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Speaker 1: On.

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Speaker 2: My guest right now is a two time Stanley Cup

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Speaker 2: champion and a Penguin lifer. It's a pleasure to welcome

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Speaker 2: back to the program. He is Brian rust Rusty. Thanks

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Speaker 2: for taking the time. Let's start with the obvious. How

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Speaker 2: difficult will this be with sit out for a month?

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Speaker 2: And how do you guys pick up the slack?

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Speaker 1: Well, first, hope, Mark, thanks for having me. But second

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Speaker 1: of all, yeah, obviously it's a really shoot me tall tasks.

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Speaker 1: It is who he is, and he's been unbelieveable player

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Speaker 1: and the leader of this team and later in the

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Speaker 1: league for twenty years.

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Speaker 3: So to kind of lose like.

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Speaker 4: A guy like that for an extended period of.

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Speaker 1: Time, which we haven't really had to do because he's

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Speaker 1: be hard. I think everybody's got to pick up the slack.

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Speaker 1: I think on any given night there's gonna have to

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Speaker 3: Kind of all the little things that Sid does.

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Speaker 2: Is it something you guys talk about in the room

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Speaker 2: or is it just kind of assumed that, Okay, this

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Speaker 2: is how it is, and and everybody does more.

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Speaker 3: I don't really even think it needs to be talked

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Speaker 1: I think everybody knows that you as a guy like that,

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Speaker 1: everybody's got to pick up this rack a little bit

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Speaker 2: Now it looks like Raquel's going to be at center

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Speaker 2: and it's going to be you and Hayes on either

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Speaker 5: How does Rax look at center?

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Speaker 2: And boy that Hayes He's been something lately, hasn't he?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, First of all, with the racks, he's such a

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Speaker 4: He's able to see the ice so well that him

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Speaker 3: That I think he's gonna be awesome there.

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Speaker 4: He's able to do this beforehand and his backhand.

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Speaker 1: So well, and he's so smart that being able to

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Speaker 1: I love that kid. He's awesome. Obviously we've only seemed

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Speaker 1: I've seen in camp and seen of him and Wilkes

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Speaker 1: every everything that he's ever gotten. The kid works extremely hard,

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Speaker 1: he loves he loves coming to the rank. He's always

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Speaker 1: got a smile on his face, always having a good time,

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Speaker 1: just wants just wants to get better. So I'm super

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Speaker 1: excited to be able to see what uh he's gonna

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Speaker 2: Staying with with him and some of the young guys

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Speaker 2: for a second, Rusty, when you came up from Wilkes,

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Speaker 2: it was with a bunch of other guys at the

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Speaker 3: I think it just brings a certain.

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Speaker 1: Sent to comfort that if you're alone in this league

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Speaker 2: What's your take on Kindle, because I don't want to

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Speaker 2: say I was shocked Rusty because he was a first

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Speaker 4: Yeah, when I first heard of the kid saw.

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Speaker 1: The kid, I didn't really know what to expect out

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Speaker 3: But I think.

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Speaker 1: His maturity on the ice kind of matches his maturity

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Speaker 3: This league, is that he knows what to do on

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Speaker 1: He has a certain level of confidence, and he knows

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Speaker 3: But I think off the ice, he also.

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Speaker 4: Knows kind of when to listen, when to learn, kind of.

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Speaker 1: For whatever reason, I don't know how, he knows that

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Speaker 1: And he's, uh, he's been doing an unbelievable job at it,

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Speaker 2: Your goal totals have gone up steadily during your time

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Speaker 2: Is it just scoring more and just understanding how to

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Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously gotta give a lot of a lot of

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Speaker 1: I think for me, it's always trying to trying to

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Speaker 3: Him scoring more goals and be that much better.

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Speaker 4: And I was able to kind.

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Speaker 1: Of see him do that, and I'm like, well, I

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Speaker 3: So I was like I got to try and do

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Speaker 1: That kind of combined with a never satisfied attitude of

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Speaker 5: The one thing I.

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Speaker 2: Kind of see, Rusty and you can maybe confirm, I

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Speaker 2: think you really have simplified finishing over your time in

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Speaker 2: the league. You never seem to take that one touch

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I that was definitely one of the

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Speaker 3: So he's obviously going to score a lot of goal.

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Speaker 3: So that that plays the huge tractor we're talking to.

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Speaker 2: Brian rushed the Penguins. You're on the Home of the Penguins,

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Speaker 2: one oh five nine the X Rusty. The Penguins have

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Speaker 2: obviously taken a big lead forward since last year, you know,

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Speaker 2: is that improvement taking place?

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Speaker 4: Pretty much everywhere? I think you see it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Have been good this year. I think our defensive effort

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Speaker 3: I think.

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Speaker 1: Those things right there can probably be a really good

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Speaker 1: There's no there's no past year's experience to kind of

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Speaker 2: Let's stay with Dan news for a second, because you

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Speaker 4: All coaches, obviously coach coach.

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Speaker 1: A different way, but Dan's been Dan's been really hands on.

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Speaker 3: Shooting hands on, having.

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Speaker 1: A lot of conversations though with guys, especially better in

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Speaker 4: Kind of how things.

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Speaker 1: stay in terms of kind of what it doesn't matter

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Speaker 2: Now, you guys play seventeen games in March, hop tough?

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Speaker 2: Is that going to be? And what's the approach? Do

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Speaker 3: I think I think at this point in the here

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Speaker 3: it's a sprint.

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Speaker 1: You got to go all out because I think any

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Speaker 1: tight the playoff races, especially our division, I mean, if

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Speaker 1: I think it's from here on out it's a sprint

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Speaker 3: I think that's We're going to be leaning on the

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Speaker 1: And their knowledge and expertise kind of especially throughout this month,

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Speaker 5: You guys are in a playoff spot right now.

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Speaker 2: How great would it be to be back in the

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Speaker 2: playoffs after three years?

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Speaker 1: Not yeah, obviously I'm gonna knock on avoid to want

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Speaker 3: Too soon here, obviously, but we put ourselves.

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Speaker 4: In a really good spot, and I.

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Speaker 1: Think for us in the room socially, guys who have

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Speaker 3: And to see the success.

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Speaker 1: Again and the chance to potentially play play in the

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Speaker 1: I think trying not to take that for granted, take

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Speaker 5: Rusty, what did you do during the break?

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Speaker 2: I have a feeling you watched all the Olympics hockey,

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Speaker 1: So for the first part of the break, my wife

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Speaker 4: When I was playing.

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Speaker 1: In the sun, and then took the kids and the

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Speaker 4: And then throughout.

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Speaker 2: And finally, Rusty, I want to put this out there.

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Speaker 2: You meet with kids who have stuttering problems through the

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Speaker 2: Friends Organization and the Penguins Foundation.

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Speaker 5: Talk about what you do there, because that's just terrific.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So after every home game, I invite a kid

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Speaker 3: Try to help these kids.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, speech impediments and setters are things that can sometimes

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Speaker 1: So my goal, the whole thing, was trying to try

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Speaker 1: of doesn't really doesn't really matter what things kind of

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Speaker 3: So is your way.

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Speaker 1: You can you can overcome those and you can climb

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Speaker 2: Rusty, that's great stuff. Thank you again for taking the

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Speaker 3: Sounds good. Thanks Mark.

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Speaker 5: That's Brian Russ. Great to talk with him.

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Speaker 2: And I'll give some informations later about that Friends organization

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Speaker 2: because it really does good work. As the son of

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Speaker 2: all for the logo Didney Crosby op for at least

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