PENGUINS TO ADD RANGERS 2025 NUMBER ONE CHOICE IN NHL DRAFT

The New York Rangers have decided to give the Penguins their number one draft choice this year, the 12^th overall, to complete the trade with Vancouver at the trade deadline last season.  As part of a prior trade with the Canucks, the Rangers had the right to keep the pick and give away next year’s top pick, but they opted to do it now.  It gives the Penguins eleven picks in this year’s draft, which happens Friday and Saturday.  The question for the Pens’ Kyle Dubas is whether he keeps all of those choices or bundles some of them, even the 11^th and 12^th overall selections, to try to move up in the draft order.

The Penguins announced their preseason schedule.  They’ll start at Montreal on September 22^nd and visit Columbus two days later.  After that, they’re at home for two, with Detroit on the 26^th and Columbus the next night.  On September 29^th, they play at Detroit, then wrap up the preseason at Buffalo on October 1^st and at home against the Sabres on the 3^rd.

The NHL will release the regular season schedule next month.

The 2025 class for the Hockey Hall of Fame will include former NHL stars Alexander Mogilny Zdeno Chára, Joe Thornton, and Duncan Keith; women’s Olympic gold medal winners Jennifer Botterill and Brianna Decker, and two “builders”, Jack Parker and Danièle Sauvageau