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Originally Posted by browna
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.
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I think it is just as likely that Malholtra had an inclination that there was something not mentally right with Rypien as was acting as a good team mate should and deflecting as much of the attention as was possible from Rypien. That being said I really don't see how the statement that the fan was too involved is related at all.
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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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Yeah the optics of the situation are bad but at the end of the day if his eyesight is getting worse and it is interfering with his play then the Canucks have the obligation to put him on the IR