Evgeni Malkin is Pittsburgh Penguins legend, in his age 37 season, Malkin put up 27 goals and 67 points in 82 games, the same amount of goals as his 22-23 season, but way less points.
Evgeni Malkin put up 83 points in 82 games in the 22-23 season, he’s stayed healthy the last two seasons for Pittsburgh which is a huge thing even if he’s probably past his best now.
Evgeni Malkin signed a 4 year, $24,400,000 contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2022, including $5,000,000 signing bonus, $24,400,000 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $6,100,000. In 2024-25, Malkin will earn a base salary of $5,600,000, while carrying a cap hit of $6,100,000.
Evgeni Malkin Advanced Stats.
Via Natrual Stattrick
It’s ranked out of the 17 qualified Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2023-2024 Season.
Corsi For%: 52.1% (8th)
Goals For%: 54.3% (4th)
xGF%: 52.2% (8th)
Scoring Chance %: 51.6% (10th)
High Danger Scoring Chance%: 53.8% (8th)
5v5 on-ice shooting%: 9.6% (5th)
On-ice save%: .914% (11th)
Goals/60: 0.99 (4th)
Assist/60: 1.2 (5th)
Points/60: 2.19 (5th)
Evgeni Malkin is still an effective player, creates good chances and scores still a lot, but is slower and older now than he obviously was in his prime.
Pittsburgh Penguins Projected 2024-2025 Lines.
Line 1: (LW) Drew O’Connor – (C) Sidney Crosby – (RW) Bryan Rust
Line 2: (LW) Micheal Bunting – (C) Evgeni Malkin – (RW) Rickard Rakell
Line 3: (LW) Anthony Beauvillier – (C) Kevin Hayes – (RW) Valtteri Puustinen
Line 4: (LW) Blake Lizotte – (C) Lars Eller – (RW) Noel Acciari
Evgeni Malkin as usual, is expected to be the 2nd line center, it’s been that way forever, as long as Sidney Crosby is in the lineup.
He’s also gonna be on the Power Play unit with Micheal Bunting, Sidney Crosby, Bryan Rust and Erik Karlsson.
The Pittsburgh Penguins Power Play struggled extremely bad last season, so bad at one point the Penguins the power play was 0-for-37. The NHL Record is 0 for 51 by the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Final Thoughts
Evgeni Malkin’s best is probably behind him according to his numbers, but he’s still a good player, has played all 82 games the last 2 seasons, and can score close to 30 goals in a season still.
It should be expected Malkin should be able to put up close to 30 goals again next season, he improved when the Pittsburgh Penguins acquired Micheal Bunting, The Penguins traded star forward Jake Guentzel and defenseman Ty Smith to the Hurricanes. In return, the Penguins receive forwards Michael Bunting, Ville Koivunen, Vasily Ponomarev, Cruz Lucius and conditional 2024 first-round and fifth-round draft picks.
If Malkin can stay healthy he is still a very valuable piece to a Penguins team desperate to make the playoffs again with Crosby/Malkin/Letang.
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