Maltsev is bull in a china shop kind of power guy with a deceptively good shot, but he has absolutely no awareness or hockey sense. He'll bully the puck off a defenseman on the forecheck and then stickhandle himself into the boards. Every 5-10 games he'll make someone look silly with a crazy highlight reel move and then either shoot wide or fail to get a shot off at all.
Has the ability to become a decent 4th liner but he still needs quite a bit of polish to become an NHL regular.