The Pittsburgh Penguins named Marc-Andre Fleury, Larry Murphy, Jim Rutherford and Jack McGregor to the Penguins Hall of Fame Class of 2026, setting up an on-ice ceremony before the home game on Saturday, November 14 against the Ottawa Senators.
For Fleury, the selection carries a distinction that fits the scale of his Penguins run. He spent 13 seasons with the team, helped it win three Stanley Cups in 2009, 2016 and 2017, and became the first player from the post-lockout era to enter the Hall of Fame after a unanimous vote in his first year of eligibility. His last-second stop in Game 7 against the Detroit Red Wings in 2009 remains one of the defining moments of that stretch, and his numbers back up the case: he leads the franchise in regular-season games played, wins, goals-against average and shutouts, and also tops the playoff record book in games played, wins and shutouts.
The class also gives Larry Murphy the spotlight he often shared with louder names. Murphy enters in the Player Category after appearing in 410 of 421 games as a Penguin, posting a plus-102 that still leads all Pittsburgh defensemen, and stacking up points in eight of 10 Stanley Cup Final games during the back-to-back championships in 1991 and 1992. His 13 points in those series trailed only Mario Lemeiux, a reminder that his value was not always reflected in the headlines, even as he was twice named to the NHL Second All-Star Team, led Penguins blueliners in scoring four times and wore an alternate captain’s mark in the 1992-93 season.
Jim Rutherford joins the Hall in the Builder Category after a run that reshaped the roster and delivered results. He served as Executive Vice President and General Manager from June 2014 to January 2021, won the NHL General Manager of the Year award in 2016 and put together the core that helped Pittsburgh win in 2016 and then again in 2017, ending a title drought that had stretched back to 1992 and doing it in the Salary Cap Era. The team’s 276 wins under Rutherford also trail only Craig Patrick and Ray Shero in franchise history among general managers, which is why his case went beyond one trophy or one transaction and into the full span of the job.
Jack McGregor was selected to the Contributor Category, completing a class that the Penguins said will be honored together on November 14. The club also said special programming with the Class of 2026 will be announced in the coming weeks, leaving one practical question for fans: how the organization plans to turn the ceremony into more than a pregame moment for a group that spans a goalie, a defenseman, an executive and a contributor. For now, the announcement fixes the roster of this year’s Hall of Fame class and puts Fleury, in particular, back at the center of a story he helped write for more than a decade.
