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2003 NHL Draft

2003 NHL Draft - June 21st, 2003 through June 22nd, 2003, in Nashville, Tennessee

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Pick	Team	Player	Position	School	Height	Weight
1	Pittsburgh	Marc-Andre Fleury	G	Cape Breton (QMJHL)
2	Carolina	Eric Staal	C	Peterborough (OHL)
3	Florida	Nathan Horton	RW	Oshawa (OHL)
4	Columbus	Nikolai Zherdev	RW	CSKA Moscow (KHL)
5	Buffalo	Thomas Vanek	LW	Minnesota
6	San Jose	Milan Michalek	LW	Budejovice (Czech)
7	Nashville	Ryan Suter	D	USNTDP (USHL)
8	Atlanta	Braydon Coburn	D	Portland (WHL)
9	Calgary	Dion Phaneuf	D	Red Deer (WHL)
10	Montreal	Andrei Kostitsyn	RW	CSKA Moscow (KHL)
11	Philadelphia	Jeff Carter	C	Sault Ste. Marie (OHL)
12	NY Rangers	Hugh Jessiman	RW	Dartmouth
13	Los Angeles	Dustin Brown	RW	Guelph (OHL)
14	Chicago	Brent Seabrook	D	Lethbridge (WHL)
15	NY Islanders	Robert Nilsson	RW	Leksands (Allsvenskan)
16	San Jose	Steve Bernier	RW	Moncton (QMJHL)
17	New Jersey	Zach Parise	C	North Dakota
18	Washington	Eric Fehr	RW	Brandon (WHL)
19	Anaheim	Ryan Getzlaf	C	Calgary Hitmen (WHL)
20	Minnesota	Brent Burns	D	Brampton (OHL)
21	Boston	Mark Stuart	D	Colorado College
22	Edmonton	Marc-Antoine Pouliot	C	Rimouski (QMJHL)
23	Vancouver	Ryan Kesler	C	Ohio State
24	Philadelphia	Mike Richards	C	Kitchener (OHL)
25	Florida	Anthony Stewart	RW	Kingston (OHL)
26	Los Angeles	Brian Boyle	C	St. Sebastian's School
27	Los Angeles	Jeff Tambellini	LW	Michigan
28	Anaheim	Corey Perry	RW	London (OHL)
29	Ottawa	Patrick Eaves	RW	Boston College
30	St. Louis	Shawn Belle	D	Tri-City (WHL)
31	Carolina	Danny Richmond	D	Michigan
32	Pittsburgh	Ryan Stone	C	Brandon (WHL)
33	Dallas	Loui Eriksson	LW	Frolunda HC (SEL)
34	Tampa Bay	Mike Egener	D	Calgary Hitmen (WHL)
35	Nashville	Konstantin Glazachev	LW	Yaroslavl (KHL)
36	Dallas	Vojtech Polak	RW	Karlovy Vary (Czech)
37	Nashville	Kevin Klein	D	St. Michael's (CCHL)
38	Florida	Kamil Kreps	C	Brampton (OHL)
39	Calgary	Tim Ramholt	D	Zurich (NLA)
40	Montreal	Cory Urquhart	C	Blainville-Boisbriand (QMJHL)
41	Tampa Bay	Matt Smaby	D	Shattuck-St. Marys School
42	New Jersey	Petr Vrana	LW	Halifax (QMJHL)
43	San Jose	Josh Hennessy	C	Quebec (QMJHL)
44	Los Angeles	Konstantin Pushkarev	LW	Ust-Kamenogorsk (Kazakhstani)
45	Boston	Patrice Bergeron	C	Acadie-Bathurst (QMJHL)
46	Columbus	Dan Fritsche	C	Sarnia (OHL)
47	San Jose	Matt Carle	D	Omaha (USHL)
48	NY Islanders	Dmitri Chernykh	RW	Russia
49	Nashville	Shea Weber	D	Kelowna (WHL)
50	NY Rangers	Ivan Baranka	D	Slovakia
51	Edmonton	Colin McDonald	RW	New England Jr. (EJHL)
52	Chicago	Corey Crawford	G	Moncton (QMJHL)
53	NY Islanders	Evgeni Tunik	C	Russia
54	Dallas	B.J. Crombeen	RW	Barrie (OHL)
55	Florida	Stefan Meyer	LW	Medicine Hat (WHL)
56	Minnesota	Patrick O'Sullivan	C	Mississauga (OHL)
57	Toronto	John Doherty	D	Phillips Academy
58	NY Islanders	Jeremy Colliton	C	Prince Albert (WHL)
59	Chicago	Michal Barinka	D	Budejovice (Czech)
60	Vancouver	Marc-Andre Bernier	RW	Halifax (QMJHL)
61	Montreal	Maxim Lapierre	C	Blainville-Boisbriand (QMJHL)
62	St. Louis	David Backes	RW	Lincoln (USHL)
63	Colorado	David Liffiton	D	Plymouth (OHL)
64	Detroit	Jimmy Howard	G	Maine
65	Buffalo	Branislav Fabry	RW	Bratislava (Slovak)
66	Boston	Masi Marjamaki	LW	Red Deer (WHL)
67	Ottawa	Igor Mirnov	C	Dynamo Moscow (KHL)
68	Edmonton	Jean-Francois Jacques	LW	Baie-Comeau (QMJHL)
69	Philadelphia	Colin Fraser	C	Red Deer (WHL)
70	Pittsburgh	Jonathan Filewich	RW	Prince George (WHL)
71	Columbus	Dmitri Kosmachev	D	CSKA Moscow (KHL)
72	Edmonton	Mikhail Zhukov	RW	Russia
73	Pittsburgh	Daniel Carcillo	LW	Sarnia (OHL)
74	Buffalo	Clarke MacArthur	LW	Medicine Hat (WHL)
75	NY Rangers	Ken Roche	C	St. Sebastian's School
76	Nashville	Richard Stehlik	D	Sherbrooke (LHJAAAQ)
77	Phoenix	Tyler Redenbach	LW	Swift Current (WHL)
78	Minnesota	Danny Irmen	C	Lincoln (USHL)
79	Montreal	Ryan O'Byrne	D	Calgary Hitmen (WHL)
80	Phoenix	Dmitri Pestunov	C	Magnitogorsk (KHL)
81	Philadelphia	Stefan Ruzicka	RW	Nitra (Slovak)
82	Los Angeles	Ryan Munce	G	Sarnia (OHL)
83	Washington	Stephen Werner	RW	Massachusetts
84	St. Louis	Konstantin Barulin	G	Tyumen Gazovik (Vysshaya)
85	Philadelphia	Alexandre Picard	D	Halifax (QMJHL)
86	Anaheim	Shane Hynes	RW	Cornell
87	Philadelphia	Ryan Potulny	C	Lincoln (USHL)
88	St. Louis	Zack Fitzgerald	D	Seattle (WHL)
89	Nashville	Paul Brown	RW	Kamloops (WHL)
90	Anaheim	Juha Alen	D	Northern Michigan
91	Toronto	Martin Sagat	LW	Trenin (Slovak)
92	Nashville	Alexander Sulzer	D	Hamburg (DEL)
93	New Jersey	Ivan Khomutov	C	Russia
94	Edmonton	Zack Stortini	RW	Sudbury (OHL)
95	Philadelphia	Rick Kozak	RW	Brandon (WHL)
96	Tampa Bay	Jonathan Boutin	G	Halifax (QMJHL)
97	Calgary	Ryan Donally	LW	Windsor (OHL)
98	Nashville	Grigory Shafigulin	C	Yaroslavl (KHL)
99	Dallas	Matt Nickerson	D	Texas (NAHL)
100	Ottawa	Philippe Seydoux	D	Kloten (NLA)
101	St. Louis	Konstantin Zakharov	C	Junost Minsk (Belarusian)
102	Carolina	Aaron Dawson	D	Peterborough (OHL)
103	Columbus	Kevin Jarman	LW	Stouffville (CCHL)
104	Columbus	Philippe Dupuis	C	Hull (EIHL)
105	Florida	Martin Lojek	D	Brampton (OHL)
106	Buffalo	Jan Hejda	D	Praha Slavia (Czech)
107	Boston	Byron Bitz	RW	Nanaimo (BCHL)
108	Philadelphia	Kevin Romy	RW	Geneva (NLA)
109	Washington	Andreas Valdix	LW	Malmo (Allsvenskan)
110	Atlanta	Jimmy Sharrow	D	Halifax (QMJHL)
111	Vancouver	Brandon Nolan	LW	Oshawa (OHL)
112	Calgary	Jamie Tardif	RW	Peterborough (OHL)
113	Montreal	Corey Locke	C	Ottawa 67's (OHL)
114	Buffalo	Denis Ezhov	D	Tolyatti Lada (KHL)
115	Phoenix	Liam Lindstrom	C	Mora (Allsvenskan)
116	Atlanta	Guillaume Desbiens	RW	Rouyn-Noranda (QMJHL)
117	Nashville	Teemu Lassila	G	TPS Turku (SM-liiga)
118	Boston	Frank Rediker	D	Windsor (OHL)
119	Anaheim	Nathan Saunders	D	Moncton (QMJHL)
120	NY Islanders	Stefan Blaho	RW	Trenin (Slovak)
121	Pittsburgh	Paul Bissonnette	D	Saginaw (OHL)
122	NY Rangers	Corey Potter	D	Michigan State
123	Montreal	Danny Stewart	LW	Rimouski (QMJHL)
124	Florida	James Pemberton	D	Providence
125	Toronto	Konstantin Volkov	RW	Dynamo Moscow (KHL)
126	Carolina	Kevin Nastiuk	G	Medicine Hat (WHL)
127	St. Louis	Alexandre Bolduc	C	Rouyn-Noranda (QMJHL)
128	Vancouver	Ty Morris	LW	St. Albert (AJHL)
129	Boston	Patrik Valcak	RW	Vitkovice (Czech)
130	Carolina	Matej Trojovsky	D	Regina (WHL)
131	Colorado	David Svagrovsky	RW	Seattle (WHL)
132	Detroit	Kyle Quincey	D	London (OHL)
133	Nashville	Rustam Sidikov	G	CSKA Moscow (KHL)
134	Dallas	Alexander Naurov	RW	Yaroslavl (KHL)
135	Ottawa	Mattias Karlsson	D	Brynas IF (SEL)
136	Atlanta	Michael Vannelli	D	Sioux Falls (USHL)
137	Carolina	Tyson Strachan	D	Vernon (BCHL)
138	Columbus	Arsi Piispanen	RW	HIFK Helsinki (SM-liiga)
139	San Jose	Patrick Ehelechner	G	Hanover (DEL)
140	Philadelphia	David Tremblay	G	Hull (EIHL)
141	Florida	Dan Travis	RW	Deerfield Academy
142	Ottawa	Tim Cook	G	Omaha (USHL)
143	Colorado	Greg Moore	RW	Maine
144	Dallas	Eero Kilpelainen	G	KalPa Kuopio (SM-liiga)
145	Atlanta	Brett Sterling	LW	Colorado College
146	Calgary	Mark McCutcheon	C	New England Jr. (EJHL)
147	Edmonton	Kalle Olsson	RW	Frolunda HC (SEL)
148	St. Louis	Lee Stempniak	RW	Dartmouth
149	NY Rangers	Nigel Dawes	LW	Kootenay (WHL)
150	Buffalo	Thomas Morrow	D	Des Moines (USHL)
151	Chicago	Lasse Kukkonen	D	Karpat Oulu (SM-liiga)
152	Los Angeles	Brady Murray	C	Salmon Arm (BCHL)
153	Boston	Mike Brown	G	Saginaw (OHL)
154	Edmonton	David Rohlfs	RW	United States
155	Washington	Josh Robertson	C	Proctor Academy
156	Chicago	Alexei Ivanov	C	Yaroslavl (KHL)
157	Minnesota	Marcin Kolusz	C	Nowy Targ (Polish)
158	Toronto	John Mitchell	C	Plymouth (OHL)
159	St. Louis	Chris Beckford-Tseu	G	Oshawa (OHL)
160	Vancouver	Nicklas Danielsson	RW	Brynas IF (SEL)
161	Pittsburgh	Evgeni Isakov	LW	Cherepovets (KHL)
162	Florida	Martin Tuma	D	Litvinov (Czech)
163	Colorado	Brad Richardson	C	Owen Sound (OHL)
164	Detroit	Ryan Oulahen	C	Brampton (OHL)
165	Dallas	Gino Guyer	C	Minnesota
166	Ottawa	Sergei Gimayev	D	Cherepovets (KHL)
167	New Jersey	Zach Tarkir	D	Chilliwack (WHL)
168	Columbus	Marc Methot	D	London (OHL)
169	Pittsburgh	Lukas Bolf	D	Praha Sparta (Czech)
170	Detroit	Andreas Sundin	LW	Linkopings HC (SEL)
171	Florida	Denis Stasyuk	C	Novokuznetsk (KHL)
172	Buffalo	Pavel Voroshnin	D	Mississauga (OHL)
173	Calgary	Tyler Johnson	C	Moose Jaw (WHL)
174	Los Angeles	Esa Pirnes	C	Tappara Tampere (SM-liiga)
175	Atlanta	Mike Hamilton	C	Merritt (BCHL)
176	NY Rangers	Ivan Dornic	C	Bratislava (Slovak)
177	Montreal	Christopher Heino-Lindberg	G	Hamar (Norway)
178	Phoenix	Ryan Gibbons	RW	Seattle (WHL)
179	NY Rangers	Philippe Furrer	D	Bern (NLA)
180	NY Rangers	Chris Holt	G	USNTDP (USHL)
181	Chicago	Johan Andersson	C	Troja (Allsvenskan)
182	NY Islanders	Bruno Gervais	D	Acadie-Bathurst (QMJHL)
183	Boston	Nate Thompson	D	Seattle (WHL)
184	Edmonton	Dragan Umicevic	LW	Sodertalje SK (Allsvenskan)
185	Dallas	Francis Wathier	LW	Hull (EIHL)
186	Anaheim	Drew Miller	LW	Omaha (USHL)
187	Minnesota	Miroslav Kopriva	G	Kladno (Czech)
188	Montreal	Mark Flood	D	Peterborough (OHL)
189	St. Louis	Jonathan Lehun	C	St. Cloud State
190	Vancouver	Chad Brownlee	D	Vernon (BCHL)
191	Philadelphia	Rejean Beauchemin	G	Prince Albert (WHL)
192	Tampa Bay	Doug O'Brien	D	Hull (EIHL)
193	Philadelphia	Ville Hostikka	G	SaiPa Lappeenranta (SM-liiga)
194	Detroit	Stefan Blom	D	Hamar (Norway)
195	Dallas	Drew Bagnall	D	Battlefords (SJHL)
196	Dallas	Elias Granath	D	Leksands (Allsvenskan)
197	New Jersey	Jason Smith	G	Canada
198	Carolina	Shay Stephenson	LW	Red Deer (WHL)
199	Pittsburgh	Andy Chiodo	G	St. Michael's (CCHL)
200	Columbus	Alexander Guskov	D	Yaroslavl (KHL)
201	San Jose	Jonathan Tremblay	RW	Yaroslavl (KHL)
202	Buffalo	Nathan Paetsch	D	Moose Jaw (WHL)
203	Atlanta	Denis Loginov	C	Kazan (KHL)
204	Colorado	Linus Videll	LW	Sodertalje SK (Allsvenskan)
205	San Jose	Joe Pavelski	C	Waterloo (USHL)
206	Calgary	Thomas Bellemare	D	Drummondville (QMJHL)
207	Minnesota	Grigory Misharin	D	Yekaterinburg (KHL)
208	Phoenix	Randall Gelech	RW	Kelowna (WHL)
209	NY Rangers	Dylan Reese	D	Pittsburgh Hornets (MWEHL)
210	Nashville	Andrei Mukhachev	D	CSKA Moscow (KHL)
211	Chicago	Mike Brodeur	G	Camrose (AJHL)
212	NY Islanders	Denis Rehak	D	Trenin (Slovak)
213	Nashville	Miroslav Hanuljak	G	Litvinov (Czech)
214	Edmonton	Kyle Brodziak	C	Moose Jaw (WHL)
215	Edmonton	Mathieu Roy	D	Val-d'Or (QMJHL)
216	San Jose	Kai Hospelt	C	Cologne (DEL)
217	Montreal	Oskari Korpikari	D	Karpat Oulu (SM-liiga)
218	Anaheim	Dirk Southern	C	Northern Michigan
219	Minnesota	Adam Courchaine	C	Vancouver (WHL)
220	Toronto	Jeremy Williams	C	Swift Current (WHL)
221	St. Louis	Evgeny Skachkov	LW	Russia
222	Vancouver	Francois-Pierre Guenette	C	Halifax (QMJHL)
223	Florida	Dany Roussin	LW	Rimouski (QMJHL)
224	Tampa Bay	Gerald Coleman	G	London (OHL)
225	Colorado	Brett Hemingway	LW	Canada	6' 1"	185
226	Detroit	Tomas Kollar	LW	Sweden
227	Tampa Bay	Jay Rosehill	D	Olds (AJHL)	6' 3"	215
228	Ottawa	Will Colbert	D	Ottawa 67's (OHL)
229	Pittsburgh	Stephen Dixon	C	Cape Breton (QMJHL)
230	Carolina	Jamie Hoffmann	C	Des Moines (USHL)
231	Los Angeles	Matt Zaba	G	Vernon (BCHL)
232	Pittsburgh	Joe Jensen	RW	St. Cloud State
233	Columbus	Mathieu Gravel	LW	Shawinigan (QMJHL)
234	Florida	Petr Kadlec	D	Praha Slavia (Czech)
235	Buffalo	Jeff Weber	RW	Plymouth (OHL)
236	San Jose	Alexander Hult	C	Traverse City (NAHL)
237	Toronto	Shaun Landolt	RW	Calgary Hitmen (WHL)
238	NY Islanders	Cody Blanshan	D	Nebraska-Omaha
239	Atlanta	Tobias Enstrom	D	Modo Hockey (SEL)
240	Calgary	Cam Cunning	LW	Kamloops (WHL)
241	Montreal	Jimmy Bonneau	LW	Blainville-Boisbriand (QMJHL)
242	Phoenix	Eduard Lewandowski	LW	Cologne (DEL)
243	NY Rangers	Jan Marek	LW	Trinec (Czech)
244	Los Angeles	Mike Sullivan	C	Stouffville (CCHL)
245	Chicago	Dustin Byfuglien	D	Prince George (WHL)
246	NY Islanders	Igor Volkov	RW	Ufa (KHL)
247	Boston	Benoit Mondou	C	Shawinigan (QMJHL)
248	Edmonton	Josef Hrabal	D	Vsetin HC (Czech)
249	Washington	Andrew Joudrey	C	Notre Dame (SJHL)
250	Anaheim	Shane O'Brien	D	St. Michael's (CCHL)
251	Minnesota	Mathieu Melanson	LW	Chicoutimi (QMJHL)
252	Vancouver	Sergei Topol	RW	Omsk (KHL)
253	St. Louis	Andrei Pervyshin	D	Yaroslavl (KHL)
254	Vancouver	Nathan McIver	D	St. Michael's (CCHL)
255	Tampa Bay	Raimonds Danilics	RW	Latvia
256	Tampa Bay	Brady Greco	D	Chicago (USHL)
257	Colorado	Darryl Yacboski	D	Regina (WHL)
258	Detroit	Vladimir Kutny	LW	Quebec (QMJHL)
259	Dallas	Niko Vainio	D	HIFK Helsinki (SM-liiga)
260	Ottawa	Ossi Louhivaara	C	Finland
261	New Jersey	Joey Tenute	C	Sarnia (OHL)
262	Carolina	Ryan Rorabeck	C	St. Michael's (CCHL)
263	Pittsburgh	Matt Moulson	LW	Cornell
264	Florida	John Hecimovic	RW	Sarnia (OHL)
265	Florida	Tanner Glass	LW	Dartmouth
266	Buffalo	Louis Philippe Martin	RW	Baie-Comeau (QMJHL)
267	San Jose	Brian O'Hanley	D	Boston College High School
268	Nashville	Lauris Darzins	LW	Lukko Rauma (SM-liiga)
269	Atlanta	Rylan Karp	C	Notre Dame (SJHL)
270	Calgary	Kevin Harvey	LW	Georgetown (OJAHL)
271	Montreal	Jaroslav Halak	G	Bratislava (Slovak)
272	Phoenix	Sean Sullivan	D	St. Sebastian's School
273	Tampa Bay	Albert Vishnyakov	LW	Kazan (KHL)
274	Los Angeles	Martin Guerin	RW	Des Moines (USHL)
275	Chicago	Michael Grenzy	D	Chicago (USHL)
276	San Jose	Carter Lee	RW	Canterbury School
277	Boston	Kevin Regan	G	St. Sebastian's School
278	Edmonton	Troy Bodie	RW	Kelowna (WHL)
279	Washington	Mark Olafson	RW	Kelowna (WHL)
280	Anaheim	Ville Mantymaa	D	Ilves Tampere (SM-liiga)
281	Minnesota	Jean-Michel Bolduc	D	Quebec (QMJHL)
282	Chicago	Chris Porter	C	Lincoln (USHL)
283	Columbus	Trevor Hendrikx	D	Peterborough (OHL)
284	St. Louis	Juha-Matti Aaltonen	LW	Karpat Oulu (SM-liiga)
285	Vancouver	Matthew Hansen	D	Seattle (WHL)
286	Tampa Bay	Zbynek Hrdel	C	Rimouski (QMJHL)
287	Tampa Bay	Nick Tarnasky	C	Lethbridge (WHL)
288	Colorado	David Jones	RW	Canada
289	Detroit	Mikael Johansson	C	Sweden
290	Phoenix	Loic Burkhalter	LW	Quinto (NLA)
291	Ottawa	Brian Elliott	G	Ajax (CCHL)
292	New Jersey	Arseny Bondarev	LW	Yaroslavl (KHL)