Dreger: Penguins' Rutherford "scouring the league"

Darren Dreger was on Edmonton’s TSN 1260 on Thursday morning.

As part of a larger discussion on how Sidney Crosby’s scoring slump is less about his play, and more about the injuries around him:

“The Pittsburgh Penguins are going to need to get healthy, and in the meantime, Jim Rutherford, the general manager, is scouring the league. He’s looking for upgrades. He’s not looking for guys who are going to replace, say, a Patric Hornqvist or anything like that, obviously. He knows Hornqvist is close. He’s looking for somebody who can take some of the heat off so that Hornqvist doesn’t bounce from the Crosby line to the Malkin line. There’s a lot of work still being done in Pittsburgh, but I don’t think they have any offensive concerns when they look up the middle of the ice.”

Source: TSN 1260/ Transcript: Nichols on Hockey