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2000 NHL Draft

2000 NHL Draft - June 24th, 2000 through June 25th, 2000, in Calgary, Canada

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Pick	Team	Player	Position	School
1	NY Islanders	Rick DiPietro	G	Boston University
2	Atlanta	Dany Heatley	RW	Wisconsin
3	Minnesota	Marian Gaborik	LW	Trenin (Slovak)
4	Columbus	Rostislav Klesla	D	Brampton (OHL)
5	NY Islanders	Raffi Torres	LW	Brampton (OHL)
6	Nashville	Scott Hartnell	RW	Prince Albert (WHL)
7	Boston	Lars Jonsson	D	Leksands (Allsvenskan)
8	Tampa Bay	Nikita Alexeev	RW	Erie (OHL)
9	Calgary	Brent Krahn	G	Calgary Hitmen (WHL)
10	Chicago	Mikhail Yakubov	C	Tolyatti Lada (KHL)
11	Chicago	Pavel Vorobiev	RW	Yaroslavl (KHL)
12	Anaheim	Alexei Smirnov	LW	Tver THC (Vysshaya)
13	Montreal	Ron Hainsey	D	Lowell
14	Colorado	Vaclav Nedorost	C	Budejovice (Czech)
15	Buffalo	Artem Kryukov	RW	Yaroslavl (KHL)
16	Montreal	Marcel Hossa	C	Portland (WHL)
17	Edmonton	Alexei Mikhnov	C	Yaroslavl (KHL)
18	Pittsburgh	Brooks Orpik	D	Boston College
19	Phoenix	Krystofer Kolanos	C	Boston College
20	Los Angeles	Alexander Frolov	LW	Yaroslavl (KHL)
21	Ottawa	Anton Volchenkov	D	CSKA Moscow (KHL)
22	New Jersey	David Hale	D	Sioux City (USHL)
23	Vancouver	Nathan Smith	C	Swift Current (WHL)
24	Toronto	Brad Boyes	C	Erie (OHL)
25	Dallas	Steve Ott	C	Windsor (OHL)
26	Washington	Brian Sutherby	C	Moose Jaw (WHL)
27	Boston	Martin Samuelsson	D	Modo Hockey (SEL)
28	Philadelphia	Justin Williams	D	Plymouth (OHL)
29	Detroit	Niklas Kronwall	D	Djurgardens IF (SEL)
30	St. Louis	Jeff Taffe	C	Minnesota
31	Atlanta	Ilya Nikulin	D	Tver THC (Vysshaya)
32	Carolina	Tomas Kurka	LW	Plymouth (OHL)
33	Minnesota	Nick Schultz	D	Prince Albert (WHL)
34	Tampa Bay	Ruslan Zainullin	RW	Kazan (KHL)
35	Edmonton	Brad Winchester	LW	Wisconsin
36	Nashville	Daniel Widing	RW	Leksands (Allsvenskan)
37	Boston	Andy Hilbert	C	Michigan
38	Detroit	Tomas Kopecky	C	Trenin (Slovak)
39	New Jersey	Teemu Laine	RW	Jokerit Helsinki (SM-liiga)
40	Calgary	Kurtis Foster	D	Peterborough (OHL)
41	San Jose	Tero Maatta	D	Jokerit Helsinki (SM-liiga)
42	Atlanta	Libor Ustrnul	D	Plymouth (OHL)
43	Washington	Matt Pettinger	LW	Calgary Hitmen (WHL)
44	Anaheim	Ilya Bryzgalov	G	Tolyatti Lada (KHL)
45	Ottawa	Mathieu Chouinard	G	Shawinigan (QMJHL)
46	Calgary	Jarret Stoll	C	Kootenay (WHL)
47	Colorado	Jared Aulin	C	Kamloops (WHL)
48	Buffalo	Gerard Dicaire	D	Seattle (WHL)
49	Chicago	Jonas Nordqvist	C	Leksands (Allsvenskan)
50	Colorado	Sergei Soin	C	Krylya Sovetov Moscow (Vysshaya)
51	Toronto	Kris Vernarsky	C	Plymouth (OHL)
52	Pittsburgh	Shane Endicott	C	Seattle (WHL)
53	Phoenix	Alexander Tatarinov	RW	Yaroslavl (KHL)
54	Los Angeles	Andreas Lilja	D	Malmo (Allsvenskan)
55	Ottawa	Antoine Vermette	C	Victoriaville (QMJHL)
56	New Jersey	Aleksander Suglobov	RW	CSKA Moscow (KHL)
57	New Jersey	Matt DeMarchi	D	Minnesota
58	Florida	Vladimir Sapozhnikov	D	Novokuznetsk (KHL)
59	Boston	Ivan Huml	LW	Langley (BCHL)
60	Dallas	Dan Ellis	G	North Bay (NOJHL)
61	Washington	Jakub Cutta	D	Swift Current (WHL)
62	New Jersey	Paul Martin	D	Misto Kharkiv (Ukrainian)
63	Colorado	Agris Saviels	D	Owen Sound (OHL)
64	NY Rangers	Filip Novak	D	Regina (WHL)
65	St. Louis	David Morisset	RW	Seattle (WHL)
66	Boston	Tuukka Makela	LW	HIFK Helsinki (SM-liiga)
67	New Jersey	Max Birbraer	LW	Newmarket (CCHL)
68	Dallas	Joel Lundqvist	C	Frolunda HC (SEL)
69	Columbus	Ben Knopp	RW	Moose Jaw (WHL)
70	Toronto	Mikael Tellqvist	G	Djurgardens IF (SEL)
71	Vancouver	Thatcher Bell	C	Rimouski (QMJHL)
72	Nashville	Mattias Nilsson	D	Modo Hockey (SEL)
73	Boston	Sergei Zinovjev	RW	Novokuznetsk (KHL)
74	Chicago	Igor Radulov	LW	Yaroslavl (KHL)
75	St. Louis	Justin Papineau	RW	Belleville (OHL)
76	New Jersey	Michael Rupp	LW	Erie (OHL)
77	Florida	Robert Fried	RW	Deerfield Academy
78	Montreal	Jozef Balej	RW	Portland (WHL)
79	Montreal	Tyler Hanchuck	D	Brampton (OHL)
80	Carolina	Ryan Bayda	LW	North Dakota
81	Tampa Bay	Alexander Kharitonov	RW	Dynamo Moscow (KHL)
82	Florida	Sean O'Connor	RW	Moose Jaw (WHL)
83	Edmonton	Alexander Ljubimov	D	Samara CSK VVS (Vysshaya)
84	Pittsburgh	Peter Hamerlik	G	Skalica (Slovak)
85	Phoenix	Ramzi Abid	LW	Halifax (QMJHL)
86	Los Angeles	Yanick Lehoux	C	Baie-Comeau (QMJHL)
87	Ottawa	Jan Bohac	C	Praha Slavia (Czech)
88	Colorado	Kurt Sauer	D	Spokane (WHL)
89	Nashville	Libor Pivko	LW	Czech Republic
90	Toronto	Jean-Francois Racine	G	Drummondville (QMJHL)
91	Dallas	Alexei Tereshchenko	C	Dynamo Moscow (KHL)
92	Colorado	Sergei Klyazmin	LW	Tver THC (Vysshaya)
93	Vancouver	Tim Branham	D	Barrie (OHL)
94	Philadelphia	Alexander Drozdetsky	RW	SKA Saint Petersburg (KHL)
95	NY Rangers	Dominic Moore	C	Harvard
96	St. Louis	Antoine Bergeron	G	Val-d'Or (QMJHL)
97	Carolina	Niclas Wallin	D	Brynas IF (SEL)
98	Anaheim	Jonas Ronnqvist	LW	Lulea HF (SEL)
99	Minnesota	Marc Cavosie	C	Rensselear Polytech
100	Toronto	Miguel Delisle	C	Ottawa 67's (OHL)
101	NY Islanders	Arto Tukio	D	Ilves Tampere (SM-liiga)
102	Detroit	Stefan Liv	G	HV71 (SEL)
103	Boston	Brett Nowak	LW	Harvard
104	San Jose	Jon Disalvatore	RW	Providence
105	NY Islanders	Vladimir Gorbunov	C	CSKA Moscow (KHL)
106	Chicago	Scott Balan	D	Regina (WHL)
107	Atlanta	Carl Mallette	C	Victoriaville (QMJHL)
108	Atlanta	Blake Robson	C	Portland (WHL)
109	Montreal	Johan Eneqvist	LW	Leksands (Allsvenskan)
110	Carolina	Jared Newman	D	Plymouth (OHL)
111	Buffalo	Ghyslain Rousseau	G	Baie-Comeau (QMJHL)
112	NY Rangers	Premysl Duben	D	Czech Republic
113	Edmonton	Lou Dickenson	LW	Mississauga (OHL)
114	Montreal	Christian Larrivee	C	Chicoutimi (QMJHL)
115	Florida	Chris Eade	D	North Bay (NOJHL)
116	Calgary	Levente Szuper	G	Ottawa 67's (OHL)
117	Chicago	Olli Malmivaara	D	Jokerit Helsinki (SM-liiga)
118	Los Angeles	Lubomir Visnovsky	D	Bratislava (Slovak)
119	Colorado	Brian Fahey	D	Wisconsin
120	Florida	Davis Parley	G	Kamloops (WHL)
121	Washington	Ryan Van Buskirk	D	Sarnia (OHL)
122	Ottawa	Derrick Byfuglien	D	Moorhead Senior High School
123	Dallas	Vadim Khomitski	C	CSKA Moscow (KHL)
124	Pittsburgh	Michel Ouellet	RW	Rimouski (QMJHL)
125	New Jersey	Phil Cole	D	Lethbridge (WHL)
126	Tampa Bay	Johan Hagglund	C	Modo Hockey (SEL)
127	Detroit	Dmitri Semyenov	LW	Dynamo Moscow (KHL)
128	Detroit	Alexander Seluyanov	D	Ufa (KHL)
129	St. Louis	Troy Riddle	RW	Des Moines (USHL)
130	Detroit	Aaron Van Leusen	RW	Brampton (OHL)
131	Nashville	Matt Hendricks	C	Blaine High School
132	Minnesota	Maxim Sushinsky	C	Omsk (KHL)
133	Columbus	Petteri Nummelin	D	Davos (NLA)
134	Anaheim	Peter Podhradsky	D	Bratislava (Slovak)
135	New Jersey	Mike Jefferson	C	Barrie (OHL)
136	NY Islanders	Dimitri Upper	C	Nizhny Novgorod (KHL)
137	Nashville	Mike Stuart	D	Colorado College
138	Columbus	Scott Heffernan	D	Sarnia (OHL)
139	Dallas	Ruslan Bernikov	RW	Khabarovsk (KHL)
140	NY Rangers	Nathan Martz	C	Chilliwack (WHL)
141	Calgary	Wade Davis	D	Calgary Hitmen (WHL)
142	San Jose	Michael Pinc	LW	Rouyn-Noranda (QMJHL)
143	NY Rangers	Brandon Snee	G	Union College, New York
144	Vancouver	Pavel Duma	C	Neftekamsk Toros (Vysshaya)
145	Montreal	Ryan Glenn	D	Walpole (Atlantic Jr.)
146	Pittsburgh	David Koci	D	Praha Sparta (Czech)
147	Atlanta	Matt McRae	C	Cornell
148	NY Islanders	Kristofer Ottosson	RW	Djurgardens IF (SEL)
149	Buffalo	Denis Denisov	LW	CSKA Moscow (KHL)
150	Columbus	Tyler Kolarik	C	Deerfield Academy
151	Chicago	Alexander Barkunov	D	Yaroslavl (KHL)
152	Edmonton	Paul Flache	D	Brampton (OHL)
153	Anaheim	Bill Cass	D	Boston College
154	Nashville	Matt Koalska	C	Twin Cities Academy
155	Calgary	Travis Moen	LW	Kelowna (WHL)
156	Ottawa	Greg Zanon	D	Nebraska-Omaha
157	Ottawa	Grant Potulny	LW	Lincoln High School
158	Ottawa	Sean Connolly	C	Northern Michigan
159	Colorado	John-Michael Liles	D	Michigan State
160	Phoenix	Nate Kiser	D	Plymouth (OHL)
161	Tampa Bay	Pavel Sedov	C	Khimik Voskresensk (Vysshaya)
162	Dallas	Artem Chernov	C	Novokuznetsk (KHL)
163	Washington	Ivan Nepriayev	C	Yaroslavl (KHL)
164	New Jersey	Matus Kostur	G	Banska Bystrica (Slovak)
165	Los Angeles	Nathan Marsters	G	Chilliwack (WHL)
166	San Jose	Nolan Schaefer	G	Providence
167	St. Louis	Craig Weller	D	Calgary Canucks (AJHL)
168	Atlanta	Zdenek Smid	G	Karlovy Vary (Czech)
169	Columbus	Shane Bendera	G	Red Deer (WHL)
170	Minnesota	Eric Reitz	D	Barrie (OHL)
171	Philadelphia	Roman Cechmanek	G	Vsetin HC (Czech)
172	Montreal	Scott Selig	RW	Thayer Academy
173	Nashville	Tomas Harant	D	MsHK ilina (Slovak)
174	Boston	Jarno Kultanen	D	HIFK Helsinki (SM-liiga)
175	NY Rangers	Sven Helfenstein	RW	Kloten (NLA)
176	Calgary	Jukka Hentunen	LW	HPK Hameenlinna (SM-liiga)
177	Chicago	Michael Ayers	G	Dubuque
178	Atlanta	Jeff Dwyer	D	Choate Rosemary Hall
179	Toronto	Vadim Sozinov	C	Novokuznetsk (KHL)
180	Atlanta	Darcy Hordichuk	LW	Saskatoon (WHL)
181	Carolina	Justin Forrest	D	USNTDP (USHL)
182	Montreal	Petr Chvojka	D	Plze (Czech)
183	San Jose	Michal Macho	C	Martin (Slovak)
184	Edmonton	Shaun Norrie	RW	Calgary Hitmen (WHL)
185	Pittsburgh	Patrick Foley	LW	New Hampshire
186	Phoenix	Brent Gauvreau	C	Oshawa (OHL)
187	Detroit	Par Backer	C	Sweden
188	Ottawa	Jason Maleyko	D	Brampton (OHL)
189	Colorado	Chris Bahen	D	Clarkson University
190	Florida	Josh Olson	LW	Omaha (USHL)
191	Tampa Bay	Aaron Gionet	D	Kamloops (WHL)
192	Dallas	Ladislav Vlcek	RW	Kladno (Czech)
193	Chicago	Joey Martin	D	Omaha (USHL)
194	New Jersey	Deryk Engelland	D	Moose Jaw (WHL)
195	Philadelphia	Colin Shields	RW	Cleveland Barons (MWEHL)
196	Detroit	Paul Ballantyne	D	Sault Ste. Marie (OHL)
197	Nashville	Zbynek Irgl	LW	Vitkovice (Czech)
198	New Jersey	Ken Magowan	LW	Vernon (BCHL)
199	Minnesota	Brian Passmore	C	Oshawa (OHL)
200	Columbus	Janne Jokila	LW	TPS Turku (SM-liiga)
201	Los Angeles	Evgeny Federov	C	Perm Molot-Prikamye (Vysshaya)
202	NY Islanders	Ryan Caldwell	D	Thunder Bay (SIJHL)
203	Nashville	Jure Penko	G	Green Bay (USHL)
204	Boston	Chris Berti	C	Sarnia (OHL)
205	NY Rangers	Henrik Lundqvist	G	Frolunda HC (SEL)
206	Los Angeles	Tim Eriksson	C	Frolunda HC (SEL)
207	Chicago	Cliff Loya	C	Maine
208	Vancouver	Brandon Reid	C	Halifax (QMJHL)
209	Toronto	Markus Seikola	D	TPS Turku (SM-liiga)
210	Philadelphia	John Eichelberger	C	Green Bay (USHL)
211	Edmonton	Joe Cullen	C	Colorado College
212	Carolina	Magnus Kahnberg	C	Frolunda HC (SEL)
213	Buffalo	Vasily Bizyayev	LW	CSKA Moscow (KHL)
214	Minnesota	Peter Bartos	C	Budejovice (Czech)
215	Edmonton	Matthew Lombardi	C	Victoriaville (QMJHL)
216	Pittsburgh	Jim Abbott	LW	New Hampshire
217	Phoenix	Igor Samoilov	D	Yaroslavl (KHL)
218	Los Angeles	Craig Olynick	D	Seattle (WHL)
219	Dallas	Marco Tuokko	C	TPS Turku (SM-liiga)
220	Buffalo	Paul Gaustad	C	Portland (WHL)
221	Colorado	Aaron Molnar	G	London (OHL)
222	Tampa Bay	Marek Priechodsky	D	Bratislava (Slovak)
223	Toronto	Lubos Velebny	D	Zvolen (Slovak)
224	Dallas	Antti Miettinen	C	HPK Hameenlinna (SM-liiga)
225	Chicago	Vladislav Luchkin	C	Cherepovets (KHL)
226	Tampa Bay	Brian Eklund	G	Brown
227	Philadelphia	Guillaume Lefebvre	C	Rouyn-Noranda (QMJHL)
228	Detroit	Jimmie Svensson	C	Vasteras (Allsvenskan)
229	St. Louis	Brett Lutes	LW	Blainville-Boisbriand (QMJHL)
230	Atlanta	Samu Isosalo	RW	North Bay (NOJHL)
231	Columbus	Peter Zingoni	C	New England Jr. (EJHL)
232	Minnesota	Lubomir Sekeras	D	Trinec (Czech)
233	Tampa Bay	Alexander Polukeyev	G	SKA Saint Petersburg (KHL)
234	Florida	Janis Sprukts	C	Lukko Rauma (SM-liiga)
235	Carolina	Craig Kowalski	G	Detroit Compuware (MWEHL)
236	Nashville	Mats Chisteen	D	Sodertalje SK (Allsvenskan)
237	Boston	Zdenek Kutiak	D	Budejovice (Czech)
238	NY Rangers	Dan Eberly	D	Rensselear Polytech
239	Calgary	David Hajek	D	Czech Republic
240	Chicago	Adam Berkhoel	G	Twin Cities Academy
241	Vancouver	Nathan Barrett	C	Lethbridge (WHL)
242	Atlanta	Evan Nielsen	D	Notre Dame
243	Montreal	Joni Puurula	G	Finland
244	Atlanta	Eric Bowen	RW	Portland (WHL)
245	Los Angeles	Dan Welch	RW	Minnesota
246	San Jose	Chad Wiseman	LW	Mississauga (OHL)
247	Edmonton	Jason Platt	D	Omaha (USHL)
248	Pittsburgh	Steven Crampton	RW	Moose Jaw (WHL)
249	Phoenix	Sami Venalainen	RW	Tappara Tampere (SM-liiga)
250	Los Angeles	Flavien Conne	C	Fribourg (NLA)
251	Detroit	Todd Jackson	RW	USNTDP (USHL)
252	Colorado	Darryl Bootland	RW	St. Michael's (CCHL)
253	Florida	Mathew Sommerfeld	LW	Swift Current (WHL)
254	Toronto	Alexander Shinkar	RW	Cherepovets (KHL)
255	Minnesota	Eric Johansson	C	Tri-City (WHL)
256	San Jose	Pasi Saarinen	D	Ilves Tampere (SM-liiga)
257	New Jersey	Warren McCutcheon	C	Lethbridge (WHL)
258	Buffalo	Sean McMorrow	D	Kitchener (OHL)
259	Philadelphia	Regan Kelly	D	Nipawin (SJHL)
260	Detroit	Evgeni Bumagin	RW	CSKA Moscow (KHL)
261	St. Louis	Reinhard Divis	G	Leksands (Allsvenskan)
262	Chicago	Peter Flache	C	Guelph (OHL)
263	Tampa Bay	Thomas Ziegler	C	Switzerland
264	NY Islanders	Dimitri Altarev	C	Penza Dizel (Vysshaya)
265	Toronto	Jean-Phillippe Cote	D	Cape Breton (QMJHL)
266	Colorado	Sean Kotary	C	Northwest College Prep HS
267	NY Islanders	Tomi Pettinen	D	Ilves Tampere (SM-liiga)
268	Boston	Pavel Kolarik	D	Praha Slavia (Czech)
269	NY Rangers	Martin Richter	D	SaiPa Lappeenranta (SM-liiga)
270	Calgary	Micki Dupont	D	Kamloops (WHL)
271	Chicago	Reto Von Arx	C	Davos (NLA)
272	Vancouver	Tim Smith	C	Spokane (WHL)
273	Pittsburgh	Roman Simicek	C	HPK Hameenlinna (SM-liiga)
274	Edmonton	Evgeny Muratov	LW	Neftekamsk Toros (Vysshaya)
275	Montreal	Jonathan Gauthier	D	Rouyn-Noranda (QMJHL)
276	Carolina	Troy Ferguson	C	Michigan State
277	Buffalo	Ryan Courtney	LW	Windsor (OHL)
278	Columbus	Martin Paroulek	RW	Vsetin HC (Czech)
279	Boston	Andreas Lindstrom	LW	Lulea HF (SEL)
280	Pittsburgh	Nick Boucher	G	Dartmouth
281	Phoenix	Peter Fabus	C	Trenin (Slovak)
282	Los Angeles	Carl Grahn	G	KalPa Kuopio (SM-liiga)
283	Ottawa	James Demone	D	Portland (WHL)
284	Nashville	Martin Hohener	D	Kloten (NLA)
285	Colorado	Blake Ward	G	Tri-City (WHL)
286	Columbus	Andrej Nedorost	C	Trenin (Slovak)
287	Philadelphia	Milan Kopecky	LW	Praha Slavia (Czech)
288	Atlanta	Mark McRae	D	Cornell
289	Washington	Bjorn Nord	D	Djurgardens IF (SEL)
290	Atlanta	Simon Gamache	C	Val-d'Or (QMJHL)
291	Chicago	Arne Ramholt	D	Kloten (NLA)
292	Columbus	Louis Mandeville	D	Rouyn-Noranda (QMJHL)
293	St. Louis	Lauri Kinos	D	Blainville-Boisbriand (QMJHL)