{"id":6571,"date":"2011-06-07T12:46:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T17:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=6571"},"modified":"2011-06-07T14:03:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T19:03:07","slug":"can_malhotra_sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/07\/can_malhotra_sa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Manny Malhotra"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re not a hockey fan, you may not have heard of Manny Malhotra, the greatest desi ever\"Malhotra.jpg\" to hit the ice (Smirnoff included). After suffering a severe eye injury on March 16, he recovered just in time to give a boost to the Vancouver Canucks in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final (you may have caught parts of it during the Extreme Makeover<\/i> commercial breaks).<\/p>\n\n

The Canucks led in the circle in the regular season, at 54.9 per \ncent. They’re at 49.9 in the playoffs and a lot of the drop-off is \nbecause Malhotra and his 61.7 per cent win rate were on the sidelines \nuntil Game 2.<\/p>

“Over the last couple of weeks as I’ve started to \nwork toward this goal, being able to take draws against guys like Kes \nand Hank and Lappy really pushes you to get to that next level,” said \nMalhotra. “The competitive level we have at centre really gets your \ntiming back.”<\/p>

Malhotra did remarkably well overall in 7: 26 of ice\n time. He played 13 shifts, including killing penalties and taking a \nleftwing shift on the third line in relief of Raffi Torres.<\/p>

He \npurposely kept his game simple and saw the 7: 26 as a good transition \nback into playing. In the regular season, as one of the best third line \ncentres in the league and in the conversation for the Selke Trophy for \ntop defensive forward, Malhotra averaged 16: 09. [Vancouver Province<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

The Bruins walloped the Canucks 8-1 in Game 3, but Malhotra’s team still leads the series 2-1 and has home ice advantage.
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Malhotra, whose full name is Emmanuel Noveen Malhotra, began playing \norganized hockey at age 7, when his parents apparently made the wrong \nturn on the way to the cricket field. His father, Shadi, is from Lahore,\n Punjab, in pre-partition India (present day Pakistan) and mother, Lise,\n is French-Canadian. (Both his parents hold doctorate degrees from the \nUniversit\u00c3\u00a9 Laval in \nQu\u00c3\u00a9bec City — his father a doctorate in polymer chemistry and his \nmother\n in biochemistry.)

Drafted in the first round by the New York \nRangers in 1998, Malhotra has played on five NHL teams and is the second\n NHL player of South Asian origin. (The first was Robin Bawa of British \nColumbia, who spent parts of four seasons in the NHL in the \nearly 1990s but was never a regular starter.)
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Malhotra is \nmarried to Joann Nash, sister of two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash and retired\n soccer pro Martin Nash. He has scored 101 NHL goals, one of which can \nbe seen in the 2009 NHL Network feature “A day in the life: Manny \nMalhotra<\/a>“,\n when he played in Columbus.
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