The team made the announcement Friday but did not provide specifics on when Malkin underwent the procedure or the nature of the surgery. Evgeni Malkin scored on a power play for his 1,th career point and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Boston Bruins on Monday night. The cameras crowd around Sidney Crosby's stall, parting only to let the Pittsburgh Penguins captain slip through and tug on a baseball cap before the lights flip on, the microphones close in and the questions come.
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Pittsburgh Penguins. To begin his NHL career, Malkin set a modern-day record as the first player to score at least one goal in each of his first six games. No player had achieved this feat since the league's inaugural season in —18 , when Joe Malone scored at least one goal in 14 consecutive games to start his NHL career. Malone's mark, however, was set when technically every player was playing in his first NHL season; he had already played almost a decade in the league's predecessor, the NHA.
Malkin's streak was eventually stopped in his seventh game by the San Jose Sharks. Malkin during a practice with the Penguins in Playing on a team with fellow phenom Sidney Crosby , Malkin finished his rookie season with 33 goals and 85 points, leading all first-year players and capturing the Calder Trophy as the league's top rookie. When Malkin arrived in the United States , he spoke no English, but through the help of fellow Russian and teammate Sergei Gonchar , and his cousins, he eventually started to give short, simple interviews in the language.
He earned another three-goal performance several games later, on January 14, against the New York Rangers. Midway through the season, when more heralded teammate and captain Sidney Crosby went down with an ankle injury, Malkin seized the opportunity to lead the Penguins, scoring 44 points in the 28 games Crosby was absent.
Malkin continued to dominate into the playoffs as the Penguins made it to the Stanley Cup Finals. He scored three points against Detroit in the finals, totaling 22 points overall, but the Penguins were defeated by Detroit in six games. The goal was Crosby's th career goal and th career point. Crosby had a team trainer cut the puck in half so both players could commemorate the moment. Voted as a starter to the NHL All-Star Game later in the season, Malkin won the shooting accuracy segment of the Skills Competition, initially shooting four-for-four before beating Dany Heatley three-for-four in a tie-breaker.
After having finished runner-up to Alexander Ovechkin the previous season for the Art Ross Trophy, Malkin captured the scoring championship with points. However, he would once again be runner-up to Ovechkin for the Hart Memorial Trophy, although this time garnering a few more first-place votes. In , he had just one first-place vote out of votes and points to Ovechkin's first-place votes and 1, points.
In , Malkin had 12 first-place votes out of votes and points to Ovechkin's first-place votes and 1, points. Malkin, along with his parents left , during the Penguins' victory parade for their Stanley Cup victory. Malkin tallied 36 points 14 goals, 22 assists to become the first player to lead both the regular season and playoffs in scoring since Mario Lemieux accomplished the feat in His 36 points were the highest playoff total of any player since Wayne Gretzky amassed 40 points in He is also just the second player in franchise history to win both the Art Ross and Conn Smythe trophies in the same year.
On February 4, , after missing five games due to a left knee injury and sinus infection, Malkin returned to play against the Buffalo Sabres. At the start of the second period, Sabres defenseman Tyler Myers collided with Malkin against the end-boards, injuring his right knee.
He was helped off the ice and went straight to the dressing room, unable to return to the game as he suffered both a torn anterior cruciate ligament ACL and medial collateral ligament MCL. On February 9, it was announced that Malkin would undergo knee surgery.
The Penguins estimated his recovery period as six months, sidelining him for the remainder of the NHL season and playoffs, but stated he should be ready for training camp in September. According to then Penguins' General Manager, Ray Shero , Malkin sent him a text message after the incident occurred stating, "I'm sorry.
Malkin had a bounce-back season in With post-concussion syndrome limiting team captain Sidney Crosby to 22 games, Malkin led the Penguins on a line with newly acquired winger James Neal.
Despite missing seven games due to lingering effects of his knee surgery, Malkin scored 50 goals for the first time in his career including three hat tricks, and won his second scoring title with points. He was the only player during the —12 season to score points. Malkin would go on to win the Hart Memorial Trophy as the league's most valuable player for his performance in the season.
He also became the first player in the past ten NHL seasons to win two scoring titles, putting an end to a streak of nine different players over nine seasons leading the NHL in points. Despite Malkin's impressive season, the Penguins were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by the Philadelphia Flyers. Malkin scored eight points in the six -game series. Following the Penguins' playoff exit, it was announced that Malkin would again represent Russia at the World Championships.
By the time the lockout ended in early January, Malkin was second in KHL scoring with 23 goals and 65 points in 37 games. Though he missed the final part of the KHL season, he still finished third overall in scoring. A concussion and shoulder injuries limited Malkin to 31 games during the NHL season, rather than the 48 scheduled, in which he scored 33 points.
Malkin and the Penguins faced the New York Islanders in the first round, eliminating them in 6 games. Malkin had an excellent series, picking up 2 goals and 11 points in just these 6 games. In the next round, the Penguins beat out the Ottawa Senators in 5 games, Malkin picking up 2 more goals and 5 points.
Finally, the Penguins were swept in the conference finals against the Boston Bruins.
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