Evgeni Malkin made some interesting comments to rg.org. “No (which we saw via SI for full but rare internet disclosure). Sidney Crosby could have signed his next contract over four weeks ago, but Malkin isn’t worried about it.
“Pittsburgh is Crosby. Crosby is Pittsburgh. No one in Pittsburgh would understand if he changed teams,” Malkin said in an exclusive interview with RG.org. “Although anything can happen, sometimes things happen that have a one percent chance of happening. But before signing my current contract, we talked. And he told me that the Penguins are us: me, him, [Kris] Letang.