{"id":88681,"date":"2025-08-22T12:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/88681\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T12:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:27:07","slug":"pittsburgh-penguins-fantasy-rankings-projections-for-2025-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/88681\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins fantasy rankings, projections for 2025-26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NHL.com point projection: 62<\/p>\n<p>Rakell led the Penguins in goals (35) last season and was second in points (70), even-strength points (51) and shots on goal (203) behind Crosby (91 points; 64 even-strength points; 227 shots on goal). He also brings strong hits coverage (116 last season; third on Pittsburgh) and is a potential fantasy draft bargain worth prioritizing anytime around the top 120 overall.<\/p>\n<p>NHL.com point projection: 61<\/p>\n<p>Karlsson frequently plays on the first power play with Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Rust and Rakell, and could see a heavier workload than last season while Kris Letang recovers from heart surgery. He is a five-time 70-point scorer with nine seasons of at least 50 who also has a high ceiling (NHL career-high 101 with San Jose Sharks in 2022-23). The 35-year-old should be considered a fringe top-20 fantasy defenseman option.<\/p>\n<p>NHL.com point projection: 60<\/p>\n<p>Malkin, entering the final season of his contract, is a six-time 30-goal scorer with three seasons of at least 100 points who has bounce-back potential after being held to 50 points (16 goals, 34 assists) in 68 games last season. The 39-year-old, who joins his longtime teammate Crosby among active leaders in points per game (1.11; 10th), could be a late-round steal if the Penguins stay healthy and rookie wing Ville Koivunen sticks on the second line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHL.com point projection: 62 Rakell led the Penguins in goals (35) last season and was second in points&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-88681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}