In case you somehow missed it, the Penguins lost a player on waivers earlier this week. Center Jean-Sebastien Dea got claimed by the New Jersey Devils.
This really just goes to show two things. One, how perfectly the waiver process works, and two how deep the Penguins really are.
Dea, 24, just scored 50 points (18 goals + 32 assists) in 70 AHL games last season. He also got five games in Pittsburgh at the NHL level and scored his first career goal. The Pens were high on him and general manager Jim Rutherford even commented over the summer that the team felt he was pretty much an NHL caliber player.