Mike Rupp should stop eating tide pods
rupp is awesome, very down to earth guy and you can see his genuine passion for the game in any comments he makes. on this one in particular, i'd be pretty surprised, but it's not that crazy. i mean jarry has been a real solid regular season goalie - wouldn't put him in the vasi/igor/ilya tier but he's been consistently good for years now and prob in the next tier down. he's gotten injured at the wrong times/had a real rough playoff series that sort of overshadow how solid he's been along with playing in the shadow of crosby/malkin/letang.
personally i don't think that pens team is complete enough or will be good enough defensively to give him any chance, but if you're a fan of what they did to their roster i don't think it's crazy to think he could be good enough behind that to squeeze into the conversation. esp considering awards tend to have their convo gravitate towards the unexpected player having a career year.
so yea i don't see it, but i could see why someone could go there. he's also routinely been very complementary of the rangers in his comments in general. also one of the few media faces who's consistently stood in for laf and kakko and saying it's way too early to write them off.
