Penguins Select Benjamin Kindel, Bill Zonnon, William Horcoff in First Round of NHL Draft

Penguins select Benjamin Kindel, Bill Zonnon, William Horcoff in first round of NHL Draft

The Penguins went into Friday night with back-to-back picks at 11 and 12 -- but that's not how it eventually played out.

Busy draft day for Penguins who take three in first round

For one day, Shawn Horcoff was just a ‘hockey dad’

Red Wings assistant GM Shawn Horcoff Shawn Horcoff saw his son, Will, be drafted by the Pittsburgh Penguins 25th overall in the 2025 NHL Draft on Friday. Detroit Hockey Now’s Bob Duff took note of Shawn’s comments regarding his status “draft-day dad”… “It’s a little different, a little more nerve racking,” Horcoff, 46, said of being the parent of a draftee. “I don’t make the amateur decisions, thank goodness, but this is a hard day for everyone…

Penguins VP Finally Speaks, Explains Surprising Draft Choices

The Pittsburgh Penguins have had quite the whirlwind draft with a whopping 13 picks spread over seven rounds. Kyle Dubas, the Penguins’ general manager, was wheeling and dealing, trading down a few times and sending Conor Timmins off to the Buffalo Sabres in exchange for a second-round draft pick. This is the team’s largest draft haul since 1994, which saw them pick 14 players over 11 rounds, but this year they packed 13 into just seven. Now, in…

Three First-Round Picks, One Big Night for the Penguins

At the start of this week, the Penguins had one first-round pick in the 2025 NHL Draft. They acquired a second one on Wednesday, and finished Friday with three for the first time since 1984: forwards Ben Kindel, Bill Zonnon, and Will Horcoff. “For us to come out of the

Dubas Explains Penguins First Round Picks, Trade Attempts

Pittsburgh Penguins president of hockey operations/GM Kyle Dubas offered a simple, “Yes.” When asked if reports were true that the Penguins pushed to trade upward in the 2025 NHL Draft, the general manager simply confirmed it and noted that no teams moved out of the first round despite his and other teams’ attempts to pry loose one of those coveted spots. Indeed, it seems moving up would have cost the Penguins both of their scheduled first-round…