In lieu of a prospect update this month, we’re going to instead focus on a couple of the biggest and most important developments going on with the Penguins’ top prospects.
It doesn’t get any bigger for the organization than Rutger McGroarty. A late summer trade brought McGroarty to Pittsburgh. He impressed in the prospect tournament in Buffalo, then played a heavy workload of NHL games. Unexpected injuries late in camp to Bryan Rust and Blake Lizotte opened room for McGroarty to make the NHL club as his impressive preseason ended, but the team returned to enough health to send McGroarty down to the AHL for more ice time and development.