NEW YORK -- So here's guessing Project Assimilate Geno is underway, right?
I mean, wow, what a powerful, if predictable, uprising for Evgeni Malkin, with two goals, two assists and twice the smarts he'd shown before the Penguins routed the Rangers, 5-0, Thursday night in Game 4 of their Stanley Cup playoff series at Madison Square Garden.
He was, in the words of Ian Cole, "dominant in a way no one else can dominate."
He was all that and a heaping helping of borscht.
And yet, if I'm being fully forthright here, I was more impressed by something else.
Check that. Everything else. Because item by item, I see this increasingly special group gunning down all the various ills that have held the franchise back for half a decade now when the games get meaningful.
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