CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — There was a time when Marc-Andre Fleury would take days like Friday for granted. Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang, too.
Days when the four players most closely associated with the Pittsburgh Penguins' run of excellence 2008-17 — an era in which they played for the Stanley Cup four times and raised it above their head in triumph three — would spend an hour competing against each other during training camp, gather for a picture afterward for whomever might stop by and think nothing of it.
Not this time. Not when it was the last time.
And it is, the second-winningest goalie in NHL history stressed, the last time.
Wearing a specially-made mask featuring various symbols of his 21-year career and the No. 29 jersey that may someday soon find itself h