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Originally Posted by icarus
All this expansion talk has me wondering, remind me again why did Pittsburgh expose Fleury in the expansion draft?
I seem to recall he was regarded at the time as the best player Vegas picked up but also for whatever reason it felt like his career was also on the decline then. As it turns out, nope!
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Matt Murray was 23 and had just posted back-to-back elite playoff performances (not to take away from MAF's 2017 playoff) whereas MAF was 32-going-on-33 and the Penguins' 1B at that point.
I think everyone and their mother, in Summer 2017, expected Murray to post a decade+ of elite starter seasons while MAF would probably decline in a few years.
Funny how it turned out the other way.