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2000 NHL Draft

The top 50 selections at the 38th annual NHL Entry Draft held June 24, 2000, in Calgary. The order of the first 14 positions (12 non-playoff teams plus expansion Columbus and Minnesota) were determined by a draft lottery held June 1 in New Jersey. Only five teams had the chance to win the first overall pick — the three teams with the fewest regular season points plus Columbus and Minnesota. No team could move up more than four spots in the draft order or drop more than one position. Positions 15 through 30 reflect regular season records in reverse order. The top 30 picks are first round selections and the remaining 20 are from the second round.

Top 50 Picks

	Team	Player, Last Team	Pos
1	NY Islanders	Rick DiPietro, Boston Univ.	G
2	Atlanta	Dany Heatley, U of Wisconsin	L
3	Minnesota	Marian Gaborik, Trencin (Slo)	L
4	Columbus	Rostislav Klesla, Brampton	D
5	a-NY Islanders	Raffi Torres, Brampton	L
6	Nashville	Scott Hartnell, Prince Albert	R
7	Boston	Lars Jonsson, Leksand (Swe)	D
8	b-Tampa Bay	Nikita Alexeev, Erie	R
9	Calgary	Brent Krahn, Calgary	G
10	Chicago	Mikhail Yakubov, Togliatti (Rus)	C
11	c-Chicago	Pavel Vorobiev, Yaroslavl (Rus)	R
12	Anaheim	Alexei Smirnov, Dynamo (Rus)	L
13	Montreal	Ron Hainsey, UMass-Lowell	D
14	d-Colorado	Vaclav Nedorost, Budejovice (Cze)	C
15	Buffalo	Artem Kriukov, Yaroslavl (Rus)	C
16	e-Montreal	Marcel Hossa, Portland	C
17	Edmonton	Alexei Mikhnov, Yaroslavl (Rus)	L
18	Pittsburgh	Brooks Orpik, Boston Coll.	D
19	Phoenix	Krystofer Kolanos, Boston Coll.	C
20	Los Angeles	Alexander Frolov, Yaroslavl (Rus)	L
21	Ottawa	Anton Volchenkov, CSKA (Rus)	D
22	f-New Jersey	David Hale, Sioux City	D
23	g-Vancouver	Nathan Smith, Swift Current	C
24	Toronto	Brad Boyes, Erie	C
25	Dallas	Steve Ott, Windsor	C
26	Washington	Brian Sutherby, Moose Jaw	C
27	h-Boston	Martin Samuelsson, MoDo (Swe)	D
28	Philadelphia	Justin Williams, Plymouth	R
29	Detroit	Niklas Kronvall, Djurgarden (Swe)	D
30	St. Louis	Jeff Taffe, U of Minnesota	C
31	Atlanta	Ilja Nikulin, Tver (Rus)	D
32	i-Carolina	Tomas Kurka, Plymouth	L
33	Minnesota	Nick Schultz, Prince Albert	D
34	Tampa Bay	Ruslan Zainullan, Kazan (Rus)	R
35	j-Edmonton	Brad Winchester, U of Wisconsin	L
36	Nashville	Daniel Widing, Leksand (Swe)	R
37	Boston	Andy Hilbert, U of Michigan	L
38	k-Detroit	Tomas Kopecky, Trencin (Slo)	C
39	l-New Jersey*	Teemu Laine, Jokerit (Fin)	R
40	Calgary	Kurtis Foster, Peterborough	D
41	m-San Jose	Tero Maatta, Jokerit (Fin)	D
42	n-Atlanta	Libor Ustrnul, Plymouth	D
43	o-Washington	Matt Pettinger, Calgary	L
44	p-Anaheim	Ilja Bryzgalov, Togliatti (Rus)	G
45	Ottawa*	Mathieu Chouinard, Shawinigan	G
46	q-Calgary*	Jarret Stoll, Kootenay	C
47	r-Colorado	Jared Aulin, Kamloops	C
48	Buffalo	Gerard Dicaire, Seattle	D
49	s-Chicago	Jonas Nordqvist, Leksand (Swe)	C
50	Colorado*	Sergei Soin, Krylja Sovetov (Rus)	C

Acquired picks: a— from Tampa Bay; b— from NY Rangers; c— from Vancouver; d— from Carolina; e— from San Jose; f— from Colorado; g— from Florida; h— from Colorado; i— from Colorado via Columbus; j— from NY Islanders; k— from NY Rangers; l— from NY Islanders via Vancouver; m— from Chicago; n— from Vancouver; o— from Calgary via Anaheim; p— from Montreal; q— from Colorado; r— from Carolina; s— from San Jose.

*compensatory pick

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1999-2000 Season

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