Marc-Andre Fleury on verge of 500 career wins

Marc-Andre Fleury is nearing a large milestone.

The erstwhile Golden Knights goaltender is poised to go the 3rd goaltender successful NHL past to scope 500 vocation victories pursuing Chicago’s 3-2 triumph implicit the New York Islanders connected Sunday.

Fleury earned his 499th triumph by stopping each 3 attempts successful the shootout and is acceptable to articulation Martin Brodeur (691) and Patrick Roy (551) arsenic the lone goalies to scope 500 wins. He is 499-285-82 successful his 18 seasons with the Penguins, Knights and Blackhawks.

Chicago hosts the New York Rangers, led by erstwhile Knights manager Gerard Gallant, connected Tuesday.

Fleury’s adjacent quality volition beryllium his 900th successful the NHL, and helium is connected gait to deed the 500-win people faster than some Brodeur (500-273-120 successful 908 GP) and Roy (500-287-114 successful 933 GP), according to NHL nationalist relations.

Fleury won the Vezina Trophy arsenic the league’s apical goaltender past season, solidifying his Hall of Fame resume, and was the look of the franchise during his 4 seasons with the Knights.

He went 117-60-14 successful 192 appearances with the Knights, starring the enlargement nine to the Stanley Cup Final successful its inaugural play portion uniting a metropolis inactive reeling from the Oct. 1, 2017, wide shooting connected the Strip.

But with wage headdress abstraction choky and the Knights committed to Robin Lehner arsenic their semipermanent No. 1 goaltender, Fleury was traded to the Blackhawks connected July 27 successful speech for insignificant league guardant Mikael Hakkarainen, whose declaration was aboriginal terminated.

After a hard start, Fleury has won six of his past 8 decisions and owns a 1.71 goals-against mean and .944 prevention percent since Nov. 8.

Overall, helium is 7-9 with a 2.82 GAA and .913 prevention percentage.

“Marc-Andre, large crippled again. Especially the shootouts, he’s doing a tremendous job,” Blackhawks manager Derek King said Sunday.

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