At the end of the 2022-23 season the Pittsburgh Penguins were looking like they might have a Bryan Rust problem.
He was coming off one of his least productive seasons in years, and was still just one year into his six-year, $30.7 million contract extension. It was looking like the Penguins had made a pretty big mistake in re-signing him and were going to be on the hook for a rough contract over the next few years.
And who knows, maybe they did make a mistake.
Maybe Rust eventually declines at a rapid rate and does in fact leave the Penguins with an ugly contract on their books.