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Malkin re-ups with Penguins; Wild trade Talbot to Senators

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By JOHN WAWROW, DAVE CAMPBELL and STEPHEN WHYNO
AP Sports Writers

Evgeni Malkin is returning to the Pittsburgh Penguins after all. He re-signed on $24.4 million, four-year contract that counts $6.1 million against the salary cap through 2026. The Minnesota Wild hours earlier added another shift to the NHL’s offseason goalie shuffle when they traded Cam Talbot to the Ottawa Senators for Filip Gustavsson. The Senators had an opening after dealing Matt Murray to Toronto. The Wild intended to bring back Talbot in the same timeshare with Marc-Andre Fleury. They used the duo evenly down the stretch on the way to their best regular-season record in franchise history.

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