ENTRY DRAFT

1998

LNH ENTRY DRAFT

ROUND #1			GP	PTS
1	TB	Vincent Lecavalier C	1287	1005
2	NSH	David Legwand C	1191	646
3	SJ	Brad Stuart D	1198	375
4	VAN	Bryan Allen D	748	138
5	ANA	Vitaly Vishnevsky D	592	73
6	CGY	Rico Fata W	230	63
7	NYR	Manny Malhotra C	1026	297
8	CHI	Mark Bell C	459	182
9	NYI	Mike Rupp W	677	107
10	TOR	Nikolai Antropov C	822	473
11	CAR	Jeff Heerema W	32	6
12	COL	Alex Tanguay W	1186	922
13	EDM	Michael Henrich W	-	-
14	UTA	Patrick Desrochers G	11	-
15	OTT	Mathieu Chouinard G	2	-
16	MON	Éric Chouinard C	90	22
17	COL	Martin Skoula D	859	210
18	BUF	Dmitri Kalinin D	576	171
19	COL	Robyn Regehr D	1156	217
20	COL	Scott Parker W	314	21
21	LA	Mathieu Biron D	253	44
22	PHI	Simon Gagné W	931	660
23	PIT	Milan Kraft C	215	82
24	STL	Christian Backman D	315	81
25	DET	Jiri Fischer D	343	67
26	NJ	Mike Van Ryn D	353	129
27	NJ	Scott Gomez C	1228	857
ROUND #2			GP	PTS
28	COL	Ramzi Abid W	70	30
29	SJ	Jonathan Cheechoo W	560	340
30	FLA	Kyle Rossiter D	11	1
31	VAN	Artyom Chubarov C	255	62
32	ANA	Stephen Peat W	130	10
33	CGY	Blair Betts C	539	82
34	BUF	Andrew Peters W	229	7
35	TOR	Petr Svoboda D	18	3
36	NYI	Chris Nielsen C	52	14
37	NJ	Christian Berglund C	89	27
38	COL	Philippe Sauvé G	32	-
39	DAL	John Erskine D	530	61
40	NYR	Randy Copley W	-	-
41	STL	Maxim Linnik D	-	-
42	PHI	Jason Beckett D	-	-
43	UTA	Ossi Vaananen D	499	69
44	OTT	Mike Fisher C	1250	641
45	MON	Mike Ribeiro C	1141	828
46	LA	Justin Papineau C	82	19
47	BUF	Norman Milley W	29	6
48	BOS	Jonathan Girard D	153	45
49	WAS	Jomar Cruz G	-	-
50	BUF	Jaroslav Kristek W	6	-
51	PHI	Ian Forbes D	-	-
52	BOS	Bobby Allen D	51	3
53	COL	Steve Moore C	69	12
54	PIT	Alexander Zevakhin W	-	-
55	DET	Ryan Barnes W	2	-
56	DET	Tomek Valtonen W	-	-
57	DAL	Tyler Bouck W	93	12
58	OTT	Chris Bala W	6	1
ROUND #3			GP	PTS
59	WAS	Todd Hornung C	-	-
60	NSH	Denis Arkhipov C	352	138
61	FLA	Joe DiPenta D	206	23
62	CGY	Paul Manning D	8	-
63	FLA	Lance Ward D	209	16
64	TB	Brad Richards C	1272	1037
65	SJ	Éric Laplante W	-	-
66	NYR	Jason Labarbera G	188	1
67	EDM	Alex Henry D	177	11
68	VAN	Jarkko Ruutu W	710	152
69	TOR	Jamie Hodson G	-	-
70	CAR	Kevin Holdridge D	-	-
71	CAR	Erik Cole W	938	546
72	TB	Dmitry Afanasenkov W	232	55
73	UTA	Pat O'Leary C	-	-
74	OTT	Julien Vauclair D	1	-
75	MON	François Beauchemin D	1004	327
76	LA	Alexei Volkov G	-	-
77	BUF	Mike Pandolfo W	3	-
78	BOS	Peter Nordstrom W	2	-
79	COL	Evegeny Lazarev W	-	-
80	PIT	David Cameron C	-	-
81	VAN	Justin Morrison W	-	-
82	NJ	Brian Gionta W	1139	663
83	STL	Matt Walker D	335	32
84	DET	John William (Jack) McCracken G	12	-
85	NSH	Geoff Koch W	-	-
86	DAL	Gabriel Karlsson W	-	-
ROUND #4			GP	PTS
87	TOR	Alexei Ponikarovsky W	739	341
88	NSH	Kent Sauer D	-	-
89	FLA	Ryan Jardine W	8	2
90	VAN	Regan Darby D	-	-
91	CAR	Josef Vasicek C	497	190
92	TB	Eric Beaudoin W	53	11
93	CAR	Tommy Westlund W	228	23
94	CHI	Matthias Trattnig C	-	-
95	NYI	Andy Burnham W	-	-
96	NJ	Mikko Jokela D	1	-
97	CAR	Chris Madden G	-	-
98	SJ	Rob Davison D	225	20
99	EDM	Shawn Horcoff C	1054	541
100	UTA	Ryan Van Buskirk D	-	-
101	OTT	Petr Schastlivy W	130	40
102	CGY	Shaun Sutter W	-	-
103	LA	Kip Brennan W	61	2
104	SJ	Miroslav Zalesak W	12	3
105	NJ	Pierre Dagenais W	150	59
106	WAS	Krys Barch W	384	35
107	WAS	Chris Corrinet W	8	1
108	CGY	Dany Sabourin G	58	-
109	PHI	Jean-Philippe Morin D	-	-
110	PIT	Scott Myers G	-	-
111	DET	Brent Hobday W	-	-
112	ANA	Viktor Wallin D	-	-
113	EDM	Kristian Antila G	-	-
114	NYR	Boyd Kane W	31	3
ROUND #5			GP	PTS
115	UTA	Jay Leach D	70	3
116	UTA	Josh Blackburn G	-	-
117	FLA	Jaroslav Spacek D	941	373
118	WAS	Mike Siklenka D	2	-
119	NJ	Anton But W	-	-
120	CGY	Brent Gauvreau C	-	-
121	TB	Curtis Rich D	-	-
122	NYR	Patrick Leahy W	50	8
123	NYI	Jiri Dopita C	73	33
124	PHI	Francis Bélanger W	10	-
125	WAS	Erik Wendell C	-	-
126	TOR	Morgan Warren W	-	-
127	SJ	Brandon Coalter W	-	-
128	EDM	Paul Elliott D	-	-
129	UTA	Robert Schnabel D	22	3
130	OTT	Gavin McLeod D	-	-
131	NYR	Tomas Kloucek D	141	10
132	MON	Andrei Bashkirov W	30	3
133	LA	Joé Rullier D	-	-
134	PIT	Robert Scuderi D	905	124
135	BOS	Andrew Raycroft G	288	1
136	VAN	David Jonsson Ytfeldt D	-	-
137	BUF	Aaron Goldade W	-	-
138	NSH	Martin Beauchesne D	-	-
139	PHI	Garrett Prosofsky C	-	-
140	VAN	Rick Bertran D	-	-
141	COL	K.C. Timmons W	-	-
142	DET	Carl Steen C	-	-
143	NJ	Ryan Flinn W	31	1
144	EDM	Oleg Smirnov W	-	-
145	SJ	Mikael Samuelsson W	803	406
ROUND #6			GP	PTS
146	TB	Sergei Kuznetsov C	-	-
147	NSH	Craig Brunel W	-	-
148	FLA	Chris Ovington D	-	-
149	VAN	Paul Cabana W	-	-
150	ANA	Trent Hunter W	511	241
151	DET	Adam DeLeeuw W	-	-
152	MON	Gordie Dwyer W	108	5
153	DAL	Pavel Patera C	32	9
154	TOR	Allan Rourke D	55	5
155	NYI	Kevin Clauson D	-	-
156	CHI	Kent Huskins D	366	71
157	STL	Brad Voth W	-	-
158	CHI	Jari Viuhkola C	-	-
159	EDM	Trevor Ettinger D	-	-
160	UTA	Rickard Wallin C	79	19
161	OTT	Chris Neil W	1121	269
162	MON	Andrei Markov D	1079	604
163	LA	Tomas Zizka D	25	8
164	BUF	Ales Kotalik W	576	299
165	BOS	Ryan Milanovic W	-	-
166	CHI	Jonathan Pelletier G	-	-
167	COL	Alexander Ryazantsev D	-	-
168	PHI	Antero Niittymaki G	238	3
169	PIT	Jan Fadrny C	-	-
170	STL	Andrei Troschinsky C	-	-
171	DET	Pavel Datsyuk C	1110	1031
172	NJ	Jacques Larivière W	-	-
173	DAL	Niko Kapanen C	415	135
ROUND #7			GP	PTS
174	TB	Brett Allan W	-	-
175	PHI	Cam Ondrik G	-	-
176	FLA	B.J. Ketcheson D	-	-
177	VAN	Vince Malts W	-	-
178	ANA	Jesse Fibiger D	16	-
179	WAS	Nathan Forster D	-	-
180	NYR	Stefan Lundqvist W	-	-
181	TOR	Jonathan Gagnon W	-	-
182	NYI	Evgeny Korolev D	44	5
183	CHI	Tyler Arnason C	500	250
184	CAR	Don Smith C	-	-
185	SJ	Robert Mulick D	-	-
186	EDM	Michael Morrison G	29	1
187	UTA	Erik Westrum C	27	3
188	OTT	Michel Périard D	-	-
189	MON	Andrei Kruchinin D	-	-
190	LA	Tommi Hannus C	-	-
191	BUF	Brad Moran C	8	3
192	CGY	Radek Duda W	-	-
193	WAS	Rastislav Stana G	6	-
194	TB	Oak Hewer W	-	-
195	PHI	Tomas Divisek W	5	1
196	PIT	Joel Scherban C	-	-
197	STL	Brad Twordik W	-	-
198	DET	Jeremy Goetzinger D	-	-
199	NJ	Erik Jensen W	-	-
200	DAL	Scott Perry C	-	-
ROUND #8			GP	PTS
201	MON	Craig Murray W	-	-
202	NSH	Martin Bartek W	-	-
203	FLA	Ian Jacobs W	-	-
204	VAN	Graig Mischler C	-	-
205	ANA	David Bernier W	-	-
206	CGY	Jonas Frogren D	41	7
207	NYR	Johan Witehall W	54	7
208	CAR	Jaroslav Svoboda W	159	34
209	NYI	Frédérik Brind'Amour G	-	-
210	CHI	Sean Griffin D	-	-
211	CAR	Mark Kosick C	-	-
212	SJ	Jim Fahey D	94	25
213	EDM	Christian Lefebvre D	-	-
214	UTA	Justin Hansen C	-	-
215	TOR	Dwight Wolfe D	-	-
216	MON	Michael Ryder W	881	529
217	LA	Jim Henkel C	-	-
218	BUF	David Moravec W	1	-
219	VAN	Curtis Valentine W	-	-
220	WAS	Mike Farrell W	13	-
221	TB	Dan Hulak D	-	-
222	PHI	Lubomir Pistek W	-	-
223	OTT	Sergei Verenikin W	-	-
224	PIT	Mika Lehto G	-	-
225	STL	Evgeny Pastukh W	-	-
226	DET	David Petrasek D	-	-
227	NJ	Marko Ahosilta C	-	-
228	TOR	Michal Travnicek W	-	-
ROUND #9			GP	PTS
229	TB	Chris Lyness D	-	-
230	NSH	Karlis Skrastins D	852	139
231	FLA	Adrian Wichser W	-	-
232	VAN	Jason Metcalfe D	-	-
233	ANA	Pelle Prestberg W	-	-
234	CGY	Kevin Mitchell D	-	-
235	NYR	Jan Mertzig D	23	2
236	TOR	Sergei Rostov D	-	-
237	NYI	Ben Blais D	-	-
238	CHI	Alexandre Couture W	-	-
239	CAR	Brent McDonald W	-	-
240	CHI	Andrei Yershov D	-	-
241	EDM	Maxim Spiridonov W	-	-
242	NYI	Jason Doyle W	-	-
243	PHI	Petr Hubacek C	6	1
244	PIT	Toby Petersen C	416	82
245	ANA	Andreas Andersson G	-	-
246	OTT	Rastislav Pavlikovsky C	-	-
247	MON	Darcy Harris W	-	-
248	LA	Matt Yeats G	5	-
249	BUF	Edo Terglav W	-	-
250	NYI	Radek Matejovsky W	-	-
251	WAS	Blake Evans C	-	-
252	TB	Martin Cibak C	165	24
253	PHI	Bruno St-Jacques D	67	10
254	PIT	Matt Hussey C	21	4
255	STL	Johnny Pohl C	115	38
256	DET	Petja Pietilainen W	-	-
257	NJ	Ryan Held W	-	-
258	PHI	Sergei Skrobot D	-	-

BY POSITION

1998 LNH ENTRY DRAFT

POSITION	QTY	%
Centers	155	60,1
Defensemen	80	31,0
Goalies	23	8,9
TOTAL	258

ORIGIN

1998 LNH ENTRY DRAFT

COUNTRIES			QTY
	Canada		125
	Ontario	44
	Quebec	26
	Alberta	17
	British Columbia	13
	Saskatchewan	10
	Manitoba	6
	Nova Scotia	4
	Prince Edward Island	3
	New-Brunswick	1
	Newfoundland	1
	United States		42
	New York	12
	Minnesota	7
	Massachusetts	6
	California	2
	Connecticut	2
	New Hampshire	2
	Oklahoma	2
	Alaska	1
	Georgia	1
	Indiana	1
	Michigan	1
	New Jersey	1
	Ohio	1
	Pennsylvania	1
	Virginia	1
	Wisconsin	1
	Czech Republic		21
	Russia		21
	Sweden		17
	Finland		11
	Slovakia		6
	Ukraine		4
	Kazakhstan		3
	Switzerland		2
	Austria		1
	Brazil		1
	Latvia		1
	Poland		1
	Slovenia		1
	Tanzania		1

BY TEAMS

1998 LNH ENTRY DRAFT

TEAMS		QTY
PHI	Philadelphia Flyers	13
NJ	New Jersey Devils	12
VAN	Vancouver Canucks	12
DET	Detroit Red Wings	11
TB	Tampa Bay Lightning	11
BUF	Buffalo Sabres	10
CAR	Carolina Hurricanes	10
COL	Colorado Avalanche	10
EDM	Edmonton Oilers	10
MON	Montreal Canadiens	10
NYI	New York Islanders	10
OTT	Ottawa Senators	10
UTA	Phoenix Coyotes	10
PIT	Pittsburgh Penguins	10
TOR	Toronto Maple Leafs	10
WAS	Washington Capitals	10
CGY	Calgary Flames	9
CHI	Chicago Blackhawks	9
FLA	Florida Panthers	9
LA	Los Angeles Kings	9
NYR	New York Rangers	9
SJ	San Jose Sharks	9
ANA	Anaheim Mighty Ducks	8
NSH	Nashville Predators	8
STL	St-Louis Blues	8
DAL	Dallas Stars	6
BOS	Boston Bruins	5