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2006 NHL Draft: Round 1

2006 NHL Draft - June 24th, 2006 @ 7:00 AM, in Vancouver, Canada

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Pick		Player	Position	School
Round 1
1	St. Louis	Erik Johnson	D	Minnesota
2	Pittsburgh	Jordan Staal	C	Peterborough (OHL)
3	Chicago	Jonathan Toews	C	North Dakota
4	Washington	Nicklas Backstrom	C	Brynäs IF (SHL)
5	Boston	Phil Kessel	C	Minnesota
6	Columbus	Derick Brassard	C	Drummondville (QMJHL)
7	NY Islanders	Kyle Okposo	RW	Minnesota
8	Arizona	Peter Mueller	C	Everett (WHL)
9	Minnesota	James Sheppard	C	Cape Breton (QMJHL)
10	Florida	Michael Frolik	RW	Czech Republic
11	Los Angeles	Jonathan Bernier	G	Lewiston (QMJHL)
12	Atlanta	Bryan Little	C	Barrie (OHL)
13	Toronto	Jiri Tlusty	LW	Czech Republic
14	Vancouver	Michael Grabner	RW	Spokane (WHL)
15	Tampa Bay	Riku Helenius	G	Ilves Tampere (SM-liiga)
16	San Jose	Ty Wishart	D	Prince George (WHL)
17	Los Angeles	Trevor Lewis	C	Des Moines (USHL)
18	Colorado	Chris Stewart	RW	Kingston (OHL)
19	Anaheim	Mark Mitera	D	Michigan
20	Montreal	David Fischer	D	Apple Valley High School (HS-MN)
21	NY Rangers	Bob Sanguinetti	D	Owen Sound (OHL)
22	Philadelphia	Claude Giroux	RW	Gatineau (QMJHL)
23	Washington	Semen Varlamov	G	Yaroslavl (KHL)
24	Buffalo	Dennis Persson	D	Vasteras (Sweden)
25	St. Louis	Patrik Berglund	C	Vasteras (Sweden)
26	Calgary	Leland Irving	G	Everett (WHL)
27	Dallas	Ivan Vishnevskiy	LW	Rouyn-Noranda (QMJHL)
28	Ottawa	Nick Foligno	LW	Sudbury (OHL)
29	Arizona	Chris Summers	D	USNTDP (USHL)
30	New Jersey	Matt Corrente	D	Saginaw (OHL)