I asked Bryan Rust about the feeling surrounding the NHL's trade deadline this time last year, and he called it a "really, really difficult situation" after a practice in Las Vegas.
"You don't really know what's going to happen," he told me that day. "For me and everybody in here, you just kind of take each day as it comes, each hour as it comes, because things can change quickly. That's just the nature of the business and the nature of the beast. This is one of those negative scenarios where sometimes you don't know where you could be the next day."
The next deadline's Friday, and the Penguins find themselves in a much better circumstance. And so, when he was asked about the feeling around the deadline after the 5-0 win over the Golden Knights this afternoon, he even broke into a smile.
"I'll be honest, it's a whole hell of a lot more fun having these conversations about us winning and moving forward the rest of the year, than having other conversations about sitting on pins and needles thinking what might happen. ... I've always been extremely happy to be here. This is home. Everything that I've done in my adult life has been in Pittsburgh, and I obviously don't want to go anywhere else."
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Rust: This deadline 'a lot more fun'
I asked Bryan Rust about the feeling surrounding the NHL's trade deadline this time last year, and he called it a "really, really difficult situation" after a practice in Las Vegas.
"You don't really know what's going to happen," he told me that day. "For me and everybody in here, you just kind of take each day as it comes, each hour as it comes, because things can change quickly. That's just the nature of the business and the nature of the beast. This is one of those negative scenarios where sometimes you don't know where you could be the next day."
The next deadline's Friday, and the Penguins find themselves in a much better circumstance. And so, when he was asked about the feeling around the deadline after the 5-0 win over the Golden Knights this afternoon, he even broke into a smile.
"I'll be honest, it's a whole hell of a lot more fun having these conversations about us winning and moving forward the rest of the year, than having other conversations about sitting on pins and needles thinking what might happen. ... I've always been extremely happy to be here. This is home. Everything that I've done in my adult life has been in Pittsburgh, and I obviously don't want to go anywhere else."
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