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1998 NHL Draft

First and second round selections at the 36th annual NHL Entry Draft held June 27, 1998, in Buffalo. The order of the first 11 positions were determined by a draft lottery held May 10 in New York. Positions 12 through 27 reflect regular season records in reverse order.

First Round

	Team		Pos
1	a-Tampa Bay	Vincent Lecavalier, Rimouski	C
2	b-Nashville	David Legwand, Plymouth	C
3	San Jose	Brad Stuart, Regina	D
4	Vancouver	Bryan Allen, Oshawa	D
5	Anaheim	Vitali Vishnevsky, Yaroslavl	D
6	Calgary	Rico Fata, London	C
7	NY Rangers	Manny Malhotra, Guelph	C
8	c-Chicago	Mark Bell, Ottawa	C
9	NY Islanders	Michael Rupp, Erie	L
10	d-Toronto	Nikolai Antropov, Ust-Kamenogorsk	C
11	Carolina	Jeff Heerema, Sarnia	R
12	e-Colorado	Alex Tanguay, Halifax	C
13	Edmonton	Michael Henrich, Barrie	R
14	Phoenix	Patrick DesRochers, Sarnia	G
15	Ottawa	Mathieu Chouinard, Shawinigan	G
16	Montreal	Eric Chouinard, Quebec	C
17	f-Colorado	Martin Skoula, Barrie	D
18	Buffalo	Dmitri Kalinin, Chelyabinsk	D
19	g-Colorado	Robyn Regehr, Kamloops	D
20	h-Colorado	Scott Parker, Kelowna	R
21	i-Los Angeles	Mathieu Biron, Shawinigan	D
22	j-Philadelphia	Simon Gagne, Quebec	C
23	Pittsburgh	Milan Kraft, Plzen Jr.	C
24	St. Louis	Christian Backman, Frolunda Jr.	D
25	Detroit	Jiri Fischer, Hull	D
26	New Jersey	Mike Van Ryn, Michigan	D
27	k-New Jersey	Scott Gomez, Tri-City	C

Second Round

	Team		Pos
28	l-Colorado	Ramzi Abid, Chicoutimi	L
29	m-San Jose	Jonathan Cheechoo, Belleville	R
30	Florida	Kyle Rossiter, Spokane	D
31	Vancouver	Artem Chubarov, Dynamo	C
32	Anaheim	Stephen Peat, Red Deer	D
33	Calgary	Blair Betts, Prince George	C
34	n-Buffalo	Andrew Peters, Oshawa	L
35	Toronto	Petr Svoboda, Havl Brod	D
36	NY Islanders	Chris Nielsen, Calgary	C
37	New Jersey	Christian Berglund, Farjestad Jr.	L
38	o-Colorado	Philippe Sauve, Rimouski	G
39	p-Dallas	John Erskine, London	D
40	NY Rangers	Randy Copley, Cape Breton	R
41	q-St. Louis	Maxim Linnik, St. Thomas	D
42	r-Philadelphia	Jason Beckett, Seattle	D
43	Phoenix	Ossi Vaananen, Jokerit Jr.	D
44	Ottawa	Mike Fisher, Sudbury	C
45	Montreal	Mike Ribeiro, Rouyn-Noranda	C
46	Los Angeles	Justin Papineau, Belleville	C
47	Buffalo	Norman Milley, Sudbury	R
48	Boston	Jonathan Girard, Laval	D
49	Washington	Jomar Cruz, Brandon	G
50	s-Buffalo	Jaroslav Kristek, Zlin	R
51	Philadelphia	Ian Forbes, Guelph	D
52	Boston	Bobby Allen, Boston Coll.	D
53	Colorado	Steve Moore, Harvard	C
54	Pittsburgh	Alexander Zevakhin, CSKA 2	C
55	t-Detroit	Ryan Barnes, Sudbury	L
56	Detroit	Tomek Valtonen, Ilves	L
57	u-Dallas	Tyler Bouck, Prince George	R
58	v-Ottawa	Chris Bala, Harvard	L

Acquired picks: FIRST ROUND: a— from Florida via San Jose; b— from Tampa Bay via San Jose; c— from Nashville; d— from Toronto; e— from Chicago; f— from San Jose; g— from Los Angeles; h— from Boston; i— from Washington; j— from Colorado; k— from Dallas; SECOND ROUND: l— from Tampa Bay; m— from Nashville; n— from NY Rangers; o— from Chicago; p— from Carolina via New Jersey; q— from San Jose via Detroit; r— from Edmonton; s— from Colorado via San Jose; t— from St. Louis; u— from New Jersey; v— from Dallas via Philadelphia.

Team by Team Statistics

1997-98 Season

Stanley Cup Playoffs