Most years, we haven’t had to put in the effort for an honorable mention article prior to the Top 25 countdown of young players in the Pittsburgh Penguins’ organization. A lot of the time the bottom-half of the list has been longshots at best, let alone those who didn’t make the cut in the first place.
After making 13 draft picks this year and acquiring some others via trade, that’s changing now. In the past, the stance was to defer to the hope of newly drafted players, out of necessity since the Pens had little else in their system.