{"id":202712,"date":"2026-05-26T18:31:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202712\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T18:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:31:17","slug":"pittsburgh-penguins-re-sign-evgeni-malkin-to-1-year-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202712\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins re-sign Evgeni Malkin to 1-year contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins have re-signed longtime forward Evgeni Malkin to a one-year contract, keeping him in Pittsburgh through the 2026-27 season.<\/p>\n<p>The contract carries an average annual value of $5.5 million, according to a press release from the team.<\/p>\n<p>Malkin, 39, is a three-time Stanley Cup Champion and one of the most decorated players in Pittsburgh Penguins history. Over the course of his 20-year career, all of which has been spent in Pittsburgh, he has cemented himself among the franchise&#8217;s all-time leaders, ranking in the top three in nearly every major statistical category, including games played (1,269, second), goals (533, third), assists (874, third), points (1,407, third), power-play goals (187, third), game-winning goals (89, second) and overtime goals (14, second).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins have re-signed longtime forward Evgeni Malkin to a one-year contract, keeping him in Pittsburgh through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4843,73,75,74,1067],"class_list":["post-202712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-nhl","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-penguins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}