Pedan, 24, spent last season with the Utica Comets of the American Hockey League, posting 10 points (5G-5A) and collecting 100 penalty minutes in 52 games. The previous year in 2015-16, he played his first 13 NHL games with the Canucks, compiling 18 penalty minutes. That same year, Pedan produced 21 points (7G-14A) and a plus-17 in 45 AHL games.
A 6-foot-5, 213-pound native of Kaunas, Lithuania, Pedan was originally chosen by the New York Islanders in the third round (63rd overall) of the 2011 NHL Draft. Since then, he's played the majority of his professional career in the AHL split between Utica and the Bridgeport Sound Tigers. In 181 career AHL appearances, he has 60 points (20G-40A). He has also played in four AHL playoff contests.
Pedan played three seasons of junior hockey with the Guelph Storm of the Ontario Hockey League, where he posted back-to-back 40-plus point years to conclude his junior career. Overall, Pedan had 96 points (26G-70A) in 174 OHL games.
By acquiring a fourth-round selection, Pittsburgh once again owns seven choices in the 2018 NHL Draft, including its own pick in the first, second, third, fifth, sixth and seventh rounds. The Penguins traded their own fourth-round selection to the Tampa Bay Lightning last March in a deal that brought defenseman Mark Streit to Pittsburgh.
