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Originally Posted by Vinny01
I think there is a very good chance Fleury wants to go to Vegas. He knows he is the odd man out in Pitt 2 of his 3 rings were won with him on the bench when it mattered the most. Now he gets to have the option very few players get which is to be the part of the first ever big 4 sports franchise in Las Vegas. Fleury has won 3 cups and played on a perennial contender for 9 years. It doesn't shock me he is open to a situation where there is no pressure and he can just play hockey.
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I find the truth to be somewhere in the middle. I don't think he's extremely upset to be leaving (new opportunity to be the #1 again), but I don't think he's too happy either (leaving a winning organization and having to uproot your family). I think that being asked to move his NMC is a lot more palatable because he has had lots of success in Pittsburgh, and the writing has been on the wall for a long time so it shouldn't come as a shock. It's one of those things though that if you get the taste of winning, you don't ever want to lose that.
Who knows, he might actually try to use his NMC to any extent he can by trying to identify teams that he's willing to be traded to (in addition to Vegas) if he wants to go somewhere competitive. My gut tells me that Pitts will try to do everything in their power to get him to where he wants to go (to do right by him) given the circumstances.