There’s nothing like a good mystery to get through these dog days of summer, especially when it’s a real-life story with some cloak-and-dagger twists.
Maybe that explains why the saga of young Russian phenom Evgeni Malkin’s quest to play for the Pittsburgh Penguins has become the NHL’s biggest story this off-season, at least since the busy free-agent shopping ended in mid-July. Over the last few weeks, the 20-year-old Malkin, drafted second overall behind Alexander Ovechkin in 2004 and expected to come to Pittsburgh this year, has hired and fired agents, gone AWOL from his Russian team’s training camp in Finland and surreptitiously made his way to Los Angeles to skate with NHLers and wait for legal details to be worked ou
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