2009–10 Pittsburgh Penguins season

The 2009–10 Pittsburgh Penguins season was the 42nd season of the franchise in the National Hockey League (NHL). The Penguins entered the season as defending Stanley Cup Champions. It is scheduled to be the last season during which the Penguins' home venue will be Mellon Arena, before they move into their new arena, the Consol Energy Center, which is being constructed adjacent to the Mellon Arena across Centre Avenue.
The regular season began with a home game against the New York Rangers in which the Penguins held a banner raising ceremony beforehand.
The Penguins qualified for the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season. They did not become champions of the Atlantic Division, but earned the fourth seed in the Eastern Conference with 101 points. They began the 2010 Stanley Cup playoffs on April 14 against the Ottawa Senators. They beat the Senators, but were eliminated in the Eastern Conference semi-finals against the Montreal Canadiens. 
==Pre-season==
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# 	Date 	Visitor 	Score 	Home 	OT 	Decision 	Attendance 	Record 	Recap 	
1 	September 15 	Columbus Blue Jackets 	4–5 	Pittsburgh Penguins 	OT 	Fleury 	15,766 	1–0–0 	 	
2 	September 18 	Toronto Maple Leafs 	4–3 	Pittsburgh Penguins 	 	Johnson 	16,621 	1–1–0 	 	
3 	September 21 	Pittsburgh Penguins 	3–4 	Montreal Canadiens 	 	Curry 	21,273 	1–2–0 	 	
4 	September 22 	Pittsburgh Penguins 	2–3 	Toronto Maple Leafs 	SO 	Johnson 	18,910 	1–2–1 	 	
5 	September 24 	Pittsburgh Penguins 	2–5 	Columbus Blue Jackets 	 	Fleury 	12,638 	1–3–1 	 	
6 	September 27 	Pittsburgh Penguins 	1–4 	Detroit Red Wings 	 	Fleury 	13,891 	1–4–1 	 	
==Regular season==
===First half: October to December===
The Penguins began the 2009–10 season on Friday, October 2. Prior to the game the team raised the Stanley Cup banner at Mellon Arena. The ceremonial banner raising was shown on a video board outside Mellon Arena, which displayed highlights from the previous season during the days leading up the game. The Penguins won their opening night game over the New York Rangers and defeated the New York Islanders the following night. After their first loss of the season to the Phoenix Coyotes, the Penguins embarked on a four game road trip to complete a series of five games in eight days. The Penguins swept the four game road trip—setting a new franchise record for consecutive road wins to start a season. The Penguins extended their overall win-streak to seven games by winning the first three games of their ensuing homestand; the win-streak ended with a loss to the New Jersey Devils on October 24.
The Penguins began November with a three-game road trip in California. After defeating the Anaheim Ducks, the Penguins lost their first back-to-back games of the season to the Los Angeles Kings and the San Jose Sharks. The team then lost to the Boston Bruins and New Jersey Devils. During the four-game losing streak the Penguins were outscored 17–3. Against the Bruins, Sidney Crosby did not score a point for the fifth-consecutive game, the worst of his career. The Penguins ended their skid with a 6–5 overtime victory against Boston on November 14. Bill Guerin tied the game with .04 second left, and Pascal Dupuis scored in overtime.
Extended injuries hindered the team throughout much of the early season. On November 16 the Penguins played without four of the six defenceman that had started with the team. Additionally, they were without forwards Tyler Kennedy, Max Talbot and Chris Kunitz. Evgeni Malkin had also missed significant time. Later in the week it was announced that defenceman Jay McKee would miss two to four weeks, but that Sergei Gonchar and Max Talbot, who had surgery during the off-season, would likely return on November 19.
right|thumb|Team together during a time out
In late December through January 1, rosters for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver were announced, and five Penguins were selected. Malkin and Gonchar were selected to play for Russia, Crosby and Marc-Andre Fleury for Canada, and Brooks Orpik for the United States.
The Penguins concluded the first half of their season with their 41st game on December 30 against the New Jersey Devils. Through the first 41 games, the Penguins earned a 26–14–1 record. While the Penguins won five straight in the middle of the month, they ending losing three in a row, and four of their last five, including shutouts of 0–2 and 0–4 to the Devils. The 0–4 shutout earned Devils' goalie Martin Brodeur his 104th career shutout and the NHL record.
===Second half: January to April===
The Penguins began the second half of their season with their 42nd game on January 2 against the Tampa Bay Lightning. The Penguins went on to lose both of their first two games of the second half of the season with the second coming against the Florida Panthers. The Penguins then returned home for a two game home stand in which they split by first defeating the Atlanta Thrashers and then loosing in a high scoring 7-4 contest to the Philadelphia Flyers. After the home stand, the Penguins embarked on a five game road trip of Canada and Minnesota in which they finished the trip with a decent 3-2 record with wins coming against the Toronto Maple Leafs, Calgary Flames and the Edmonton Oilers. They battled with a struggling New Jersey Devils team for the Atlantic division title, but ultimately fell short, due in large part to having lost all 6 divisional games against the Devils. The Penguins had a 21-14-6 record in the 2nd half of the season, placing them in fourth place in the Eastern Conference (despite having the 3rd best points total). It would be the 3rd time in 4 years that the Penguins had 100+ points in a season (having missed out by a single point the previous year) and the 4th straight year with 45 wins or more.
===Standings===
;Atlantic division
;Eastern conference
===Game log===
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* Red background indicates regulation loss (0 points)	
* White background indicates overtime/shootout loss (1 point)
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# 	Date 	Visitor 	Score 	Home 	OT 	Decision 	Attendance 	Record 	Pts 	Recap
1 	October 2 	New York Rangers 	2–3 	Pittsburgh Penguins 	 	Fleury 	17,132 	1–0–0 	2 	
2 	October 3 	Pittsburgh Penguins 	4–3 	New York Islanders 	SO 	Fleury 	16,234 	2–0–0 	4 	
3 	October 7 	Phoenix Coyotes 	3–0 	Pittsburgh Penguins 	 	Johnson 	16,975 	2–1–0 	4 	
4 	October 8 	Pittsburgh Penguins 	5–4 	Philadelphia Flyers 	 	Fleury 	19,611 	3–1–0 	6 	
5 	October 10 	Pittsburgh Penguins 	5–2 	Toronto Maple Leafs 	 	Fleury 	19,374 	4–1–0 	8 	
6 	October 12 	Pittsburgh Penguins 	4–1 	Ottawa Senators 	 	Fleury 	17,014 	5–1–0 	10 	
7 	October 14 	Pittsburgh Penguins 	3–2 	Carolina Hurricanes 	SO 	Fleury 	14,056 	6–1–0 	12 	
8 	October 17 	Tampa Bay Lightning 	1–4 	Pittsburgh Penguins 	 	Fleury 	17,132 	7–1–0 	14 	
9 	October 20 	St. Louis Blues 	1–5 	Pittsburgh Penguins 	 	Fleury 	17,132 	8–1–0 	16 	
10 	October 23 	Florida Panthers 	2–3 	Pittsburgh Penguins 	SO 	Johnson 	16,971 	9–1–0 	18 	
11 	October 24 	New Jersey Devils 	4–1 	Pittsburgh Penguins 	 	Fleury 	17,132 	9–2–0 	18 	
12 	October 28 	Montreal Canadiens 	1–6 	Pittsburgh Penguins 	 	Fleury 	16,965 	10–2–0 	20 	
13 	October 30 	Pittsburgh Penguins 	4–3 	Columbus Blue Jackets 	SO 	Johnson 	19,136 	11–2–0 	22 	
14 	October 31 	Minnesota Wild 	2–1 	Pittsburgh Penguins 	 	Fleury 	16,960 	11–3–0 	22 	
==Stanley Cup playoffs==
The Penguins advanced to the Stanley Cup playoffs for the fourth consecutive season. They earned the fourth seed in the Eastern Conference and home-ice advantage in the opening round match-up with the Ottawa Senators. The Penguins defeated the Senators 4-2 and will now face the 8th seeded Montreal Canadiens.
===Eastern Conference quarterfinals===
The Penguins lost game one of the series 5-4. The Penguins took an early 1-0 lead when Evgeni Malkin scored at 3:03 into the first period on the power play, but finished the first period trailing the Senators 2-1 after Peter Regin and Chris Neil both scored on rebounds. The Senators extended their lead to 3-1 early in the second period on the power play when Marc-André Fleury was caught out of the net on an odd bounce off of the end board in which Chris Kelly put into the open net. Malkin managed to decrease the deficit to 3-2 with his second power play goal of the night near the midway point of the 2nd. The Senators lead was then re-extended the lead 3 minutes later when Erik Karlsson scored on the power play. Five minutes into the 3rd period, Craig Adams scored on a backhand shot to decrease the Senators lead back to one goal, but almost five minutes later ex-Penguin Jarkko Ruutu scored what would be the game winning goal. Alex Goligoski scored to make the score 5-4 with about a minute and a half off of a no look feed from Sidney Crosby behind the net. 
Looking to tie the series at 1 a piece in game two, things didn't get off on the right foot with the Senators Peter Regin scoring 18 seconds into the game to take an early 1-0 lead. Sidney Crosby leveled things up 8 minutes later knocking in a rebound off of a Chris Kunitz shot. After a scoreless second period, Kris Letang scored the game winner at 16:48 in the third on a slap shot with the assist from Crosby who fed Letang after falling to his knees. The Penguins were able to fend off the Senators for the remainder of the game and leveled the series 1-1. 
The series then turned to Scotiabank Place, the home of the Senators for game 3. The Penguins started the scoring 1:17 into the first when Alexei Ponikarovsky beat Senators goalie Brian Elliott to give the Penguins a 1-0 lead. The Senators Peter Regin scored late in the first period, but the goal was disallowed due to the fact that the puck was scored by a clear kicking motion. Early in the 2nd period, Mike Fisher scored on a power play to knot things up at 1-1. Evgeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby both went on to score goals in the second, with Crosby's coming on a power play to give the Penguins a 3-1 advantage after 2 periods. Bill Guerin extended the lead to 4-1 when he slotted home a shot on a breakaway. The Senators put on the pressure late and managed to put another behind Marc-André Fleury, this time it was Matt Cullen on the power play lifting a shot over Fleury's glove front a wide angle. The Senators pulled their goalie on a late power play to extend their man advantage to two, but failed to convert any shots to goals. When the clock struck zero, the final score was 4-2 to give the Penguins a 2-1 series lead.
Two days later, the two clubs met again in Ottawa for the fourth game of the series. The first goal of the game came 11:50 into the first period when Evgeni Malkin scored on a power play slap shot to take a 1-0 lead into the first intermission. In the second period, Ottawa turned the puck over near their blue line and Sergei Gonchar fed Chris Kunitz who then tapped the puck into the offensive zone where Sidney Crosby uncovered gathered the puck and slotted it home past Elliott to take a 2-0 lead. 12 seconds later, Maxime Talbot fed Matt Cooke from the corner boards to the front of the goal to increase the scoreline to 3-0. Things got ugly for Ottawa 13 seconds later, when Crosby came into the offensive zone virtually untouched and put a wrist shot top far corner to extend the lead to 4. Senators goal keeper Brian Elliott was then pulled and replaced by Pascal Leclaire. After the change Ottawa managed to score two goals from Chris Neil and Daniel Alfredsson]] to decrease the Penguin lead to 4-2. The goal scoring then continued in the period when Maxime Talbot scored a short handed goal. Matt Cullen for Ottawa then scored on a 5 on 3 power play and finally Chris Kunitz scored for Pittsburgh with around two minutes left in the period to go into the intermission with a 6-3 lead. In the final period, the Senators scored on another 5 on 3 power play and Jordan Staal scored the last goal of the game on a backhand shot to end any hopes of a Senators comeback. The final score was 7-4 and Pittsburgh took a 3-1 series lead back to Pittsburgh.
In game five the Penguins looked to wrap up the series on home ice. In the first period, the Senators took an early 2-0 lead with Mike Fisher scoring at 10:25 on a power play and Jarkko Ruutu put another one past Marc-Andre Fleury a little over a minute later. Kris Letang scored on a slap shot during a power play at 18:05 in the period to decrease the Senators lead to 2-1 going into the first intermission. In the second period, neither sides could manage to score until Chris Kunitz put a wrist shot past Pascal Leclaire to knot things up a 2-2 with about a minute and a half left in the second period. In the third period, Sidney Crosby scored at 9:01 on a beautiful wrist shot goal sitting on his backside in front of goal that looked like it could be the series clincher. The Senators quickly responded though at 10:24 when Peter Regin put a slap shot past Fleury to tie the game back up at 3-3. The game then went into overtime and a winner wasn't found until 7:06 into the third overtime when Matt Carkner's slap shot hit Fleury and trickled past the goal line to give the Senators a 4-3 win and decrease the Penguins advantage in the series to 3-2.
===Eastern Conference semifinals===
===Playoff log===
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# 	Date 	Visitor 	Score 	Home 	OT 	Pittsburgh goals 	Ottawa goals 	Decision 	Attendance 	Series 	Recap
1 	April 14 	Ottawa 	5–4 	Pittsburgh 	 	Malkin, Malkin, Adams, Goligoski 	Regin, Neil, Kelly, Karlsson, Ruutu 	Fleury (0–1) 	17,132 	0–1 	
2 	April 16 	Ottawa 	1–2 	Pittsburgh 	 	Crosby, Letang 	Regin 	Fleury (1–1) 	17,132 	1–1 	
3 	April 18 	Pittsburgh 	4–2 	Ottawa 	 	Ponikarovsky, Malkin, Crosby, Guerin 	Fisher, Cullen 	Fleury (2–1) 	20,119 	2–1 	
4 	April 20 	Pittsburgh 	7–4 	Ottawa 	 	Malkin, Crosby, Cooke, Crosby, Talbot, Kunitz, Staal 	Neil, Alfredsson, Cullen, Spezza 	Fleury (3–1) 	20,014 	3–1 	
5 	April 22 	Ottawa 	4–3 	Pittsburgh 	3OT 	Letang, Kunitz, Crosby 	Fisher, Ruutu, Regin, Carkner (3OT) 	Fleury (3–2) 	17,132 	3–2 	
6 	April 24 	Pittsburgh 	4–3 	Ottawa 	OT 	Cooke, Guerin, Cooke, Dupuis (OT) 	Cullen, Neil, Alfredsson 	Fleury (4–2) 	20,122 	Win series 4–2 	
*Scorer of game winning goal in italics
==Player stats==
The following statistics were compiled from the Penguins' official website.
===Skaters===
Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus/Minus; PIM = Penalty Minutes
Regular season	 	 	 	 	 	
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Player 	GP	G 	A 	Pts	+/−	PIM
& 	-9	00	00	000	-99	0
Zz 	99	99	99	999	99 	99
 	81	51	58	109	+15	71
 	67	28	49	77 	 	100
 	62	11	39	50 	 	49
 	82	21	28	49 	+19	57
 	78	21	24	45 	 	75
 	81	18	20	38 	+5 	16
 	69	8 	29	37 	+7 	22
 	50	13	19	32 	+3 	39
 	80	11	19	30 	 	50
 	79	15	15	30 	+17	106
 	73	3 	24	27 	+1 	51
 	64	13	12	25 	+10	31
 	73	2 	23	25 	+6 	64
 	81	13	6 	19 	+5 	120
 	79	3 	13	16 	+5 	26
 	62	1 	9 	10 	+6 	54
 	82	0 	10	10 	-5 	72
 	16	2 	7 	9 	 	17
 	19	3 	4 	7 	+4 	6
 	33	3 	5 	8 	 	6
 	45	2 	5 	7 	 	30
 	8 	2 	1 	3 	 	0
 	45	1 	2 	3 	+2 	76
 	20	0 	3 	3 	 	10
 	12	0 	3 	3 	+8 	2
 	4 	1 	1 	2 	 	2
 	6 	1 	1 	2 	 	2
 	9 	0 	2 	2 	 	17
 	10	1 	0 	1 	 	2
 	1 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	1 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	1 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0
 	2 	0 	0 	0 	 	0
Goalies 	— 	0 	2 	2 	— 	10
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Player 	GP	G 	A 	Pts	+/−	PIM
& 	00	-9	-9	-9 	-99	0
Zz 	99	99	99	999	99 	99
 	13	6 	13	19 	+6 	6
 	13	2 	10	12 	+4 	4
 	13	4 	7 	11 	+3 	8
 	13	5 	6 	11 	0 	6
 	11	4 	5 	9 	+3 	2
 	13	2 	7 	9 	+4 	2
 	13	2 	6 	8 	+5 	4
 	13	5 	2 	7 	 	6
 	13	4 	2 	6 	 	22
 	13	2 	4 	6 	+1 	11
 	11	1 	4 	5 	0 	4
 	11	3 	2 	5 	 	6
 	13	2 	1 	3 	+2 	15
 	13	0 	3 	3 	 	4
 	13	0 	2 	2 	+3 	12
 	4 	0 	1 	1 	0 	0
 	5 	0 	0 	0 	+2 	2
 	11	0 	0 	0 	0 	8
 	8 	0 	0 	0 	 	2
 	6 	0 	0 	0 	 	4
 	10	0 	0 	0 	 	2
 	1 	0 	0 	0 	0 	0
==Transactions==
The Penguins have been involved in the following transactions during the 2009–10 season.
;Trades
June 19, 2009 	To New York Rangers: Chad Johnson 	To Pittsburgh: 151st pick in 2009
June 26, 2009 	To Montreal Canadiens: 7th-round pick (#211 overall) in 2009	To Pittsburgh: 6th-round pick in 2010
February 11, 2010 	To St. Louis Blues: Nate Guenin 	To Pittsburgh: Steve Wagner
March 1, 2010Penguins Acquire Defenseman Jordan Leopold from the Florida Panthers in Exchange for 2010 Second-Round Draft Pick	To Florida Panthers: 2nd-round pick in 2010 	To Pittsburgh: Jordan Leopold
March 2, 2010http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=519729 Penguins acquire Alex Ponikarovsky from Leafs 	To Toronto Maple Leafs: Martin Skoula Luca Caputi 	To Pittsburgh: Alexei Ponikarovsky
March 3, 2010Penguins Acquire 2010 Sixth-Round Draft Pick From The Toronto Maple Leafs In Exchange For Chris Peluso 	To Toronto Maple Leafs: Chris Peluso 	To Pittsburgh: 6th-round pick in 2010
;Free agents acquired
Player 	Former team 	Contract terms
Mike RuppPenguins Sign Forward Mike Rupp 	New Jersey Devils 	2 years, $1.65 million
Nate GueninPittsburgh Penguins Sign Defenseman Nate Guenin to One-Year Contract	Philadelphia Flyers 	1 year, $500,000
Chris ConnerPens Sign Conner, Lee 	Dallas Stars 	1 year, $500,000
Chris Lee 	Bridgeport Sound Tigers	1 year, $500,000
Jay McKeePittsburgh Penguins Sign Defenseman Jay McKee 	St. Louis Blues 	1 year, $800,000
Brent JohnsonPens Sign Goaltender Brent Johnson 	Washington Capitals 	1 year, $525,000
Wade BrookbankPenguins Sign Forwards Brookbank, Smith 	Carolina Hurricanes 	1 year, $500,000
Wyatt Smith 	San Antonio Rampage 	1 year, $500,000
Ryan BaydaPenguins Sign Forward Ryan Bayda to One-Year Contract 	Carolina Hurricanes 	1 year, $500,000
Martin SkoulaSkoula Eager to Help Penguins 	Minnesota Wild 	1 year, $575,000
;Free agents lost
Player 	New team 	Contract terms
Hal GillHal Gill heading to Montreal 	Montreal Canadiens 	2 years, $4.5 million
Mathieu GaronGaron Signed to a Two-Year Deal 	Columbus Blue Jackets	2 years, $2.4 million
Rob ScuderiKINGS SIGN SCUDERI FOR FOUR YEARS 	Los Angeles Kings 	4 years, $13.6 million
Jeff TaffeFlorida Panthers Sign C Jeff Taffe 	Florida Panthers 	2 years, $1.2 million
Chris MinardOilers sign pair 	Edmonton Oilers 	1 year, $550,000
Petr SykoraWild Signs F Petr Sykora 	Minnesota Wild 	1 year, $1.6 million
Miroslav SatanBRUINS SIGN MIROSLAV SATAN FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE SEASON	Boston Bruins 	1 year, $700,000
;Claimed from waivers
Date 	Player 	Previous team
September 30, 2009	Chris BourquePenguins Claim Forward Chris Bourque Off Waivers	Washington Capitals
;Lost from waivers
Date 	Player 	New team
September 30, 2009	Paul BissonnetteCoyotes Claim Bissonnette Off Waivers 	Phoenix Coyotes
December 5, 2009 	Chris BourqueCapitals Claim Chris Bourque off Waivers from Pittsburgh	Washington Capitals
== Notable achievements ==
*Sidney Crosby – 400 Points, 6th fastest in NHL history; October 3, 2009
*Matt Cooke – 100th career goal; October 11, 2009
*Deryk Engelland – 1st NHL game; November 11, 2009
*Pascal Dupuis – 100th career goal; November 14, 2009
*Mark Letestu – 1st NHL game; November 14, 2009
*Mike Rupp – 1st NHL hat trick; November 30, 2009
*Sidney Crosby – 150th career goal; December 3, 2009
*Jordan Staal – 10th short handed goal; December 15, 2009
*Jay McKee – 100th career assist; December 15, 2009
*Alexander Pechurskiy – 1st NHL game; January 16, 2010 
*Nick Johnson – 1st NHL game and 1st NHL goal; January 21, 2010
*Mark Letestu – 1st NHL goal; February 1, 2010
*Sidney Crosby – 300th NHL Assist; February 6, 2010
*Sergei Gonchar – 200th NHL goal; March 2, 2010. First Russian Defenseman to do so. 
*Pittsburgh Penguins – recorded 55 shots against the New York Rangers; March 5. 2010. Set a new team record for most shots in a road game.
*Chris Kunitz – 100th NHL goal; March 22, 2010
*Sidney Crosby - 500th NHL point, 3rd youngest in NHL history (after Gretzky and Lemieux); April 8, 2010. Last regular season home game at Mellon Arena.
*Eric Tangradi - 1st NHL game; April 11, 2010
=== Awards ===
Regular Season 	Regular Season 	Regular Season 	Regular Season	Regular Season	Regular Season	Regular Season	Regular Season	Regular Season	Regular Season
Player 	Award 	Awarded 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Sidney CrosbySidney Crosby named first star of the week, Brodeur and Hagman second and third	NHL First Star of the Week 	November 30, 2009	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Marc-Andre FleuryHuet, Fleury, Hornqvist named NHL Three Stars 	NHL Second Star of the Week 	December 21, 2009	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Sidney CrosbyBrian Elliott, Craig Anderson and Sidney Crosby are NHL's 3 stars of week 	NHL Third Star of the Week 	January 25, 2010 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Sidney Crosby 	Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy	April 11, 2010 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Sidney CrosbyCrosby, Staal, Backstrom are NHL's Stars of the Week 	NHL First Star of the Week 	April 12, 2010 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
== Draft picks ==
The 2009 NHL Entry Draft was the 47th NHL Entry Draft. It is was held June 26–27 at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, the first NHL draft to be held in Montreal since 1992. At the Entry Draft, the Penguins made two trades to increase their number of overall picks, as several of their picks had been traded previously. With their first-round pick, the Penguins chose Simon Despres, 30th overall.
Round	Pick #	Player 	Position	Nationality	College/Junior/Club Team (League)
1 	30 	Simon Despres 	D 	 	Saint John Sea Dogs (QMJHL, Canada)
2 	61 	Philip Samuelsson	D 	 	Chicago Steel (USHL, United States)
3 	63 	Ben Hanowski 	RW 	 	Little Falls High School (MSHSL, United States)
4 	121 	Nick Petersen 	RW 	 	Shawinigan Cataractes (QMJHL, Canada)
5 	123 	Alex Velischek 	D 	 	Delbarton School (New Jersey Prep School, United States)
5 	151 	Andy Bathgate 	C 	 	Belleville Bulls (OHL, Canada)
6 	181 	Viktor Ekbom 	D 	 	IK Oskarshamn (HockeyAllsvenskan, Sweden)
;Notes on Draft Picks:
* The Tampa Bay Lightning's third-round pick went to the Penguins as the result of a trade on June 28, 2008 that sent Gary Roberts and Ryan Malone to Tampa Bay in exchange for this pick (being conditional at the time of the trade). The condition – Ryan Malone is signed by Tampa Bay prior to the 2008-09 season – was converted on June 29, 2008.
* The Tampa Bay Lightning's fifth-round pick went to the Penguins as the result of a trade on October 1, 2008 that sent Michal Sersen to Tampa Bay for this pick.
* The Penguins' fifth-round pick (151st overall) was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs on February 26, 2008 along with a second-round pick in 2008 in exchange for Hal Gill. The New York Rangers then acquired the pick from the Maple Leafs in July 2008, then the Penguins re-claimed their pick in a June 2009 trade that sent Chad Johnson to the Rangers.
* The Penguins' third-round pick was traded to the New York Islanders as a result of the conditional trade in which the Penguins acquired Bill Guerin on March 4, 2009. The trade sent the New York Islanders a conditional 2009 draft pick that became the third-round pick, because the Penguins advanced beyound the first round in the 2009 playoffs.
== References ==
==External links==
*2009–10 Pittsburgh Penguins season at ESPN
*2009–10 Pittsburgh Penguins season at Hockey Reference
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