After putting his name in the record books besides no less than Mario Lemieux and Wayne Gretzky for the best start to a calendar year, we finally found out what can stop Bryan Rust in 2022. Unfortunately, it’s the COVID protocol list, where Rust and fellow forward Brock McGinn have been placed.
Brock McGinn and Bryan Rust have been added to the COVID-19 Protocol List and will not play today in Dallas. pic.twitter.com/dSVZ69sl04
— Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) January 8, 2022
Mike Sullivan announced this before the game as well as some other news and notes.