Ultimate Team Guy Marc-Andre Fleury Joins The Wild's Ice Crew On His Night Off
Marc-Andre Fleury is addicted to pranks. Which, ya know, has it's pros and cons. Prank Guy is always great but he can get exhausting after a while. The last thing you want to deal with after having a brutal day is to come back to the locker room and your clothes are frozen in your stall. But Flower has been the Head Prank Master in the NHL since he's come into the league 21 seasons ago. And over those 21 years, he hasn't changed a bit.
Truthfully speaking here, I don't really see where the "prank" with this one is. Seems to me like Marc-Andre Fleury was just trying to help out his team in any way possible. He had the night off, so he needed to find another way to help out the boys. Might as well throw on a quick disguise and help clear off the ice during commercial breaks.
This is a 3x Stanley Cup Champion we're talking about here. A Vezina winner. A former 1st overall pick in the draft. Most guys of that caliber wouldn't be caught dead hopping on the ice with the ice crew. Especially not on a night off. They'd be sitting in their mansion with an absolute rocket of a wife enjoying a nice $200 bottle of wine. Flower would rather toss on a wig and a fake mustache while shoveling snow off the ice. Because he's the ultimate team guy the league has ever seen.
Team in Pittsburgh needs you to swallow your pride and be a great teammate about giving up the net for Matt Murray? Fleury is all for it. Pittsburgh wants to leave you unprotected in the expansion draft so you then become the first face of the Vegas Golden Knights? He waives his NMC and takes on that role like a beauty and gives Vegas everything he has. Face of the franchise in Vegas, leads them to a Cup Final in their first year, wins a Vezina, but Vegas still decides to give the net to Robin Lehner. Not only that, but they didn't even tell Fleury that they traded him to Chicago and he had to hear about it on Twitter. He was going to retire but he loves being with the fellas too much. So he goes to Chicago, and ultimately gets traded to Minnesota which brings us to today. 39-years-old and firing up the boys on the bench during a preseason game by skating by with the ice crew.
What a gem.