Kuhnhackl was drafted by the Penguins 110th overall in the 2010 Entry Draft. It took him a few years to make it to the NHL, but in his rookie season of 2015-16 he scored 5 goals and 10 assists in 42 games, on the way to the Stanley Cup. In 2016, he became only the third German-born player to win the Stanley Cup, following Uwe Krupp and Dennis Seidenberg. The following year, Kuhnhackl won his second Stanley Cup, and became the first German-born player to win it twice with the same team.
