Report: Flames contact Penguins about Fleury
The Calgary Flames are reportedly looking into the availability of a certain Stanley Cup-winning goaltender.
Flames general manager Brad Treliving has been in contact with Pittsburgh Penguins GM Jim Rutherford about Marc-Andre Fleury, reports Eric Francis of the Calgary Sun.
Matt Murray supplanted Fleury as the starter in the playoffs and led Pittsburgh to its fourth title Sunday.
Fleury's cap hit is $5.75 million for each of the next three seasons after signing a four-year, $23-million extension in the fall of 2014.
Murray's on the books for $620,000 before potentially becoming a restricted free agent next summer.
The Penguins are about $2.4 million over the cap ceiling, according to General Fanager.
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Fleury went 35-17-6 with a 2.29 GAA and .921 save percentage in the regular season. Murray played 13 regular-season games down the stretch, going 9-2-1 with a 2.00 GAA and .930 GAA.
Murray is younger and cheaper, but Fleury has plenty of experience. The veteran won his first championship with the Penguins in 2009, and the two-time All-Star has 357 wins in 653 career games.
Rutherford said Thursday that "in a perfect world," he'd love to keep both Fleury and Murray, according to DKPittsburghSports.com's Josh Yohe.
Given the Penguins' cap situation, that utopian scenario seems somewhat unrealistic.