Confirmed with Link: The Official Bryan Rust is Mid Thread

[HandshakeLine]

Yinz know it. I know it. I'm just brave enough to start it off.

The future of Penguins hockey is here, his name is Bryan Rust, and he'll be skating loops in the neutral zone until April.

They say every Pens generation needs its Bob Errey, well ours is store brand and his name is Bryan Rust.

Sullivan hockey? Its name is Bryan Rust.

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[HandshakeLine]

Bryan Rust is a room temperature BK Whopper that's been sitting on a table for at least 3 hours.

 

[Pens1566]

At this point, I'd probably rather have Errey.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Bryan Rust < A Dude Losing His Mind Over Gary Roberts Drinking Water

 

[Pens1566]

Brian Rust is the Alexei Morozov of Rico Fatas.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Promoting Bryan Rust on your roster is like boasting about your kid's straight C- report card.

 

[HandshakeLine]

10 year old kid, receiving a game-worn Bryan Rust under the tree Christmas morning: Bryan Rust? He's okay, I guess.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Same kid: Guess Santa didn't have Puljujärvi jersies left.

 

[Sideline]

What a way to start the day . I mean you're not wrong...

 

[HandshakeLine]

While Ryan Malone was Mashed Potatoes, at least he was made from scratch. Bryan Rust came from this:

 

[HandshakeLine]

If Bryan Rust was a Rolling Stones album, he would be Bridges to Babylon.

 

[BusinessGoose]

Scratch my back with rusty's razor.. Or something...


Let the next generation of kids know, that you can have a decade+ career if you just try for 18 months and become friends with your boss

 

[Ulf5]

C'mon peeps, this has been the case for 5-6 years now. Gotta be lots of pent up frustration and disappointment. Yinz can do better! Rise above mid. No holding back.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Stringer Bell: That's good. That's like a 40-degree day. Ain't nobody got nothing to say about a 40-degree day. Fifty. Bring a smile to your face. Sixty, shit, n*ggas is damn near barbecuing on that motherf***er. Go down to 20, n*ggas get their bitch on. Get their blood complaining. But forty? Nobody give a f*** about 40. Nobody remember 40, and y'all n*ggas is giving me way too many 40-degree days! What the f***?
Bryan Rust: [a few minutes later when Stringer is done talking] We on that shit like a Forty Degree Day!

 

[IcedCapp]

ok but he was mid when he re-upped and quite a few people on this board were pulling their hair out that they re-signed him, even if it was at a perceived discount.

Yeah, he's mid. But he's been mid. He'll always be mid. I wish they hadn't given him a NTC so that we could move him for a (mid) pick

 

[PensFutures]

Bryan Rust yells "Free Bird" when a local band is playing at a bar.

 

[Andy99]

Hysterical thread, @HandshakeLine …

Best ever

 

[Ugene Magic]

I give him 3 (mid) Carlton's....

 

[Beauner]

Am I missing something?

This does not look mid. There's about 5 other forwards that come to mind when I think of "mid" before Rust

 

[BusinessGoose]

Am I missing something?

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This does not look mid. There's about 5 other forwards that come to mind when I think of "mid" before Rust

At least when Kunitz and Dupuis couldn't crack 60pts stapled to Generational Talent Sidney Crosby, they had the decency to body check someone

 

[Ugene Magic]

Am I missing something?

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This does not look mid. There's about 5 other forwards that come to mind when I think of "mid" before Rust

Is he a 20/20 guy not playing with the top centers he's been afforded to play with?

Top it off only playing 50/60 games a season.

If there is a player living off of the talent around him it is mid-level Rust. Why do you think he took less to stay. I would have rather another team overpay him, and he went, and Guentzel stayed.

 

[Ulf5]

Stringer Bell: That's good. That's like a 40-degree day. Ain't nobody got nothing to say about a 40-degree day. Fifty. Bring a smile to your face. Sixty, shit, n*ggas is damn near barbecuing on that motherf***er. Go down to 20, n*ggas get their bitch on. Get their blood complaining. But forty? Nobody give a f*** about 40. Nobody remember 40, and y'all n*ggas is giving me way too many 40-degree days! What the f***?
Bryan Rust: [a few minutes later when Stringer is done talking] We on that shit like a Forty Degree Day!

 

[HandshakeLine]

Am I missing something?

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This does not look mid. There's about 5 other forwards that come to mind when I think of "mid" before Rust

But aside from that, how was the game, Mrs. Rust?

 

[HandshakeLine]

Is he a 20/20 guy not playing with the top centers he's been afforded to play with?

Top it off only playing 50/60 games a season.

If there is a player living off of the talent around him it is mid-level Rust. Why do you think he took less to stay. I would have rather another team overpay him, and he went, and Guentzel stayed.

Yeah, the idea of him being the model Penguin is infuriating to me. Everyone knows the model Penguin was Kris Beech.

 

[Buddy Bizarre]

Am I missing something?

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This does not look mid. There's about 5 other forwards that come to mind when I think of "mid" before Rust

This is why I hate stats- they are a limiting part of the story.

Tell me Rust isn't a guy who floats around most of the game and bc he happens to be playing with some talented C's he doesn't get opportunities.

Dude is the epitome of a franchise that believes it can rest on its laurels and not try for what they did nearly a decade ago.