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

[Ryder71]

Perfectly balanced. As all things should be.

Thanks for the wisdom Thanos

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Pens got everyone important re-signed. Damn, good for them, sucks for other Metro teams.

 

[orby]

they gotta retool the bottom-6, too.

I hope Zohorna and DOC develop into truly legit players. That would go a long way.

 

[IcedCapp]

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You nailed it for sure

But on some level, the narrative has been there this entire off-season, and frankly the fact that Yohe / Rossi weren't pushing it the entire time (that Sid was going to make this happen) should show everyone how far out of the loop they are in Pittsburgh. At this point, their (Sid and Geno's) relationship/closeness shouldn't be a secret, but the locals keep missing it.

 

[Andy99]

So basically Letang, Malkin, Rust & Rakell are all coming back at a combined lower cap hit than they had last season? Just doing the math in my head.

A little less, maybe $1 -2 M…Geno took $3M cut, Letang $1 M but Rust and Rakell combined got nearly $3 M increase

 

[Ryder71]

You were right

Now comes the interesting part. Looking forward to seeing what happens tomorrow.

 

[SomeDude]

Rossi, Madden and Yohe tweets or articles should be banned on sight, accompanied by a default 24hr thread ban to the offending party.

the 24 hour ban may be exchanged for a public shame walk down Blvd of the Allies.

 

[Pens x]

I wish I had a dose of your hopium.............I just don't see it.

Jake - Sid - Rust
Geno Rakell and ???? looks a lot better than last year

Dump Zucker and or Pettersson, sign someone for line two and we are good.

 

[dogthateats]

I want to see some cheap you g blood on the 4th line anyways DOC/Zoho/Big Puusy etc

 

[Pancakes]

All excitement aside; If you'd have told me 6 months ago that the total price for Geno and Letang sticking around was $12.2 million AAV, I'd have laughed in your face. Thought for sure Geno was getting something like $7.5 million AAV and Letang would get something between $8-9 million AAV.

They could have. Or at least, I'm sure Letang could have. Malkin, maybe, especially if he didn't care to go to a weaker team.

Hextall did a really good job getting these guys signed to these deals. Yes they're signed for too long, but who gives a shit? We will be bad in 3-4 years as they age out. Getting them to lower aavs now was what needed to be done to maximize the brief window we have left, and Hextall did that.

 

[PensPlz]

As someone who doesn't like change, I for one welcome the familiarity of this lineup.

 

[TKalltheTime]

 

[Coastal Kev]

Now comes the interesting part. Looking forward to seeing what happens tomorrow.

think brock mcginn....... if you're hoping for something more, Hex will point to GENO>>>>>>>>GENO>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>GENO

 

[IcedCapp]

fwiw, if you're still wanting roster improvements, i think there's an inherent promise from the FO to make moves and improve the roster after .... getting Letang and Malkin to leave money on the table

 

[Genetic]

Imo if we're going to get passed the first round we need to put Jake with Geno and Rak with Sid. Unless we get trochek....

 

[Empoleon8771]

Malkin is 100000000000% not playing that 4th year

 

[Pittsburgh1776]

 

[ChaosAgent]

They could have. Or at least, I'm sure Letang could have. Malkin, maybe, especially if he didn't care to go to a weaker team.

Hextall did a really good job getting these guys signed to these deals. Yes they're signed for too long, but who gives a shit? We will be bad in 3-4 years as they age out. Getting them to lower aavs now was what needed to be done to maximize the brief window we have left, and Hextall did that.

I think teams are also giving term in anticipation of the cap going up. Look at the Nuke contract.

Teams are kinda coming out of austerity and are feeling spendy again. $6.1 probably sucks in 3 years but it may only be 7% of the cap and not 8%.

 

[dogthateats]

 

[SomeDude]

 

[Ragamuffin Gunner]

Very glad he signed and for a great cap hit. I just really he didn't drag it out in the media like he did. felt too much like Jagr before he was traded.

 

[Pittsburgh1776]

Malkin is 100000000000% not playing that 4th year

I think it's a wild card and will depend on how he feels but that's a solid structure for this deal.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

Malkin is 100000000000% not playing that 4th year

It *was* a structure thing, I'm sure of it now.

Dude has zero intention of playing the 4th year, much like I'm sure Letang has zero intention of playing in year 6, maybe even 5.

 

[Andy99]

So Andy what is your thoughts now? Feel any better?

everything is right in the world now…excuse me while I ball my eyes out…

 

[Lustaf]

my opinion of Geno would have truly soured if he left, simply because, to me, it would have meant he / his camp did a LOT of lying over the last couple of weeks, and I simply didn't believe that to be the case. He can get emotional in the moment, but in the end, his camp made it clear he wanted to stay. Once Hextall moved to 4 years, it made no sense to me why this would deteriorate.

Heck, his wife did an interview two years ago talking about how she kinda wished he would go elsewhere and be the #1c but knew this was his home and he would never leave.

So it seems anyone truly close to Geno knew he always wanted to stay.

Frankly his character should stop being questioned, but sadly I doubt it will.