Mike Malott isn’t the only fighter in his family, though getting into scraps isn’t the sole occupational pursuit of his younger brother Jeff.
“Did he ever, man! He scrapped hard!” Malott said with incredible pride and glee when asked about a late-season dust-up his younger sibling got into that made the rounds on social media. “Him and Brandon Carlo went at it, and those are two huge boys. He looked bigger than my brother, and my brother is huge; he’s way bigger than I am.”
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A winger for the Los Angeles Kings, the younger Malott dropped the gloves with the Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman just three minutes into the first period of their game at the end of March, with the duo earning rave reviews from the announcers on the call and a warm round of applause from both their teammates and the fans at Scotiabank Arena.