PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Ron Hextall says he wants to find a way to have Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang stay with the club for the rest of their careers.
"In a perfect world, [Malkin] retires a Penguin," Hextall said Monday. "And I think Tanger's the same."
In a perfect world, anyway.
The NHL in the salary-cap era is hardly that.
Perhaps that's why, when Hextall was asked what was missing this season from a group that let a 3-1 lead slip away in a first-round loss to the New York Rangers, he said jokingly that "a little more cap space would be great.