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@MarkMaddenX Madden 19:67

Biblical times need a truth-telling prophet. I’ll be standing at the end.

@E_anything @MarkMaddenX

@MarkMaddenX Mark madden. You are irrelevant. You are a distraction The world is in biblical times and you play into the drama of stuff that doesn’t involve you at all You’re a joke World in flames and you “cover” the Steelers. Nothing you say is important for people with a brain

STFU.

@EdmOilerlytics Wrong.

That Jarry - Skinner trade somehow made both teams worse.

@OTCellyy No we're not. Him being amazing now doesn't change the fact that he has sucked for the last two years. I'm glad he is playing so well now. But I do not feel bad for saying he sucked, because he did.

All of you Karlsson haters over the last few years are eating your words so hard. This man is on another level. Unbelievable

@PensML You can call people names all you want, but it just sounds like you're full of shit.

@ryPod_777 Letang certainly needs to retire if you read the first post in this thread. I explained that. I also added I never genuinely thought that a petition would 1. Get Signatures 2. Make a difference. That’s the joke buddy!! Ahahahahaha.

The amount of people that don’t understand the humor behind this is scary. Lighten up people!! Yeah Kris Letang has been awful but if you genuinely thought that I thought this petition would do something you are straight up brain dead.

@PensML Very helpful. If it was just a joke, why did I see reply on another thread calling someone a "libtard soy boy" for not saying that Letang needs to retire? Is it a joke, or not?

@ryPod_777 Everything you dope

Gotta go year-by-year w/Geno. Can’t give him term that extends past Sid. Click& read! triblive.com/sports/mark-ma…

@victorthigpen24 @Dave12075548 @MarkMaddenX I hope you're right. I just don't see any reason to sign a guy who is going to be 40 to more than one year. Malkin's a professional athlete, and he should know that.

@ryPod_777 @Dave12075548 @MarkMaddenX Let’s say he gets a little worse, who will be better than him? I doubt Kindel will be yet at 19, Rakell is getting worse, Mantha maybe though ppl seem to think they won’t resign him, maybe Rust? But he’s 33 he’s not on the rise, I mean it seems likely Geno will be 2nd anyway.

NO.

@Dave12075548 @victorthigpen24 @MarkMaddenX I hope you're right.

@ryPod_777 @victorthigpen24 @MarkMaddenX I bet he’ll be better than everyone except for Sid

@Dave12075548 @victorthigpen24 @MarkMaddenX Yup. And next year he will be 40. Wanna bet that he will be better or worse?

@ryPod_777 @victorthigpen24 @MarkMaddenX He hasn’t dropped off. He’s better than he was last year.

@sarcasticrye81 @MarkMaddenX It's about nostalgia.

@MarkMaddenX Mind boggling the # of so called Pens fans that have no issue with giving a 40 year old a multi year deal.

Giving Geno 2 years - term beyond Sid - wouldn’t quite be Watt contract-level stupid. But close.

@victorthigpen24 @Dave12075548 @MarkMaddenX If he drops off because he's going to be 40, sure.

@ryPod_777 @Dave12075548 @MarkMaddenX Do you think they don’t have cap space and do you also think someone else is going to pass him as 2nd best player next year bc I don’t see anyone on the current team doing that.

@Dave12075548 @MarkMaddenX And he will be 40 years old in July.

@MarkMaddenX Geno is the second-best player on the team. He’s a steal at that money.

@idiotboy1999 @MarkMaddenX I agree with everything you've said except that they are "owed" anything at this point. They took less than they could have so they could win championships which they did. The organization held up their end by building a team around them.

I completely understand your rationale. But there are 3 guys in all of Pittsburgh sports (and only 3) where I think the regular rules about dispassionate asset management simply should not apply - Sid, Geno and Letang. 4 Finals, 3 Cups, 2 full decades of stupidly fun entertainment. They’ve been model citizens, people our kids can look up to, no scandals, constant loyalty, and set the culture for the best franchise in Pittsburgh and, arguably, the NHL the last 20+ years. And maybe this doesn’t matter to everybody, but the success they’ve brought to Pittsburgh has made W Pa a true amateur hockey power nationally. They’ve grown the sport in Pittsburgh, profoundly. Yes, that all started with Mario, Jagr, etc. But the Pens Elite program is literally now elite, both on the boys and girls side. And youth hockey is thriving in Pittsburgh. These guys have been underpaid their whole careers. All three of them, based on cumulative surplus value metrics. I acknowledge that they all could fall off a cliff next year. I acknowledge the bedrock principle of asset management that you pay for the future, not the past. Don’t care. They’re owed. And even if the Pens overpay them a smidge, or pay them for too long, they’ll be here to pay forward the culture they’ve created so that the next generation of Pens players learns what it means to play for this org and this city.

That’s just insane, if only because you don’t have to. You can’t give him term beyond Sid. Just cant.

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@Coastalkev66 @JoshYohe_PGH What agenda?

@JoshYohe_PGH Why do you keep bringing this story up?????? So dumb. Your agenda is obvious and embarrassing.

Geno on his contract situation: "I can't say anything. We (Malkin and Dubas) talked probably two weeks ago. He told me we would talk this summer. I'm OK with that. We have 15 games left, I hope playoffs. I want to just play. He asked if I wanted to play next year. I said yes. He said, "Don't worry, we talk after the season." I'm OK (with that). I feel great. I want to play next year, too. Maybe two years. Who knows? Again, it's just business."

Hey @pbourque29 I think your voice sounds fine. Potash is nuts.

@HunterHodies @FitzGSN_ There is only one team I am afraid of in the East. The Islanders.

@FitzGSN_ I don’t even think the Pens should be too afraid of them. They’ve more than played with them so far this year

Listen...if the Canes don't do it this year, they're never gonna do it East is mid as hell and these top teams in the West been garbage since the break

@TBOD2410 @MarkMaddenX We all can't be as smart as you...

@ryPod_777 @MarkMaddenX Sorry bud, the history of his fixation on Malkin’s mistakes rings truer than “ummm technically he was correct”. If you weren’t low iq you’d understand.

Swallow my ***t. It was a dumb-ass penalty right off the bat.