Fleury can name 12 teams to which he can't be traded. So he *will* get traded. There is simply no doubt about it. The Pens are not going to let Matt Murray go in the expansion draft, so Fleury *will* be traded. Not necessarily now, but before protected lists are finalized.
Now, if I'm Fleury, I'm putting teams that need goalies on my list and not necessarily places I don't want to play. No point wasting a "no trade" bullet on Montreal or Tampa Bay, when there's no chance of going there. So I assume CAR is on his no-trade list. But there are 17 teams *not* on his list. Would he risk a horrible landing spot in a purely dump trade by nixing a trade to a team on the upswing in a non-terrible locale? I don't think he would.
And as for RF signing Ward then trading him, seriously? It's a business. I'm sure he didn't sign him thinking he would trade him, but stuff happens. Plus, Cam almost certainly got a two-year deal specifically so he could be exposed in the expansion draft. We all knew that as soon as it happened. So if you're Cam, do you want to spend your twilight years backing up Matt Murray on a Cup contender, or facing 60 shots a night on an expansion team?
I still don't know who would nix this one. If I'm Carolina, I'd do it. And if I'm Pittsburgh, I may even toss in a draft pick to make sure RF doesn't change his mind after hanging up (and because I'm JR and that's what I do).