It is not often that NHL teams are able to acquire a Vezina trophy winner, let alone the one who just won it this season! Fleury should solidify the crease area for a Chicago team looking to make a huge leap up in the standings in 2021-22. Fleury enters the final year of his contract in search of another Stanley Cup.

The Golden Knights did well to unload all of Fleury's $7 million cap hit in this deal. All they received in return was minor-league center Hakkarainen (who was probably included in this deal so that Chicago could dump a contracted player to stay under the 50-player limit). Robin Lehner is now the clear starter.

Fleury's numbers should suffer moving from the league's top defense to an offensive-minded squad like Chicago, but he was unlikely to repeat his magical 2020-21 performance anyway. Lehner's stock improves greatly now that Fleury is in Chicago, though there will be a lot of pressure on his shoulders to duplicate what his older former partner did in '20-21.