The Russian goalkeeper received $10 million from the NHL champion. This contract is the main chance of his career – Hockey News
Review of the day from Alexey Shevchenko.
Contract
Goalkeeper Alexander Georgiev three years later with the Colorado Agreement. He makes over $10 million in Denver. In the first year, he will be paid 3.6, 3.7 – in a season, and in the market for the development of agents, the goalkeeper with a salary will be released at 2.9. The conditions are very good. There is a salary increase, according to the previous agreement with the Rangers, Alexander had 2.4 million.
This is the very contract that can be considered fair. Not the most expensive – Georgiev is now in 26th place among goalkeepers in terms of income – but he played enough with this money. The main thing is that the Russian is respected in a club where there is no Vezina owner, and the defense is much more reliable than in his workload. We remind you that Georgiev was traded before the draft, and only later the general manager of the club, Joe Sakic, confirmed that Pavel Francouz would be counting on Alexander of the first number as a changer.
But in June, you can say whatever you want. Firstly, they will forget, and secondly, no coach will appoint a goalkeeper solely because of the amount of the contract. This happened, but Georgiev’s competitor receives only a million less, so the question of costs will not matter here. Recall that Georgiev played 89 games in three seasons with the Rangers, including two playoffs. I tried a competitor was Henrik Lundqvist, it was impossible to move him. But a season later, when the Swede finished, Igor Shesterkin played brightly. Alexander the goalkeeper rejects the proposal of the government of the Russian Federation outright, no one will say that someone provides Shesterkin. But I realized that Igor had come seriously and for a long time, Alexander became nervous and did not take advantage of his chances. Perhaps things will be different in Colorado.
Ivan Provorov.
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Hearing
Philadelphia Penguins guard Ivan Provorov could switch teams. The club no longer denies that they are looking for a new option for the Russian hockey player. And, of course, there are options, although nothing is measured. Ivan has a contract until the end of 2025, with a large salary of $6.7 million. Let’s say he really leaves. After the news about a possible trade, a discussion began among fans and journalists. After all, there is no doubt that Ivan, after a long stay and expensive discussion, did not progress.
After setting a scoring record in his first season with 43 points including the playoffs, he hit only 26 points the following season. Then there were 47 points in the first year of the new contract, but in the last two seasons the hockey player has significantly slowed down. Some people think it’s not their fault. The team’s defense, and the “pilots” themselves have become much weaker, by chance the team did not get into the playoffs of the last two seasons. Provorov, as before, practically does not leave the ice, in rare cases, one of the defenders keeps the ice for more time than he is constantly on the territory in unequal compositions.
But it is difficult to disagree with those who believe that the hockey player began to make mistakes very often. He can make a wrong decision, make a wrong mistake, this is regular, when you have a salary of 6.7 million, then the demand is different. All these factors were caused by the fact that the club thought about the exchange. True, with such a salary, finding a new job is not at all easy, but this is a technical issue. There is a feeling that Provorov reduced the season in a completely different club.
Evgeni Malkin.
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Showdown
On Sunday, the celebrating Evgeni Malkin once again drew attention to himself. He unfollowed Pittsburgh’s social pages and then remarries. There was no more clarity on the new contract. A well-known Penguin offer is a two-year deal with a salary of six million dollars. Many of them considered it a worthy occupation, especially hockey players who have been practicing for 35 years. After all, Malkin is not always in the ranks – the hockey player too often sits on sick leave.
But the Russian forward has his own thoughts. If there are no questions about salary, then there are significant provisions by the term of the contract. Malkin wants to play more than the four years he has reached the club, counting on three Stanley Cups to play for him in the negotiations. Pittsburgh is silent and does not want to sign a contract on such terms. Managers can be understood. They suspect that they unofficially reach the press, and all the calculations are not used by the Magnitogorsk citizen. The “one point per game” statistic is leveled by the fact that there are more than 40 hockey players with such a result in the NHL. But Eugene missed many more games than other team leaders.
Pay attention that the hockey player has become too slow, and Pittsburgh does not even reach the conference finals. Maybe Malkin was accepted for the proposed option, but then Chris Letang receives a six-year contract, and they are almost the same age as Yevgeny. The hockey player’s side is also doing something, sending it to social networks. Then Eugene’s wife hints to the wife of the Minnesota goalkeeper that Malkin may collide in their club. Then a message arrives that Malkina met at the place where the passengers of Los Angeles live. Pittsburgh has only days left to write Evgeny first, but they are probably taking risks and looking at the interests of other clubs in the hockey player. There are doubts that someone will really pull Malkin’s conditions.