After winning four of the last five games, Penguins general manager Jim Rutherford was feeling a little froggy on Wednesday and went to bat to defend his big 2018 free agent signing Jack Johnson.
“Jack never got a fair shot from the first day he got here, and it started with the (first) media scrum,” Rutherford said Wednesday morning. “I really couldn’t believe the questions that a newly acquired player was asked through that media scrum, and that’s what started the ball rolling toward the fans.”
First of all, that’s just patronizing to the fans - and blatantly untrue - that no one outside of Penguins’ HQ realized Jack Johnson was a bad hockey player prior to the media’s questions on July 1st.