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Pittsburgh Penguins’ Sidney
Crosby hoists the Stanley Cup
while riding in the Stanley Cup
victory parade in Pittsburgh,
Wednesday, June 14, 2017.
Associated Press
Penguins’ bid

for 3-peat
likely won’t

include Fleury

By WILL GRAVES
AP Sports Writer
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Marc-
Andre Fleury knew this day Fowler sets
was coming, though the
winningest goaltender in
Pittsburgh Penguins history pace with
did his best to push the
idea of his inevitable de-
parture to the back of his brilliant 65 at
mind. No need to become
a distraction with a shot at
history on the line.
It was only in the aftermath U.S. Open
of Pittsburgh’s second
straight Stanley Cup cham-
pionship that he helped
author by playing brilliantly
at times during playoff se-
ries wins over Columbus
and Washington that Fleu-
ry let the finality set in.
His eyes moistened as he
spoke on Thursday while
he and the rest of his team-
mates packed up for the
summer following a giddy
downtown parade a day
earlier. When the Penguins
return to work in Septem-
ber, they’ll try to become
the first team in more than
30 years to “threepeat.”
Fleury will almost certainly
have to watch from afar, Xander Schauffele makes a putt
probably in Las Vegas as a on the seventh hole during the first
round of the U.S. Open golf tourna-
member of the expansion ment Thursday, June 15, 2017, at
Golden Knights, as heir ap- Erin Hills in Erin, Wis.
parent Matt Murray minds Associated Press
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