{"id":569236,"date":"2026-05-07T16:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/569236\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T16:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:42:28","slug":"why-pens-must-keep-geno-105-9-the-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/569236\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY PENS MUST KEEP GENO | 105.9 The X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an\u00a0excerpt\u00a0from my latest column for TribLive.com:<\/p>\n<p>When the Penguins traded Jake Guentzel in 2024, they sandwiched going 1-6-1 around that deal. The dressing room pouted, effectively going on strike. (Those Penguins missed the playoffs by three points. Do the math.)<\/p>\n<p>If Evgeni Malkin is allowed to walk, it will be 10 times worse.<\/p>\n<p>The stench would permeate all season. It would be a topic of discussion for the entirety of the campaign. It would 100% ruin the dressing room.<\/p>\n<p>To read more, click <a href=\"http:\/\/triblive.com\/sports\/mark-madden-the-penguins-painted-themselves-into-a-corner-so-live-with-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins&#8217; core three of Malkin, Sidney Crosby and Kris Letang have been teammates for 20 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Hockey is a business, it&#8217;s often said.<\/p>\n<p>But within the prevailing context, those three have never had to realize that.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve played their entire careers together. Why wouldn&#8217;t they expect that to continue indefinitely?<\/p>\n<p>If Malkin departs, the excrement show starts.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a hill worth dying on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s an\u00a0excerpt\u00a0from my latest column for TribLive.com: When the Penguins traded Jake Guentzel in 2024, they sandwiched going&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[1495,5,15705,34246,4,118,1469,100,5216,46555,46554],"class_list":["post-569236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-evgeni-malkin","tag-hockey","tag-madden","tag-mark-madden","tag-nhl","tag-penguins","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-pittsburghpenguins","tag-sports-talk","tag-super-genius"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116534296194178642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569236","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=569236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}