All the statistics are meaningless when you're not talking about a player's ability . . .
WHICH I'M NOT! ! ! ! !
I'm only referring to his maturity level. Can we agree to disagree on that? I'm not saying Malkin is not a good player, but I still disagree on attacking an opposing player after the game is clearly over.
Being happy when your team wins and sad when they lose has nothing to do with ability. It even has nothing to do with maturity. We all cheer when we win and are sad when we lose.
Next year Malkin will be older (albeit, one year, but hey) and I'll probably change my mind about him then.
So stop throwing his statistic about his ability at me when I'm not talking about his ABILITY!
Stop shouting, it’s juvenile.
Remember two parts of statistics are games played and penalty minutes. Both parts of the instigator rule have existed for all of Malkin’s career, both parts result in suspensions for players, yet Malkin has never been suspended. If Malkin made a habit of what you say he makes a habit of he’d be getting suspended regularly and he’d have a fat stack of PIM (remember the PIM stat is based on assessed not served, so a 10 minute misconduct at the end of the game goes on the stat sheet).
This isn’t about agreeing to disagree. You’re making specific accusations on Malkin, not just general immaturity but a specific kind of immaturity, which would show up on the stat sheet but doesn’t. You say he attacks players after loses, his stats say he doesn’t, and that DOES show up in stats, they aren’t meaningless.
Yes we are all happy when our team wins and sad when they lose. Yet in post 47 you complain about Malkin doing just that. And it is JUST that you complained about because there’s nothing in that post about attacking players, only about him grinning and pouting.
I understand perfectly well what you’re saying. You made a silly statement in post 6, and instead of being man enough to admit it was silly you’ve tried to nuance it into something else. But that something else is false and flies against the facts. I throw the statistics about because they DO show you to be wrong. And all your shouting won’t change that. But it is damn funny watching the guy whining about everybody else being juvenile in a discussion about maturity behaving in such a juvenile immature way.