The Pittsburgh Penguins have traded several key draft picks away in the last 10 years in their need to fuel a contender, which makes this focus a rough one. It’s tough to build from deep within the draft, most of the picks outside of the first round in the NHL are not going to go onto have NHL impacts. That said, let’s see how the Pens have done recently in the draft.
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Grade: Incomplete (but trending nicely enough)
You can never really know for sure with an NHL draft until several years have gone by to see what ends up happening.