NHL Rumors: Five Teams That Should Sign Evgeni Malkin

1. The Anaheim Ducks

The Anaheim Ducks have a bright future ahead. The success of guys like Trevor Zegras and Troy Terry this past season has to excite the Ducks, so they might be interested in adding a superstar to lead the team for the next few seasons.

The Ducks are turning a corner in their rebuild. While they have not been in the postseason the last few seasons, like the Kings and Rangers this past year, they will want to make the jump.

With the Ducks, Malkin can seriously chase another championship for four or five seasons, depending on the length of the deal, and he would get a chance to play with some of the next up and coming stars of the generation.

The Ducks just lost their leader and face of the franchise in Ryan Getzlaf retiring. Bringing in Malkin will add a new top centerman who can help pave the way for this team’s young guys on the roster.

Now, the only issue with this signing would be that Anaheim has a lot of players they will want to sign first in-house. If they can figure out the majority of their roster first and see if they can make the math work on a Malkin signing, then yes getting this deal done would be excellent.

Malkin would get to play out his career on a rising team that could be competing for a championship in a season or two, and he would get to show how good he can be without Crosby on his team.