Pittsburgh Penguins need to have one other go together with Sidney Crosby and co.
TSN: ESPN Hockey Insider Emily Kaplan spoke with Jay Onrait on TSN SportsCentre and was requested in regards to the Pittsburgh Penguins’ future plans and Sidney Crosby’s contract extension.
** NHLRumors.com transcripts
Jay Onrait: “The Pittsburgh Penguins are nearing a contract extension with captain Sidney Crosby, based on Rob Rossi of the Athletic. Rossi cited a number of sources who stated the workforce and the participant are assured a deal may be reached and formalized, sending Crosby into the ultimate yr of a 12-year contract he signed in July 2012.
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It’s been too lengthy since I’ve spoken to our buddy Emily Kaplan from ESPN. Emily, you have been all around the Stanley Cup Playoffs, masking the world for our associates on the Mothership, and the way are you recovering from that journey?”
Emily Kaplan: “Jay was clearly simply sitting on this empty, white director’s room, hibernating and getting my ideas again about loneliness, however I am prepared to come back again out.”
Onrait: “I feel it is nice. I feel it is nice. We’ll get to the Florida Panthers in a second with Emily, however first let’s speak about these experiences of Sidney Crosby and the Pens apparently approaching a contract extension. Assume it has been a bizarre offseason for the Pens, Emily. They’re re-acquiring Kevin Hayes, however not like Washington re-signing Alexander Ovechkin and actually bringing in a bunch of gamers, it has been fairly quiet for Kyle Dubas and Pittsburgh; what do you consider the Penguins’ offseason up to now?”
Kaplan: “Effectively, first we’ve got to state the apparent, that each choice they make, they seek the advice of with Sidney Crosby, even when he does not agree with it. They let him know. He did not agree with Jake Guentzel, proper? However he was knowledgeable. And I feel in the event you take a look at the Penguins, they’re simply additional again than the Capitals.
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All they need to do now could be get him this extension after which transfer on, hold him blissful to win championships. That is not going to occur subsequent yr.
So my tackle it’s to do that: the technique is to build up as many belongings and draft picks as doable. You will have one with Kevin Hayes. You probably did that with Reily Smith, to allow them to take a step again this yr, however hopefully in two or three years they’ll make that transfer that the Capitals are making, so Sidney Crosby may be pleased with this new extension, step again, go together with Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang and see the way it goes.”