A goaltender must have played in a minimum of 31 minutes in a game before it
would qualify as a game played for these purposes.
Games played include regular season and playoff games.
ONE DEFENSEMAN --
Either 40 NHL games played in the 1999-2000 season or 70 NHL games played
over the last two seasons (1998-99 and 1999-2000).
Games played include regular season and playoff games.
TWO FORWARDS - Either 40 NHL games played in the 1999-2000 season or 70 NHL
games played over the last two seasons (1998-99 and 1999-2000).
Games played include regular season and playoff games.
Exempt from the Expansion Draft are (i) all first and second-year pros and
(ii) unsigned draft choices (except unsigned draft choices drafted from
European clubs in the 1996 Entry Draft or before and who remain unsigned).
The number of players in each category to be selected by Columbus and
Minnesota will be at least three goaltenders, eight defensemen and 13
forwards. No club may lose more than one goaltender or one defenseman.
A club that loses a goaltender may not lose a defenseman.
The following is the 2000 Entry Draft Order for the first round as of June
1, 2000: 2000 ENTRY DRAFT ORDER
1) NY Islanders
2) Atlanta
3) MINNESOTA WILD
4) Columbus Blue Jackets
5) Tampa Bay
6) Nashville
7) Boston
8) Tampa Bay (from NY Rangers)
9) Calgary
10) Chicago
11) Chicago (from Vancouver)
12) Anaheim
13) Montreal
14) Carolina
15) Buffalo
16) Montreal (from San Jose) *
17) Edmonton
18) Pittsburgh
19) Phoenix
20) Los Angeles
21) Ottawa
22) New Jersey (from Colorado) *
23) Vancouver (from Florida) *
24) Toronto
25) Dallas
26) Washington
27) Colorado (from New Jersey - option to Boston) *
28) Philadelphia
29) Detroit
30) St. Louis
*Trades involving transferred draft picks
Players Selected With The Third Overall Entry Draft Pick In The 1990's
Year Player Pos. Drafted by:
1999 Henrik Sedin C Vancouver
1998 Brad Stuart D San Jose
1997 Olli Jokinen C Los Angeles
1996 Jean-Pierre Dumont RW New York Islanders
1995 Aki-Petteri, Berg D Los Angeles
1994 Radek Bonk C Ottawa
1993 Chris Gratton C Tampa Bay
1992 Mike Rathje D San Jose
1991 Scott Niedermayer D New Jersey
1990 Keith Primeau C Detroit
The Minnesota Wild begins play in the Northwest Division of the NHL's
Western Conference this October.
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