Malkin deserves a hearing for sure. But at some point, you have to look at WHY these things are happening. You can't say Malkin was going around swinging his stick and that's that. There's a reason he did it.
I don't expect the league to make the right call on this at all. They tend to look at the single action that occurred. Not the build up to it or why it even happened in the first place.
Maybe if a ref had called a damn penalty, the stick swinging likely would have never occurred. Typical band-aid solution, and not getting to the root of the action.
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