Pittsburgh Penguins fantasy preview 2026-27.
10 skaters and 1 goaltender clear the pool line. Sidney Crosby leads at 2.29 blended ESPN points per game. The club ranks 7th in the league in power-play points and 32nd in blocks. Every figure below is a completed season or a published calendar.
Every Pittsburgh name in the 2026-27 pool
Sorted by desk rank in the format selected above. Any header re-sorts. Counting columns are 2025-26 season totals. The value chip is consensus rank minus desk rank: mint means the desk is higher on him than the four published boards, coral means the room makes you pay.
| Pos | ||||||||||||||||
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| 31of 400 | Sidney Crosby | C | 39 | 2.23 | 2.33 | 2.29 | -0.60 | 29-45-74 in 68 | 23 | 160 | 60 | 30 | 68% | 50 | +19 | |
| 36of 400 | Bryan Rust | RW | 34 | 2.27 | 2.22 | 2.25 | -0.28 | 29-36-65 in 72 | 24 | 183 | 35 | 71 | 64% | 92 | +56 | |
| 60of 400 | Rickard Rakell | RW | 33 | 2.09 | 2.28 | 2.09 | +0.01 | 24-24-48 in 60 | 16 | 166 | 71 | 43 | 60% | 116 | +56 | |
| 86of 400 | Evgeni Malkin | C | 40 | 2.08 | 1.67 | 1.93 | -0.03 | 19-42-61 in 56 | 22 | 148 | 24 | 17 | 71% | 142 | +56 | |
| 106of 400 | Erik Karlsson | D | 36 | 1.94 | 1.71 | 1.86 | +0.54 | 15-51-66 in 75 | 26 | 176 | 20 | 64 | 52% | 98 | -8 | |
| 180of 400 | Kris Letang | D | 39 | 1.47 | 1.67 | 1.58 | -0.28 | 3-31-34 in 74 | 10 | 104 | 95 | 94 | 39% | 222 | +42 | |
| 258of 400 | Egor Chinakhov | RW | 25 | 1.39 | 1.37 | 1.39 | +1.09 | 21-21-42 in 72 | 6 | 140 | 49 | 31 | 43% | 157 | -101 | |
| 278of 400 | Ben KindelSoph | C | 19 | 1.35 | — | 1.35 | — | -0.34 | 17-18-35 in 77 | 10 | 151 | 30 | 58 | — | — | n/r |
| 292of 400 | Justin Brazeau | RW | 28 | 1.48 | 1.00 | 1.32 | -0.69 | 17-17-34 in 64 | 5 | 104 | 90 | 44 | — | — | n/r | |
| 376of 400 | Andrei KuzmenkoNEW · LAK | LW | 30 | 1.16 | 1.15 | 1.18 | +0.17 | 13-12-25 in 52 | 13 | 69 | 18 | 14 | — | — | n/r |
- 31 Sidney Crosby C · age 39 · mkt 50 2.29blend 2.2325-26 2.3324-25 -0.60H2−H1 23PPP 160SOG 60HIT 30BLK 68%PG% 29-45-74 in 68+19
- 36 Bryan Rust RW · age 34 · mkt 92 2.25blend 2.2725-26 2.2224-25 -0.28H2−H1 24PPP 183SOG 35HIT 71BLK 64%PG% 29-36-65 in 72+56
- 60 Rickard Rakell RW · age 33 · mkt 116 2.09blend 2.0925-26 2.2824-25 +0.01H2−H1 16PPP 166SOG 71HIT 43BLK 60%PG% 24-24-48 in 60+56
- 86 Evgeni Malkin C · age 40 · mkt 142 1.93blend 2.0825-26 1.6724-25 -0.03H2−H1 22PPP 148SOG 24HIT 17BLK 71%PG% 19-42-61 in 56+56
- 106 Erik Karlsson D · age 36 · mkt 98 1.86blend 1.9425-26 1.7124-25 +0.54H2−H1 26PPP 176SOG 20HIT 64BLK 52%PG% 15-51-66 in 75-8
- 180 Kris Letang D · age 39 · mkt 222 1.58blend 1.4725-26 1.6724-25 -0.28H2−H1 10PPP 104SOG 95HIT 94BLK 39%PG% 3-31-34 in 74+42
- 258 Egor Chinakhov RW · age 25 · mkt 157 1.39blend 1.3925-26 1.3724-25 +1.09H2−H1 6PPP 140SOG 49HIT 31BLK 43%PG% 21-21-42 in 72-101
- 278 Ben Kindel C · age 19 · mkt n/r 1.35blend 1.3525-26 —24-25 -0.34H2−H1 10PPP 151SOG 30HIT 58BLK —PG% 17-18-35 in 77n/r
- 292 Justin Brazeau RW · age 28 · mkt n/r 1.32blend 1.4825-26 1.0024-25 -0.69H2−H1 5PPP 104SOG 90HIT 44BLK —PG% 17-17-34 in 64n/r
- 376 Andrei Kuzmenko LW · age 30 · mkt n/r 1.18blend 1.1625-26 1.1524-25 +0.17H2−H1 13PPP 69SOG 18HIT 14BLK —PG% 13-12-25 in 52n/r
Pittsburgh are 7th in power-play points
Six categories, summed across every Pittsburgh skater in the pool for 2025-26, each drawn against the league average of the same sum. The tick on every track is that average. A middle club in both halves of a category league; the edge here is player-by-player, not roster-wide.
- G 187 lg avg 194 20th
- A 297 lg avg 329 24th
- PPP 155 lg avg 130 7th
- SOG 1401 lg avg 1644 27th
- HIT 492 lg avg 909 31st
- BLK 466 lg avg 789 32nd
Where the blended points sit
Share of the club's total blended points per game contributed by forwards, defencemen and goaltenders in the pool. A club heavy in the D band is a club whose value survives a league that starts four defencemen.
Deep at right wing, barren at left wing
Ordered by blend inside each column, tinted by the same number on a fixed league-wide scale. Darker is better, and an empty column is the club telling you where you will have to shop elsewhere. Every tile links to the player.
Crease 1
Pittsburgh against the other 31
Draftable stock
4 Pittsburgh skaters inside the desk's top 100 — 14th of 32
Every club, sorted. DAL lead with 5; the thinnest club has 0. A tall bar is a roster you will keep bumping into in the first eight rounds.
Power-play concentration
47.1% held by the top three — 30th-most concentrated
Below the league median of 55.2%. Power-play value here is not locked behind three players.
One Pittsburgh name in the crease
Last season's starts, split between the goaltenders the pool ranks here. The calendar puts 15 back-to-backs in front of them, and those are the nights the starter does not get.
The tick is the league median busiest-goaltender share, 64.7% across the 32 clubs with a pool-ranked crease. Silovs sits at 100.0%.
| Goaltender | GS | W | SO | GAA | SV% | Blend | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arturs Silovsage 25 · mkt 239 | 38 | 19 | 2 | 3.07 | 0.887 | 1.05 | Tandem |
Power-play points are normally split in Pittsburgh
- 1 Erik Karlsson D 26 PPP · 16.8% · 39.4% of his own points
- 2 Bryan Rust RW 24 PPP · 15.5% · 36.9% of his own points
- 3 Sidney Crosby C 23 PPP · 14.8% · 31.1% of his own points
47.1% is a league-typical split: a first unit that takes most of it, a second unit that is not decorative.
Pittsburgh sat out the tracked market
Pittsburgh Penguins do not appear in the desk's 2026 offseason ledger in either direction. The ledger tracks moves that changed a ranked fantasy player's club, so an absence means the fantasy-relevant roster is intact.
The Pittsburgh schedule edge
The only input on this page that is already known. It does nothing to a first-round pick and a great deal to your last two bench spots.
Season opens 2026-09-30. Mint tiles help you; coral tiles cost you.
What this roster already did
Evgeni Malkin put up 3-1-4 with 6 shots on 2026-04-04 for PIT, worth 9.1 ESPN points. It is the 44th-biggest single game in the desk's ten-season file.
Erik Karlsson owns the 5th-best D season in the ten-year file: 2016-17, 77 games, 17-54-71, 2.99 ESPN points per game.
1 Pittsburgh name to keep on the shelf
Where they play now and their NHL games so far. None of these are draft-night picks in a standard 12-team league. They are the names that change this page next August.
- Ben Kindel Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 77 GP · 35 P 77 NHL games
Reading the Pittsburgh board
Sidney Crosby leads at 2.29 blended ESPN points per game, 31st of 400 skaters. Bryan Rust (2.25) sits 0.04 back. A shared top, not an anchor. 10 skaters and 1 goaltender clear the pool line.
Shape: 7th in power-play points, 32nd in blocks. A middle club in both halves of a category league; the edge here is player-by-player, not roster-wide.
Bryan Rust is the widest gap: desk 36, market 92. 56 slots in your favour. Egor Chinakhov runs the other way, 258 here against 157. You pay 101 slots over. 4 names carry a 20-slot edge.
Three players hold 47.1% of the club's 155 power-play points. A league-typical split, which makes the third name the underpriced one.
31 off-nights of 84, 18th in the league. 15 back-to-backs, 32nd-fewest. Neutral at the bottom of your roster.
Arturs Silovs started 38 at 3.07 and 0.887. Tandem volume caps the ceiling whatever the rates say.
Nothing in or out on the tracked ledger. Average pool age 32.3. 3 trending up, 3 down. Next in line: Ben Kindel.
What this page does not know
Caveats, printed as the builder wrote them
- There is no projection here. Every rate is a weighted blend of what already happened, 0.6 on 2025-26, 0.3 on 2024-25, 0.1 on 2023-24, so a player whose role is about to change will be mispriced by exactly the amount his role changes.
- The DNA bars are club sums, not rates. A club with more pool-ranked skaters sums higher, which is the point: it measures the fantasy roster you can draft, not the average player on it.
- Power-play share is a proxy for first-unit time, not a measurement of it. It reads last season's points, so a club that rebuilt its top unit in the summer will read wrong until the season corrects it.
- The depth chart uses the pool's listed position. It is not a line-combination projection and no club has confirmed any of it.
- PG% is joined from a 250-player game-level build. Where a skater is missing from that build the column is blank rather than estimated.
- Roster membership follows the live NHL roster feed as of 2026-08-31. Training-camp cuts, waiver claims and September trades are not in it.
- Goaltender start counts are last season's, from whatever club the goaltender played for. They are workload evidence, not a depth-chart declaration.