Bryan Rust

My tabs are letting me down 'cause I had a couple of statistics up here and some honorable mentions on this Pittsburgh team, but the fact remains, coming in at number five is Rickard Rakell.

Brian Rust doesn't make the list for me, and I'll tell you why about both players.

They've both been banged up.

Both of them, if for some reason get jettisoned from Sidney Crosby's wing, there is no value that I wanna tap into a- anyway in terms of that offensive production, and I might get heat from the Rakell and Rust fans, but those two players have been huge benefactors of playing with Sidney Crosby.

I, I'm taken aback because we don't even have close to the same list after that take.

Okay.

Brian Rust not even on the list?

No, sir.

That's top six wingers.

So if you were to have moved, ricard raquel and or brian rust yes you would have needed because you still employ sydney crosby to have real live talent to slide up and play with him right away now does that mean that nick robertson or andre kuzmenko would have been able to snap their fingers and assimilate with sid right away or that they'd even have been the choices no one can know this well at least not outside the penguin's inner orbit But I am in emphatic agreement with you that there are too many here for comfort.

This isn't a matter of competition.

This isn't a matter of, hey, just be the better player.

They can't miss school.

going to take a couple more from you guys today it's him is is kind of reading my mind here but again this isn't necessarily fair do the penguins have an ivar sternberg or do they have a an ivan demidov no no but then those those were known commodities they didn't leap up out of nowhere i'm talking about the ones where you just go whoa this third round picker this fourth round pick You know, back when we first started getting a sense that, for example, a Jake Gensel or a Brian Rust, going much further back, Chris Letang, where you would say, oh, there's something there.

There's something there.

This player looks like they've really got the id factor.

So if you were to have moved...

Ricard Raquel, and or Brian Rust, yes, you would have needed, because you still employ Sidney Crosby, to have real live talent to slide up and play with him right away.

Now, does that mean that Nick Robertson or Andre Kuzmenko would have been able to snap their fingers and assimilate with Sid right away, or that they'd even have been the choices? No one can know this, at least not outside the Penguins' inner orbit.

But I am in emphatic agreement with you that there are too many here for comfort.

They didn't leap up out of nowhere.

I'm talking about the ones where you just go, whoa, this third round pick or this fourth round pick is, You know, back when we first started getting a sense that, for example, a Jake Gensel or a Brian Rust, going much further back, Chris Letang, where you would say, oh, there's something there.

There's something there.

This player looks like they've really got the id factor.

There it is.

So, yeah, Ricard Raquel, Sidney Crosby, Brian Rust, Igor Chinnikov, Tommy Novak.

Right now, Avery Hayes there.

I don't know why he doesn't have...