The 2017–18 Pittsburgh Penguins season will be the 51st season for the National Hockey League ice hockey team, it will be the first season since the 2002–03 season in which the team will play without goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury, who was drafted to the Vegas Golden Knights during which expansion draft conducted by the National Hockey League on June 18–20, 2017 to fill the roster of the league's expansion team for the 2017–18 season, the Vegas Golden Knights.?