PensBurgh · Aug 10, 2020
What the top pick would mean for the Penguins
Photo by Vaughn Ridley/Getty ImagesWell, this is not the situation anybody expected the Pittsburgh Penguins to be in this season.
Out of the Stanley Cup Playoffs before they even officially begin (even though they were a virtual lock to make them when the 2019-20 season was paused) and hoping that some lottery balls go their way for a 12.5 percent shot at the No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 draft.
It has been a strange journey to get here (a global pandemic, a bizarre on-the-fly twist of the NHL season, a shockingly disappointing play-in round loss to the Montreal Canadiens, and some wild luck in the draft lottery) but now that we ARE here we might as well embrace it.
So let us do that.