One random item that has been hanging in my mind for a while has been the Penguins’ struggles to convert second round draft picks into impact NHL players. This is no surprise, NHL draft value is a very sharp decline that shows teams are swimming upstream with picks really outside the top of the draft to find prospects that will turn into NHL players.
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Given the black median line, it should be no surprise that over a long period of time that Pittsburgh has gotten basically nothing in the last 20 years out of all of their second round picks.