Blackhawks Trade for Vezina-Winning Marc-Andre Fleury

Marc-Andre Fleury #29, Vegas Golden Knights (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

One of the areas that had not been addressed on the Blackhawks roster was their goaltending situation. That no longer appears to be the case, as reports show the ‘Hawks have acquired reigning Vezina Trophy-winning goalie Marc-Andre Fleury in a trade with the Vegas Golden Knights for AHL F Mikael Hakkarainen.

The Blackhawks have been rumored to be in on just about every goalie that was available via trade or free agency at one point or another, but their interest in Fleury goes back to last offseason. Vegas was considering moving on from him, since they did not want to have $12M in salary cap invested in their…