Yeah, I too read the headline I just wrote and have to shake my head that something like this is even a story but here we are nonetheless and we’ve all got the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review’s Rob Rossi to thank for it for what he wrote here the other day.
Shero should start making calls to his contemporaries, and his first words should be: “Make me an offer for Malkin.” It must include a top-line wing, a top-pairing defenseman, two roster players and either two top prospects or two first-round picks.
To give up Geno, the Penguins must get the world in return. If they get it, their Cup window won’t be limited to three seasons, as it will be with the three-center plan.
I’m told the Penguins are not entertaining the possibility of trading C EVGENI MALKIN, the 2009 NHL scoring champion and playoff MVP and, with a $8.7 million salary-cap hit, the franchise’s co-highest paid player.
Rossi has gone through this repeatedly complaining about Malkin, something to which one of the writers at the ubiquitous Penguins fan blog, The Pensblog, took time to make a note of this morning in two separate tweets via Twitter (tweet one, tweet two).
also I’ll throw this out there. Rossi, Madden and some other media people do not like Malkin based on the fact of he still struggles w/eng
Rossi routinely makes fun of Malkins English. To me he speaks better English than Fmr Steeler Willie Parker
If a writer holds that against the athlete because they can’t communicate in the most clear and efficient way, it speaks more about the writer’s dedication to being a professional than it does to the player not wanting to get his point across correctly.