After re-signing Kris Letang on Thursday, the Pittsburgh Penguins have one major piece of business left for the resolution of Evgeni Malkin’s contract.
While talks and reports have been sour with the team and player’s side far apart for the negotiations to date, now that Letang is back and at a reasonable price, there could be renewed hopes for finding an agreement.
General manager Ron Hextall re-iterated on Friday the same thing that he consistently said throughout the process: that his hopes and plans are to bring Malkin back.
GM Ron Hextall on contract talks with Malkin: “We’re chipping away.