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

[Zirakzigil]

Off season time. New thread time apparently cause @Ugene Magic doesn’t like high page counts.

So how about them Malkin and Letang UFAs? Maybe we should sign one or both.

Geno thread. Keep Geno talk here:

Rumor: - Geno where art thou?

With all the Geno rumors and news, time for its own thread. Keep the Geno talk here please.

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[The Grim Reaper]

Madden is a clown but I feel like he called the "Malkin is going to turn down a 4 year deal" over the weekend.

Madden has always hated Geno. Not a surprise he’s still trying to paint him as Darth Malkin.

 

[Empoleon8771]

Malkin's not going to take a four year deal below 6M and he shouldn't. Madden's takes were absolute shit, including his post that Malkin is a 'bullshit artist'. Seems personal and very unnecessary.

And it sounds like Malkin's not going to take a 4 year deal at $6 million either, considering Seravalli seems to suggest that was the Penguins most recent offer.

 

[Big Friggin Dummy]

Madden has been running Geno out of town for a decade. He would have always been calling the next step. He has no idea whats going on.

I think it's a bit of column A, a bit of column B, to be honest. Madden's a shock jock who makes a living off of posting shit people will engage with one way or another. That post is wishful thinking on Madden's part, but I do think there's probably a decent amount of truth behind it.

Anyone who ever thought Geno was gonna take a huge paycut needs to realize he's been making $10 million a year for the past 8 years. Dude was never not about money.

 

[Dick Sledge]

I am not a happy camper with this news.

 

[ColePens]

Madden is a clown but I feel like he called the "Malkin is going to turn down a 4 year deal" over the weekend.

Madden is hilarious. Geno has been the most consistent guy in terms of words. Everyone always swears he's going elsewhere. Dude has been nothing but loyal.

 

[TimmyD]

Madden is a clown but I feel like he called the "Malkin is going to turn down a 4 year deal" over the weekend.

Assuming the 4 year deal (IF it was actually offered) was for $6 million. Something tells me they went to 4 years $5 million

 

[Darren McCord]

And it sounds like Malkin's not going to take a 4 year deal at $6 million either, considering Seravalli seems to suggest that was the Penguins most recent offer.

Servalli never said that. He said a four year deal was on the table the guess the penguins would try for Letangs number or more.

He never said AAV

 

[Turin]

This is the risk of trying to squeeze every dollar. If Malkin does go to the open market, his price will jump. Even if the offers are from the likes of Detroit and Buffalo, it'll increase the AAV.

I just don't believe that any of the existing free agents provide the offense that Malkin does ar the price he should have been coming in at.

If Hextall had offered $7 million over 3 years to start, we wouldn't be here. Or even if they had jumped to $6 million over 4 or something along those lines.

I have a sneaking suspicion they offered $5 or $5.5 million over four years and Geno said no. And frankly, I don't blame him.

Malkin already knows what the offers out there are. There’s no new info to be had on July 13th. This is a last minute charade or goodbye.

 

[Zbynek]

Hextall botched this shit

 

[OnMyOwn]

Welp...maybe he just wants to counter the Pens with an offer(s) he will get from other clubs? It's just weird timing with him being 36 f***ing years old.

 

[TimmyD]

I can’t wait for Vince Trochecks homecoming party. 6 years $5.5 million is my guess

 

[Pittsburgh1776]

If Hextall finally caved to Malkin and offered him what he wanted and Malkin still said he was going to test UFA because he's mad it took that long to get that offered, I'm going to lose a ton of respect for Malkin.

There is zero chance Hextall offered 4x6. More like 4x5. Malkin shouldn't accept that.

 

[KareemTrustfund]

Servalli never said that. He said a four year deal was on the table the guess the penguins would try for Letangs number or more.

He never said AAV

Not sure where people are making this assumption that he was offered the 4x6. It wasn’t reported once.

 

[wheelz87]

So overpay for kadri, pay for a **** replacement in trocheck, or sign your legend?

good call Ron.

 

[Empoleon8771]

Servalli never said that. He said a four year deal was on the table the guess the penguins would try for Letangs number or more.

He never said AAV

Which means they were targeting 4 years at about $6.1 million a year.

 

[ChaosAgent]

I'll miss you big guy.

I still remember that family trip frantically checking the internet as you disappeared in Finland.
I remember the Brodeur goal
The Sid high ankle sprain when you lit it up and made it known you were a co-equal. The Ovechkin game. I was making alumni donation calls in 2009 and crying like a baby because sales sucks (I admire the crap out of sales people), but seeing you on the box score with two huge goals made it better.
2011-2012 when you ran roughshod through the league
Your hatty against the Rags in the playoffs in 2014. Including that sick rebound turnaround goal.
Your great play in the cup runs
Your run with HGH
Defending you incessantly when Kessel went full parasite on us
Your subsequent confirmation of greatness with GMR

Legend and your jersey belongs in the rafters soon. Good luck.

 

[Anya6687]

Malkin at 35,36,37 or 38 was not going to win us a cup in the next 3-4 years...can we please get younger...and if you insist on blaming someone..how about his agent and his wife

 

[DesertedPenguin]

And it sounds like Malkin's not going to take a 4 year deal at $6 million either, considering Seravalli seems to suggest that was the Penguins most recent offer.

Seravalli didn't say what the AAV was, though, just what he thought it would end up at. We don't know what they actually offered.

 

[blondu]

Hextall botched this shit

No. Malkin doesnt deserve 8 mils for 6 years. Or 7. Or even 6 lets be honest.

 

[Darren McCord]

Not sure where people are making this assumption that he was offered the 4x6. It wasn’t reported once.

Exactly. There was a rumor of a four year offer but never with an AAV

 

[MeinerEiner]

Real sources are confirming

If the Dog says it's true, so be it!

 

[Dominance]

Say report is accurate— you’re risking Sid saying f*** this shit one day too

So what? Once again, Malkin is incapable of staying healthy and not close to what he once was when he even is on the ice, and he’s only going to decline further once the wheels really fall off. 80 games of Trocheck and Rakell is far better than 40 games of Malkin and an anchor contract.

Anyways, if shit goes sideways then we trade Sid to somewhere where we can watch him have a real shot at another cup, while jump-starting our rebuild. 90% of you want to clutch on to Malkin and Sid until they’re 45, running the team down into the dirt into the process, for no reason other than puppy-like attachment.

 

[TimmyD]

And it sounds like Malkin's not going to take a 4 year deal at $6 million either, considering Seravalli seems to suggest that was the Penguins most recent offer.

No his most recent report was just that they upped the offer to 4 years. He never mentioned the AAV that they offered him

 

[Pittsburgh1776]

And it sounds like Malkin's not going to take a 4 year deal at $6 million either, considering Seravalli seems to suggest that was the Penguins most recent offer.

Where does he suggest that? Zero chance Hextall caved IMO. No way. He went below six and Malkin said f*** you.

 

[Darren McCord]

Which means they were targeting 4 years at about $6.1 million a year.

No thats what Servalli suggested. He never said thats what the org said. He said I think.