Mark Madden reports via Twitter that Jordan Staal would prefer to play with brother Eric Staal in Carolina if the Pittsburgh Penguins decide to trade the center.

Staal, who has one year remaining on his current deal and has maintained that he prefers to remain in Pittsburgh. With Sidney Crosby’s deal due to expire after next season and Evgeni Malkin‘s in 2014, Staal may be the odd man out with the Penguins unable to sign all three.

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