Pittsburgh Penguins Draft Picks: Full accounting after trades

It’s been difficult to keep up with the positions of the Penguins’ picks in the upcoming drafts after the many, many trades that they have made lately to stock up with future selections.

Here’s the Puck Pedia outlook for the visual learners among us:

Here’s the details of the picks and who they originally belonged to.

2025

First Round (2): Pittsburgh, and New York Rangers* (conditional, top-13 protected)
Second (1): Washington
Third (3): Pittsburgh, Ottawa, Minnesota
Fourth (1): Pittsburgh
Fifth (2): Chicago, NYR
Sixth (1): Pittsburgh
Seventh (1): Pittsburgh

—The Rangers’ first round pick was acquired from Vancouver via the deal that sent Marcus Pettersson and Drew O’Connor to the Canucks…The Washington second rounder was from the trade that sent Anthony Beauvillier to the Capitals…The Pens ended up with the Ottawa third rounder via Nashville for taking Cody Glass and the Minnesota third by way of STL for taking on Kevin Hayes…The Chicago fifth rounder is via Washington in the Lars Eller tade, the NYR fifth was dealt to Pittsburgh as part of the Reilly Smith transaction.

(Note: PuckPedia points Philadelphia’s fourth rounder to Pittsburgh via Toronto, but that pick actually was acquired by Boston today…Both black and gold team, long day for us all)

2026

First round (1*): Pittsburgh, but if NYR keeps their 2025 first then Pittsburgh gets the unprotected Rangers’ pick this year
Second (3): Pittsburgh, Winnipeg, St. Louis
Third: (2): Pittsburgh, San Jose
Fourth: none
Fifth: none
Sixth (1): Nashville
Seventh (1): Pittsburgh

—The Pens got Winnipeg’s second rounder in exchange for Luke Schenn and St. Louis’ second in the Hayes trade…SJ’s third is the final piece of the Erik Karlsson trade…Nashville’s sixth was a part of the Glass deal

2027

First round (1): Pittsburgh
Second (2): Pittsburgh, NYR
Third: (3): Pittsburgh, Washington,
Fourth (2): Pittsburgh, Winnipeg
Fifth (1): Pittsburgh
Sixth (1): Pittsburgh
Seventh (1): Pittsburgh

—The Pens get the NYR second to complete the Smith trade…Pittsburgh gets Washington’s third to complete the Eller deal and an extra fourth from Winnipeg comes via the Schenn trade.

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It’s quite the collection of trades that has ended up with one extra first rounder, three additional second and five more third round picks in the next three years. Include their own picks and that makes for 18 picks in the first three rounds over the next three drafts. All of those picks will be in the top-100.

By contrast, the Pens have made 19 top-100 picks in the last 11 drafts from 2014-24.

While they may use some picks as trade bait, Pittsburgh is now positioned incredibly well in their sell off to build back up through the draft with a large quantity of important picks. Accumulating the selections is step one, now the tricky part will be in the execution of the scouting, drafting and developing to turn said picks into future NHL players for the years to come.