The Pens resigned Defenseman Matt Niskanen to a two-year, $4.3 million deal. He had 4 goals and 17 assists last season in 75 games. He will be one of our main penalty killers now that Michalek is in Phoenix.
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The Pittsburgh Penguins and defenseman Matt Niskanen have agreed to two-year, $4.3 million deal that will keep him with the team until 2014.
The 25-year-old Niskanen had four goals and 17 assists in 75 games last season with Pittsburgh and had a plus-nine rating. Niskanen joined the Penguins in 2010-11 in the same trade that brought forward James Neal to the team.
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Niskanen gets 4.6 million over two years:
With Matt Niskanen re-signing, #NHL #Penguins have $12.2M in cap space with 19 players already under contract. capgeek.com/charts.php?Tea…
— CapGeek (@capgeek) June 30, 2012
Very good money and terms in our opinion. We don't remember a player going from whipping boy to completely solid so quickly like Niskanen did.
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Parise will mull over offers tonight, and make his decision tomorrow. [ PuckDaddy ]
Please watch this Bob Mckenzie vid:
As Bob Mckenzie states there is a low offer of 10-year 80 million and maybe as high of an offer as 100 million dollars for Zach Parise.
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It was rumored but not it is official:
Told that Crosby reached out to Parise as part of Pittsburgh pitch
— Pierre LeBrun (@Real_ESPNLeBrun) July 1, 2012
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Buckle up, it was a slow first hour, but moves start to happen in the second hour.
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from the Pittsburgh Penguins website, The Pittsburgh Penguins have re-signed defenseman Matt Niskanen to a two-year contract, it was announced today by executive vice president and general manager Ray Shero.
The deal runs through the 2013-14 campaign, and has an average annual value of $2.3 million.
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