LeBrun Stamps Malkin Contract Talk With A Big Penguins Hint

Pittsburgh is staring at another summer where Evgeni Malkin’s future hangs over everything, and Pierre LeBrun is not exactly whispering about it. The Penguins have spent years managing the veteran core, but this kind of contract chatter always tests how much faith the room still has in the old guard. Malkin is still the kind of name that changes the temperature of the whole organization, even when the window is getting narrower by the minute.