Posts About "Bryan Rust"
Penguins Pulpit: Johnson, Oleksiak & Secondary Scoring
November 5th, 2018 The past week of play is not one the Pittsburgh Penguins are looking to emulate anytime soon. After an undefeated trip through Canada which saw the Penguins outscore the Toronto Maple Leafs, Edmonton Oilers, Calgary Flames and Vancouver Canucks 23-6, the team followed it up with their worst week of the season, with poor on-ice play...
Penguins Pulpit: Kessel, 60-Minute Effort & Goalless Players
October 16th, 2018 After a four-day break following their second game of the season, the Pittsburgh Penguins returned to action with a two-game slate. On Thursday night, the team defeated the Vegas Golden Knights by a score of 4-2; with Phil Kessel recording his first hat trick as a Penguin. The story was different on Saturday night as the team was...
Penguins Seeing Results of Shero's Draft Day Moves
September 26th, 2018 Ray Shero's time as the Pittsburgh Penguins general manager is often seen as a failure. After all, he had both Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin throughout their early and mid-20s and only managed to win one Stanley Cup out of it. He was often praised for the trades he made, most notably acquiring a trio of wingers for essentially next...
Bryan Rust: A Bargain for the Penguins
August 27th, 2018 During the 2015-16 season, the Pittsburgh Penguins were in unfamiliar territory. For the first time in the Sidney Crosby era, the team was having trouble scoring goals and they weren't winning games. It was time for a change. It started with the firing of head coach Mike Johnston. Then came the promotions of young, talented...
Penguins’ News and Rumor Rundown
June 27th, 2018 It’s official, #KunitzWatch2018 is underway! Rumor season is upon us, and if you are like me, you cling to every morsel of information coming from Pierre LeBrun and Darren Dreger et al. The relatively new talking period, in which players and teams can have discussions prior to the start of free agency, has given us insight into...
Penguins Penalty Kill Continues to Struggle
March 29th, 2018 After spending much of the fall on the outside of playoff bubble, the Pittsburgh Penguins turned their season around after the New Year. Most aspects of their game have been significantly better in 2018 than they were for the 2017 portion of the season. In the fall, the Penguins ranked 20th in points; in the spring, they’ve claimed...
