Malkin has averaged 1.18 points per game over his 13-year career — all in the dead-puck era. That puts him 14th all-time and second to Crosby among active players. The only players ahead of Malkin who did not play in the two highest-scoring decades (1970s, ’80s) are Crosby and Peter Forsberg.
The story, however, is who’s directly behind him.
Jean Beliveau and Jaromir Jagr are behind him. Steve Yzerman and Alex Ovechkin and Pavel Bure and Bobby Hull and Gordie Howe are behind him, too. So are Gilbert Perreault, Pat LaFontaine, Eric Lindros and Mark Messier.
In fact, you will find 16 consecutive Hall of Famers just behind Malkin on that list. Which is to say, 14 already in, plus Ovechkin and Jagr….
Malkin has always thrived in Crosby’s shadow, largely free of the media glare Crosby absorbs so adroitly.
It’s not always this way with superstars. Alpha males naturally want to lead the pack. Kyrie Irving wanted his own team after a few years with LeBron James. Mr. Big Chest (Antonio Brown) couldn’t stand the fact that no matter what he did, at least one player (Ben Roethlisberger) was always going to be the bigger and better-paid star.
I’m thinking, too, of how Malkin has grown up here. How he picks his spots to talk and often speaks the bluntest of truths. He always has the pulse of the team.
I think of his big-game acumen and the fact he is second among active players in postseason points per game — behind Crosby — and just behind the likes of Phil Esposito, Guy LaFleur and Toe Blake, for goodness sake.
And how, even in a “bad year,” he has 66 points in 60 games with the biggest ones dead ahead….
Then-New Jersey Devils scouting director David Conte put it this way: “(Malkin) is an exceptional talent, and it’s not unreasonable to think the guy who goes second could be better than the guy who goes first.”
We could debate for days if that is in fact what happened. This much is indisputable: Evgeni Malkin is a civic treasure, not to mention one of the most talented and productive players in the history of the game.
Hockey player Evgeni Malkin - on nutrition, speeding and fashionable sneakers
Evgeni Malkin played his 800th NHL match. The correspondent of RBC Style met with a hockey player to talk about motivation, the American mentality and fashion habits.
The outflow of brains, hands and golden clubs to the West is the trend of the Russian off-season hockey. The dollar is growing, and contracts in the best league in the world - the NHL - again beckon domestic sports stars. The main transition summer - 35-year-old Ilya Kovalchuk from St. Petersburg SKA to “Los Angeles Kings”. For many years, one of the best players in the League is the forward “Pittsburgh Penguins” Evgeni Malkin.
We met with a native of Magnitogorsk in a not very familiar to the athlete environment - VIP-fitting room boutique Tom Ford. And they offered to test the MTM-session on themselves - the service of individual tailoring of the costume, which is offered at once by several boutiques of the Tretyakov passage. There, trying on Tom Ford and Brioni suits, we also learned whether it was easy for the owner of such an impressive physique to choose his clothes and how often he went shopping.
Interviewer: Did you guys watch the Stanley Cup Final this year?
Crosby and Malkin: *shaking their heads* No.
Malkin: *starts to laugh* *looks like he has so many stories that he is unfortunately legally prohibited from repeating* But I know who win. *pinches his nose like he has a headache*
Crosby: *cackling like he experienced all the stories live through boozy late-night calls and has yet to stop giving Geno shit for them* OH yeah.
Like a scorned Elle Woods, Evgeni Malkin is motivated by your nonsense.
Leading the playoffs in points and penalty minutes, Geno gets mad AND gets even.
Reader, I love him.
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