The Pittsburgh Penguins selected so many players this weekend, including another 10 on the second and final day of the NHL draft, that their full list looked like a CVS receipt.

The Penguins landed 13 total players in the 2025 class. It was their highest number of selections since 1994, when they picked 14 players. Their franchise record for most picks in a draft was 1975, when the Penguins took a whopping 15 players.

Even Wes Clark, who led their draft efforts, suggested his head was spinning.

“Yeah, 13 picks is a lot,” said Clark, who is their vice president of player personnel. “They’re not all going to work out. Obviously, the more lottery tickets you have increases your chances to hopefully hit. We’ll see as time progresses. ... It will be interesting to see who develops quicker than others and who can get there at the end.”

This busy weekend for Pittsburgh started Friday with their surprising selection of forward Benjamin Kindel at No. 11. Most mock drafts had Kindle going in the 20s.

Penguins president of hockey operations Kyle Dubas said Friday Clark was among those in the organization who championed Kindel for much of this season.

On Saturday, Clark raved about Kindel’s hockey sense, saying it was “elite” relative to the rest of the class. He said Kindel makes an impact on both sides of the puck.

“We think the upside is sky-high,” Clark said of the 18-year-old. “We’ll do our best to help him improve in the areas he needs to improve in and see where it goes.”

After a trade down from No. 12, the Penguins tacked on two more forwards later in Friday’s first round. They took Bill Zonnon at No. 22 and Will Horcoff at No. 24.

It was the first time Pittsburgh made three first-round picks since the 1984 draft.

Clark noted both Zonnon and Horcoff are high-end athletes, and they posted scouting combine results that back it up. He thinks Horcoff benefited from having a father, Shane, who played in the NHL. And he praised Zonnon’s “dawg mindset” and said he is the kind of high-character kid “that helps you win hockey games.”

The Penguins started making selections earlier than expected Saturday. They got the 39th pick in a trade with Buffalo, along with veteran defender Connor Clifton. Pittsburgh sent back defensemen Conor Timmins and Isaac Belliveau in the deal.

With that pick early in the second, the Penguins drafted Peyton Kettles, a 6-foot-6 defender from Swift Current of the Western Hockey League. He has not been much of a point producer at the WHL level with just 14 in 53 games this past season.

Kettles joins a Penguins prospect pool that already has a few potential pros in the pipeline, most notably Owen Pickering, Harrison Brunicke and Emil Pieniniemi.

Coincidentally, Kettles and Pickering were once defense partners in Swift Current.

“Extremely young for the draft class. Six-(foot-)6. Right shot. Elite defensive stick. Super competitive. Tough,” Clark said. “He checks a lot of boxes [as we try] to improve certain qualities on the back end here with the depth we have in the prospects.”

Their third-round picks included a former Penguins Elite player and a goalie who hails from the same hometown as Marc-Andre Fleury and has a relationship with him.

Defenseman Charlie Trethewey is from Maryland. But he grew up a Penguins fan, as his dad is from Mt. Lebanon. He later played for Penguins Elite program, which Clark called “a bonus.” Some saw him as a potential first-rounder entering the year.

Gabriel D’Aigle is a young goalie from Sorel-Tracy, Quebec. He has a relationship with Fleury. The two share the same agent and have trained together in the past. D’Aigle is listed at 6-4. He plays for Victoriaville of the Quebec Maritime Junior Hockey League. He is the first goalie the Penguins have picked under Dubas.

With their third and final pick in the third round, they took left-shot defenseman Brady Peddle. Early in the fourth, they drafted another forward in Travis Hayes, a Soo Greyhounds prospect who is the brother of Penguins prospect Avery Hayes.

“Very similar to Avery. Underdog mindset,” Clark said. “Yeah, we like the upside.”

The Penguins had four picks in the third and fourth rounds but passed on the local kid, L.J. Mooney. Mooney ended up going to the Montreal Canadiens in the fourth.

The Penguins drafted forwards Ryan Miller and Jordan Charron and defenseman Quinn Beauchesne in the fifth round. Like Travis Hayes, Charron played for the Soo Greyhounds, the Ontario Hockey League team where Dubas had his first GM gig.

In the sixth round, the Penguins picked forward Carter Sanderson. And with their final pick of the day, No. 201 overall, they drafted Penn State commit Kale Dach.

Yeah, those were a lot of names to keep track of, even for the people who picked them. But the Penguins are excited about the depth and upside they just added to their prospect pool. Two common qualities are competitiveness and hockey sense.

“I think everybody knows where the organization’s at,” said Clark, who was with Dubas in Toronto. “Thirteen picks this year. We’ve got a number of picks next year. A number of picks the year after that. We’ll do our best to execute on those picks and continue trying to make this club better and expedite it as quick as we can.”