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Penguins: the 2019-2020 Prospects Challenge

Well good Penguins’ fans the interminably long off season is about to come to a close. Next weekend the Penguins’ prospects will don the team’s sweater and travel to Buffalo for this year’s Prospects Challenge.

Schedule

Day Date Time Opponent
Friday September 6 3:30 Boston Bruins
Saturday September 7 3:30 New Jersey Devils
Monday September 9 12:30 Buffalo Sabres

With the Penguins’ Cap restraints, no matter how bright any of these kids may shine, don’t get your hopes up too high, for seeing any of them in the big clubs’ sweater this coming season. However, looking down this year’s roster, it may not rival some other teams who haven’t been at the top as long as the Penguins, but it does look a bit stronger than last year’s lineup.

Roster

Name Po S/C Age Hgt Wgt
Addison, Calen D R 19 70 181
Almari, Niclas D L 21 71 168
Angello, Anthony RW/C R 23 75 209
Bellerive, Jordy C L 20 71 194
Berger, Chase C L 24 72 194
Brown, Chris C R 23 72 179
D’Orio, Alex G R 20 74 209
Drozg, Jan LW R 20 74 174
Hawkins, Brandon RW R 25 70 198
Joseph, Pierre-Olivier D L 20 74 161
Kim, Michael D L 24 71 201
Krastenbergs, Renars LW L 20 72 185
Lafferty, Sam C/LW R 24 73 195
Larmi, Emil G L 22 72 185
Lauzon, Zach D L 20 73 187
Legare, Nathan RW R 18 72 205
Lizotte, Jon D L 24 72 209
Lucchini, Jake C/LW L 24 71 183
Marino, John D R 22 73 181
Miletic, Sam LW L 22 72 196
Moskal, Billy C R 19 72 190
Poulin, Samuel RW/LW L 18 73 207
Ross, Liam D L 18 74 198
Williams, Josh RW R 18 73 185

If you haven’t noticed, there are a couple of bigger names not on this list; Justin Almeida and Kasper Björkqvist. I guess we will have to wait a little longer to see Björkqvist skating in a Penguins’ uniform. It will be interesting to see if or how missing the Challenge will affect them.

Also with Nikita Pavlychev returning for one more year to Penn State, we will also have to wait a little longer to see what he can do.

We may have to wait a little longer to see a puck dropped in anger, but in 6 days Penguins hockey will sort of start back up. Stay tuned as we take a deeper look at the players participating in next weekend’s tilts.

The Other Rick

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