A month and three days ago, Russia invaded Ukraine.
A month and four days ago, Evgeni Malkin last spoke in public.
Which is anything but a coincidence. Or a controversy, at least as I see it.
I'm invested in what global heads of state have to say on the matter. Or military experts. Or reporters on the ground in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Mariupol and Odesa. By comparison, I couldn't care less what any hockey player has to offer on this, much less one who's got zero connection to anything or anyone in that theater, who's a legal American citizen, whose son was born in Allegheny County, and who's gainfully employed right here in Pittsburgh.