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2001 NHL Draft

2001 NHL Draft - June 23rd, 2001 through June 24th, 2001, in Sunrise, Florida

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Pick	Team	Player	Position	School
1	Atlanta	Ilya Kovalchuk	LW	Spartak Moscow (KHL)
2	Ottawa	Jason Spezza	C	Windsor (OHL)
3	Tampa Bay	Alexandr Svitov	C	Omsk (KHL)
4	Florida	Stephen Weiss	C	Plymouth (OHL)
5	Anaheim	Stanislav Chistov	LW	Omsk (KHL)
6	Minnesota	Mikko Koivu	C	TPS Turku (SM-liiga)
7	Montreal	Mike Komisarek	D	Michigan
8	Columbus	Pascal Leclaire	G	Halifax (QMJHL)
9	Chicago	Tuomo Ruutu	C	Jokerit Helsinki (SM-liiga)
10	NY Rangers	Dan Blackburn	G	Kootenay (WHL)
11	Phoenix	Fredrik Sjostrom	RW	Frolunda HC (SEL)
12	Nashville	Dan Hamhuis	D	Prince George (WHL)
13	Edmonton	Ales Hemsky	RW	Hull (EIHL)
14	Calgary	Chuck Kobasew	RW	Boston College
15	Carolina	Igor Knyazev	D	Spartak Moscow (KHL)
16	Vancouver	R.J. Umberger	RW	Ohio State
17	Toronto	Carlo Colaiacovo	D	Erie (OHL)
18	Los Angeles	Jens Karlsson	LW	Frolunda HC (SEL)
19	Boston	Shaone Morrisonn	D	Kamloops (WHL)
20	San Jose	Marcel Goc	C	Germany
21	Pittsburgh	Colby Armstrong	RW	Red Deer (WHL)
22	Buffalo	Jiri Novotny	C	Budejovice (Czech)
23	Ottawa	Tim Gleason	D	Windsor (OHL)
24	Florida	Lukas Krajicek	D	Peterborough (OHL)
25	Montreal	Alexander Perezhogin	RW	Omsk (KHL)
26	Dallas	Jason Bacashihua	G	Chicago (USHL)
27	Philadelphia	Jeff Woywitka	D	Red Deer (WHL)
28	New Jersey	Adrian Foster	C	Saskatoon (WHL)
29	Chicago	Adam Munro	G	Erie (OHL)
30	Los Angeles	Dave Steckel	C	Ohio State
31	Phoenix	Matthew Spiller	D	Seattle (WHL)
32	Buffalo	Derek Roy	C	Kitchener (OHL)
33	Nashville	Timofei Shishkanov	LW	Spartak Moscow (KHL)
34	Florida	Greg Watson	LW	Prince Albert (WHL)
35	Anaheim	Mark Popovic	D	St. Michael's (CCHL)
36	Minnesota	Kyle Wanvig	RW	Red Deer (WHL)
37	Montreal	Duncan Milroy	RW	Swift Current (WHL)
38	Columbus	Tim Jackman	RW	Minnesota State-Mankato
39	Toronto	Karel Pilar	D	Litvinov (Czech)
40	NY Rangers	Fedor Tyutin	D	SKA Saint Petersburg (KHL)
41	Calgary	Andrei Taratukhin	C	Omsk (KHL)
42	Nashville	Tomas Slovak	D	Koice (Slovak)
43	Edmonton	Doug Lynch	D	Red Deer (WHL)
44	New Jersey	Igor Pohanka	C	Prince Albert (WHL)
45	Phoenix	Martin Podlesak	C	Lethbridge (WHL)
46	Carolina	Mike Zigomanis	C	Kingston (OHL)
47	Tampa Bay	Alexander Polushin	LW	Tver THC (Vysshaya)
48	New Jersey	Tuomas Pihlman	LW	JYP Jyvaskyla (SM-liiga)
49	Los Angeles	Mike Cammalleri	C	Michigan
50	Buffalo	Chris Thorburn	C	North Bay (NOJHL)
51	Los Angeles	Jaroslav Bednar	C	HIFK Helsinki (SM-liiga)
52	Edmonton	Ed Caron	LW	Phillips Exeter Academy
53	Columbus	Kiel McLeod	C	Kelowna (WHL)
54	Pittsburgh	Noah Welch	D	St. Sebastian's School
55	Buffalo	Jason Pominville	RW	Shawinigan (QMJHL)
56	Calgary	Andrei Medvedev	G	Spartak Moscow (KHL)
57	St. Louis	Jay McClement	C	Brampton (OHL)
58	Washington	Nathan Paetsch	D	Moose Jaw (WHL)
59	Chicago	Matt Keith	RW	Spokane (WHL)
60	New Jersey	Victor Uchevatov	D	Yaroslavl (KHL)
61	Tampa Bay	Andreas Holmqvist	D	Sweden
62	Detroit	Igor Grigorenko	RW	Tolyatti Lada (KHL)
63	Colorado	Peter Budaj	G	St. Michael's (CCHL)
64	Florida	Tomas Malec	D	Rimouski (QMJHL)
65	Toronto	Brendan Bell	D	Ottawa 67's (OHL)
66	Vancouver	Fedor Fedorov	LW	Sudbury (OHL)
67	New Jersey	Robin Leblanc	RW	Baie-Comeau (QMJHL)
68	Florida	Grant McNeill	D	Prince Albert (WHL)
69	Anaheim	Joel Stepp	LW	Red Deer (WHL)
70	Dallas	Yared Hagos	C	AIK (Allsvenskan)
71	Montreal	Tomas Plekanec	LW	Kladno (Czech)
72	New Jersey	Brandon Nolan	LW	Oshawa (OHL)
73	Chicago	Craig Anderson	G	Guelph (OHL)
74	Minnesota	Chris Heid	D	Spokane (WHL)
75	Nashville	Denis Platonov	LW	Saratov Kristall (Vysshaya)
76	Nashville	Oliver Setzinger	C	Ilves Tampere (SM-liiga)
77	Boston	Darren McLachlan	LW	Seattle (WHL)
78	Phoenix	Beat Schiess-Forster	D	Davos (NLA)
79	NY Rangers	Garth Murray	C	Regina (WHL)
80	Atlanta	Michael Garnett	G	Saskatoon (WHL)
81	Ottawa	Neil Komadoski	D	Notre Dame
82	Toronto	Jay Harrison	D	Brampton (OHL)
83	Los Angeles	Henrik Juntunen	RW	Karpat Oulu (SM-liiga)
84	Edmonton	Kenny Smith	D	Harvard
85	Columbus	Aaron Johnson	D	Rimouski (QMJHL)
86	Pittsburgh	Drew Fata	D	St. Michael's (CCHL)
87	Columbus	Per Mars	C	Brynas IF (SEL)
88	Toronto	Nicolas Corbeil	C	Sherbrooke (LHJAAAQ)
89	St. Louis	Tuomas Nissinen	G	KalPa Kuopio (SM-liiga)
90	Washington	Owen Fussey	RW	Calgary Hitmen (WHL)
91	Carolina	Kevin Estrada	LW	Chilliwack (WHL)
92	Dallas	Anthony Aquino	RW	Merrimack
93	Minnesota	Stephane Veilleux	C	Val-d'Or (QMJHL)
94	Tampa Bay	Evgeny Artyukhin	RW	Podolsk HC Rys (Vysshaya)
95	Philadelphia	Patrick Sharp	C	Vermont
96	Pittsburgh	Alexandre Rouleau	D	Val-d'Or (QMJHL)
97	Colorado	Danny Bois	RW	London (OHL)
98	Nashville	Jordin Tootoo	RW	Brandon (WHL)
99	Ottawa	Ray Emery	G	Sault Ste. Marie (OHL)
100	Atlanta	Brian Sipotz	D	Miami (Ohio)
101	NY Islanders	Cory Stillman	C	Kingston (OHL)
102	Anaheim	Timo Parssinen	C	HPK Hameenlinna (SM-liiga)
103	Minnesota	Tony Virta	RW	TPS Turku (SM-liiga)
104	Chicago	Brent MacLellan	D	Rimouski (QMJHL)
105	Anaheim	Vladimir Korsunov	D	Spartak Moscow (KHL)
106	San Jose	Christian Ehrhoff	D	Krefeld (DEL)
107	San Jose	Dimitri Patzold	G	Germany
108	Calgary	Tomi Maki	RW	Jokerit Helsinki (SM-liiga)
109	Montreal	Martti Jarventie	D	TPS Turku (SM-liiga)
110	Carolina	Rob Zepp	G	Plymouth (OHL)
111	Boston	Matti Kaltiainen	G	Blues Espoo (SM-liiga)
112	Atlanta	Milan Gajic	C	Burnaby (BCHL)
113	NY Rangers	Bryce Lampman	D	Omaha (USHL)
114	Vancouver	Evgeny Gladskikh	LW	Magnitogorsk (KHL)
115	Chicago	Vladimir Gusev	D	Khabarovsk (KHL)
116	Los Angeles	Richard Petiot	D	Camrose (AJHL)
117	Florida	Michael Woodford	RW	Cushing Academy
118	Anaheim	Brandon Rogers	D	Hotchkiss School
119	Chicago	Aleksey Zotkin	LW	Magnitogorsk (KHL)
120	Pittsburgh	Tomas Surovy	LW	Poprad (Slovak)
121	Detroit	Drew MacIntyre	G	Sherbrooke (LHJAAAQ)
122	St. Louis	Igor Valeev	RW	North Bay (NOJHL)
123	Tampa Bay	Aaron Lobb	RW	London (OHL)
124	Calgary	Egor Shastin	LW	Omsk (KHL)
125	Washington	Jeff Lucky	RW	Spokane (WHL)
126	Dallas	Daniel Volrab	C	Praha Sparta (Czech)
127	Ottawa	Christoph Schubert	D	Germany
128	New Jersey	Andrei Posnov	LW	Krylya Sovetov Moscow (Vysshaya)
129	Detroit	Miroslav Blatak	D	Zlin (Czech)
130	Colorado	Colt King	LW	Guelph (OHL)
131	Pittsburgh	Ben Eaves	C	Boston College
132	NY Islanders	Dusan Salficky	G	Plze (Czech)
133	Edmonton	Jussi Markkanen	G	Tappara Tampere (SM-liiga)
134	Toronto	Kyle Wellwood	C	Belleville (OHL)
135	Atlanta	Colin Stuart	C	Colorado College
136	Florida	Billy Thompson	C	Prince George (WHL)
137	Anaheim	Joel Perrault	C	Baie-Comeau (QMJHL)
138	Tampa Bay	Paul Lynch	D	Valley Jr. (EJHL)
139	NY Rangers	Shawn Collymore	RW	Quebec (QMJHL)
140	San Jose	Tomas Plihal	LW	Liberec White Tigers (Czech)
141	Columbus	Cole Jarrett	D	Plymouth (OHL)
142	Chicago	Tommi Jaminki	LW	Blues Espoo (SM-liiga)
143	Colorado	Frantisek Skladany	LW	Boston University
144	Colorado	Cody McCormick	C	Belleville (OHL)
145	Calgary	James Hakewill	D	Westminster School
146	Philadelphia	Jussi Timonen	D	KalPa Kuopio (SM-liiga)
147	Boston	Jiri Jakes	RW	Brandon (WHL)
148	Phoenix	David Klema	D	Des Moines (USHL)
149	Colorado	Mikko Viitanen	D	Finland
150	Philadelphia	Bernd Bruckler	G	Tri-City (USHL)
151	Vancouver	Kevin Bieksa	D	Bowling Green
152	Los Angeles	Terry Denike	G	Weyburn (SJHL)
153	Los Angeles	Tuukka Mantyla	D	Tappara Tampere (SM-liiga)
154	Edmonton	Jake Brenk	C	Breck School
155	Buffalo	Michal Vondrka	C	Budejovice (Czech)
156	Pittsburgh	Andy Schneider	D	Lincoln (USHL)
157	Detroit	Andreas Jamtin	RW	Farjestads BK (SEL)
158	Philadelphia	Roman Malek	G	Praha Slavia (Czech)
159	St. Louis	Dmitri Semin	C	Spartak Moscow (KHL)
160	Washington	Artem Ternavsky	D	Sherbrooke (LHJAAAQ)
161	Dallas	Mike Smith	G	Sudbury (OHL)
162	Ottawa	Stefan Schauer	D	Germany
163	New Jersey	Andreas Salomonsson	LW	Djurgardens IF (SEL)
164	Calgary	Yuri Trubachev	C	St. Petersburg HC VMF (Vysshaya)
165	Colorado	Pierre-Luc Emond	C	Drummondville (QMJHL)
166	NY Islanders	Andy Chiodo	G	St. Michael's (CCHL)
167	Dallas	Michal Blazek	D	Vsetin HC (Czech)
168	Toronto	Maxim Kondratiev	D	Tolyatti Lada (KHL)
169	Florida	Dustin Johner	C	Seattle (WHL)
170	Anaheim	Jan Tabacek	D	Martin (Slovak)
171	Montreal	Eric Himelfarb	C	Sarnia (OHL)
172	Philadelphia	Dennis Seidenberg	D	Mannheim (DEL)
173	Columbus	Justin Aikins	RW	Langley (BCHL)
174	Chicago	Alexander Golvin	LW	Omsk (KHL)
175	San Jose	Ryane Clowe	RW	Rimouski (QMJHL)
176	NY Rangers	Marek Zidlicky	D	HIFK Helsinki (SM-liiga)
177	Philadelphia	Andrei Razin	C	Magnitogorsk (KHL)
178	Nashville	Anton Lavrentyev	C	Kazan (KHL)
179	Boston	Andrew Alberts	D	Waterloo (USHL)
180	Phoenix	Scott Polaski	RW	Sioux City (USHL)
181	Carolina	Daniel Boisclair	G	Cape Breton (QMJHL)
182	San Jose	Tom Cavanagh	C	Phillips Exeter Academy
183	Toronto	Jaroslav Sklenar	LW	Czech Republic
184	Colorado	Scott Horvath	RW	Massachusetts
185	Edmonton	Mikael Svensk	D	Frolunda HC (SEL)
186	Chicago	Petr Puncochar	D	Karlovy Vary (Czech)
187	Columbus	Artem Vostrikov	LW	Tolyatti Lada (KHL)
188	Tampa Bay	Art Femenella	D	Sioux City (USHL)
189	Atlanta	Pasi Nurminen	G	Jokerit Helsinki (SM-liiga)
190	St. Louis	Brett Scheffelmaier	D	Medicine Hat (WHL)
191	Washington	Zbynek Novak	C	Praha Slavia (Czech)
192	Dallas	Jussi Jokinen	LW	Karpat Oulu (SM-liiga)
193	Ottawa	Brooks Laich	LW	Moose Jaw (WHL)
194	New Jersey	James Massen	RW	Sioux Falls (USHL)
195	Detroit	Nick Pannoni	G	Seattle (WHL)
196	Colorado	Charlie Stephens	C	Guelph (OHL)
197	NY Islanders	Jan Holub	D	Liberec White Tigers (Czech)
198	Toronto	Ivan Kolozvary	C	Trenin (Slovak)
199	Atlanta	Matt Suderman	D	Saskatoon (WHL)
200	Florida	Toni Koivisto	LW	Lukko Rauma (SM-liiga)
201	Atlanta	Colin FitzRandolph	RW	Phillips Exeter Academy
202	Minnesota	Derek Boogaard	LW	Prince George (WHL)
203	Montreal	Andrew Archer	D	Guelph (OHL)
204	Columbus	Raffaele Sannitz	C	Switzerland
205	Chicago	Teemu Jaaskelainen	D	Ilves Tampere (SM-liiga)
206	NY Rangers	Petr Preucil	LW	Quebec (QMJHL)
207	Calgary	Garett Bembridge	RW	Saskatoon (WHL)
208	Philadelphia	Thierry Douville	D	Baie-Comeau (QMJHL)
209	Boston	Jordan Sigalet	D	Victoria (BCHL)
210	Phoenix	Steve Belanger	G	Kamloops (WHL)
211	Carolina	Sean Curry	D	Tri-City (WHL)
212	Vancouver	Jason King	RW	Halifax (QMJHL)
213	Toronto	Jan Chovan	G	Belleville (OHL)
214	Los Angeles	Cristobal Huet	G	Lugano HC (NLA)
215	Edmonton	Dan Baum	LW	Prince George (WHL)
216	Chicago	Oleg Minakov	C	Elektrostal Kristall (KHL)
217	Pittsburgh	Tomas Duba	G	Praha Sparta (Czech)
218	Ottawa	Jan Platil	D	Barrie (OHL)
219	Tampa Bay	Dennis Packard	LW	Harvard
220	Calgary	David Moss	RW	Cedar Rapids (USHL)
221	Washington	Johnny Oduya	D	Victoriaville (QMJHL)
222	Tampa Bay	Jeremy Van Hoof	D	Ottawa 67's (OHL)
223	Ottawa	Brandon Bochenski	RW	Lincoln (USHL)
224	Anaheim	Tony Martensson	C	Brynas IF (SEL)
225	Philadelphia	David Printz	LW	Sweden
226	NY Rangers	Pontus Petterstrom	LW	Sweden
227	Colorado	Marek Svatos	RW	Kootenay (WHL)
228	NY Islanders	Mike Bray	RW	Quebec (QMJHL)
229	New Jersey	Aaron Voros	RW	Victoria (BCHL)
230	NY Rangers	Leonid Zhvachin	D	Podolsk HC Rys (Vysshaya)
231	Florida	Kyle Bruce	RW	Prince Albert (WHL)
232	Anaheim	Martin Gerber	G	Switzerland
233	Calgary	Joe Campbell	D	Des Moines (USHL)
234	Buffalo	Calle Aslund	C	Sweden
235	Ottawa	Neil Petruic	D	Kindersley (SJHL)
236	Columbus	Ryan Bowness	RW	Brampton (OHL)
237	Los Angeles	Mike Gabinet	D	Nebraska-Omaha
238	NY Rangers	Ryan Hollweg	C	Medicine Hat (WHL)
239	Minnesota	Jake Riddle	LW	Seattle (WHL)
240	Nashville	Gustav Grasberg	LW	Mora (Allsvenskan)
241	Boston	Milan Jurcina	D	Halifax (QMJHL)
242	Columbus	Andrew Murray	C	Bemidji State
243	Phoenix	Frantisek Lukes	LW	St. Michael's (CCHL)
244	Carolina	Carter Trevisani	D	Ottawa 67's (OHL)
245	Vancouver	Konstantin Mihailov	C	Nizhnekamsk (KHL)
246	Toronto	Tomas Mojzis	D	Moose Jaw (WHL)
247	Buffalo	Marek Dubec	C	Vsetin HC (Czech)
248	Edmonton	Kari Haakana	D	Jokerit Helsinki (SM-liiga)
249	Washington	Matthew Maglione	D	Princeton
250	Pittsburgh	Brandon Crawford-West	G	Texas (NAHL)
251	Calgary	Ville Hamalainen	RW	SaiPa Lappeenranta (SM-liiga)
252	Tampa Bay	Jean-Francois Soucy	LW	Blainville-Boisbriand (QMJHL)
253	St. Louis	Petr Cajanek	LW	Zlin (Czech)
254	Washington	Peter Polcik	LW	Nitra (Slovak)
255	Dallas	Marco Rosa	C	Merrimack
256	Ottawa	Gregg Johnson	C	Boston University
257	New Jersey	Evgeny Gamalei	D	Khimik Voskresensk (Vysshaya)
258	Detroit	Dmitri Bykov	D	Kazan (KHL)
259	Tampa Bay	Dmitri Bezrukov	D	Nizhnekamsk (KHL)
260	NY Islanders	Brian Perez	LW	Des Moines (USHL)
261	Tampa Bay	Vitali Smolyaninov	D	Neftekamsk Toros (Vysshaya)
262	Atlanta	Mario Cartelli	D	Trinec (Czech)
263	Florida	Jan Blanar	D	Trenin (Slovak)
264	Anaheim	Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau	RW	Chicoutimi (QMJHL)
265	Dallas	Dale Sullivan	RW	Hull (EIHL)
266	Montreal	Viktor Ujcik	RW	Praha Slavia (Czech)
267	Florida	Ivan Majesky	D	Ilves Tampere (SM-liiga)
268	Chicago	Jeff Miles	C	Vermont
269	NY Rangers	Juris Stals	C	Lukko Rauma (SM-liiga)
270	St. Louis	Grant Jacobsen	C	Regina (WHL)
271	Nashville	Mikko Lehtonen	D	Karpat Oulu (SM-liiga)
272	Edmonton	Ales Pisa	D	Pardubice (Czech)
273	Phoenix	Severin Blindenbacher	D	Kloten (NLA)
274	Carolina	Peter Reynolds	D	North Bay (NOJHL)
275	Washington	Robert Muller	G	Mannheim (DEL)
276	Toronto	Mike Knoepfli	LW	Georgetown (OJAHL)
277	Los Angeles	Sebastian Laplante	G	Canada
278	Edmonton	Shay Stephenson	LW	Red Deer (WHL)
279	Buffalo	Ryan Jorde	D	Tri-City (WHL)
280	NY Islanders	Roman Kuhtinov	D	Novokuznetsk (KHL)
281	Tampa Bay	Ilya Solarev	LW	Perm Molot-Prikamye (Vysshaya)
282	Boston	Marcel Rodman	RW	Peterborough (OHL)
283	St. Louis	Simon Skoog	D	Sweden
284	Washington	Viktor Hubl	LW	Praha Slavia (Czech)
285	Dallas	Marek Tomica	RW	Praha Slavia (Czech)
286	Ottawa	Toni Dahlman	RW	Ilves Tampere (SM-liiga)
287	NY Islanders	Juha-Pekka Ketola	C	Lukko Rauma (SM-liiga)
288	Detroit	Francois Senez	D	Rensselear Polytech
289	Tampa Bay	Henrik Bergfors	D	Sodertalje SK (Allsvenskan)