Confirmed with Link: Malkin re-signs to a 4 year, $6.1 million AAV deal (Eklund called it, start singing his praises)

[molon labe]

Deal everyone can be happy about, right?

Geno gets his 20 years with the Pens. The trio lives on. Us fans hopefully get to witness some huge upcoming milestones for the 101st best player ever.....

...and it's at a cap hit that won't keep us from being competitive. Awesome. On one hand I can't wait for the story/details....on another I just want it buried in a closet with the JFK files.

 

[SEALBound]

Beauty of a contract!

Thank you Geno!!!

 

[Pittsburgh1776]

The argument of does the core have 1 more cup in them is for a different day.

87, 71 and 58 retire as Penguins. From a fan of the game, I am very proud of this moment. Pretty cool stuff.

Yeah. It's never been done in the history of the game, not for this long. There will be plenty of time to complain later on but we have some very good players locked in now, need some more pieces in place to give us the best shot over the next couple years.

 

[Coastal Kev]

Hilarious...........all of the experts and I called this 2 days ago.


Can't wait to hear how the team is better with all of these signings..............never get one response.

 

[Beauner]

6 mill for 40 games a season

6 mil for a legend with 3 cups and a conn smythe baybeeeee

 

[Ginormousthumbs]

I was really hoping to catch a jersey on discount.

 

[Jacob]

Was never even worried.

 

[Turin]

they legit have to move salary now though

Yea there’s only 4 mill left. Wonder if they move Dumoulin if nobody bites on Pettersson. PK would take a big hit

 

[IcedCapp]

Can go 10% over the cap during the offseason, right?

yes, but here's the issue:

Hextall has been reluctant to move a player at a loss. IE: he doesn't want to do a trade like 'MP and a pick for nothing." He believes that MP has value. I don't believe he wants to move Zucker because he understands he would likely be a negative value trade, not because of the player, but the contract and injuries.

If they take on salary and break the threshold, he'll have no leverage in trying to move MP

 

[Invalid cuz QoC]

Emp we all love you. But no more hot takes for 24 hrs. After that let loose! All is forgiven.

 

[Empoleon8771]

I think what happened is that Hextall either caved or was about to cave to Malkin's demands when Malkin cut off talks, but Crosby came in and smoothed things over and got Malkin back to the negotiating table. Then some apologies were shared all around and Hextall gave Malkin the contract he wanted.

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

f*** you Dreger. I win.

Post in thread 'Pens Salary Cap: Free Agency, everyone panic!!! Geno talk to the Geno thread only please'
Salary Cap: - Pens Salary Cap: Free Agency, everyone panic!!! Geno talk to the Geno thread only please

 

[Kristopher Letang]

So we have 4.2M left? Let’s trade Petts and we’re in business

 

[orby]

Glad it got done. It was the best option.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

It’s all because of that Instagram message I sent him!!

I tweeted Lebron James and asked him to look after his investment. Maybe he did

 

[Hire Sather]

6 mil for a legend with 3 cups and a conn smythe baybeeeee

I get it for you guys but didn't understand Rangers fans wanting him

 

[IcedCapp]

The argument of does the core have 1 more cup in them is for a different day.

87, 71 and 58 retire as Penguins. From a fan of the game, I am very proud of this moment. Pretty cool stuff.

yes, but not without a lot of help. Still so much re-tooling to be done, but I honestly have no problem with 3 of the 4 contracts (I would still prefer to find a Rust replacement)

 

[Ryder71]

Did someone slip Sleepy some of @Pens x 's meth?

Some of you really lost your minds over this, all you had to do is be a little bit patient. Now hopefully we can move a left-handed Defender and pick up a quality Winger to round everything out.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

yes, but here's the issue:

Hextall has been reluctant to move a player at a loss. IE: he doesn't want to do a trade like 'MP and a pick for nothing." He believes that MP has value. I don't believe he wants to move Zucker because he understands he would likely be a negative value trade, not because of the player, but the contract and injuries.

If they take on salary and break the threshold, he'll have no leverage in trying to move MP

Makes sense.

 

[ChaosAgent]

So we have 4.2M left? Let’s trade Petts and we’re in business

I think that's with Kap unsigned too.

Which of course, we should be sending him somewhere for a 3rd regardless.

...JT Miller is still out there....

 

[Kristopher Letang]

I tweeted Lebron James and asked him to look after his investment. Maybe he did

Too busy trying to dump Westbrick.

 

[Pancakes]

Guentzel-Crosby-Rust
Zucker-Malkin-Rakell

Is the best top six we've had in years. I just hope it can stay healthy.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

Too busy trying to dump Westbrick.

Lebron can multitask... or maybe he just delegated to Sid

 

[3ladesof5teel]

Someone check on @ronduguayshair

He hates Russia so bad, he definitely needs a wellness check

 

[IcedCapp]

leave it to the Pittsburgh media to turn Geno signing his lifetime contract into a story about Sid.

Sid absolutely played a huge role here, but tonight (and tomorrow) should be about celebrating Geno