7-2 throttling of the Colorado Avalanche<\/a>, Malkin spoke at length about his return from being suspended and also addressed his contract situation, but wasn\u2019t able to provide many specifics outside of when the two camps might meet again.<\/p>\n\u201cI can\u2019t say anything,\u201d Malkin told The Athletic\u2019s Josh Yohe.<\/p>\n
Malkin said that he and Dubas talked a couple of weeks ago with Dubas telling Malkin the two would talk this summer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m okay with that,\u201d Malkin said. \u201cWe have 15 games left. I hope playoffs. I want to just play.\u201d<\/p>\n
Malkin then said he told Dubas he wants to play next year and was told \u201cDon\u2019t worry, we\u2019ll talk after the season\u201d by Dubas.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel great,\u201d Malkin said. \u201cI want to play next year too. Maybe two years. Who knows? Again, it\u2019s just business.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Moneypuck<\/a>, the Penguins have an 85.3% chance of making the postseason for the first time since 2022, when the team lost to the New York Rangers in the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evgeni Malkin returned from his five-game suspension Monday night with a stellar game against the Colorado Avalanche and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[257,385,99],"class_list":["post-528959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-general","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}