{"id":495464,"date":"2025-09-15T04:48:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T08:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495464"},"modified":"2025-09-15T04:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T08:49:01","slug":"marc-andre-fleury-explains-why-he-decided-to-sign-one-game-deal-with-penguins","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/marc-andre-fleury-explains-why-he-decided-to-sign-one-game-deal-with-penguins\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc-Andre Fleury explains why he decided to sign one-game deal with Penguins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Wild elimination from the playoffs by the Vegas Golden Knights in May was considered by many to be the final game of Marc-Andre Fleury\u2019s legendary career.<\/p>\n<p>After more than two decades in the NHL and over 1,000 games played, the 40-year-old goaltender did indeed announce his retirement following the 2024-25 season.<\/p>\n<p>But fans in Pittsburgh will get to see him in black and gold one last time. <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/penguins-will-honor-marc-andre-fleury-with-one-game-return-in-preseason\/\">The Penguins announced that Fleury has signed a professional tryout contract<\/a> with the team, allowing him to take the ice again in a preseason matchup against Columbus.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Marc-Andre Fleury has signed a PTO with the Penguins, and will play a home preseason game on September 27.<\/p>\n<p>One final dance in Pittsburgh for Flower \ud83e\udd79 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1pOWPHaAyc\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/1pOWPHaAyc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 B\/R Open Ice (@BR_OpenIce) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BR_OpenIce\/status\/1966521022951113162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to NHL.com, Fleury explained his decision and why it mattered to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t like to say that I\u2019m retiring as a member of the Pittsburgh Penguins,\u201d Fleury said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to disrespect the Minnesota Wild. I played my last game with them, I signed my last contract with them. They did a lot for me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to go back where it all began. I see it as a wink to my past. I\u2019ll wear the Penguins jersey one last time and I\u2019ll see some old teammates and friends again. It\u2019s a way to come full circle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Wild elimination from the playoffs by the Vegas Golden Knights in May was considered by many to be the final game of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":495465,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[26790,17844,16949],"news_category":[16709,16715],"gn_keywords":[26791,17847,6811],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"\u201cI wanted to go back where it all began\", the legendary goalie of Pittsburgh said","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495464"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495468,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495464\/revisions\/495468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495464"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495464"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}