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Caleb Desnoyers $264.10 ▲ 1.6% Roger McQueen $186.85 ▲ 1% Michael Hage $86.19 ▲ 1.9% Yegor Surin $75.00 — 0% Matias Vanhanen $80.00 — 0% Theo Stockselius $50.00 — 0% Sasha Pastujov $4.85 ▼ 1.4% Andrew Basha $43.24 ▼ 1.1% Maxmillian Curran $10.00 — 0% Vincent Desjardins $1.00 — 0% Lucas Pettersson $50.00 — 0% Dean Letourneau $69.32 ▼ 2% Clarke Caswell $15.11 ▲ 1.8% Jesse Kiiskinen $19.98 ▼ 1.6% Gabe Smith $20.00 — 0% Andrei Loshko $9.86 ▼ 1.4% Julius Sumpf $14.82 ▼ 1.2% Oscar Fisker Molgaard $19.66 ▼ 2% Emmanuel Vermette $1.00 — 0% Jere Lassila $1.00 — 0% Jake O'Brien $200.00 — 0% Roman Kantserov $21.34 ▲ 1.9% Ilya Protas $33.39 ▲ 1.7% Philippe Veilleux $1.00 — 0% Marco Mignosa $2.00 — 0% Bradley Nadeau $41.10 ▲ 1.5% Juraj Pekarcik $19.69 ▼ 1.5% Miroslav Holinka $10.00 — 0% Joshua Roy $2.00 — 0% Luke Mistelbacher $1.00 — 0% Isaac Howard $25.62 ▲ 1.1% Cullen Potter $88.61 ▼ 1.5% Yegor Vinogradov $1.00 — 0% Ethan Miedema $14.74 ▼ 1.7% Ilya Ivantsov $0.81 ▼ 1.2% Patrick Thomas $24.56 ▼ 1.8% Kalan Lind $24.54 ▼ 1.8% Matthew Gard $50.00 — 0% Jackson Smith $155.00 — 0% Oliver Bonk $55.13 ▼ 1.7% Stian Solberg $74.23 ▼ 1% Ben Danford $58.27 ▼ 1.3% Mikhail Gulyayev $39.60 ▼ 1% Tristan Luneau $10.39 ▲ 1.6% Caden Price $15.00 — 0% Jakub Fibigr $5.00 — 0% Carter Amico $73.54 ▼ 1.9% Marcus Kearsey $1.00 — 0% Victor Eklund $152.17 ▲ 1.4% Cole Reschny $135.00 — 0% Alexander Zharovsky $96.90 ▲ 2% Cole Beaudoin $70.00 — 0% Nate Danielson $85.00 — 0% Felix Nilsson $30.00 — 0% Cole McKinney $50.00 — 0% Jagger Firkus $20.00 — 0% Mason West $98.37 ▼ 1.6% Gracyn Sawchyn $19.76 ▼ 1.2% Adam Jecho $19.77 ▼ 1.2% David Lewandowski $25.00 — 0% Owen Martin $29.57 ▼ 1.4% Ethan Procyszyn $30.00 — 0% Matvei Korotky $3.00 — 0% Alexander Weiermair $4.00 — 0% Eduard Sale $52.72 ▼ 1.5% Aydar Suniev $19.71 ▼ 1.5% Dalyn Wakely $2.00 — 0% Philip Hemmyr $24.66 ▼ 1.4% Theodor Knights $30.00 ▲ 20% Bruno Osmanis $0.01 ▼ 100% Landon Amrhein $0.01 ▼ 100% Jacob Xu $0.01 ▼ 100% Landon Nycz $40.00 ▲ 60% Rian Chudzinski $40.00 ▲ 60% Adam Nemec $60.00 ▲ 137.1% Max Isaksson $0.01 ▼ 100% Viktor Fyodorov $40.00 ▲ 60% Jack Hextall $119.00 ▲ 8.2% Liam Greentree $95.00 — 0% Axel Brongel-Larsson $0.01 ▼ 100% Gavin McKenna $515.05 ▲ 1.5% Juho Piiparinen $123.00 ▲ 11.8% Alexander Command $210.00 ▲ 90.9% Nikita Klepov $186.92 ▼ 1.6% Caleb Malhotra $332.72 ▼ 1.9% Ilia Morozov $160.00 ▲ 45.5% William Hakansson $66.00 ▼ 40% Egor Shilov $83.00 ▼ 25.8% Liam Ruck $150.00 ▲ 36.4% Simas Ignatacivius $91.00 ▼ 17.3% Niklas Aaram-Olsen $88.00 ▼ 20% Colin Fitzgerald $10.00 ▼ 80% Adam Valentini $40.00 ▼ 21.2% Tobias Trejbal $86.00 ▲ 72% Allessandro Di Iorio $40.00 ▼ 20% Tomas Chrenko $40.00 ▼ 21.1% Mikey Berchild $40.00 ▼ 20% Lavr Gashilov $30.00 ▼ 40% JP Hurlbert $143.22 ▼ 1.2% Malte Gustafsson $194.86 ▼ 1.3% Marcus Nordmark $125.00 ▼ 16.7% Keaton Verhoeff $242.56 ▲ 1.1% Ivar Stenberg $410.04 ▲ 1.1% Tynan Lawrence $216.81 ▼ 1.5% Ethan Belchetz $180.00 ▼ 10% Alberts Smits $294.27 ▼ 1.9% Ryan Lin $155.00 ▼ 22.5% Chase Reid $265.30 ▲ 1.8% Ryan Roobroeck $104.00 ▼ 48% Viggo Bjork $252.99 ▲ 1.2% Daxon Rudolph $314.02 ▼ 1.6% Simon Katolicky $30.00 ▼ 80% Carson Carels $280.00 ▲ 81% Xavier Villeneuve $101.49 ▼ 1.2% Mathis Preston $68.00 ▼ 54.7% Adam Novotny $140.00 ▼ 6.7% Elton Hermansson $165.00 ▲ 10% Oliver Suvanto $170.00 ▲ 13.3% Jakub Vanecek $60.00 ▲ 20% Braidy Wassilyn $0.01 ▼ 100% Tomas Galvas $60.00 ▲ 135.4% Landon Hafele $20.00 ▼ 60% Thomas Vandenberg $40.00 ▼ 20% Luke Schairer $60.00 ▲ 140% Markus Ruck $93.00 ▲ 264.8% Ben MacBeath $60.00 ▲ 140% Ryder Cali $70.27 ▼ 1.4% Samu Alalauri $60.00 ▲ 132.6% Yaroslav Fedoseyev $20.00 ▼ 20% Aleksei Vlasov $0.01 ▼ 100% Vladimir Dravecky $30.00 ▲ 20% Victor Plante $72.98 ▼ 1.4% Zach Jovanovski $20.00 ▼ 20% Frantisek Poletin $0.01 ▼ 100% Jasper Kuhta $10.00 ▼ 60% Charlie Morrison $60.00 ▲ 140% Joe Iginla $57.81 ▼ 1.8% Chase Harrington $101.00 ▲ 298.6% Oscar Holmertz $40.00 ▼ 20% Olivers Murniecks $30.00 ▼ 40% Vilho Vanhatalo $20.00 ▼ 60% Maddox Dagenais $182.07 ▼ 1.6% Pierce Mbuyi $40.00 ▼ 20% Brooks Rogowski $106.93 ▼ 1.9% Giorgios Pantelas $20.00 ▼ 60% Casey Mutryn $96.00 ▲ 92% Wyatt Cullen $223.98 ▼ 1.3% Lars Steiner $20.22 ▲ 1.1% Axel Elofsson $30.00 ▼ 40% Tobias Tomik $0.01 ▼ 100% Nikita Shcherbakov $81.00 ▲ 62% Gleb Pugachyov $132.71 ▼ 1.7% Vertti Svensk $20.00 ▼ 60% Cooper Williams $20.00 ▼ 60% Jaxon Cover $110.86 ▼ 1.9% Brady Knowling $30.00 ▼ 40% Blake Zielinski $60.00 ▲ 20% Adam Goljer $70.00 ▲ 40% Filip Novak $10.00 ▼ 80% Blake Fiddler $78.80 ▼ 1.5% Zayne Parekh $126.27 ▲ 1.5% Cole Brown $6.89 ▼ 1.6% Wilson Bjork $15.00 — 0% Tommy Lafreniere $30.00 — 0% Artyom Kashtanov $1.00 — 0% Logan Hensler $111.49 ▼ 1.9% Kurban Limatov $49.04 ▼ 1.9% Tanner Molendyk $49.11 ▼ 1.8% Tarin Smith $30.00 — 0% Colin Ralph $34.30 ▼ 2% Etienne Morin $24.72 ▼ 1.1% Noel Fransen $30.00 — 0% Theo Lindstein $45.00 — 0% Kocha Delic $1.00 — 0% Thomas Desruisseaux $1.00 — 0% Anton Frondell $292.84 ▲ 1.8% Justin Carbonneau $130.00 — 0% Konsta Helenius $101.29 ▲ 1.3% Benjamin Rautiainen $15.72 ▲ 1.7% Eddie Genborg $65.00 — 0% Rutger McGroarty $40.00 — 0% Sam O'Reilly $57.11 ▲ 2% Milton Gastrin $80.00 — 0% Aiden Fink $2.00 — 0% Charlie Stramel $54.32 ▼ 1.2% Nathan Quinn $15.00 — 0% Brodie Ziemer $30.00 — 0% Austin Burnevik $5.00 — 0% Filip Bystedt $25.00 — 0% David Reinbacher $103.68 ▼ 1.3% Carter Yakemchuk $130.00 — 0% Kaden Pitre $5.00 — 0% Dylan Hryckowian $1.00 — 0% Cameron Lund $20.00 — 0% Mathieu Cataford $19.64 ▼ 1.8% Cole Hutson $43.62 ▲ 1.2% Spencer Gill $30.00 — 0% Harrison Brunicke $40.00 — 0% Jacob Rombach $84.11 ▼ 1% Bryce Pickford $20.24 ▲ 1.2% Seamus Casey $14.67 ▼ 1.9% Beau Akey $20.00 — 0% Artyom Duda $19.34 ▼ 1.5% Kieren Dervin $48.47 ▼ 1.7% Ryan Conmy $5.00 — 0% Porter Martone $240.59 ▲ 1.3% Quentin Musty $45.00 — 0% Cole Eiserman $78.54 ▼ 1.8% Marek Vanacker $65.00 — 0% Julius Miettinen $45.74 ▲ 1.6% Dmitri Buchelnikov $4.65 ▼ 1.7% Ethan Czata $49.02 ▼ 2% Jordan Dumais $10.16 ▼ 1.6% Tyler Hopkins $29.66 ▼ 1.1% Nathan Aspinall $10.15 ▲ 1.5% Nathan Villeneuve $29.60 ▼ 1.3% Justin Robidas $2.00 — 0% Jacob Battaglia $30.00 — 0% Ethan Wyttenbach $25.00 — 0% Dmitri Simashev $100.00 — 0% Kashawn Aitcheson $145.00 — 0% Carson Wetsch $19.96 ▲ 1.6% Ben Wilmott $20.00 — 0% Mason Moe $30.00 — 0% Jonathan Lekkerimaki $40.00 — 0% Henry Mews $30.00 — 0% Alfons Freij $50.00 — 0% Haoxi Wang $88.32 ▼ 1.9% Adam Kleber $45.00 — 0% Hunter Brzustewicz $20.00 — 0% Christian Kyrou $15.00 — 0% Lasse Boelius $50.00 — 0% Ty Nelson $10.00 — 0% Hayden Paupenekis $50.00 — 0% Max Westergard $25.00 — 0% Braeden Cootes $150.00 — 0% Trevor Connelly $80.00 — 0% Mateo Nobert $30.48 ▲ 1.6% Maxim Masse $30.37 ▲ 1.2% Anthony Romani $5.00 — 0% Ivan Ryabkin $50.00 — 0% Vadim Moroz $10.00 — 0% Kieron Walton $5.00 — 0% Alex Kostov $5.00 — 0% Egor Barabanov $20.00 — 0% David Edstrom $40.00 — 0% John Mustard $30.00 — 0% Prokhor Poltapov $10.00 — 0% Cayden Lindstrom $160.00 — 0% Caleb Desnoyers $264.10 ▲ 1.6% Roger McQueen $186.85 ▲ 1% Michael Hage $86.19 ▲ 1.9% Yegor Surin $75.00 — 0% Matias Vanhanen $80.00 — 0% Theo Stockselius $50.00 — 0% Sasha Pastujov $4.85 ▼ 1.4% Andrew Basha $43.24 ▼ 1.1% Maxmillian Curran $10.00 — 0% Vincent Desjardins $1.00 — 0% Lucas Pettersson $50.00 — 0% Dean Letourneau $69.32 ▼ 2% Clarke Caswell $15.11 ▲ 1.8% Jesse Kiiskinen $19.98 ▼ 1.6% Gabe Smith $20.00 — 0% Andrei Loshko $9.86 ▼ 1.4% Julius Sumpf $14.82 ▼ 1.2% Oscar Fisker Molgaard $19.66 ▼ 2% Emmanuel Vermette $1.00 — 0% Jere Lassila $1.00 — 0% Jake O'Brien $200.00 — 0% Roman Kantserov $21.34 ▲ 1.9% Ilya Protas $33.39 ▲ 1.7% Philippe Veilleux $1.00 — 0% Marco Mignosa $2.00 — 0% Bradley Nadeau $41.10 ▲ 1.5% Juraj Pekarcik $19.69 ▼ 1.5% Miroslav Holinka $10.00 — 0% Joshua Roy $2.00 — 0% Luke Mistelbacher $1.00 — 0% Isaac Howard $25.62 ▲ 1.1% Cullen Potter $88.61 ▼ 1.5% Yegor Vinogradov $1.00 — 0% Ethan Miedema $14.74 ▼ 1.7% Ilya Ivantsov $0.81 ▼ 1.2% Patrick Thomas $24.56 ▼ 1.8% Kalan Lind $24.54 ▼ 1.8% Matthew Gard $50.00 — 0% Jackson Smith $155.00 — 0% Oliver Bonk $55.13 ▼ 1.7% Stian Solberg $74.23 ▼ 1% Ben Danford $58.27 ▼ 1.3% Mikhail Gulyayev $39.60 ▼ 1% Tristan Luneau $10.39 ▲ 1.6% Caden Price $15.00 — 0% Jakub Fibigr $5.00 — 0% Carter Amico $73.54 ▼ 1.9% Marcus Kearsey $1.00 — 0% Victor Eklund $152.17 ▲ 1.4% Cole Reschny $135.00 — 0% Alexander Zharovsky $96.90 ▲ 2% Cole Beaudoin $70.00 — 0% Nate Danielson $85.00 — 0% Felix Nilsson $30.00 — 0% Cole McKinney $50.00 — 0% Jagger Firkus $20.00 — 0% Mason West $98.37 ▼ 1.6% Gracyn Sawchyn $19.76 ▼ 1.2% Adam Jecho $19.77 ▼ 1.2% David Lewandowski $25.00 — 0% Owen Martin $29.57 ▼ 1.4% Ethan Procyszyn $30.00 — 0% Matvei Korotky $3.00 — 0% Alexander Weiermair $4.00 — 0% Eduard Sale $52.72 ▼ 1.5% Aydar Suniev $19.71 ▼ 1.5% Dalyn Wakely $2.00 — 0% Philip Hemmyr $24.66 ▼ 1.4% Theodor Knights $30.00 ▲ 20% Bruno Osmanis $0.01 ▼ 100% Landon Amrhein $0.01 ▼ 100% Jacob Xu $0.01 ▼ 100% Landon Nycz $40.00 ▲ 60% Rian Chudzinski $40.00 ▲ 60% Adam Nemec $60.00 ▲ 137.1% Max Isaksson $0.01 ▼ 100% Viktor Fyodorov $40.00 ▲ 60% Jack Hextall $119.00 ▲ 8.2% Liam Greentree $95.00 — 0% Axel Brongel-Larsson $0.01 ▼ 100% Gavin McKenna $515.05 ▲ 1.5% Juho Piiparinen $123.00 ▲ 11.8% Alexander Command $210.00 ▲ 90.9% Nikita Klepov $186.92 ▼ 1.6% Caleb Malhotra $332.72 ▼ 1.9% Ilia Morozov $160.00 ▲ 45.5% William Hakansson $66.00 ▼ 40% Egor Shilov $83.00 ▼ 25.8% Liam Ruck $150.00 ▲ 36.4% Simas Ignatacivius $91.00 ▼ 17.3% Niklas Aaram-Olsen $88.00 ▼ 20% Colin Fitzgerald $10.00 ▼ 80% Adam Valentini $40.00 ▼ 21.2% Tobias Trejbal $86.00 ▲ 72% Allessandro Di Iorio $40.00 ▼ 20% Tomas Chrenko $40.00 ▼ 21.1% Mikey Berchild $40.00 ▼ 20% Lavr Gashilov $30.00 ▼ 40% JP Hurlbert $143.22 ▼ 1.2% Malte Gustafsson $194.86 ▼ 1.3% Marcus Nordmark $125.00 ▼ 16.7% Keaton Verhoeff $242.56 ▲ 1.1% Ivar Stenberg $410.04 ▲ 1.1% Tynan Lawrence $216.81 ▼ 1.5% Ethan Belchetz $180.00 ▼ 10% Alberts Smits $294.27 ▼ 1.9% Ryan Lin $155.00 ▼ 22.5% Chase Reid $265.30 ▲ 1.8% Ryan Roobroeck $104.00 ▼ 48% Viggo Bjork $252.99 ▲ 1.2% Daxon Rudolph $314.02 ▼ 1.6% Simon Katolicky $30.00 ▼ 80% Carson Carels $280.00 ▲ 81% Xavier Villeneuve $101.49 ▼ 1.2% Mathis Preston $68.00 ▼ 54.7% Adam Novotny $140.00 ▼ 6.7% Elton Hermansson $165.00 ▲ 10% Oliver Suvanto $170.00 ▲ 13.3% Jakub Vanecek $60.00 ▲ 20% Braidy Wassilyn $0.01 ▼ 100% Tomas Galvas $60.00 ▲ 135.4% Landon Hafele $20.00 ▼ 60% Thomas Vandenberg $40.00 ▼ 20% Luke Schairer $60.00 ▲ 140% Markus Ruck $93.00 ▲ 264.8% Ben MacBeath $60.00 ▲ 140% Ryder Cali $70.27 ▼ 1.4% Samu Alalauri $60.00 ▲ 132.6% Yaroslav Fedoseyev $20.00 ▼ 20% Aleksei Vlasov $0.01 ▼ 100% Vladimir Dravecky $30.00 ▲ 20% Victor Plante $72.98 ▼ 1.4% Zach Jovanovski $20.00 ▼ 20% Frantisek Poletin $0.01 ▼ 100% Jasper Kuhta $10.00 ▼ 60% Charlie Morrison $60.00 ▲ 140% Joe Iginla $57.81 ▼ 1.8% Chase Harrington $101.00 ▲ 298.6% Oscar Holmertz $40.00 ▼ 20% Olivers Murniecks $30.00 ▼ 40% Vilho Vanhatalo $20.00 ▼ 60% Maddox Dagenais $182.07 ▼ 1.6% Pierce Mbuyi $40.00 ▼ 20% Brooks Rogowski $106.93 ▼ 1.9% Giorgios Pantelas $20.00 ▼ 60% Casey Mutryn $96.00 ▲ 92% Wyatt Cullen $223.98 ▼ 1.3% Lars Steiner $20.22 ▲ 1.1% Axel Elofsson $30.00 ▼ 40% Tobias Tomik $0.01 ▼ 100% Nikita Shcherbakov $81.00 ▲ 62% Gleb Pugachyov $132.71 ▼ 1.7% Vertti Svensk $20.00 ▼ 60% Cooper Williams $20.00 ▼ 60% Jaxon Cover $110.86 ▼ 1.9% Brady Knowling $30.00 ▼ 40% Blake Zielinski $60.00 ▲ 20% Adam Goljer $70.00 ▲ 40% Filip Novak $10.00 ▼ 80% Blake Fiddler $78.80 ▼ 1.5% Zayne Parekh $126.27 ▲ 1.5% Cole Brown $6.89 ▼ 1.6% Wilson Bjork $15.00 — 0% Tommy Lafreniere $30.00 — 0% Artyom Kashtanov $1.00 — 0% Logan Hensler $111.49 ▼ 1.9% Kurban Limatov $49.04 ▼ 1.9% Tanner Molendyk $49.11 ▼ 1.8% Tarin Smith $30.00 — 0% Colin Ralph $34.30 ▼ 2% Etienne Morin $24.72 ▼ 1.1% Noel Fransen $30.00 — 0% Theo Lindstein $45.00 — 0% Kocha Delic $1.00 — 0% Thomas Desruisseaux $1.00 — 0% Anton Frondell $292.84 ▲ 1.8% Justin Carbonneau $130.00 — 0% Konsta Helenius $101.29 ▲ 1.3% Benjamin Rautiainen $15.72 ▲ 1.7% Eddie Genborg $65.00 — 0% Rutger McGroarty $40.00 — 0% Sam O'Reilly $57.11 ▲ 2% Milton Gastrin $80.00 — 0% Aiden Fink $2.00 — 0% Charlie Stramel $54.32 ▼ 1.2% Nathan Quinn $15.00 — 0% Brodie Ziemer $30.00 — 0% Austin Burnevik $5.00 — 0% Filip Bystedt $25.00 — 0% David Reinbacher $103.68 ▼ 1.3% Carter Yakemchuk $130.00 — 0% Kaden Pitre $5.00 — 0% Dylan Hryckowian $1.00 — 0% Cameron Lund $20.00 — 0% Mathieu Cataford $19.64 ▼ 1.8% Cole Hutson $43.62 ▲ 1.2% Spencer Gill $30.00 — 0% Harrison Brunicke $40.00 — 0% Jacob Rombach $84.11 ▼ 1% Bryce Pickford $20.24 ▲ 1.2% Seamus Casey $14.67 ▼ 1.9% Beau Akey $20.00 — 0% Artyom Duda $19.34 ▼ 1.5% Kieren Dervin $48.47 ▼ 1.7% Ryan Conmy $5.00 — 0% Porter Martone $240.59 ▲ 1.3% Quentin Musty $45.00 — 0% Cole Eiserman $78.54 ▼ 1.8% Marek Vanacker $65.00 — 0% Julius Miettinen $45.74 ▲ 1.6% Dmitri Buchelnikov $4.65 ▼ 1.7% Ethan Czata $49.02 ▼ 2% Jordan Dumais $10.16 ▼ 1.6% Tyler Hopkins $29.66 ▼ 1.1% Nathan Aspinall $10.15 ▲ 1.5% Nathan Villeneuve $29.60 ▼ 1.3% Justin Robidas $2.00 — 0% Jacob Battaglia $30.00 — 0% Ethan Wyttenbach $25.00 — 0% Dmitri Simashev $100.00 — 0% Kashawn Aitcheson $145.00 — 0% Carson Wetsch $19.96 ▲ 1.6% Ben Wilmott $20.00 — 0% Mason Moe $30.00 — 0% Jonathan Lekkerimaki $40.00 — 0% Henry Mews $30.00 — 0% Alfons Freij $50.00 — 0% Haoxi Wang $88.32 ▼ 1.9% Adam Kleber $45.00 — 0% Hunter Brzustewicz $20.00 — 0% Christian Kyrou $15.00 — 0% Lasse Boelius $50.00 — 0% Ty Nelson $10.00 — 0% Hayden Paupenekis $50.00 — 0% Max Westergard $25.00 — 0% Braeden Cootes $150.00 — 0% Trevor Connelly $80.00 — 0% Mateo Nobert $30.48 ▲ 1.6% Maxim Masse $30.37 ▲ 1.2% Anthony Romani $5.00 — 0% Ivan Ryabkin $50.00 — 0% Vadim Moroz $10.00 — 0% Kieron Walton $5.00 — 0% Alex Kostov $5.00 — 0% Egor Barabanov $20.00 — 0% David Edstrom $40.00 — 0% John Mustard $30.00 — 0% Prokhor Poltapov $10.00 — 0% Cayden Lindstrom $160.00 — 0%
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Top Prospects: The NHL System Rankings

#22: Pittsburgh Penguins

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Number of Ranked Prospects: 30

Number of Forwards in the Top 50: 1

Number of Defensemen in the Top 50: 1

Average Rank of Top 10 Prospects in Pool: 161st

Top Forward Prospect in The System: Rutger McGroarty (26th)

Top Defenseman Prospect in The System: Owen Pickering (23rd)

System Score: 2.5

 

At the beginning of the 21st century, the Penguins had a five-year run during which they held top-five draft picks, including two first-overall picks and two second-overall picks. Pittsburgh used the bounty of those draft picks to build a multiple-Stanley Cup championship team full of future Hall of Fame players (in order from 2002-2006: Ryan Whitney, Marc-Andre Fleury, Evgeni Malkin, Sidney Crosby and Jordan Staal). Since the 2018 draft, the Penguins have held a total of only three first-round draft picks, and until last year only three second-round picks, so their recent success in the draft is understandably limited.  Their 53rd-overall pick in 2018 was Calen Addison, a defenseman who has played 152 NHL games over four professional seasons, but none with the Penguins. Beyond Addison, no other player drafted by the Penguins in the last several years has seen any serious NHL ice time. 

However, over the past three drafts, Pittsburgh has been able to restock the system somewhat, and the quality of their top prospects has improved dramatically.

 

The Top of The Pool:

A few weeks ago, the Penguins traded their 14th-overall draft pick from the 2023 draft Brayden Yager (ranked 39th overall in the Hockey Prophets top forwards ranking) for Rutger McGroarty. The Winnipeg Jets drafted McGroarty 14th overall in the 2022 draft, but the relationship  between the Jets and McGroarty apparently broke down over the prospects path to the NHL, and McGroarty requested a trade. McGroarty (Hockey Prophets' 26th-ranked forward prospect) may not have the eye-popping skill of Yager, but his overall game and two-way play make him a more projectible NHL prospect. McGroarty best moments come in the most dangerous areas of the offensive zone in and around the crease. He as a sturdy frame at 6'1, 200 pounds and shows great strength on his skates. He has a high work rate and shows excellent hand skills in tight spaces. He is the type of player that parks in front of the net, muscles defenders out of position, and cleans up rebounds. McGroarty has good speed, but he will never be a player burning defenders on the rush. Instead, he will make his living banging home loose pucks and mucking around in the corners. 

The best defender in the Penguins system is Owen Pickering, Pittsburgh's 21st-overall pick from the 2022 draft. The Swift Current blueliner has a nice combination of size (he is 6'5, 185 pounds) and hockey intelligence. He uses his long reach as a weapon in the defensive zone, closing gaps quickly with both his feet and his stick, and he is particularly effective on the penalty kill. Pickering can also be an effective puck mover and his 46 points in 59 OHL games shows that he contributes in the offensive zone, as well. He looks like a good, two-way defender who can fill any role required at the time.

Harrison Brunicke is another quality blueliner in the Pittsburgh system. The Penguins drafted Brunicke in the second round of the 2024 draft, and like Pickering, he has great size at 6'3 and 187 pounds. Unlike Pickering, however, Brunicke is much more of a physical, shut-down type of defenseman who will use his size and mobility to eliminate attacking threats. He is the kind of blueliner who can play 20-plus minutes per game and leave his opponents bruised and exhausted. 

Vasili Ponomaryov and Tanner Howe add some additional quality to the forward prospects. Ponomaryov came to Pittsburgh as a part of the return in the Jake Guentzel trade at the 2024 trade deadline. Ponomaryov has had a lot of travel miles in his hockey career thus far, playing junior hockey in the QMJHL before returning to Russia to play for Spartak Moscow for a season, then back to North America for AHL in Chicago, Tuscon and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. He works as hard on the ice as his suitcase does in the luggage carousel and he is still a work-in-progress, but his development has been steady and he has a chance of being a bottom-six contributor at some point.

Howe was drafted 46th overall last summer and brings quality passing and intensity to the ice. His scoring pace dropped off a bit last year in Regina, but that can happen when a linemate like Conor Bedard leaves for NHL stardom.  

 

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Below is the full list of the Pittsburgh Penguins' ranked prospects.

Top Forwards 

Top Forward Prospects By Team
Team RankRankNamePositionAgeHeightWeightDraft SelectionPre-Draft RankingA/P Score
124Ruck, LiamRight Wing185'111772228-2.28
227Zonnon, BillLeft Wing196'21902224-1.39
335Ruck, MarkusCenter185'111673945-2.45
482McGroarty, RutgerCenter226'12041421-1.34
599Mbuyi, PierceLeft Wing185'101638670-1.17
6113Horcoff, WilliamCenter196'420324691.00
7117Howe, TannerCenter205'111834636-1.02
8145Ilyin, MikailCenter216'0181142300-0.06
9188Fernstrom, MelvinCenter206'21909353-1.00
10253Foster, CooperCenter215'111721743000.25
11262Lucius, CruzRight Wing226'01841241200.05
12281Hayes, TravisRight Wing185'11168105116-0.50
13342Plante, ZamCenter215'10170150148-0.02
14384Miller, RyanCenter195'111741302310.17
15483Dach, KaleCenter195'101632012210.02
16487Klassen, GabeCenter235'101802502780.20
17520Charron, JordanRight Wing196'21901542370.60
18533Taylor, CadenCenter196'31852502860.69
19600Jarventie, EmilLeft Wing215'101682171130.01
20694Sanderson, CarterCenter186'11961693021.11
21707Swanson, MacCenter205'7157207101-1.53
22773Cloutier, JustinRight Wing215'81652504100.68
23819Graham, MaxCenter226'32091393001.34
24877Devlin, LukeCenter226'32091823001.24

 

Top Defensemen

Top DefensemenProspects By Team
Team RankRankNamePositionAgeHeightWeightDraft SelectionPre-Draft RankingA/P Score
133Kettles, PeytonDefenseman196'519539530.21
239Brunicke, HarrisonDefenseman206'31874443-0.25
385Trethewey, CharlieDefenseman196'120073840.00
4100Pickering, OwenDefenseman236'51852124-0.49
5125Vaisanen, JoonaDefenseman226'0176250300-0.17
6137Beauchesne, QuinnDefenseman196'0187148153-0.37
7151Galvas, TomasDefenseman215'1015325077-0.55
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11226Peddle, BradyDefenseman196'3202911670.80
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