A look at how many rookies have skated with the Penguins each season since 198384, and how

many of those (underlined) also made their NHL debuts that season.
Note that NHL rules permit players to play multiple seasons as rookies until they
accrue enough games to advance beyond rookie status:
Season
#
2014-15 7 (6)
2013-14 7 (7)
2012-13 3 (1)
2011-12 6 (4)
2010-11 6 (2)
2009-10 10 (4)
Caputi, Jeffrey,

(Debuts)
Rookies
Pouliot, Dumoulin, Rust, Harrington, Uher, Farnham, Wilson
Maatta, Gibbons, Megna, Dumoulin, Sill, Samuelsson, Payerl
Bennett, Bortuzzo, Despres
Thiessen, Despres, Bortuzzo, Tangradi, Strait, Sneep
Letestu, Tangradi, Jeffrey, Johnson, Vitale, Strait
Pechurskiy, Curry, Letestu, Tangradi, Johnson, Lovejoy, Bourque,

Wallace
2008-09 8 (6)
Curry, Jeffrey, Lovejoy, Caputi,
Wallace, Goligoski, Bissonnette, Stone
2007-08 9 (5)
Stone, Goligoski, Kennedy, Minard, Letang, James,
Smith, Filewich, Brent
2006-07 6 (3)
Malkin, Staal, Thorburn, Letang, Welch, Stewart
2005-06 12 (6)
Fleury, Sabourin, Welch, Crosby, Armstrong, Whitney, Ouellet,
Christensen,
Talbot, Rita, Murley, Endicott
2003-04 9 (6)
Fleury, Caron, Chiodo, Murley, Malone, Koltsov, Orpik, Hussey,
Scuderi
2002-03 10 (6)
Caron, Orpik, Koltsov, Surovy, Sivek, Lefebvre, Focht,
Kostopoulos, Abid,
Lupaschuk
2001-02 7 (3)
Endicott, Kostopoulos, Beech, Petersen, Melichar, Berry, Meloche
2000-01 6 (5)
Petersen, Melichar, Kraft, Tibbetts, Lacouture, Crozier
1999-00 3 (2)
Aubin, Rozsival, Ference
1998-99 9 (6)
Skudra, Aubin, Hrdina, Galanov, Sonnenberg, Butenschon, Bonin,
Skrbek, Savoia
1997-98 7 (4)
Skudra, Butenschon, Morozov, Dome, C. Ferraro, P. Ferraro,
Gronman
1996-97 4 (2)
Johansson, Pittis, DeRouville, Lalime
1995-96 11 (6)
Roche, Dziedzic, Park, Wells, Fitzgerald, Moran, Stojanov,
Andrusak, Bergkvist,
Christian, Allen
1994-95 7 (3)
Barrie, Andrusak, Tamer, Fitzgerald, Park, Christian, DeRouville
1993-94 7 (7)
Naslund, Patterson, Neaton, Andrusak, Duberman, Karabin,
Tamer
1992-93 4 (2)
McEachern, Straka, Needham, Daniels
1991-92 5 (3)
Paek, McEachern, Mulvenna, Nelson, Daniels
1990-91 5 (4)
Jagr, Stanton, Leach, Daniels, Paek

1989-90 2 (1)
1988-89 7 (3)
Pietrangelo
1987-88 17 (11)

1986-87 7 (2)
1985-86 8 (6)
Rowe, Bourque
1984-85 15 (7)

1983-84 16 (12)

Recchi, Leach
Cullen, Zalapski, Stevens, Caufield, Recchi, Tabaracci,
Brown, Callander, McLlwain, Gotaas, Zalapski, Dahlquist,
Kachowski, Ganchar, Stevens, Mathiasen, Van Dorp, Aitken,
Giffin, Pietrangelo, Mayer, Goertz, Guenette
Bourque, Wilson, Giffin, Mathiasen, Dahlquist, Guenette, Rowe
Cunneyworth, Johnson, Simpson, Siren, Dahlquist, Mathiasen,
Lemieux, Young, Bodger, Lamoureux, Loney, McDonnell,
Charlesworth, Belanger, McGeough, Javanainen, Geale, Lehto,
Rowe, Ford, Romano
Brickley, Errey, Schmidt, ORegan, McSorley, Thornbury, Young,
Gladney, Lowe, Lamoureux, Defazio, Bourque, Sasser,
Charlesworth, Loney, Romano