{"id":229768,"date":"2026-06-27T17:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T17:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/229768\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T17:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T17:35:11","slug":"penguins-draft-penn-state-winger-pierce-mbuyi-86th-overall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/229768\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins draft Penn State winger Pierce Mbuyi 86th overall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Penguins used their third-round pick, 86th overall, on left wing Pierce Mbuyi\u00a0out of the OHL&#8217;s Owen Sound Attack.<\/p>\n<p>Mbuyi, listed at 5 foot 11 and 163 pounds, had 75 points (32 goals, 43 assists) in 68 games last season in the OHL. Sportsnet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/ranking-the-top-32-prospects-for-the-2026-nhl-draft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">describes<\/a> Mbuyi as &#8220;an energetic forechecker who creates turnovers, never quits on a play and is a shooting option working the weak side flank on the power play.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mbuyi is committed to Penn State, though that won&#8217;t be until 2027-28 at the earliest. He&#8217;ll return to junior, where he was named captain of Owen Sound in March.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPierce leads by example \u2013 through hard work, character and commitment,\u201d Attack head coach Scott Wray\u00a0said of the decision in a team release. \u00a0\u2018Today we are proud to name him captain, knowing he\u2019ll guide this team with the same determination he brings every day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Penguins used their third-round pick, 86th overall, on left wing Pierce Mbuyi\u00a0out of the OHL&#8217;s Owen Sound&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[24481,1902,3743,99479,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-229768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-feed-article","tag-penguins","tag-penn-state","tag-pierce-mbuyi","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}