Fleury signed a four-year, $23 million extension with the Penguins on Wednesday. While he hasn't quite emerged as the perennial Vezina Trophy contender that the Penguins had hoped for when they selected him No. 1 overall in 2003, Fleury has safely been one of the league's better goalies over the past several seasons. With no obvious long-term goalie solution in their minor league or junior ranks and with Fleury likely representing the top netminder on the free agency market next summer, the Pens decided to re-sign the 29-year-old before his price escalated on the open market. Fleury's magnificent play to begin the season (7-2-0, 1.89 GAA and .931 save percentage in nine games) likely motivated the Penguins to speed up the negotiations and lock him in on a new deal.