The NHL Draft starts tonight, which made us want to look back and wonder which were the best drafts the Penguins ever had? We’re going from post-1984 on here, as memory and perspective from the early days is waning and it’s pretty unfair and even more anti-climatic to just list Mario Lemieux as #1, which of course he always will be.
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The Pens run of great first round picks in the ‘90s rolled on with grabbing Aleksey Morozov 24th overall in 1995. Morozov would play 451 NHL games, all for Pittsburgh from 1997-2004 before going back to Russia to stay.