from Chris Johnston of Sportsnet,

“We have a lot of respect for both of our goalies,” Rutherford said Tuesday. “Murray came in and took us to the Cup through the playoffs, (third-stringer Jeff) Zatkoff played a key game early on against the Rangers and Fleury got us there. I mean we didn’t play that well the first two months and without him we’re not even in the playoffs.

“All of our goalies contributed, Fleury’s a franchise goalie. You don’t find any better team guy or any better guy than him.”

With an expansion draft looming next June, there has been speculation that Fleury will be moved at some point this summer. Teams will only be able to protect one goaltender in that process and Fleury would be the guy in Pittsburgh because of a no-movement clause in his contract.

Of course, that would leave the 22-year-old Murray unprotected for the Las Vegas team – something Rutherford obviously won’t let happen....

“I want to see what the guidelines are for expansion – of course that changes the dynamic for every team,” he said. “We might have to make a decision at some point. I’m not aggressively doing anything. But if we start the season with both of those guys we’ll certainly have our goaltending covered.”

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