At this point it is not exactly a secret that something was a bit off with Evgeni Malkin during the 2018-19 season. I’m still not going to go as far as saying he had a bad season, but it definitely wasn’t the typical Malkin dominance we have grown accustomed to seeing throughout his career.
He was good. We are used to seeing him be great.
The final numbers offensively were fine, but that production still fell off dramatically after the first month of the season and other aspects of his game just seemed to be, in a word, lacking.