After playing 10 seasons with the St. Louis Blues and Calgary Flames combined, Joe Mullen would bring to Pittsburgh a resume that included a Stanley Cup ring (Calgary in 1989) and two Lady Byng Trophy wins.  You could argue that Mullen was stolen, as Calgary gave up a 1990 second round pick for him, as they thought he no longer would be productive as he dropped from 110 to 69 Points.  They would be wrong.

Rob Brown began his NHL career with Pittsburgh when the 4^th Rounder debuted for the big club the year after.  Brown had a good rookie year, scoring 44 points.  The following season, he was on a line with Mario Lemieux and took advantage of the golden opportunity.

The Los Angeles Kings claimed Lowell MacDonald in the Intra-League Draft, and realistically, there was no reason to believe that when the Penguins chose him, he would become a productive NHL player.  That being said, his was the strange expansion world of the 1970s, and that is precisely what he would become.