fleury has been the star of the Penguins camp since yesterday. The Québécois, who is making a return to Pittsburgh(and his yellow pads), practiced with the club yesterday and today, and we'll be seeing him in action tonight.This will be his last turn on the ice, and he'll be doing so in the uniform of the team that drafted him.

But last night, Pierre LeBrun mentioned something very interesting: according to him, some teams will try to convince Fleury

of retirement in January

Obviously, then, it will be up to Flower to make the decision. The Québécois seems genuinely at peace with the idea of hanging up his pads, so you'd think he wouldn't want to…Except that his agent, Allan Walsh, added fuel to the fire yesterday by responding to LeBrun's post with two eyes. As if we need to keep an eye on all that…

Let's remember that Fleury will be 41 at the end of November. He's clearly not the goalie he was in his prime… but he wasn't finished last year either.And we know that goalies are a rare commodity in the NHL. If teams suffer injuries in front of the net, trying to bring Fleury out of retirement will become interesting.It's also important to remember that a guy like Fleury is always a big plus for a dressing room. He's always able to lighten the mood, and we saw it yesterday: he teased his teammates all day long.Whether it was making the young goalies in Pittsburgh think he wanted to steal their jobs, or sticking his number on his teammates' cars, he's able to make his teammates laugh.

So we'll see if the Québécois, who seems really comfortable with the idea of retiring, will be tempted by a (longer) final run on the Bettman circuit.Itdoesn‘t look like it's going to happen… but who knows.

'Overtime'

– Hi, Arber.

– Let's see if it pays off.

– Logical.

– How will they respond?

– Cool!

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