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Pens to announce Malkin extension CapitalistBastard !!f/pELCnjRD0
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/penguins/s_575585.html

Malkin's extension will pay him $8.7 million annually over five years starting with the 2009-10 season. The deal is a near-carbon copy of the extension signed last summer by teammate Sidney Crosby.

The significance of Malkin's extension is paramount to the Penguins' hope for keeping together a young core that consists of him, Crosby, center Jordan Staal, defenseman Ryan Whitney and goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury.

The oldest player of that group, Whitney, is 25.

Fleury, 23, is slated for an arbitration hearing no sooner than July 20. However, talks between his camp and Penguins general manager Ray Shero continue to progress concerning a long-term contract.

Crosby, already an individual scoring champion and league MVP at 20, and Malkin, an MVP finalist at 21 this past season, would play together four seasons at a combined salary-cap hit of $17.4 million from 2009-10 to 2012-13 - the final season of Crosby's deal.

The current team payroll upper limit stands at $56.7 million. It has increased each year since the NHL returned from a lockout in 2005.
>> Anonymous
>>199291
Where is Hossa and Malone?
>> Mazarin
>>199293

Robbing someone else's franchise
>> Anonymous
>>The significance of Malkin's extension is paramount to the Penguins' hope for keeping together a young core that consists of him, Crosby, center Jordan Staal, defenseman Ryan Whitney and goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury.

And making everyone else jump ship
>> CapitalistBastard !!f/pELCnjRD0
>>199293

>Where is Hossa and Malone?

Malone will be the most overpaid player in the entire league next year.

Hossa might take that title if his contract rumor is true.
>> Anonymous
>>199301
Enjoy the Stanley Cup Finals next year....oh...sorry.
>> Anonymous
>>199301
Wrong on both counts; Sundin will be
>> CapitalistBastard !!f/pELCnjRD0
>>199306

You honestly think that MALONE is a serious loss?

His BEST season is a 51 point effort.
>> Anonymous
>>199308
I believe a certain team proved that raw explosive offense dosen't win you a Cup. After this off-season, the Penguins are about to prove that a team with only one line's worth of good players can't either.
>> Anonymous
>>199323
By filling their gaps with AHLers and starting their team chemistry over from scratch.
>> CapitalistBastard !!f/pELCnjRD0
>>199324

Yeah, they have a terrible AHL team.

Oh wait, they were in the Calder Cup finals.
>> Anonymous
>>199326
Wasn't Cary Price the hottest shit in the AHL a little while back? Sure did him a load of good once he got to the only playoffs that anyone genuinely gives a shit about.
>> Anonymous
>>199326
And they choked.

JUST LIKE YOU.
>> CapitalistBastard !!f/pELCnjRD0
>>199329

Nothing of real value has been lost. A couple 4th liners and an over achieving Malone.
>> Anonymous
>>199332
And a goalie who was the deciding factor in Pittsburgh's success when MAF bit the dust.