I’m not going to sugar-coat it. Bryan Rust’s lackluster start is not a good look for the recently-extended Swiss Army Knife of the Penguins, and his general manager is up in arms about it, going as far as to basically call him out to the media without naming names.
“You’ve got to take (Rutherford’s) message with a grain of salt and work harder,” Rust said. “Guys don’t want to see movement. Whether it’s getting moved up and down, it doesn’t matter what the circumstances are.”
“(Rutherford’s comments) might’ve opened guys’ eyes in the locker room.