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Wednesday, November 8, 2000
2000 NHL draft first-round picks


The order of selection for the first round of the 2000 NHL Entry Draft. The draft takes place on Saturday, June 24 (rounds 1-3) and Sunday, June 25 (rounds 4-9) in Calgary.

NHL DRAFT ORDER
NO TEAM NAME POS LEAGUE
1 N.Y. Islanders Rick DiPietro G Hockey East
2 Atlanta Dany Heatley LW WCHA
3 Minnesota Marian Gaborik LW Slovakian Sr.
4 Columbus Rostislav Klesla D OHL
5 N.Y. Isles (from TAM) Raffi Torres LW OHL
6 Nashville Scott Hartnell RW WHL
7 Boston Lars Jonsson D Swedish Jr.
8 Tampa Bay (from NYR) Nikita Alexeev RW OHL
9 Calgary Brent Krahn G WHL
10 Chicago Mikhail Yakubov C Rus. 2
11 Chicago (from VAN) Pavel Vorobiev RW Rus.
12 Anaheim Alexei Smirnov LW Rus. Sr.
13 Montreal Ron Hainsey D Hockey East
14 Colorado (from CAR) Vaclav Nedorost C Cze. Sr.
15 Buffalo Artem Kriukov C Rus. Sr.
16 Montreal (from SJ) Marcel Hossa C WHL
17 Edmonton Alexei Mikhnov Wing Rus. 2
18 Pittsburgh Brooks Orpick D Hockey East
19 Phoenix Krys Kolanos C Hockey East
20 Los Angeles Alexander Frolov LW Rus. 2
21 Ottawa Anton Volchenkov D Rus. 2
22 New Jersey (from COL) David Hale D USHL
23 Vancouver (from FLA) Nathan Smith C WHL
24 Toronto Brad Boyes C OHL
25 Dallas Steve Ott C OHL
26 Washington Brian Sutherby C WHL
27 Boston (from COL) Martin Samuelsson Wing Swe. Jr.
28 Philadelphia Justin Williams RW OHL
29 Detroit Niklas Kronvall D Swe. Elite
30 St. Louis Jeff Taffe C WCHA

ALSO SEE
2000 NHL draft second-round picks

2000 NHL draft third-round picks

NHL draft: team-by-team picks

2000 NHL draft fourth-round picks

2000 NHL draft fifth-round picks

2000 NHL draft sixth-round picks

2000 NHL draft seventh-round picks

2000 NHL draft eighth-round picks

2000 NHL draft ninth-round picks

ESPN.com's NHL Draft 2000 coverage




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