penguins lose without malkin too big of a deal honestly

without malkin yeah ok then 😂🐙 no wonder they lost in 6 to carolina 🚨

@becca_w said:

without malkin yeah ok then 😂🐙 no wonder they lost in 6 to carolina 🚨

yeah no kidding lol @becca_w, malkin is the reason they won that cup last year, prolly still gonna be a contender with him out man

@alex_lightning: wrong, cap math says otherwise

@alex_lightning: actually, cap math might say one thing but expected goals for and against show a vastly different picture without Malkin last postseason - you can't just rely on CapFriendly numbers @mike_d22's on point here.

yeah i think fenwickfan's point about xGF is solid tbh, we were talking cap math but like, what if theyre not really feeling that kinda cap hit at the deadline or something man

yeah idk if theyre gonna be in sell mode by feb but imo trading malkin def opens up salary cap space for them, just gotta decide what else to do with it honestly @LightningLifer

yeah ngl that makes sense but i still think they'd take another big hit to make playoffs in pittsburgh man @section114tbl's got a point about selling tho

@LightningLifer said:

yeah ngl that makes sense but i still think they'd take another big hit to make playoffs in pittsburgh man @section114tbl's got a point about selling tho

im actually kinda surprised pittsburgh would take on that much payroll space man, seems like theyre getting deeper into cap hell honestly @fenwickfan's xGF point def gave me pause tho

yeah that cap space would def be welcome for us tbh but ngl i'm still not buying they'd trade him man @fenwickfan's xGF numbers are kinda blowing my mind honestly

@LightningLifer said:

yeah that cap space would def be welcome for us tbh but ngl i'm still not buying they'd trade him man @fenwickfan's xGF numbers are kinda blowing my mind…

yeah i think that's a pretty fair point about pittsburgh being deep into cap hell, idk how they're gonna make any of this work tbh

@section114tbl said:

im actually kinda surprised pittsburgh would take on that much payroll space man, seems like theyre getting deeper into cap hell honestly @fenwickfan's xGF…

tbh i'm still thinkin they'd wanna try and recoup some value from malkin instead of just eating his contract @LightningLifer's point about pittsburgh being deep in cap hell is a good one tho man