Little side-note going into Sunday’s Game 5…

No one’s talking about Malkin’s slew-foot on Paul Mara apart from the fact that it was obviously a dirty play, so I just want to get this on the record here before it becomes a story at some point in the next couple of days: Malkin probably guaranteed that there’ll at least be a Game 6 back at the Garden because he’ll be watching Game 5 from his living room courtesy of Colin Campbell. Now I’m not saying what he did was anywhere near Chris-Simon-territory, but if you try to take out a guy’s legs while he’s going full-tilt not once, but twice, then I’m thinking it’s gonna cost you some ice time… which is pretty ironic considering Malkin drew a penalty shot in Game 4 (thankfully he crapped his pants and barely got it on net anyway) by way of, you guessed it, a dive. It’s to the point now where calling them “classless,” like Mara did after the game, doesn’t even do the Penguins justice anymore.