“First of all, I’d love to return to the team,” Rust said. He knows he has a good situation with the Penguins, particularly on the right wing of the top line with franchise center Sidney Crosby. This past season, he appeared in 60 games and scored a career-best 58 points (24 goals, 34 assists) while averaging 18 minutes, 46 seconds of ice time per contest.
Over the past three seasons, Rust’s game grew into him becoming a legitimate top-six forward as he has reached the 20-goal mark all three campaigns, all of which have been limited in some fashion either because of the pandemic or his own health woes. Even in that limited deployment, he developed a reputation for scoring in key moments as he is the only player to score multiple game-winning goals in Game 7s. 80 overall) in 2010, Rust broke through as a bottom-six depth forward and helped the franchise win back-to-back Stanley Cup titles in 2016 and ’17. The Penguins certainly have benefited from Rust’s play during his tenure with the organization.Ī third-round pick (No. Moving forward, just getting something’s that’s fair and I feel like that will benefit me and my family moving forward.” I feel like I’ve played to a higher level than what my contract has said the last few years. “But I think for me, it’s just getting to a point where I feel like I’ve gotten what I’ve earned and what I feel like I’m worth. “You’d like to maximize everything,” Rust said. Having just completed the final year of a four-year contract with a tidy salary cap hit of $3.5 million, Rust is pretty upfront about his intentions this summer.
#BRIAN RUST FREE#
In roughly eight weeks, Rust is slated to become an unrestricted free agent. It happened a few weeks earlier than I thought.” Obviously, as soon as the game ended and sitting in the locker room and sitting on the bench and the airport and stuff, those things crossed my mind. “(There was) not one time that I thought we were going to lose. “Not one time,” Rust said during the team’s exit interview session Tuesday in Cranberry.
#BRIAN RUST SERIES#
Game 7 of the Penguins’ first-round round playoff series against the New York Rangers, a contest Rust and his teammates lost 4-3 in overtime, was potentially his final game in a Pittsburgh Penguins jersey. Bryan Rust didn’t consider the possibility.
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