Although maybe its taboo to talk about now, I do recall Malhotra being the most demonstrably agitated at the the innocent Wild fan that Rypien attacked in Minnesota.
Rypien was totally at fault, the Wild fan did nothing but probably beak, and Rypien put his hands on a fan,, and Malhotra was completley wrong to blame anyone else but his teammate.
Although you'd expect he should have had eye exams regularly, you wonder how much or how long he was pretending to be better than he was. That said, only now that he's still struggling and Kesler is ready, has it come up again...for a 4th line getting 4th line minutes, not sure what they were expecting out of him.
Is the reasoning is the eye, which is probably as good as it was when he returned or at least the end of last season...so why let him on the ice in the first place a month ago outside of being a placeholder for someone else.
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