cygnus47
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I appreciate what your saying but in no way shape or form did Malkin hurt this team actively in the Johnson era. He was our best player, end of story IMO. If you want to say Sid played the system more to Johnson’s liking and it hurt his production , I’d agree that may very well have been the case. Did Malkin cheat the system for offense? Hell yeah he did. Did it hurt us? f*** no , not in any meaningful way. You’re not really breaking any ground in saying a player cheating on his defensive responsibilities can have a negative consequence. Trying to paint this in a broad “well , it must have hurt us because cheating a system for offense is bad” kind of light is disingenuous to how he performed in reality.
I don't recall Geno cheating the system, I recall it just suiting him better. He was about the only guy it seemed to suit IIRC. It let him do his one-man gallop through the neutral zone thing, he didn't have to cheat to do it.