Edited Oct. 14, 2022 at 7:59 p.m.
Quoting: JSEB93
Rust is already off Sid's wing - plus it's Rust and Rakell on the right side. Rust and Zucker aren't competing for the same spot on Sid's line. So not sure what your argument is here.
Everybody needs to be played on Sid's wing if you want to get the most out of a player. And Pouliot the defenseman? How doe she fit in this?
Quoting: Grusofsky96
Rust didn’t play with Crosby once yesterday 5v5. They want Rakell to play with him and Guentzel. Did you even watch the game?
No I didn't watch it, because I was too busy either watching the Wild get their a$$es handed to them by New York, or just sitting there in the dark twiddling my thumbs because of having a transformer blow down the street that wiped out power in my neighborhood from 8pm CST to 9:50pm CST last night.
So no, I wasn't aware that Rust was off Sid's wing this year. But I'm glad he is, maybe Sullivan finally learned his lesson. But Zucker's best stretch as a Penguin came on Sid's wing not Geno's, and there's a reason for that. Zucker's north/south style of game is far more compatible with Sid than it is with Geno, especially on breakouts and oddman rushes.
And apologies, I meant Dupuis... not Pouliot. Wasn't thinking.
Edit: And for the record. Zucker is fully capable, comfortable, and productive playing his off-hand side on the right. Sullivan could have played him at 1RW next to Sid at any time in the last couple of years instead of Rust or trading for Rakell. But stubbornly chose not to do so. In Minnesota, Zucker was literally split between either playing left or right wing depending on whomever his linemates were any given night. If he played with Parise and Koivu, he played RW. If he was with Koivu and Granlund, he played LW.
Given the fact that Sullivan has refused to ever even
use Zucker as a RW and simply deployed him as a LW, it boggles the mind of someone who watched Zucker play his off-hand side and be productive for years that it was something that was never even considered or attempted by the coaching staff.