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All 628 players Pittsburgh Penguins desk

Returning regular · 2025-26

Ben Kindel

Pittsburgh Penguins · C · R shot · age 19 at the dated snapshot.

PIT

Production and deployment

How the points were built.

Games: 77
Goals: 17
Assists: 18
Points: 35
Even-strength: 23
Power play: 10
Short handed: 2
Empty net: 2
5v5 points / 60: 1.451
Average TOI: 15:04
PP TOI: 1:50
PK TOI: 0:39

Official NHL 2025–26 regular-season reports. A missing split remains “—”; it is never converted to zero.

Organizational context

6 C regulars in PIT.

The all-team median is 6. PIT’s farm system ranks #20 in the maintained two-board consensus.

LAK3 C regulars WSH3 C regulars CAR4 C regulars

Lowest-count external lane screens are research leads. They do not prove need, fit, price, availability, or that this player should move.

Contract boundary

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Questions a GM still has to answer

01
How much of the scoring comes at five-on-five, on special teams, or into an empty net?
02
Is the player creating the play, finishing it, or receiving a secondary point?
03
Does deployment reveal trust, scarcity, underuse, or a role the roster cannot offer?
04
What contract, acquisition cost, development alternative, and Cup-window effect complete the argument?