Penguins Draft History

135 picks across 20 drafts · 19 first-round picks

135 Selections
19 1st-Rd Picks
37 Active Draftees
32 +100 GP Players
Year # Player Rnd From Pos CNT League Yrs GP G A P
2025 162 Ashton Schultz 6 MTL C USA USA USHL
2025 164 Victor Hedin Raftheim 6 SEA D SWE SWE SWEDEN-JR.
2025 212 Brady Turko 7 W CAN CAN WHL
2025 218 Marco Mignosa 7 EDM W CAN CAN OHL
2024 128 Alexander Siryatsky 4 MIN D RUS RUS RUSSIA-JR.
2024 155 Petr Sikora 5 C CZE CZE CZECHIA-JR.
2024 161 Vojtech Hradec 6 COL C CZE CZE CZECHIA
2024 170 Alexander Plesovskikh 6 WPG W RUS RUS RUSSIA-JR.
2024 174 Nate Misskey 6 TOR D CAN CAN WHL
2024 185 Luke Ashton 6 SEA D CAN CAN BCHL
2024 186 Dalyn Wakely 6 BOS C CAN CAN OHL
2024 187 Matvei Korotky 6 C RUS RUS RUSSIA-JR.
2024 194 Denis Gabdrakhmanov 7 TBL G RUS RUS RUSSIA-JR.
2024 201 William Samuelsson 7 CLB C SWE SWE SWEDEN-JR.
2024 219 Finn Harding 7 D CAN CAN OHL
2023 65 Noah Dower Nilsson 3 CHI W SWE SWE SWEDEN-JR.
2023 139 Paul Fischer 5 LAK D USA USA NTDP
2023 208 Dylan Roobroeck 7 SEA C CAN CAN OHL
2023 223 Dennis Good Bogg 7 D SWE SWE SWEDEN-JR.
2022 72 Gavin Hayes 3 W USA USA OHL
2022 119 Ben King 4 NSH C CAN CAN WHL
2022 164 Parker Bell 6 SJS W CAN CAN WHL
2022 200 Theo Wallberg 7 D SWE SWE SWEDEN-JR.
2021 2 Matty Beniers 1 C USA USA BIG10 4 310 54 89 143
2021 34 Olen Zellweger 2 D CAN CAN WHL 2 24 1 6 7
2021 62 Vincent Iorio 2 PHL D CAN CAN WHL
2021 77 Riley Kidney 3 MTL C CAN CAN QMJHL
2021 94 Justin Ertel 3 PHL W CAN CAN MHL
2021 98 Jake Chiasson 4 C CAN CAN WHL
2021 130 Jacob Melanson 5 W CAN CAN QMJHL
2020 1 Alexis Lafreniere 1 W CAN CAN QMJHL 4 328 55 70 125
2020 24 Kaiden Guhle 1 MTL D CAN CAN WHL 3 235 27 76 103
2020 32 Ridly Greig 2 C CAN CAN WHL 2 165 19 13 32
2020 48 Daniel Torgersson 2 NYR W SWE SWE SWEDEN-JR.
2020 52 Luke Tuch 2 CHI W USA USA NTDP
2020 67 Topi Niemela 3 DAL D FIN FIN FINLAND
2020 70 Alex Laferriere 3 COL W USA USA USHL 1 82 7 5 12
2020 115 Bogdan Trineyev 4 EDM W RUS RUS RUSSIA-JR. 1 1 0 0 0
2020 129 Maksim Berezkin 5 DAL W RUS RUS RUSSIA-JR.
2019 9 Cole Caufield 1 W USA USA NTDP 4 322 118 123 241
2019 37 Brett Leason 2 MTL W CAN CAN WHL 2 150 8 14 22
2019 40 Pyotr Kochetkov 2 G RUS RUS RUSSIA-2 2 70
2019 80 Alexander Campbell 3 DET W CAN CAN BCHL
2019 164 Cooper Moore 6 D USA USA HIGH-CT
2019 181 Kirill Tyutyayev 6 EDM W RUS RUS RUSSIA-JR.
2018 3 Brady Tkachuk 1 W USA USA H-EAST 7 568 197 235 432
2018 15 Joe Veleno 1 EDM C CAN CAN QMJHL 3 85 13 23 36
2018 22 Jonatan Berggren 1 MTL W SWE SWE SWEDEN-JR. 3 142 7 13 20
2018 89 Cole Fonstad 3 DAL C CAN CAN WHL
2018 157 Pontus Holmberg 6 W SWE SWE SWEDEN-3 2 103 8 12 20
2017 11 Michael Rasmussen 1 C CAN CAN WHL 6 358 22 48 70
2017 42 Luke Martin 2 D USA USA BIG10
2017 54 Ian Mitchell 2 SJS D CAN CAN AJHL 2 61 4 13 17
2017 73 Nikita Popugaev 3 W RUS RUS WHL
2017 104 Tyler Inamoto 4 D USA USA NTDP
2017 129 Malte Setkov 5 MTL D DNK DNK SWEDEN-JR.
2017 135 Cole Fraser 5 D CAN CAN OHL
2017 166 Aarne Talvitie 6 C FIN FIN Finland Jr.
2017 185 Morgan Barron 6 WSH C CAN CAN HIGH-ON 3 231 16 17 33
2017 197 Brady Gilmour 7 C CAN CAN OHL
2017 215 Croix Evingson 7 BUF D USA USA NAHL
2014 3 Sam Bennett 1 C CAN CAN OHL 10 674 123 156 279
2014 7 Nikolaj Ehlers 1 BOS W DNK DNK QMJHL 10 816 206 253 459
2014 171 Pavel Jenys 6 FLA C CZE CZE Czech Republic
2014 198 Keven Bouchard 7 EDM G CAN CAN QMJHL
2014 201 Jared Fiegl 7 FLA W USA USA USHL
2014 205 Kevin Elgestal 7 NYI W SWE SWE SWEDEN-JR.
2013 151 Ben Storm 6 D USA USA USHL
2013 168 Avery Peterson 6 CGY C USA USA HIGH-MN
2013 183 Saku Salminen 7 WSH C FIN FIN FINLAND-2
2013 194 Janne Juvonen 7 NYI G FIN FIN Finland Jr.
2013 197 Jacob Jackson 7 BUF C USA USA HIGH-MN
2013 199 Chris Leblanc 7 STL W USA USA EJHL
2013 200 Anthony Louis 7 NYR C USA USA USHL
2013 202 Mitchell Dempsey 7 TOR W CAN CAN OHL
2012 20 Brendan Gaunce 1 STL C CAN CAN OHL 6 355 23 24 47
2012 53 Cristoval Nieves 2 WPG C USA USA HIGH-CT 5 272 13 24 37
2012 119 Linus Ullmark 4 CAR G SWE SWE SWEDEN-JR. 8 359
2012 144 Niklas Tikkinen 5 CHI D FIN FIN Finland Jr.
2011 24 Vladislav Namestnikov 1 CAR C RUS RUS OHL 11 759 120 157 277
2011 31 Brandon Saad 2 TOR W USA USA OHL 13 1049 255 311 566
2011 45 Mario Lucia 2 CGY W USA USA HIGH-MN
2011 59 Alexander Ruuttu 2 DET C USA USA Finland Jr.
2011 63 Nicholas Shore 3 CHI C USA USA WCHA 4 170 15 39 54
2011 87 Gregory Hofmann 3 TBL C CHE CHE SWISS
2011 109 Yannick Veilleux 4 FLA W CAN CAN QMJHL
2011 142 Stephen Michalek 5 EDM G USA USA HIGH-CT 1 4
2011 160 Matt Mahalak 6 NYR G USA USA OHL
2011 178 Colin Sullivan 6 SJS D USA USA HIGH-CT
2010 3 Nino Niederreiter 1 NYI W CHE CHE WHL 14 954 214 257 471
2010 49 Justin Faulk 2 FLA D USA USA USHL 14 1139 156 536 692
2010 105 Joakim Nordstrom 4 TBL C SWE SWE SWEDEN-JR. 7 344 25 22 47
2010 125 Luke Walker 5 MTL W USA USA WHL
2010 126 Cody Ferriero 5 BOS C USA USA HIGH-MA
2010 132 Justin Florek 5 TOR W USA USA CCHA 2 7 0 0 0
2010 153 Mirko Hoefflin 6 NYI C DEU DEU GERMAN-JR.
2010 183 Joonas Rask 7 NYI C FIN FIN FINLAND
2010 185 David Elsner 7 MTL W DEU DEU GERMAN-2
2010 188 Ronald Boyd 7 COL D USA USA HIGH-MA
2010 199 Nicholas Luukko 7 FLA D USA USA HIGH-CT
2009 27 Chris Kreider 1 C USA USA HIGH-MA 13 1026 311 375 686
2009 57 Kevin Lynch 2 C USA USA USDP
2009 62 Ben Hanowski 3 TOR W USA USA HIGH-MN
2009 69 Josh Birkholz 3 WSH W USA USA USHL
2008 29 Tyler Cuma 1 D CAN CAN OHL
2008 110 Samuel Groulx 4 ATL D CAN CAN QMJHL
2008 149 Ben Smith 5 W USA USA H-EAST 4 320 30 42 72
2008 170 Kyle De Coste 6 ATL W CAN CAN OHL
2008 179 Brett Hextall 6 C USA USA BCHL
2007 46 Aaron Palushaj 2 TBL W USA USA USHL 2 97 4 12 16
2007 63 Will Weber 3 NYR D USA USA HIGH-MI
2007 109 Robert Bortuzzo 4 OTT D CAN CAN OHL 12 602 24 73 97
2007 110 Timo Pielmeier 4 NYI G DEU DEU GERMAN-JR.
2007 160 Matt Halischuk 6 W CAN CAN OHL 6 449 43 48 91
2007 170 Cody Almond 6 NYI C CAN CAN WHL 1 22 0 0 0
2007 197 Carl Hagelin 7 DET W SWE SWE SWEDEN-JR. 11 882 132 188 320
2006 23 Patrik Berglund 1 NJD C SWE SWE SWEDEN 10 784 155 223 378
2006 199 Will O'Neill 7 ATL D USA USA USHSE
2006 219 Johan Dahlberg 8 F SWE SWE SWEDEN-JR.
2005 93 Sergei Lesnukhin 4 NYI F
2005 198 Martin Rygl 7 SJS D
2005 209 Petr Obdrzalek 7 BOS W
2005 216 Denis Osipov 8 EDM D
2005 227 Justin Kruger — re-drafted 2006 8 NSH
2005 238 Frederik Henze 8 FLA D
2005 254 Michael Eskesen 9 TBL D
2004 2 Evgeni Malkin 1 F RUS RUS RUS 20 1600 634 924 1558
2004 17 Lauri Korpikoski 1 STL F FIN FIN Finland Jr. 8 473 64 104 168
2004 27 Johannes Salmonsson 1 BOS F SWE SWE SWEDEN
2004 38 Enver Lisin 2 CAR W RUS RUS RUS 4 141 25 16 41
2004 42 Jakub Sindel 2 MIN C CZE CZE CZE
2004 61 David Krejci 3 C CZE CZE CZE JR. 15 1085 258 471 729
2004 86 R.J. Anderson 3 VAN D USA USA USHSW
2004 123 Juraj Gracik 5 WSH W SVK SVK SVK SR.
2004 133 Peter Guggisberg 5 BUF F CHE CHE SUI
# Player Rnd From Pos CNT League Yrs GP G A P
2025 Entry Draft
162 Ashton Schultz 6 MTL C USA USA USHL
164 Victor Hedin Raftheim 6 SEA D SWE SWE SWEDEN-JR.
212 Brady Turko 7 W CAN CAN WHL
218 Marco Mignosa 7 EDM W CAN CAN OHL
2024 Entry Draft
128 Alexander Siryatsky 4 MIN D RUS RUS RUSSIA-JR.
155 Petr Sikora 5 C CZE CZE CZECHIA-JR.
161 Vojtech Hradec 6 COL C CZE CZE CZECHIA
170 Alexander Plesovskikh 6 WPG W RUS RUS RUSSIA-JR.
174 Nate Misskey 6 TOR D CAN CAN WHL
185 Luke Ashton 6 SEA D CAN CAN BCHL
186 Dalyn Wakely 6 BOS C CAN CAN OHL
187 Matvei Korotky 6 C RUS RUS RUSSIA-JR.
194 Denis Gabdrakhmanov 7 TBL G RUS RUS RUSSIA-JR.
201 William Samuelsson 7 CLB C SWE SWE SWEDEN-JR.
219 Finn Harding 7 D CAN CAN OHL
2023 Entry Draft
65 Noah Dower Nilsson 3 CHI W SWE SWE SWEDEN-JR.
139 Paul Fischer 5 LAK D USA USA NTDP
208 Dylan Roobroeck 7 SEA C CAN CAN OHL
223 Dennis Good Bogg 7 D SWE SWE SWEDEN-JR.
2022 Entry Draft
72 Gavin Hayes 3 W USA USA OHL
119 Ben King 4 NSH C CAN CAN WHL
164 Parker Bell 6 SJS W CAN CAN WHL
200 Theo Wallberg 7 D SWE SWE SWEDEN-JR.
2021 Entry Draft
2 Matty Beniers 1 C USA USA BIG10 4 310 54 89 143
34 Olen Zellweger 2 D CAN CAN WHL 2 24 1 6 7
62 Vincent Iorio 2 PHL D CAN CAN WHL
77 Riley Kidney 3 MTL C CAN CAN QMJHL
94 Justin Ertel 3 PHL W CAN CAN MHL
98 Jake Chiasson 4 C CAN CAN WHL
130 Jacob Melanson 5 W CAN CAN QMJHL
2020 Entry Draft
1 Alexis Lafreniere 1 W CAN CAN QMJHL 4 328 55 70 125
24 Kaiden Guhle 1 MTL D CAN CAN WHL 3 235 27 76 103
32 Ridly Greig 2 C CAN CAN WHL 2 165 19 13 32
48 Daniel Torgersson 2 NYR W SWE SWE SWEDEN-JR.
52 Luke Tuch 2 CHI W USA USA NTDP
67 Topi Niemela 3 DAL D FIN FIN FINLAND
70 Alex Laferriere 3 COL W USA USA USHL 1 82 7 5 12
115 Bogdan Trineyev 4 EDM W RUS RUS RUSSIA-JR. 1 1 0 0 0
129 Maksim Berezkin 5 DAL W RUS RUS RUSSIA-JR.
2019 Entry Draft
9 Cole Caufield 1 W USA USA NTDP 4 322 118 123 241
37 Brett Leason 2 MTL W CAN CAN WHL 2 150 8 14 22
40 Pyotr Kochetkov 2 G RUS RUS RUSSIA-2 2 70
80 Alexander Campbell 3 DET W CAN CAN BCHL
164 Cooper Moore 6 D USA USA HIGH-CT
181 Kirill Tyutyayev 6 EDM W RUS RUS RUSSIA-JR.
2018 Entry Draft
3 Brady Tkachuk 1 W USA USA H-EAST 7 568 197 235 432
15 Joe Veleno 1 EDM C CAN CAN QMJHL 3 85 13 23 36
22 Jonatan Berggren 1 MTL W SWE SWE SWEDEN-JR. 3 142 7 13 20
89 Cole Fonstad 3 DAL C CAN CAN WHL
157 Pontus Holmberg 6 W SWE SWE SWEDEN-3 2 103 8 12 20
2017 Entry Draft
11 Michael Rasmussen 1 C CAN CAN WHL 6 358 22 48 70
42 Luke Martin 2 D USA USA BIG10
54 Ian Mitchell 2 SJS D CAN CAN AJHL 2 61 4 13 17
73 Nikita Popugaev 3 W RUS RUS WHL
104 Tyler Inamoto 4 D USA USA NTDP
129 Malte Setkov 5 MTL D DNK DNK SWEDEN-JR.
135 Cole Fraser 5 D CAN CAN OHL
166 Aarne Talvitie 6 C FIN FIN Finland Jr.
185 Morgan Barron 6 WSH C CAN CAN HIGH-ON 3 231 16 17 33
197 Brady Gilmour 7 C CAN CAN OHL
215 Croix Evingson 7 BUF D USA USA NAHL
2014 Entry Draft
3 Sam Bennett 1 C CAN CAN OHL 10 674 123 156 279
7 Nikolaj Ehlers 1 BOS W DNK DNK QMJHL 10 816 206 253 459
171 Pavel Jenys 6 FLA C CZE CZE Czech Republic
198 Keven Bouchard 7 EDM G CAN CAN QMJHL
201 Jared Fiegl 7 FLA W USA USA USHL
205 Kevin Elgestal 7 NYI W SWE SWE SWEDEN-JR.
2013 Entry Draft
151 Ben Storm 6 D USA USA USHL
168 Avery Peterson 6 CGY C USA USA HIGH-MN
183 Saku Salminen 7 WSH C FIN FIN FINLAND-2
194 Janne Juvonen 7 NYI G FIN FIN Finland Jr.
197 Jacob Jackson 7 BUF C USA USA HIGH-MN
199 Chris Leblanc 7 STL W USA USA EJHL
200 Anthony Louis 7 NYR C USA USA USHL
202 Mitchell Dempsey 7 TOR W CAN CAN OHL
2012 Entry Draft
20 Brendan Gaunce 1 STL C CAN CAN OHL 6 355 23 24 47
53 Cristoval Nieves 2 WPG C USA USA HIGH-CT 5 272 13 24 37
119 Linus Ullmark 4 CAR G SWE SWE SWEDEN-JR. 8 359
144 Niklas Tikkinen 5 CHI D FIN FIN Finland Jr.
2011 Entry Draft
24 Vladislav Namestnikov 1 CAR C RUS RUS OHL 11 759 120 157 277
31 Brandon Saad 2 TOR W USA USA OHL 13 1049 255 311 566
45 Mario Lucia 2 CGY W USA USA HIGH-MN
59 Alexander Ruuttu 2 DET C USA USA Finland Jr.
63 Nicholas Shore 3 CHI C USA USA WCHA 4 170 15 39 54
87 Gregory Hofmann 3 TBL C CHE CHE SWISS
109 Yannick Veilleux 4 FLA W CAN CAN QMJHL
142 Stephen Michalek 5 EDM G USA USA HIGH-CT 1 4
160 Matt Mahalak 6 NYR G USA USA OHL
178 Colin Sullivan 6 SJS D USA USA HIGH-CT
2010 Entry Draft
3 Nino Niederreiter 1 NYI W CHE CHE WHL 14 954 214 257 471
49 Justin Faulk 2 FLA D USA USA USHL 14 1139 156 536 692
105 Joakim Nordstrom 4 TBL C SWE SWE SWEDEN-JR. 7 344 25 22 47
125 Luke Walker 5 MTL W USA USA WHL
126 Cody Ferriero 5 BOS C USA USA HIGH-MA
132 Justin Florek 5 TOR W USA USA CCHA 2 7 0 0 0
153 Mirko Hoefflin 6 NYI C DEU DEU GERMAN-JR.
183 Joonas Rask 7 NYI C FIN FIN FINLAND
185 David Elsner 7 MTL W DEU DEU GERMAN-2
188 Ronald Boyd 7 COL D USA USA HIGH-MA
199 Nicholas Luukko 7 FLA D USA USA HIGH-CT
2009 Entry Draft
27 Chris Kreider 1 C USA USA HIGH-MA 13 1026 311 375 686
57 Kevin Lynch 2 C USA USA USDP
62 Ben Hanowski 3 TOR W USA USA HIGH-MN
69 Josh Birkholz 3 WSH W USA USA USHL
2008 Entry Draft
29 Tyler Cuma 1 D CAN CAN OHL
110 Samuel Groulx 4 ATL D CAN CAN QMJHL
149 Ben Smith 5 W USA USA H-EAST 4 320 30 42 72
170 Kyle De Coste 6 ATL W CAN CAN OHL
179 Brett Hextall 6 C USA USA BCHL
2007 Entry Draft
46 Aaron Palushaj 2 TBL W USA USA USHL 2 97 4 12 16
63 Will Weber 3 NYR D USA USA HIGH-MI
109 Robert Bortuzzo 4 OTT D CAN CAN OHL 12 602 24 73 97
110 Timo Pielmeier 4 NYI G DEU DEU GERMAN-JR.
160 Matt Halischuk 6 W CAN CAN OHL 6 449 43 48 91
170 Cody Almond 6 NYI C CAN CAN WHL 1 22 0 0 0
197 Carl Hagelin 7 DET W SWE SWE SWEDEN-JR. 11 882 132 188 320
2006 Entry Draft
23 Patrik Berglund 1 NJD C SWE SWE SWEDEN 10 784 155 223 378
199 Will O'Neill 7 ATL D USA USA USHSE
219 Johan Dahlberg 8 F SWE SWE SWEDEN-JR.
2005 Entry Draft
93 Sergei Lesnukhin 4 NYI F
198 Martin Rygl 7 SJS D
209 Petr Obdrzalek 7 BOS W
216 Denis Osipov 8 EDM D
227 Justin Kruger — re-drafted 2006 8 NSH
238 Frederik Henze 8 FLA D
254 Michael Eskesen 9 TBL D
2004 Entry Draft
2 Evgeni Malkin 1 F RUS RUS RUS 20 1600 634 924 1558
17 Lauri Korpikoski 1 STL F FIN FIN Finland Jr. 8 473 64 104 168
27 Johannes Salmonsson 1 BOS F SWE SWE SWEDEN
38 Enver Lisin 2 CAR W RUS RUS RUS 4 141 25 16 41
42 Jakub Sindel 2 MIN C CZE CZE CZE
61 David Krejci 3 C CZE CZE CZE JR. 15 1085 258 471 729
86 R.J. Anderson 3 VAN D USA USA USHSW
123 Juraj Gracik 5 WSH W SVK SVK SVK SR.
133 Peter Guggisberg 5 BUF F CHE CHE SUI
Year Total R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7+ F G D N/A
2025 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 0 1 0
2024 11 0 0 0 1 1 6 3 6 1 4 0
2023 4 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 2 0
2022 4 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 3 0 1 0
2021 7 1 2 2 1 1 0 0 5 0 2 0
2020 9 2 3 2 1 1 0 0 7 0 2 0
2019 6 1 2 1 0 0 2 0 4 1 1 0
2018 5 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 5 0 0 0
2017 11 1 2 1 1 2 2 2 5 0 6 0
2014 6 2 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 1 0 0
2013 8 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 6 1 1 0
2012 4 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 0
2011 10 1 3 2 1 1 2 0 7 2 1 0
2010 11 1 1 0 1 3 1 4 8 0 3 0
2009 4 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0
2008 5 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 3 0 2 0
2007 7 0 1 1 2 0 2 1 4 1 2 0
2006 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 0
2005 7 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 2 0 4 1
2004 9 3 2 2 0 2 0 0 8 0 1 0
Total 135 19 18 16 12 14 24 32 91 8 35 1

R7+ includes rounds beyond the 7th — the 2004–06 drafts ran deeper than today's 7. Forwards (F) count centres and wingers together; N/A is a pick whose position isn't recorded.