Prospects · Pittsburgh Penguins · 2026-27 · updated November 9

Pittsburgh Penguins prospects

Every player in the Pittsburgh Penguins' system who still counts as a rookie, ranked by what he is likely to become: the odds he turns into an NHL regular, and how good the players most like him turned out to be. Draft position starts the estimate; what he does after the draft takes it over.

4thPittsburgh Penguins: pipeline rank among 32 organizations7 in the league top 100 · 36 prospects in the system

Prospects and the Pittsburgh Penguins'NHL players aged 23 and under, scored on the same scale. A regular's odds are high because he is already there; his score says how good the players like him became.

95+Blue chip85+High end70+Projectable45+Depth0+Long shot
#PlayerAgeDraftedThis seasonNHL oddsImpact oddsWAR if he sticksETAScoreWeek
1Ben KindelC · NHL · NHL192025 · #1115 GP · 3-4-7Here
2Mikhail IlyinR · AHL212023 · #14212 GP · 3-7-10▼3
3Liam RuckR · WHL182026 · #2215 GP · 6-16-22▲8
4Harrison BrunickeD · NHL202024 · #449 GP · 0-3-3 AHL▼5
5Ville KoivunenR · NHL · NHL232021 · #5115 GP · 2-4-6
6Bill ZonnonR · AHL192025 · #2212 GP · 5-2-7▼5
7Rutger McGroartyR · NHL · NHL222022 · #142 GP · 0-0-0
8Tomas GalvasD · Czechia202026 · #5412 GP · 0-4-4▼5
9Sergei MurashovG · NHL222022 · #1186 GP · .880▲14
10Markus RuckC · WHL182026 · #3915 GP · 6-20-26▲9
11William HorcoffC · NCAA192025 · #249 GP · 3-5-8▼1
12Avery HayesR · NHL23Undrafted1 GP · 0-0-0▲23
13Tanner HoweL · AHL202024 · #466 GP · 1-1-2▲8
14Gabriel D'AigleG · QMJHL192025 · #8439 GP · .908▼7
15Owen PickeringD · AHL222022 · #2112 GP · 2-2-4▼18
16Melvin FernströmR · SHL202024 · #939 GP · 3-0-3 AHL▼2
17Finn HardingD · AHL212024 · #22311 GP · 2-4-6▲9
18Carter SandersonL · WHL192025 · #16916 GP · 16-10-26▼5
19Pierce MbuyiL · OHL182026 · #8619 GP · 15-11-26▼8
20Parker Von RichterD · NCAA202026 · #11110 GP · 0-2-2▼18
21Atley CalvertC · AHL22Undrafted12 GP · 3-7-10▲64
22Charlton TretheweyD · NCAA192025 · #7310 GP · 2-0-2▼45
23Matvei NikonovichG · OHL182026 · #16010 GP · .911▲2
24Jordan CharronR · OHL192025 · #15412 GP · 2-5-7▲9
25Ryan MillerC · NCAA192025 · #13010 GP · 2-2-4▼20
26Tristan BrozC · AHL232021 · #5812 GP · 3-5-8▼18
27Kale DachC · NCAA192025 · #20110 GP · 2-4-6▼145
28Chase PietilaD · AHL222024 · #1119 GP · 0-2-2▼6
29Peyton KettlesD · WHL192025 · #3916 GP · 2-7-9▲28
30Joona VäisänenD · NCAA222024 · #1759 GP · 5-8-13▲1
31Jake LivanavageD · AHL22Undrafted11 GP · 3-8-11▲171
32Quinn BeauchesneD · OHL192025 · #1482 GP · 0-1-1 NCAA▼16
33Travis HayesR · OHL192025 · #10520 GP · 8-8-16▼8
34Mac SwansonC · NCAA202024 · #2079 GP · 2-5-7–
35Brady PeddleD · NCAA192025 · #918 GP · 0-2-2▼4
36Kalle KangasD · Liiga212023 · #22318 GP · 1-1-2▼10
37Emil JarventieL · U20 SM-sarja212023 · #21715 GP · 17-5-22▲1

NHL odds are the chance he becomes a full-time NHL player — 200 games by age 26, or 100 by 27 for a goalie. Impact odds are the chance he becomes better than the typical regular at his position. WAR if he sticks is the middle outcome among his comparables who made it. The score is a percentile of the expected outcome across every prospect in the league, so forwards, defensemen and goalies sit on one scale. The rankings update every night. Week is the change in his league rank since October 29. Goalie projections are the least certain on the page: goaltending develops late and the history behind it is thin. How the rankings work