Yeah Malone is all but out the door right now because I read that Columbus is offering in the neighborhood of 5 years 25 million (over payed). I actually love Malone he's probably my 2nd fav player behind hossa, but he hasn't been consistent enough for 5 million a year. Well if hossa said its not bout the money then we're going to find out for sure because we've offered him a little over 7 million a year, and thats actually a slight increase in pay for him.
I'm not saying the only way to put a good hockey team on the ice is to trade malkin, but you know where i'm coming from right? I just hate having 25 million tied up in just three players. I just feel that if we do 3 really high priced players that we'll end up having to fill the roster with some real no namers sooner or later. He's demanding just as much as Crosby (which he should) but he should not be getting paid over what Sidney is thats for sure (so far reports showing he will make more than sid). I also don't think the pens will realistically keep malkin for that long anyways because of money issues. Imagine though if Malkin gets traded or we let him go next year and now we can fill out the roster with players like Damon Langkow, andrew burnette, and Ladislav Nagy for example? Rather than keeping malkin and pullin up minor leaguers or paying 1 year contracts for older out of their prime players?
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