Tomas wrote:http://metallurg.ru/news/24621/
I am quite confident about my ability to translate this. Main points:
- during negotiations culminating late in the night between the team's President Viktor Rashnikov and the player with his agent, both parties agreed:
a) to cancel the existing contract running until 4/30/2008.
b) to sign a new contract. Malkin will play the next season in Magnitogorsk and on May 1, 2007, he will become a free agent with the ability to pick any team.
According to Malkin, the direct involvement of team's President played a key role in finding this solution.
Malkin will join the team on Tuesday.
Tomas wrote:According to Malkin, President's intimidation and strong-arming of Evgeni played a key role in finding this solution.
skullman80 wrote:Wonderful, just wonderful.
I doubt Malkin had a change of heart in a few days. I'm sure there were some things going on behind the scenes.
Velichikin is a rat.
bh wrote:Wow what great news to start a Monday with. See, I guess Malkin is an invertibrate. Russian #$shole. Yeah I'm all for trading his rights. We could probably get a hefty return for him.
bh wrote:Wow what great news to start a Monday with. See, I guess Malkin is an invertibrate. Russian #$shole. Yeah I'm all for trading his rights. We could probably get a hefty return for him.
King Sid the Great 87 wrote:bh wrote:Wow what great news to start a Monday with. See, I guess Malkin is an invertibrate. Russian #$shole. Yeah I'm all for trading his rights. We could probably get a hefty return for him.
How could we get a hefty return for a player who is just as likely to play for any other team that holds his rights as he is the Penguins?
I don't even buy this whole story 100%. Let the Pens report it, then I will be sold.
Ben Klingston wrote:Well. Crap.
Who's left to sign as a rent-a-center (pun intended) for a year?
Bowser wrote:There is a whole lot more to this story than Malkin sticking around for another year in Russia. I don't have any inside info but I'd say its almost a 100% lock the Russian mafia (aka former KGB agents) made a visit to Malkin and his family.
This isn't over by a long shot.
The NHL and IIHF need to put their foot down on the throat of Russian Communists by denying them to host the World Championship and begin toughening their stance on future Russian NHLers in the Olympics.
Jordan Staal's chances of making the Pens just increased by 100%.
Bowser wrote:I don't have any inside info but I'd say its almost a 100% lock the Russian mafia (aka former KGB agents) made a visit to Malkin and his family.
The NHL and IIHF need to put their foot down on the throat of Russian Communists
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