2023 Penguins Prospect Challenge: Schedule, details, roster

Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty ImagesContain your excitement, the Penguins’ season starts today!

Ok, so it starts with barely making a ripple with the team’s prospects heading up to Buffalo for three games. The joke, of course, is the Penguins don’t truly have that many solid prospects - a large part of their team is unsigned and undrafted players who likely will wash away after this week without making much of an impact.

But, every story has to start somewhere and an article in The Athletic about why prospect tournament games are important even warmed this cold, dark heart a little.

“It was a really important tournament for me,” said former NHL agitator Antoine Roussel, who also attended…