Center Evgeni Malkin and Ottawa Senators defenseman Dion Phaneuf have tangled a few times over the years. As the NBC Sports Network crew has pointed out a couple of times in this series now, they have a bit of a personal rivalry that dates to their pre-NHL days.
So of course Malkin let Phaneuf know it when a Brian Dumoulin shot deflected off Phaneuf’s skate and into the net for the Penguins’ third goal in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference final Friday in Ottawa. Check it out.
Puck goes in off the skate of Dion Phaneuf.