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Prospect Info: Pittsburgh Penguins Prospects Thread: 2023-2024 Edition

KareemTrustfund

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Chase Yoder is returning to college, meaning the Penguins are not intended on signing him before Aug. 15th deadline. Not really a surprise there
 
lokomotiv15

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Turin said:
San Jose? You do you I guess
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I mean, to be fair, he knows he will get tons of opportunities and not get buried to start like he might have other places (or here). He gets to live in one of the nicer cities in the NHL with some of the best weather and has other young players like Will Smith, Musty, Halttunen, that super offensive D-man playing in the W and probably a top-3 pick locked in for this year to come into the league with.

Rather see him go there than Boston or to see New York get another shiny, free toy.
 
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lokomotiv15 said:
I mean, to be fair, he knows he will get tons of opportunities and not get buried to start like he might have other places (or here). He gets to live in one of the nicer cities in the NHL with some of the best weather and has other young players like Will Smith, Musty, Halttunen, that super offensive D-man playing in the W and probably a top-3 pick locked in for this year to come into the league with.

Rather see him go there than Boston or to see New York get another shiny, free toy.
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He probably looked at Sullivan and said he wanted to play more than 5 minutes in the bottom six and not get scratched when he makes a mistake lol…but Sullivan is great with development and working with young players!
 
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Tasty Biscuits

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Puusy and JSI do seem to be finding their respective games fwiw. All the 4th line shenanigans just seem to outweigh that.

Re: Graf. He'll get plenty of opp in SJ, so good call on his part. Most of those in the know don't think he'll amount to anything, as he put up most of his #'s against the weakest teams in a weak conference and struggled to produce against quality opposition.
 
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Jacob said:
Why are so many college players going 5 years now?
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I have a few buddies playing NCAA and I’m pretty sure some guys are taking the extra year because with the COVID years, the NCAA passed a few rules about an extra year, plus some transfer rules.

Guys that can sign on year 4 for a good deal will usually take it if they’re done school or can finish schooling easily enough after. A lot of good but not great NCAA players get offered decent/so-so AHL contracts and are banking on themselves to maybe get more attention in that extra year to earn a more favourable deal.
 
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If the RD Jack St, Ivany playing up now can become a solid player as 3rd RD, Pens have at least one of the needs taken care off. Draft a top RD with skill and size this draft and Pens at least are moving to deepen the system for when they trade Karlsson for rebuild,
 

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Did Pickering not make the WBS Pens at the beginning of this season or what is the dumb rule that prevented him? He just turned 20, but still had to play Junior?
 
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FunkySeeFunkyDo said:
Did Pickering not make the WBS Pens at the beginning of this season or what is the dumb rule that prevented him? He just turned 20, but still had to play Junior?
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Players from Canadian junior teams must be 20 before January 1 or have played four seasons for their junior team to be eligible to play in the AHL.

Pickering turned 20 on January 27, 2024 and had only played 3 seasons in juniors.

Yager will be different. Even though he turns 20 on January 4, 2025, he'll have four junior seasons under his belt. He SHOULD be allowed to play in WBS next season.
 
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ZorkEnchanter said:
NIL... especially in any decent schools.
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Has nothing to do with NIL. Everything to do with COVID year.

Not sure about specifically hockey but in other sports looser transfer rules also have made teams more willing to use redshirts - but that’s not technically a true “5th year”.
 
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CheckingLineCenter said:
Has nothing to do with NIL. Everything to do with COVID year.

Not sure about specifically hockey but in other sports looser transfer rules also have made teams more willing to use redshirts - but that’s not technically a true “5th year”.
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It’s still nil especially when your not a top pick you can get a million or more and stick around in college it’s happening in other schools. Heck the nba just shutdown the ignite because of nil
 
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bigdaddyk88 said:
It’s still nil especially when your not a top pick you can get a million or more and stick around in college it’s happening in other schools. Heck the nba just shutdown the ignite because of nil
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There isn’t a single top NHL pick getting a mil to stay in school lmao.

5 years of eligibility has nothing to do to with NIL. It’ll go back to 4 once COVID year eligibility lapses out which is soon. Non rev sports not affected by it as much as ppl think. Top guys making 40-50k of endorsements maybe.
 
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