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We get to know NHL players with five quick questions. Today's subject: Manny Malhotra, who is in his first year with the first-place San Jose Sharks.
What is your earliest hockey memory?
That would have to be tryouts, when I was seven years old. All the kids came together to do an evaluation, doing basic drills and evaluating skating, and my dad, my brother and my sister were there watching. The end boards were along the cafeteria area, and I didn't know how to stop. I'd just go up the ice and crash into the boards, and go back and crash into the boards. So I crashed right in front of them.
But it turned out all right. I can stop now.
I played road hockey and stuff, like every kid, but I was the youngest of four and we were soccer players; my dad is from East India and was a soccer player and tennis player. But when a kid down the street started ice hockey, I asked if I could try, and my parents were willing to let us play any sport. And they figured I'd get tired of the cold, early mornings. I didn't.
What's the best thing about playing in the NHL? The worst?
Everything about it is the coolest thing. I'd dreamed about being an NHL player since I was that 7-year-old kid crashing into the boards.
The long travel is tough, especially when you have kids, because you miss your family, obviously. But it's cool to see all the other NHL cities and we travel pretty well, we eat in good restaurants. I'd have to say the worst part for me is riding the (exercise) bike. It's so boring, so monotonous, but you have to do it.
Are you superstitious or do you have any regular routines?
I try not to be superstitious in case something goes wrong -- then you've screwed yourself. But I do have routines, like most guys so. What time to eat, what time to nap.
Obviously a clean one. (Smiles.) Just in the heat of battle, whichever guy is deserving at that point. There's not really one guy.
I'd most like to get a good lick on every one of those skilled players, the slimy ones you think you have lined up but they get out of it somehow. I've never seen Pavel Datsyuk or Henrik Zetterberg get hit hard. Kristian Huselius, Mike Cammalleri. I want to know how to get one of those guys.
Which current or former player would you most like to be like?
When I was in New York, Adam Graves taught me a lot about the game on the ice and off, and I watched the way he carried himself. He was very much a gentleman and he was a great role model, active in the community, a great teammate and statistically a great player. All around, I'm not sure you'd find a better role model.
What about your brother-in-law (Steve Nash)?
A skinny white kid playing basketball? (Laughs.) That's just not right.
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