1999 NHL expansion draft
1999 NHL expansion draft | |
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General information | |
Date(s) | June 25, 1999 |
Location | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Overview | |
League | National Hockey League |
Expansion teams | Atlanta Thrashers |
Expansion season | 1999–2000 |
← 1998 2000 → |
The 1999 NHL expansion draft was an expansion draft held by the National Hockey League (NHL) to fill the roster of the league's expansion team for the 1999–2000 season, the Atlanta Thrashers. The draft took place on June 25, 1999 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Rules
The Thrashers were to select 26 players, one from each existing franchise (except for the Nashville Predators) at the time of the draft. Each franchise was allowed to protect either one goaltender, five defensemen, and nine forwards or two goaltenders, three defensemen, and seven forwards. Teams which lost goaltenders in the 1998 NHL Expansion Draft (Anaheim, Los Angeles, Montreal, New Jersey and the New York Rangers) could not lose a goaltender in the 1999 Draft.[1]
The Thrashers were to choose at least three goaltenders, eight defensemen, and thirteen forwards. Their final two choices could be from any position.
Protected players
Eastern Conference
Position | Carolina | Florida | Tampa Bay | Washington |
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Forwards | Bates Battaglia | Pavel Bure | Colin Forbes | James Black |
Ron Francis | Radek Dvorak | Chris Gratton | Peter Bondra | |
Martin Gelinas | Viktor Kozlov | Steve Kelly | Benoit Gratton | |
Sami Kapanen | Ryan Johnson | Michael Nylander | Steve Konowalchuk | |
Andrei Kovalenko | Bill Lindsay | Robert Petrovicky | Andrei Nikolishin | |
Kent Manderville | Scott Mellanby | Mike Sillinger | Adam Oates | |
Jeff O'Neill | Rob Niedermayer | Corey Spring | Chris Simon | |
Keith Primeau | Chris Wells | Darcy Tucker | Jaroslav Svejkovsky | |
Gary Roberts | Ray Whitney | Rob Zamuner | Richard Zednik | |
Defencemen | Steven Halko | Bret Hedican | Drew Bannister | Sergei Gonchar |
Sean Hill | Filip Kuba | Cory Cross | Calle Johansson | |
Marek Malik | Paul Laus | Sergey Gusev | Ken Klee | |
Nolan Pratt | Robert Svehla | Petr Svoboda | Joe Reekie | |
Glen Wesley | Mike Wilson | Brendan Witt | ||
Goaltender | Arturs Irbe | Sean Burke | Kevin Hodson | Olaf Kolzig |
Western Conference
Position | Chicago | Detroit | St. Louis |
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Forwards | Tony Amonte | Kris Draper | Jim Campbell |
Eric Daze | Sergei Fedorov | Craig Conroy | |
Doug Gilmour | Tomas Holmstrom | Pavol Demitra | |
Jean-Yves Leroux | Vyacheslav Kozlov | Mike Eastwood | |
Josef Marha | Martin Lapointe | Jamal Mayers | |
Dean McAmmond | Kirk Maltby | Scott Pellerin | |
Chris Murray | Darren McCarty | Pascal Rheaume | |
Reid Simpson | Brendan Shanahan | Pierre Turgeon | |
Alexei Zhamnov | Steve Yzerman | Scott Young | |
Defencemen | Jamie Allison | Chris Chelios | Jeff Finley |
Brad Brown | Mathieu Dandenault | Al MacInnis | |
Anders Eriksson | Nicklas Lidstrom | Ricard Persson | |
Boris Mironov | Larry Murphy | Libor Prochazka | |
Bryan Muir | Aaron Ward | Chris Pronger | |
Goaltender | Jeff Hackett | Chris Osgood | Roman Turek |
Draft results
These results are numbered 1–26 for aesthetic purposes, but the players were not necessarily chosen in this order. As the Thrashers were the only team participating in the draft, the order is inconsequential.
Deals
In return for agreeing not to select certain unprotected players, the Thrashers were granted concessions by other franchises. The trades were officially booked as being for "future considerations":
- Ottawa traded Damian Rhodes to Atlanta on June 18, 1999
- Buffalo traded Dean Sylvester to Atlanta on June 25, 1999
- Calgary traded Andreas Karlsson to Atlanta on June 25, 1999
- Detroit traded Ulf Samuelsson to Atlanta on June 25, 1999
- New Jersey traded Sergei Vyshedkevich to Atlanta on June 25, 1999
- Phoenix traded Scott Langkow to Atlanta on June 25, 1999
Post-draft
Several of the players selected by the Thrashers in the Expansion Draft did not stay with the team long after the draft. In fact, the Thrashers traded two players later in the same day:
- Trevor Kidd (traded to Florida for Gord Murphy, Daniel Tjarnqvist, Herberts Vasiljevs, and a sixth-round pick (Justin Cox) in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft)
- Peter Ferraro (traded to Boston for Randy Robitaille)
Other players who were no longer on the Thrashers' roster at the start of the 1999–2000 season include the following:
- Phil Crowe (traded to Nashville for future considerations on June 26, 1999)
- Jamie Pushor (traded to Dallas for Jason Botterill and cash and 7th round draft pick on July 15, 1999)
- Terry Yake (claimed off waivers by St. Louis on September 30, 1999)
- Alexei Yegorov (released before the season began)
- Mark Tinordi (retired before the season began)
See also
References
- ^ "Blue Jackets Only One Year Away From 2000 NHL Expansion And Entry Drafts". June 25, 1999. Archived from the original on October 29, 2004. Retrieved July 21, 2006.
External links
- 1999 NHL Expansion Draft player stats at The Internet Hockey Database
- Here are your Atlanta Thrashers (hockeynut.com)
- Usenet post entitled "All-Time Thrashers - How They Came And Left"
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