- Marc-Andre Fleury goes into the Penguins Hall of Fame unanimously in his first year of eligibility
- Larry Murphy, Jim Rutherford and Jack McGregor round out the Class of 2026
- Read below for the full class, the ceremony date and who is left for next year
Marc-Andre Fleury is going into the Penguins Hall of Fame, and the voting committee did not need a second ballot to sort it out.
Pittsburgh named Fleury, Larry Murphy, Jim Rutherford and Jack McGregor to its Hall of Fame Class of 2026 on Thursday. Fleury was a unanimous pick in his first year of eligibility, making him the first player from the post-lockout era to get in.
Fleury spent 13 seasons in Pittsburgh after the Penguins took him first overall in 2003. Three Stanley Cups came out of that run, starting in 2009 with his last-second stop on Nicklas Lidstrom to close out Game 7 in Detroit.
He owns the franchise numbers that matter for a goalie. Fleury leads all Penguins netminders in games played (691), wins (375), shutouts (44) and goals-against average (2.58), plus playoff games (115), playoff wins (62) and playoff shutouts (10).
Eight of his seasons in black and gold ended with 30 or more wins. Two of them cleared 40.
The shot in our post above is the version of Fleury that Pittsburgh kept for itself, stick raised to a full PPG Paints Arena building that never stopped chanting his name. November 14 should look a lot like that.
Murphy gets in on a five-year stint that produced back-to-back Cups in 1991 and 1992. He dressed for 410 of a possible 421 games as a Penguin, and his plus-102 still leads every defenseman in franchise history.
Only Mario Lemieux scored more than Murphy’s 13 points across those two Stanley Cup Finals.
Rutherford ran the front office from June 2014 to January 2021. Phil Kessel, Patric Hornqvist, Nick Bonino, Trevor Daley, Carl Hagelin and Justin Schultz were all his additions, and the 2016 and 2017 titles made Pittsburgh the first team to go back-to-back in the salary cap era.
McGregor is honored posthumously in the contributor category. He served as team president from 1967 to 1970 and was the driving force behind bringing an NHL franchise to Pittsburgh in the first place. He died on January 6 of this year.
- Marc-Andre Fleury – Player category
- Larry Murphy – Player category
- Jim Rutherford – Builder category
- Jack McGregor – Contributor category
This is group two of a three-year relaunch the Penguins kicked off last summer after leaving the hall untouched since 2013. Tom Barrasso, Jaromir Jagr, Chris Kunitz and Ray Shero are the four still waiting, and they go in next year.
An on-ice ceremony for the Class of 2026 comes before the November 14 home game against the Ottawa Senators, and a permanent Hall of Fame space is going up on the main concourse at PPG Paints Arena. It lands in the middle of a season that already has Sidney Crosby’s next contract hanging over it.
