MONTREAL -- The Penguins drafted defenseman Philip Samuelsson, son of legendary alum Ulf Samuelsson, with their second-round selection in today's NHL entry draft.

Samuelsson is 6 foot 3, 198 pounds and plans to attend Boston College.

He had no goals and 22 assists in 54 games with Chicago of the United States Hockey League in 2008-09.

His father, one of the most fierce hitters and competitors in franchise history, played on the Penguins' Stanley Cup-winning teams in 1991 and 1992 and now is an assistant coach with Phoenix.

Samuelsson wasn't the Penguins' only legacy choice: Later in the day, they sent usigned goalie Chad Johnson to the New York Rangers for the final choice in the fifth round and used it on Belleville center Andy Bathgate.

His grandfather, also named Andy Bathgate, is a Hockey Hall of Famer and was the Penguins' leading scorer in 1967-68, their first season in the NHL.

The Penguins had initially owned the choice that netted Bathgate, but sent it to Toronto in the Hal Gill trade in 2007, and the Maple Leafs eventually passed it along to New York.

Philip Samuelsson was claimed with the 61st choice in the draft; with the 63rd choice, the Penguins took Ben Hanowski, a 6 foot 2, 198-pound winger from Little Falls, Minn.

Hanowski is the leading scorer in the history of Minnesota high school hocke y with 405 points, including 57 goals and 53 assists in 25 games with Little Falls High School in 2008-09. He will play at St. Cloud University this fall.

The Penguins took right winger Nick Petersen of Shawinigan in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League with their fourth-round selection and defenseman Alex Velischek, son of former NHL defenseman Randy Velischek, in the fifth round.

Petersen, who is 6 foot 3, 183 pounds, had 37 goals and 53 assists in 68 games with Shawinigan and Velischek, who is 6 foot, 200 pounds, had 16 goals and 35 assists in 30 games for Dalbarton (N.J.) High School.

Mt. Lebanon defenseman Patrick Wey, who played for Waterloo in the United States Hockey League and will attend Boston College, was taken by Washington in the fourth round.

The Penguins claimed Swedish defenseman Viktor Ekbom (6 foot 2, 194 pounds) in the sixth round and traded their seventh-rounder, which would have been the last pick in this draft, to Montreal for a sixth-round choice in 2010.