And Rust too

And Rust too
by siegfried08 (2022-05-17 13:00:00)

In reply to: Malkin and Letang are free agents. What’s the thought posted by voidoid

I don't see a way to keep all three of them without jettisoning some bad to quasi-bad money first (i.e. Dumoulin, Kapanen, Petterson, Matheson, McGinn). That's what is so disappointing about that loss while massively outplaying the Rangers -- this was almost certainly the last ride, and they had a really, really good team this year that just caught some awful luck at the end of the year.

I suspect that they will end up paying Letang market value (probably $8.5 AAV -- he had a Norris-finalist caliber year this year) and Malkin will take some sort of hometown discount (3 years, $7M seems about right). Rust will probably walk, unfortunately.

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Rust will stay with the Pens, extended six years, $30.75m * - voidoid 2022-05-22 07:31:01