Cheers Raising as Penguins Trade: Malkin Heading West
Malkin has spent his whole career with Pittsburgh.
Penguins' Evgeni Malkin contract update tells Pittsburgh fans 'don't worry' originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Pittsburgh Penguins fans surely don't want to see Evgeni Malkin go anywhere.
That would've been true no matter what, but given the positive season that an aging Penguins team is having, there's likely even more sentimentality for an all-time great who has spent his entire career in Pittsburgh. Malkin is heading toward a pivot point late in his career, though. At the end of this season, his contract is up.
He's been asked about potential extension talks throughout this season, and it has mostly sounded like nothing is going on that front. He has also expressed, though, that he doesn't want to go anywhere. So it sounds more like the Penguins' front office, led by GM Kyle Dubas, has to get things in order to keep Malkin around going forward.
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