Will Horcoff

to be measured in this way.

We can look at a Will Horkoff and get legitimately excited.

I sure was.

But the first half that he had in the college season in 2025, he's got to put it together for a full year.

I'd be fair about that.

I think Will Horkoff is going to be an impact player.

I think Bill Zahn, and although he's been really bad in these last two games, especially in Columbus, is going to be a player for the Penguins.

But no, you got to do something.

Those are accurate, as ironic as that sounds.

That's right, brings up Will Horkoff.

Oh, come on, man.

You got to at least get your first paycheck in hockey before you can make a category like this.

And another name that I do want to mention here to close out the show that could be a foundational piece.

I've seen him put in a lot of mock trades this summer, specifically to the Detroit Red Wings, especially now that his father is the interim general manager, and that's Will Horkoff.

this guy tore up the NCAA last year.

We talk about what Ben Kindle has been.

Horkoff feels far away because he was in the NCAA last season and there was not even a question.

He was going right back to the NCAA this season.

It feels like he's farther away, but there's a chance that depending on where the Penguins are at, depending on where the University of Michigan Wolverines are at, that Will Horkoff goes off again, which I kind of fully expect, especially if he can stay healthy this season.

He played on a bum shoulder for half the year last year and still was among the best goal scorers in the NCAA.

I looked at that list, and I am very high on over half of it.

Kendall, Brunick, and Murashov would be my lean, but then I look at Will Horkoff, Galvis and Zanon, and it wouldn't shock me if they turn into very high-end NHL players.

I still feel like Horkoff has the highest upside into turning into an elite difference maker.

His size and scoring ability is tantalizing.

It sure hasn't hurt what anybody in Montreal thinks of Hudson.

Bill Zonin and Will Horkoff are the other two first-rounders the Penguins got in the Kindle draft, of course.

Zonin's already in the pros.

Zonin's already making an impact.

I really believe that in this organization.

He's going to have more opportunities to accelerate more quickly.

Horkoff, I've got to watch myself with this one.

I can't get out of my mind those college highlights that we saw from him early in the last NCAA season, before the shoulder injury that very clearly hurt him throughout the winter months and to the end of the season.

Is there anybody non-Brunick at any level of the system where you go, oh, yeah, yeah, that, that can be the one?

I mean, Bill Zonin, Will Horkoff.

Horkoff's not going to be in this tournament because he's in college.

But Horkoff, when you saw what he was doing, that's a great one to bring up and to explain why he's not going to be there.

no college players go to these uh yeah

big time those were spectacular goals in addition to the quantity

This player looks like they've really got the id factor.

I don't know who those are, but