Penguins prospect Will Horcoff receives prestigious award after fantastic production in the NCAA

The 2025 NHL Draft saw the Pittsburgh Penguins add several intriguing prospects, one of which in Ben Kindel has already become very productive at the NHL level in his rookie campaign.

Perhaps the most intriguing of all however is Will Horcoff, who is spending this season with the Michigan Wolverines in the NCAA, his second season with the team after impressing the Penguins enough for the team to use the No. 24 overall pick on him in the 2025 draft.

This season, Horcoff is off to an incredible start, tallying 18 goals and 26 points across his first 18 games with the team, going to show why he was a highly touted first-round pick in the draft.

That has caught the attention of many as well, including voters, as Horcoff was named the National Player of the Month following one of the most productive months we've seen in recent years in November.

This is a player that already had an impressive resume, and now he continues to add to it, with many in the Penguins organization believing that they've found a long-term star of the future in the 18-year old.

Obviously, the jump from the NCAA to the NHL level is not an easy one to take, so it may be some time until we see him being productive at the highest level, but with good size (6-foot-5, 201 pounds) and the talent to go along with it, it's easy to see why there's so much excitement around Horcoff moving forward.