Armchair GMing the Penguins 2025-2026 Part 1: the Draft

Okay, so as I started trying to write this post about armchair GMing, starting with the upcoming draft, however, developments have caused me to rewrite my thoughts. “What developments?” you may ask, and with good reason.  

1. The New York

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Analyzing the Rangers’ Decision to Trade 12th-Overall Pick to the Penguins

The New York Rangers just announced that they will be opting to keep their 2026 first-round pick, thus giving their divisional rivals, the Pittsburgh Penguins, the 12th-overall pick in the…

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Canadiens announce 2025 pre-season schedule

The Canadiens will open their exhibition schedule on Monday, Sept. 22 against the Pittsburgh Penguins at the Bell Centre.

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NHL Rumors: Nikolaj Ehlers Impacts Plus The Pittsburgh Penguins

The Winnipeg Jets and Pittsburgh Penguins are in this edition of NHL Rumors. Could Pittsburgh trade off more assets before free agency?

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NHL Rumors: Nikolaj Ehlers Impacts Plus The Pittsburgh Penguins

The Winnipeg Jets and Pittsburgh Penguins are in this edition of NHL Rumors. Could Pittsburgh trade off more assets before free agency?

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Gauging Erik Karlsson’s Trade Value

Even the Pittsburgh Penguins’ trade for Erik Karlsson on Aug. 6, 2023, was a complicated mess that ended weeks of drama. Did the Penguins give up a first and second-round pick for Karlsson? Did they give up those two picks and a top-six center in M

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Our record in Mock Drafts: Spotty, but hopeful

Photo by Eliot J. Schechter/NHLI via Getty Images It’s hard to draft If you ever want to be humbled, participate in mock drafts for a prolonged period with other people and track the results. That’s the lesson from looking

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Rangers decision won’t change Penguins draft strategy

Photo by Dave Sandford/NHLI via Getty Images The Penguins now own two first round picks in the 2025 NHL Draft, but it remains business as usual for Dubas & Co. With the New York Rangers ending all speculation and transferr

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Dan’s Daily: UFA Rumors; New Hall of Famers; Penguins Trade Opps

The Pittsburgh Penguins closed the loop on one trade when the New York Rangers delivered their 2025 first-round pick via the Vancouver Canucks to close the Penguins Marcus Pettersson/Drew O’Connor deal, and instantly the Penguins had a few new trad

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NHL rumblings: What it'd take to move Karlsson, plus latest on Tavares, Marchand, Ekblad, Bouchard

What it would take to get Erik Karlsson out of Pittsburgh,, why a Brad Marchand-Panthers re-signing is becoming more likely and more.

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NHL greenlights first expansion plans 60 years ago today

Photo by Denis Brodeur/NHLI via Getty Images When six became 12. Sixty years ago Wednesday, the National Hockey League planted the seeds for what would become its first major expansion, hoping to create six new teams, ballooni

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Penguins Draft Targets: Big Radim Mrtka, Quickly Rising Ranks

A 17-year-old big Czech defenseman is rising quickly in rankings and mock drafts. Radim Mrtka towered above most of his fellow draftees at the NHL Scouting Combine in Buffalo last month, and didn’t know that he actually had dinner with Pittsburgh P

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