Note: This is the last Penguins-related In the System of the season. Alex Stumpf will take over the feature next Tuesday and focus on Pirates prospects. Thanks for following along all hockey season!
For the first time since the 2001-02 season, the Penguins don't have a team in their organization playing in the postseason.
The 2001-02 season was the only other time Wilkes-Barre/Scranton and Pittsburgh missed the playoffs in the same season since Wilkes-Barre became the Penguins' AHL affiliate in 1999. The Penguins' ECHL affiliate Wheeling Nailers missed the playoffs that season too, and they did this year as well.