Nope, I'd take a 10 point scorer over any defensive player any night, so that was a bit of an extreme exaggeration. But in all seriousness, how can you say "Malkin would be a nobody" when he lead the league in scoring (not on Crosby's line most of the time), and DOMINATING the league when Crosby was injured in the previous season?
EDIT: also, malkin and "non playoff team" don't belong in the same sentence