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Penguins’ ownership plans to give Penguins GM Jim Rutherford the green light to significantly overhaul the Penguins roster this summer, two sources close to the situation confirm a Post-Gazette report that almost everything will be put on the table.

What does all of this mean among the core?

Rutherford has been given ownership’s blessing to aggressively shop Kris Letang in trade talks, which he will, and what’s been described as deeply informative and intense discussions among the Penguins brass centers around center Evgeni Malkin on whether he’s the solution moving forward or part of the problem.

Malkin has been described by multiple sources as being [hide] uncoachable this season from the start, which Penguins GM Jim Rutherford is said to view his behavior as being unacceptable that has the brass and ownership at least putting Malkin on the table as a discussion.

Sources say Malkin was constant problem in meetings as the coaching staff struggled all season to get a buy-in from #71. Internal discussions right now are trying to figure out why this was the case.

The leaks of Malkin potentially being moved could be a situation of Rutherford looking to make Malkin uncomfortable, something he’s done in the past with the leaks of Matt Murray earlier this year, but things are heading in the direction where Malkin will not be anointed as an untouchable this off-season. That decision has pretty much been made internally. [/hide]

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