1000pt watch - Malkin 3 points away

[Turin]

Having a bad season where he can’t even skate a full period without falling for some reason yet has 62 points in 55 games at 32 years old. Never gets enough love.

 

[RiskyBryzness21]

Malkin would already hit 1000 points in January, maybe even in December, if he have not had to play with an absolute anchor Jack Johnson, who sucks the life out of teammates he's on the ice with, and if Malkin had at least one winger with a complete game (Kessel is a far cry from that).

In reality, the Pens have only one such winger - Guentzel- and he's always with Crosby. And their only competiteve defense pair (Letang/Dumoulin) is on the ice with Crosby all the time too.
On paper Pens look good, but in reality they're mess beyond one line and one D pair.

 

[CanadianPensFan1]

At the rate his season is going, he may not reach the milestone until next year sigh

 

[yukoner88]

At the rate his season is going, he may not reach the milestone until next year sigh

He has 7 weeks to get 6 points. He gets there in March.

 

[ThreeLeftSkates]

This thread finally makes sense.

 

[yukoner88]

with another assist tonight against Buffalo, 5ts to go now

 

[Invalid cuz QoC]

At the rate his season is going, he may not reach the milestone until next year sigh

Lol. He’ll have it in a few games.

 

[NoMessi]

Malkin would already hit 1000 points in January, maybe even in December, if he have not had to play with an absolute anchor Jack Johnson, who sucks the life out of teammates he's on the ice with, and if Malkin had at least one winger with a complete game (Kessel is a far cry from that).

In reality, the Pens have only one such winger - Guentzel- and he's always with Crosby. And their only competiteve defense pair (Letang/Dumoulin) is on the ice with Crosby all the time too.
On paper Pens look good, but in reality they're mess beyond one line and one D pair.

This!

 

[daver]

Malkin would already hit 1000 points in January, maybe even in December, if he have not had to play with an absolute anchor Jack Johnson, who sucks the life out of teammates he's on the ice with, and if Malkin had at least one winger with a complete game (Kessel is a far cry from that).

In reality, the Pens have only one such winger - Guentzel- and he's always with Crosby. And their only competiteve defense pair (Letang/Dumoulin) is on the ice with Crosby all the time too.
On paper Pens look good, but in reality they're mess beyond one line and one D pair.

So he would have had 70 points by Dec. 31st after 39 games? That sounds almost as unreasonable as the rest of your post.

Not sure why the excuse-making for Malkin continues. He is simply not as consistently great as Crosby, which can be said about almost every other player in NHL history save for 5 or 10 players.

He may have been put in the most beneficial position of any other player. Playing with arguably a Top 5 player all-time, who takes on the tougher matchups and any defensive responsibilities that are needed while Malkin has gotten the team's best winger more often than not. Crosby takes on all the off-ice media attention leaving Malkin to just do his thing.

 

[Bananas]

Yeah as much as I f***ing hate the Penguins, I gotta admit, Shrek is good at hockey.

 

[DickSmehlik]

with another assist tonight against Buffalo, 5ts to go now

He got a robbed of an assist on that Sheary game winner.

 

[end]

I'm pretty frustrated with Malkin this year so that might be coloring my view here, but it's pretty ridiculous to put Malkin's errors on Jack Johnson. Jack Johnson has become some kind of all powerful shaitan that is to be blamed even when other players do the wrong thing.

 

[yukoner88]

Malkin scored against Montreal last night bringing him another point closer, now sitting at 996 career points

 

[yukoner88]

3 points to 1000