Shortly after I awakened one morning last week I received a text from PP colleague Caleb Di’Natale. Caleb was keen to inform me that Brayden Yager, our first-round pick last summer, is on pace for a 100-point season with his junior team, Moose Jaw.
Good news, indeed.
It got me to thinking. Could help, more specifically the internal kind, be at long-last on the way?
To say the Penguins’ farm system has produced a paucity of prospects over the past few years is putting the situation mildly. Since Jake Guentzel burst onto the scene as an overachieving third-rounder back in 2016-17, only a handful of home-grown draftees and free-agent signees have played anything approaching a significant role for the black and gold.