The Pittsburgh Penguins believe they can win the Stanley Cup.

They tipped their hand by acquiring winger Gary Roberts from the Florida Panthers before the NHL trading deadline.

Obviously, the Penguins are a young team. Roberts will turn 41 in May. He has 424 career NHL goals.

He scored 53 goals in a season for the Calgary Flames — 15 years ago. He had 13 goals in 50 games for the Panthers this year.

The biggest positive about Roberts is he carries a reputation of being a strong playoff performer.

The Penguins had no reason for acquiring him, other than as a key piece toward making a run at the Cup. If they bow out of the playoffs early, getting Roberts will have been a waste of time.

By the way, Roberts waived a no-trade clause in his contract to come to Pittsburgh.

Apparently, he believes the Penguins can win the Stanley Cup as well.

West Penn Baseball Prospects completed its annual survey of college, junior college and professional baseball rosters and reports that 592 former WPIALand City League players currently are playing baseball beyond high school.Central Catholic has 17 of its graduates doing so. Seneca Valley has 16 and Butler has 12.Included on the Golden Tornado list, of course, are Boston Red Sox pitcher Matt Clement and Pirates pitching prospect Jake Cuffman. Butler also has seven graduates playing for Butler County Community College.Besides them, Matt McCune is at Seton Hill, Adam Miller is at St. Vincent and Tim Nebel plays at Penn State-Behrend.Seneca Valley has Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Zach Jackson and former major-league outfielder Jason Conti, who is still playing independent minor league ball.The Raiders have three players at BC3, Dom Duggan at Coastal Carolina, Ryan Page at Liberty and Dan Reale at Kentucky, just to name a few.Butler County players in the PSACinclude Mars graduate Josh Rape, Karns City products Travis Trimbur and Josh Smith, Slippery Rock High grads Mike DeCola, Scott Rice and Billy Messer at Slippery Rock University; Knoch product Aaron Albert at Indiana (Pa.); Seneca Valley grad Glenn Sharrar at Lock Haven; and former Raider John Sklarsky at California (Pa.).

Cuffman is not the only Western Pennsylvania native trying to climb through the Pirates' farm system.The Bucs have eight former WPIALplayers in their system this season, including Freedom's Josh Sharpless, who made his big league debut last year.They also have third baseman Neil Walker (Pine-Richland) at Altoona and five at Lynchburg:pitchers Clay Hamilton (Blackhawk) and Brian Holliday (Moon), first baseman-outfielder Mike Carlin (Mt. Lebanon), first baseman Brad Rea (North Allegheny) and infielder Dan Schwartzbauer (Shaler).