That is very revisionist. Fluery and his agent made themselves a distraction because Fleury didn't want to split time with Lehner, and the Vegas organization thus dumped Fleury on Chicago, who thought so highly of him that they more-or-less immediately dumped Fleury on Minnesota ... to the chagrin of some of the Wild fans.
Photoshopped image showed Vegas Golden Knights goalie Marc-Andre Fleury being impaled by a sword with the name of coach Peter DeBoer on blade.
www.usatoday.com
Vegas has a reputation for treating players very well while they are here: So well, in fact that it actually generated a complaint.
“It was weird... there was no accountability,” says the star forward.
www.hockeyfeed.com
Amazing how all knights fans adored fleury up until 2 days after he's traded.........interesting. Sounds a lot like fair-weather fans, but hey, that's just my opinion.
After being traded to chicago, he was contemplating retirement because he didn't want to go to chicago or play anywhere else really, most likely due to age and already accomplishing the cup multiple times. Then, chicago at some point assured him of being traded to a contender for another chance, ala Wild.
The only team that "dumped" fleury was the knights. Oh and I like that you glossed over the fact that he found out through twitter and the knights didn't even tell them...pretty good management strategy of treating players so well like it is a country club.
The Marc-Andre Fleury era in Las Vegas has come to an end. The Golden Knights traded this year’s Vezina Trophy winner to the Chicago Blackhawks for the contract of 23-year-old prospect forward Mikael…
www.knightsonice.com
It also doesn't make sense that you bring up splitting time up with Lehner was the problem...
Goalie third in NHL wins will evaluate hockey future, agent says
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Golden Knights owner Bill Foley told the Las Vegas Review-Journal the trade was strictly a financial transaction. The NHL salary cap will remain at $81.5 million next season. "I'm disappointed that this was the outcome," Foley said. "I really feel terrible about it.
Hilarious that is was "strictly a financial transaction" when they decided to give him a contract that was so absurd it made no sense when it was provided to the public at the time, given his age at start time of contract.
So who has the revisionist history now?