{"id":240163,"date":"2025-10-12T18:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/240163\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T18:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T18:01:13","slug":"nhl-analyst-puts-three-teams-forward-in-possible-evgeni-malkin-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/240163\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Analyst Puts Three Teams Forward in Possible Evgeni Malkin Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NHL Analyst Puts Three Teams Forward in Possible Evgeni Malkin Trade<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/604097.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Penguins' Evgeni Malkin in practice\" title=\"Penguins' Evgeni Malkin in practice\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: The Herald Star<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tNHL analyst Scott Maxwell has named 3 different teams that could be in the running to trade for Penguins forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Evgeni-Malkin-1517\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Evgeni Malkin profile and hockey stats\">Evgeni Malkin<\/a>, who is in the last year of his deal with Pittsburgh.Most of the rumours surrounding the Pittsburgh Penguins have been involving captain and future Hall of Famer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Sidney-Crosby-3986\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Sidney Crosby profile and hockey stats\">Sidney Crosby<\/a>, whom may believe will want a final chance at winning a Stanley Cup before he retires.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Penguins aren&#8217;t likely to make the playoffs and certainly aren&#8217;t Stanley Cup contenders, it would make sense for Crosby to look elsewhere for a final title.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s likely he sticks around for the balance of this season with the Pens so his stats sheet can say just one team, Malkin has also commented on the success <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Brad-Marchand-4946\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Brad Marchand profile and hockey stats\">Brad Marchand<\/a> had switching teams and winning somewhere else with the Florida Panthers. Whether Malkin does so with the Panthers themselves as they look to bandage the hole left by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Aleksander-Barkov-34267\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Aleksander Barkov profile and hockey stats\">Aleksander Barkov<\/a>, or with another contender looking for center depth like the Toronto Maple Leafs or Vancouver Canucks, teams will certainly consider acquiring the 39-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>-Scott Maxwell<\/p>\n<p>Evgeni Malkin Is In the Final Year of His Contract in Pittsburgh<\/p>\n<p>Malkin has been with the Penguins since he was taken 2nd overall behind Alex Ovechkin by Pittsburgh in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s helped them to 3 Stanley Cups, and also won the Conn Smythe Trophy in 2009 as the MVP of the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>A trade to the Panthers would make logistical sense considering he has a home in Miami, and Florida also recently lost captain Aleksander Barkov for the entire year with an ACL\/MCL injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs and Canucks would also represent better chances for Malkin to lift the Stanley Cup once more before he inevitably retires.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on HouseOfHockey<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tHOUSEOFHOCKEY.NET<br \/>COPYRIGHT @2025 &#8211; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseofhockey.net\/terms\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TERMS<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseofhockey.net\/politic\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">POLICIES<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHL Analyst Puts Three Teams Forward in Possible Evgeni Malkin Trade Photo credit: The Herald Star NHL analyst&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[1495,15628,5,14978,100,38325,38324],"class_list":{"0":"post-240163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-evgeni-malkin","9":"tag-evgeni-malkin-contract","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl-trade-rumours","12":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","13":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins-trade-rumours","14":"tag-scott-maxwell"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115362509039296850","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}