Fleury excited to play for Wild fans

Photo by Chris Tanouye/NHLI via Getty ImagesLess than 48 hours before Marc-Andre Fleury was traded to the Minnesota Wild during a hectic NHL Trade Deadline, he was sitting on the visitors’ bench at the Xcel Energy Center, taking the atmosphere in while he was still a member of the Chicago Blackhawks.

This visit and game — where the Wild beat his now former team by a score of 3-1 — ended up being a massive influence on whether or not the future Hall-of-Fame goaltender would give Chicago the thumbs up and approve any sort of trade to the Wild.

“I knew it could be a possibility,” Fleury said when asked whether he knew a trade was coming while he was in St. Paul on Saturday, “but obviously it was…