Malkin to Play Wing

Its amazing that we addressed the problem of not having a winger for Crosby at the trade deadline by getting him two quality wingers, which has worked out great for Crosby and the first line. But now Malkin's wingers seem to have went cold, suddenly Malkin looks like Crosby did before the trade deadline attempting to carry an entire line by himself. Malkin has still been getting his points but if you look at when he is getting them its on the Power Play or on a shift he has been put out there with Crosby. So Now in the offseason we need to look for one winger for Sid and Two for Malkin since Geurin and Sykora are likely to be gone. This is going to be very challenging with a shrinking Salary cap on the horizon.

My solution to this problem:
There are a couple of options, one trade Jordan Staal who has proved to be a beast lately for 2 scoring wingers. This would not be a bad option if we get to good scoring wingers with favorable contracts.

The second and better option in my opinion is to move Staal up to second line center and move Malkin to wing on either Crosby or Staal's line. (i would rather see Staal play wing for Malkin, but Staal has proven he can't play wing where Malkin has excelled there while playing beside Crosby). If the Pens did this they would only need to go out and get one true scoring winger in the offseason, this would give them two amazing lines and help the Penguins control there salary cap. If the Penguins went this Route here's what there lineup would look like.

TBD-Crosby-Kunitz
Dupius-Staal-Malkin
Kennedy-Talbot-Cooke
Adams-Zigs-Goddard

Obviously there will be some additional people added to this team in the offseason that could shakeup this lineup a bit, and we may retain Sykora if he comes back at the right price he would replace Dupius on the second line. But if you ask me this looks like a petty good lineup