Revisiting our preseason over/under predictions for the 2025-26 Pittsburgh Penguins

Dec 30, 2025; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; Pittsburgh Penguins center Sidney Crosby (87) skates up ice with the puck against the Carolina Hurricanes during the third period at PPG Paints Arena. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images | Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images Every year here at PensBurgh we set some over/under predictions for individual Pittsburgh Penguins players, and at the end of every regular season we like to revisit those predictions and see how everybody did. It is time to revisit those predictions.

Let’s go back to the start of the 2025-26 NHL season and see what we were thinking for the Penguins’ most prominent players, both new and returning, and see how their performances compared. The Penguins young players Original Post Here Ville Koivunen: Over/Under 20. 5 assists Rutger McGroarty: Over/Under 15.

5 goals Owen Pickering: Over/Under 15. 5 points Oh man. Not even close on any of them.

This is not necessarily a reflection of the individual players or their development, but a reflection on what direction the season ended up taking. Everything here was so unexpected that we did not even have Ben Kindel on our NHL radar when we set the young players over/under at the end of August. Here is what each player actually did at the NHL level: Ville Koivunen: 5 assists in 39 games Rutger McGroarty: 3 goals in 24 games Owen Pickering: 0 assists in 4 games In most cases there just was not a ton of room for these guys to get an extended look or major role on this yaer’s team because the forward depth was just too good.