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Class Grind: Why’d Geno drop to block? Instinctive, intellectual hockey, right?

Each Saturday during the ongoing apocalypse, I’ll revisit an older column that ran on this site, accompanied by a handful of current observations about it at the bottom.

This one ran March 13, 2017:

CALGARY, Alberta -- Hockey is the world's fastest team sport and, within that prism, players are required to process information at a rate that rivals the action.

Which is to say, in the first period of the Penguins' 4-3 shootout loss to the Flames on this Monday night at the Scotiabank Saddledome, Evgeni Malkin achieved this in a sizzling span of 1.