Mike Bullard was the ninth overall pick in the 1980 Draft, and he would debut that year for Pittsburgh, appearing in 15 Games.  He was a full-time Center for the Pens the season after and proved to be a solid performer with a 63 Point Season.

The most important goal that Ron Schock would have would be in a St. Louis Blues uniform when he lit the lamp in double overtime in Game 7 of the 1968 Conference Finals.  That put the Blues into the Stanley Cup Finals in the first year of the club's existence.  St. Louis didn't win, and a year later, Schock was not even a Blue.

A member of the Pittsburgh Penguins for the first six seasons of his NHL career, Jordan Staal wasted no time as the second overall pick of the 2006 NHL Draft to become one of the better defensive forwards in the NHL. 

James Neal was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins close to the 2011 trade deadline, and it was the year after that when he would put forth his best year in professional hockey.