Marian Hossa to remain a Pittsburgh Penguin?

Question

Hossa, 29, is believed to be seeking a deal for five years or more. He expects to command no less than $8 million in annual salary on the open market. However, he said after the Stanley Cup final that he would "take less to play on a good team."

The Penguins, a Cup finalist, plan to test that claim. Their offer is likely to be worth nearly $50 million over seven years - a marginal raise on his 2007-08 salary of $7 million.

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The Penguins would pay him MORE than what he's making now?

Do you think this is true? Can the Penguins pull it off?

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/s_572725.html

Answer 1

The Pens already have over 9 mill a year invested in Crosby, and are facing the task of trying to lock up Malkin when his entry level contract ends next year. That will easily be close to 9 million as well, if they were to put another 8+ million into Hossa, that would be close to 27 million between only those 3. When you then factor in Staal, and the rest of their free agents, they still need to try to ice a team with cap restrictions and budget issues (the team was just bailed out of bankruptcy afterall).

The odds of signing Hossa and Malkin are extremely long at best.

Answer 2

i really doubt  he will, only if the g.m makes a big big big clean up and gets some money!

Answer 3

I think Hossa will remain in Pittsburgh, he and crosby make a perfect match!With them the penguins are one of the best teams in the league....so i don't think they will let him go...bye!

Answer 4

All of you Pens haters are in for a rude awakening. This team will most certainly lose a few parts, but it will not be losing any of the main components any time in the near future.

Crosby counts $8.7 Mill to the cap, and Malkin said he would take less ( assume $8.5 Mill), which will not be his cap number until 2010. With this, the Pens certainly have room to ink Hossa to a long term deal with the worst case being they trade him after next season. This does however mean goodbye Orpik and Malone.

Don't kid yourselves into believing the Pens past financial woes have any bearing today. Please be clear that the cap is the ONLY thing limiting what the Pens will spend. Not only do the Pens lead the league in merchandise sales and have a new arena coming to boost revenue, they are now the play thing of their deep pocketed owner Ron Burkle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Burkle

All of you Penguin haters predicting their demise after this seasons Stanley cup appearance are left with wishful thinking.

Answer 5

Yes actually it is true. I've been hearing from many reliable sources last night and this morning. I'm god d**n excited too.

Hossa is a one of a kind player and (hopefully) for the next seven years we're going to watch the best hockey of his career.

Signing Hossa does mean one thing.......something's gonna give. I've been hearing that if we sign Hossa we won't resign Jordan Staal next year....whether that is true or not I don't know. But honestly (Jordan Staal is one of my favorites too, btw) that is something I'm willing to take. Marian Hossa is an awesome player.

Did you hear about Bugsy? He's turned down TWO offers from Pittsburgh. I hear he really doesn't want to be back. Honestly........I'll get some c**p from this......I'd rather keep Hoss than Bugs. Bugsy is only a few years (I think 2 or 3...) younger than Hossa. Hoss is a better player.

We'll see though....We'll see........I hope they hurry up though!

Answer 6

That's awesome, now if only it was that easy for every player to do that, really, 8 million dollars? who can be upset with that!

Im scared about what Kate said, about Malone :(

I don't think the Penguins would offer him more, if he wants less.

Answer 7

I don't think he will stay in Pitsburgh.. I think that he will sign with Ottawa because he has lots of ties and friends in Ottawa and Ottawa now that they have signed a coach will be aggresive in the free agent market

Answer 8

NO CHANCE IN h**l!!!  theres no way there going to be able to keep malkin nd hossa thats fincally imposable!   Hossa will probley go to a team like NJ bc they dont have a "goal scorer"

Answer 9

keep hossa and malkin lose malone and whitney

love them all but like kate said malone doesnt want to be hare and all he does is stand in front of the net(we can get someone else for that) malkin makes him look amazing and without the star player he isnt much

Whitney...my least favorite guy he hasnt done to to well and we dont need him