The NHL Draft begins tomorrow night with the first round and continues Saturday with rounds two through seven, and the league yesterday announced the official draft order.
The Penguins will not have a first-round choice, having traded that selection, the 14th overall, to San Jose last year in the Erik Karlsson deal. Their first pick will be in the second round, number 44 overall. That’s a pick that originally belonged to the Flyers but comes to the Penguins via the Jake Guentzel trade with Carolina.
The Pens’ second selection will be just two picks later, at number 46. They have no third-round choice, having traded it to Anaheim for long-departed defenseman Dmitri Kulikov two seasons ago. Kulikov played only four games for the Penguins and just won a Stanley Cup with the Florida Panthers.
The Pens will have picks in the fourth and sixth rounds, and two in the seventh. Those will be numbers 111, 175, 207, and 223 overall.
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