When the NHL schedule was released late in June, every Golden Knights player circled the date when he would play his former team.
In Marc-Andre Fleury’s case, those dates were Dec. 14 and Feb. 6.
The Knights’ starting goaltender will keep his date Thursday when his current team faces his former team, the Pittsburgh Penguins, at T-Mobile Arena. For a while, it was uncertain whether Fleury would make it; he missed 25 games after suffering a concussion Oct. 13.
He returned to action Tuesday and played well in the Knights’ 3-2 shootout loss to Carolina. Now he’ll face Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Phil Kessel, Kris Letang, Matt Murray and the rest of the Penguins.