2006 NHL Entry Draft

Vancouver, British Columbia - June 24, 2006

Summary statistics

			POSITION SPLIT			NATIONALITY SPLIT
ROUND	TO NHL	GP	FWD	DEF	GOA..
Round 1	90.00%	582.8	56.7%	30.0%	13.3%	36.7%	33.3%	10.0%	6.7%	3.3%	10.0%
Round 2	57.58%	195.6	60.6%	33.3%	6.1%	36.4%	24.2%	6.1%	18.2%	3.0%	12.1%
Round 3	50.00%	133.0	60.0%	30.0%	10.0%	46.7%	23.3%	20.0%	6.7%	0.0%	3.3%
Round 4	26.67%	44.8	40.0%	40.0%	20.0%	33.3%	33.3%	3.3%	0.0%	10.0%	20.0%
Round 5	26.67%	17.0	46.7%	30.0%	23.3%	50.0%	23.3%	3.3%	3.3%	13.3%	6.7%
Round 6	23.33%	77.7	73.3%	20.0%	6.7%	30.0%	23.3%	6.7%	6.7%	13.3%	20.0%
Round 7	23.33%	36.3	60.0%	33.3%	6.7%	33.3%	36.7%	10.0%	6.7%	3.3%	10.0%
TOTAL¹		155.9	56.8%	31.0%	12.2%	38.0%	28.2%	8.5%	7.0%	6.6%	11.7%
TO NHL²	42.72%		43.8%	37.9%	50.0%	46.9%	41.7%	27.8%	46.7%	35.7%	44.0%

¹⁾ Percentage of drafted players in each category (e.g. 38.0% of all drafted players were Canadian).
²⁾ Percentage of players that made it to NHL (e.g. 46.9% of all drafted Canadians have played in NHL).

Summary statistics on team draft performance

					OVERALL				PER DRAFT PICK
Rk	TEAM	WAPP¹	PICKS	TO NHL	GP	G	A	P	GP	G	A	P
1	St. Louis Blues	7.98	9	55.6%	1826	265	414	679	202.9	29.4	46.0	75.4
2	Pittsburgh Penguins	8.93	5	80.0%	1708	304	440	744	341.6	60.8	88.0	148.8
3	Chicago Blackhawks	20.84	9	22.2%	1068	372	511	883	118.7	41.3	56.8	98.1
4	Boston Bruins	21.80	6	66.7%	3605	1070	1492	2562	600.8	178.3	248.7	427.0
5	Washington Capitals	24.44	10	50.0%	2693	414	983	1397	269.3	41.4	98.3	139.7
6	Minnesota Wild	39.16	7	28.6%	1458	166	218	384	208.3	23.7	31.1	54.9
7	Phoenix Coyotes	39.38	8	37.5%	465	79	113	192	58.1	9.9	14.1	24.0
8	Los Angeles Kings	40.00	9	44.4%	1487	104	142	246	165.2	11.6	15.8	27.3
9	Columbus Blue Jackets	41.55	10	40.0%	2158	276	429	705	215.8	27.6	42.9	70.5
10	Florida Panthers	41.76	6	33.3%	860	159	225	384	143.3	26.5	37.5	64.0
11	Tampa Bay Lightning	44.20	4	50.0%	7	0	1	1	1.8	0.0	0.3	0.3
12	Anaheim Ducks	47.29	5	40.0%	480	77	82	159	96.0	15.4	16.4	31.8
13	Vancouver Canucks	49.59	5	40.0%	648	176	101	277	129.6	35.2	20.2	55.4
14	Colorado Avalanche	50.62	6	16.7%	668	160	162	322	111.3	26.7	27.0	53.7
15	San Jose Sharks	51.13	6	50.0%	731	121	111	232	121.8	20.2	18.5	38.7
16	Toronto Maple Leafs	51.26	7	85.7%	2825	361	458	819	403.6	51.6	65.4	117.0
17	Montreal Canadiens	51.44	6	50.0%	363	33	36	69	60.5	5.5	6.0	11.5
18	New York Islanders	52.35	13	38.5%	1774	283	516	799	136.5	21.8	39.7	61.5
19	Atlanta Thrashers	54.26	8	37.5%	859	217	306	523	107.4	27.1	38.3	65.4
20	Buffalo Sabres	59.33	6	50.0%	747	13	82	95	124.5	2.2	13.7	15.8
21	Philadelphia Flyers	61.61	10	40.0%	1465	382	772	1154	146.5	38.2	77.2	115.4
22	New York Rangers	66.28	7	28.6%	816	182	200	382	116.6	26.0	28.6	54.6
23	Dallas Stars	71.03	5	60.0%	61	1	4	5	12.2	0.2	0.8	1.0
24	New Jersey Devils	76.18	8	50.0%	152	3	22	25	19.0	0.4	2.8	3.1
25	Detroit Red Wings	79.44	7	42.9%	736	104	95	199	105.1	14.9	13.6	28.4
26	Ottawa Senators	80.87	7	57.1%	1985	300	454	754	283.6	42.9	64.9	107.7
27	Calgary Flames	86.87	8	12.5%	13	0	1	1	1.6	0.0	0.1	0.1
28	Edmonton Oilers	89.13	5	40.0%	1141	100	302	402	228.2	20.0	60.4	80.4
29	Nashville Predators	111.69	5	40.0%	56	8	5	13	11.2	1.6	1.0	2.6
30	Carolina Hurricanes	116.62	6	16.7%	348	30	80	110	58.0	5.0	13.3	18.3

¹⁾ The Weighted Average Pick Position (WAPP) is determined using a harmonic mean, which gives the highest weight to the first overall pick, the second highest to the second overall pick, etc. The thinking behind this approach is that the relative difference between the first and the fifth pick is much higher than the difference between e.g. the 130th and 135th pick. The smallest number is granted to the team with the lowest overall pick position in the draft.

Round 1

No.	Name	Born	Team	Pos	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-
1	Erik Johnson	1988	St. Louis Blues	D	1023	95	253	348	555	-9
2	Jordan Staal	1988	Pittsburgh Penguins	F	1328	298	413	711	615	62
3	Jonathan Toews	1988	Chicago Blackhawks	F	1067	372	511	883	607	148
4	Nicklas Bäckström	1987	Washington Capitals	F	1105	271	762	1033	504	83
5	Phil Kessel	1987	Boston Bruins	F	1286	413	579	992	402	-155
6	Derick Brassard	1987	Columbus Blue Jackets	F	1013	215	330	545	465	-28
7	Kyle Okposo	1988	New York Islanders	F	1051	242	372	614	554	-135
8	Peter Mueller	1988	Phoenix Coyotes	F	297	63	97	160	98	-35
9	James Sheppard	1988	Minnesota Wild	F	394	23	68	91	192	-38
10	Michael Frolík	1988	Florida Panthers	F	858	159	225	384	317	19
11	Jonathan Bernier	1988	Los Angeles Kings	G	404	0	8	8	14
12	Bryan Little	1987	Atlanta Thrashers	F	843	217	304	521	293	-15
13	Jirí Tlusty	1988	Toronto Maple Leafs	F	446	89	88	177	126	-12
14	Michael Grabner	1987	Vancouver Canucks	F	640	175	101	276	110	18
15	Riku Helenius	1988	Tampa Bay Lightning	G	1	0	0	0	0
16	Ty Wishart	1988	San Jose Sharks	D	26	1	5	6	10	5
17	Trevor Lewis	1987	Los Angeles Kings	F	1034	104	133	237	243	-41
18	Chris Stewart	1987	Colorado Avalanche	F	668	160	162	322	750	-52
19	Mark Mitera	1987	Anaheim Ducks	D
20	David Fischer	1988	Montreal Canadiens	D
21	Bobby Sanguinetti	1988	New York Rangers	D	45	2	4	6	8	-6
22	Claude Giroux	1988	Philadelphia Flyers	F	1263	365	751	1116	496	16
23	Semyon Varlamov	1988	Washington Capitals	G	621	0	8	8	24
24	Dennis Persson	1988	Buffalo Sabres	D
25	Patrik Berglund	1988	St. Louis Blues	F	717	170	156	326	248	5
26	Leland Irving	1988	Calgary Flames	G	13	0	1	1	0
27	Ivan Vishnevskiy	1988	Dallas Stars	D	5	0	2	2	2	-1
28	Nick Foligno	1987	Ottawa Senators	F	1233	247	350	597	980	-41
29	Chris Summers	1988	Phoenix Coyotes	D	70	2	7	9	51	-24
30	Matthew Corrente	1988	New Jersey Devils	D	34	0	6	6	68	-5

Round 2

No.	Name	Born	Team	Pos	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-
31	Tomas Kana	1987	St. Louis Blues	F	6	0	2	2	2	2
32	Carl Sneep	1987	Pittsburgh Penguins	D	1	0	1	1	0	1
33	Igor Makarov	1987	Chicago Blackhawks	F
34	Michal Neuvirth	1988	Washington Capitals	G	256	0	4	4	6
35	Francois Bouchard	1988	Washington Capitals	F
36	Jamie McGinn	1988	San Jose Sharks	F	617	117	103	220	267	-83
37	Yuri Alexandrov	1988	Boston Bruins	D
38	Bryce Swan	1987	Anaheim Ducks	F
39	Andreas Nödl	1987	Philadelphia Flyers	F	183	15	21	36	28	-9
40	Ondrej Fiala	1987	Minnesota Wild	F
41	Cory Emmerton	1988	Detroit Red Wings	F	139	12	9	21	22	-1
42	Mike Ratchuk	1988	Philadelphia Flyers	F
43	Riley Holzapfel	1988	Atlanta Thrashers	F
44	Nikolai Kulemin	1986	Toronto Maple Leafs	F	669	121	153	274	173	15
45	Jeff Petry	1987	Edmonton Oilers	D	981	96	289	385	404	-128
46	Jhonas Enroth	1988	Buffalo Sabres	G	153	0	0	0	2
47	Shawn Matthias	1988	Detroit Red Wings	F	551	90	84	174	180	-42
48	Joey Ryan	1987	Los Angeles Kings	D
49	Ben Maxwell	1988	Montreal Canadiens	F	47	2	6	8	19	-6
50	Milan Lucic	1988	Boston Bruins	F	1177	233	353	586	1301	59
51	Nigel Williams	1988	Colorado Avalanche	D
52	Keith Seabrook	1988	Washington Capitals	D
53	Mathieu Carle	1987	Montreal Canadiens	D	3	0	0	0	4	1
54	Artem Anisimov	1988	New York Rangers	F	771	180	196	376	214	-17
55	Denis Bodrov	1986	Philadelphia Flyers	D
56	Blake Geoffrion	1988	Nashville Predators	F	55	8	5	13	34	3
57	Mike Weber	1987	Buffalo Sabres	D	351	9	44	53	437	-43
58	Alexander Vasyunov	1988	New Jersey Devils	F	18	1	4	5	0	0
59	Codey Burki	1987	Colorado Avalanche	F
60	Jesse Joensuu	1987	New York Islanders	F	129	13	11	24	77	-25
61	Simon Danis-Pepin	1988	Chicago Blackhawks	D
62	Dick Axelsson	1987	Detroit Red Wings	F
63	Jamie McBain	1988	Carolina Hurricanes	D	348	30	80	110	72	-17

Round 3

No.	Name	Born	Team	Pos	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-
64	Jonas Junland	1987	St. Louis Blues	D	4	0	2	2	2	-3
65	Brian Strait	1988	Pittsburgh Penguins	D	187	6	23	29	91	-14
66	Ryan White	1988	Montreal Canadiens	F	313	31	30	61	447	-36
67	Kirill Tulupov	1988	New Jersey Devils	D
68	Eric Gryba	1988	Ottawa Senators	D	289	7	36	43	368	15
69	Steve Mason	1988	Columbus Blue Jackets	G	476	0	12	12	22
70	Robin Figren	1988	New York Islanders	F
71	Brad Marchand	1988	Boston Bruins	F	1100	424	556	980	1115	285
72	Cal Clutterbuck	1987	Minnesota Wild	F	1064	143	150	293	698	-19
73	Brady Calla	1988	Florida Panthers	F
74	Jeff Zatkoff	1987	Los Angeles Kings	G	48	0	1	1	0
75	Theo Peckham	1987	Edmonton Oilers	D	160	4	13	17	388	-15
76	Tony Lagerström	1988	Chicago Blackhawks	F
77	Vladimir Zharkov	1988	New Jersey Devils	F	82	2	12	14	10	3
78	Kevin Quick	1988	Tampa Bay Lightning	D	6	0	1	1	0	0
79	Jon Matsumoto	1986	Philadelphia Flyers	F	14	2	0	2	4	-4
80	Michael Forney	1988	Atlanta Thrashers	F
81	Mike Carman	1988	Colorado Avalanche	F
82	Daniel Rahimi	1987	Vancouver Canucks	D
83	John de Gray	1988	Anaheim Ducks	D
84	Ryan Hillier	1988	New York Rangers	F
85	Tommy Sestito	1987	Columbus Blue Jackets	F	154	10	11	21	499	-21
86	Bud Holloway	1988	Los Angeles Kings	F	1	0	0	0	0	0
87	John Armstrong	1988	Calgary Flames	F
88	Jonas Ahnelöv	1987	Phoenix Coyotes	D
89	Aaron Marvin	1988	Calgary Flames	F
90	Aaron Snow	1988	Dallas Stars	F
91	Kaspars Daugavins	1988	Ottawa Senators	F	91	6	9	15	21	-10
92	Daniel Larsson	1986	Detroit Red Wings	G
93	Harrison Reed	1988	Carolina Hurricanes	F

Round 4

No.	Name	Born	Team	Pos	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-
94	Ryan Turek	1987	St. Louis Blues	D
95	Ben Shutron	1988	Chicago Blackhawks	D
96	Joe Palmer	1988	Chicago Blackhawks	G
97	Oskar Osala	1987	Washington Capitals	F	3	0	0	0	0	-1
98	James DeLory	1988	San Jose Sharks	F
99	James Reimer	1988	Toronto Maple Leafs	G	525	0	3	3	20
100	Rhett Rakhshani	1988	New York Islanders	F	7	0	0	0	2	-1
101	Joonas Lehtivuori	1988	Philadelphia Flyers	D
102	Kyle Medvec	1988	Minnesota Wild	D
103	Michael Caruso	1988	Florida Panthers	D	2	0	0	0	0	-1
104	David Kveton	1988	New York Rangers	F
105	Niko Snellman	1988	Nashville Predators	F
106	Reto Berra	1987	St. Louis Blues	G	76	0	1	1	4
107	T.J. Miller	1986	New Jersey Devils	D
108	Jase Weslosky	1988	New York Islanders	G
109	Jakub Kovar	1988	Philadelphia Flyers	G
110	Kevin Montgomery	1988	Colorado Avalanche	D
111	Korbinian Holzer	1988	Toronto Maple Leafs	D	206	6	21	27	139	-13
112	Matt Beleskey	1988	Anaheim Ducks	F	477	76	82	158	440	-11
113	Ben Wright	1988	Columbus Blue Jackets	D
114	Niclas Andersén	1988	Los Angeles Kings	D
115	Tomas Marcinko	1988	New York Islanders	F
116	Derrick LaPoint	1988	Florida Panthers	D
117	Felix Schütz	1987	Buffalo Sabres	F
118	Hugo Carpentier	1988	Calgary Flames	F
119	Doug Rogers	1988	New York Islanders	F
120	Richard Bachman	1987	Dallas Stars	G	49	0	1	1	0
121	Pierre-Luc Lessard	1988	Ottawa Senators	D
122	Luke Lynes	1987	Washington Capitals	F
123	Bobby Hughes	1987	Carolina Hurricanes	F

Round 5

No.	Name	Born	Team	Pos	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-
124	Andrew Sackrison	1987	St. Louis Blues	F
125	Chad Johnson	1986	Pittsburgh Penguins	G	192	0	3	3	0
126	Shane Sims	1988	New York Islanders	D	1	0	0	0	0	0
127	Maxime Lacroix	1987	Washington Capitals	F
128	Andrew Bodnarchuk	1988	Boston Bruins	D	42	0	4	4	16	-9
129	Robert Nyholm	1988	Columbus Blue Jackets	F
130	Brett Bennett	1988	Phoenix Coyotes	G
131	Martin Latal	1988	Phoenix Coyotes	F
132	Niko Hovinen	1988	Minnesota Wild	G
133	Bryan Pitton	1988	Edmonton Oilers	G
134	David Meckler	1987	Los Angeles Kings	F
135	Alex Kangas	1987	Atlanta Thrashers	G
136	Nick Sucharski	1987	Columbus Blue Jackets	F
137	Tomas Zaborsky	1987	New York Rangers	F
138	David McIntyre	1987	Dallas Stars	F	7	1	1	2	2	-1
139	Pavel Valentenko	1987	Montreal Canadiens	D
140	Cody Wild	1987	Edmonton Oilers	D
141	Kim Johansson	1988	New York Islanders	F
142	Maxime Frechette	1988	Columbus Blue Jackets	D
143	Ashton Rome	1985	San Jose Sharks	F
144	Martin Nolet	1986	Los Angeles Kings	D
145	Jon Rheault	1986	Philadelphia Flyers	F	5	0	0	0	0	0
146	Mark Dekanich	1986	Nashville Predators	G	1	0	0	0	0
147	Alex Biega	1988	Buffalo Sabres	D	243	4	38	42	122	-26
148	Olivier Magnan	1986	New Jersey Devils	D	18	0	0	0	4	-4
149	Juuso Puustinen	1988	Calgary Flames	F
150	Max Wärn	1988	Dallas Stars	F
151	Ryan Daniels	1988	Ottawa Senators	G
152	Jordan Bendfeld	1988	Phoenix Coyotes	D
153	Stefan Chaput	1988	Carolina Hurricanes	F

Round 6

No.	Name	Born	Team	Pos	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-
154	Matthew McCollem	1988	St. Louis Blues	F
155	Peter Aston	1986	Florida Panthers	D
156	Jan-Mikael Juutilainen	1988	Chicago Blackhawks	F
157	Brent Gwidt	1988	Washington Capitals	F
158	Levi Nelson	1988	Boston Bruins	F
159	Jesse Dudas	1988	Columbus Blue Jackets	D
160	Andrew MacDonald	1986	New York Islanders	D	586	28	133	161	276	-11
161	Viktor Stålberg	1986	Toronto Maple Leafs	F	488	82	86	168	245	-6
162	Julian Walker	1986	Minnesota Wild	F
163	Sergei Shirokov	1986	Vancouver Canucks	F	8	1	0	1	2	-3
164	Constantin Braun	1988	Los Angeles Kings	D
165	Jonas Enlund	1987	Atlanta Thrashers	F
166	Tyler Ruegsegger	1988	Toronto Maple Leafs	F
167	Juraj Simek	1987	Vancouver Canucks	F
168	Dane Crowley	1987	Tampa Bay Lightning	D
169	Chris Auger	1987	Chicago Blackhawks	F
170	Alexander Bumagin	1987	Edmonton Oilers	F
171	Brian Day	1988	New York Islanders	F
172	Petteri Wirtanen	1986	Anaheim Ducks	F	3	1	0	1	2	1
173	Stefan Ridderwall	1988	New York Islanders	G
174	Eric Hunter	1986	New York Rangers	F
175	Michael Dupont	1987	Philadelphia Flyers	G
176	Ryan Flynn	1988	Nashville Predators	F
177	Mathieu Perreault	1988	Washington Capitals	F	708	143	209	352	322	17
178	Tony Romano	1988	New Jersey Devils	F
179	Jordan Fulton	1987	Calgary Flames	F
180	Leo Komarov	1987	Toronto Maple Leafs	F	491	63	107	170	207	20
181	Kevin Koopman	1988	Ottawa Senators	D
182	Jan Mursak	1988	Detroit Red Wings	F	46	2	2	4	8	-1
183	Nick Dodge	1986	Carolina Hurricanes	F

Round 7

No.	Name	Born	Team	Pos	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-
184	Alexander Hellström	1987	St. Louis Blues	D
185	Timo Seppänen	1987	Pittsburgh Penguins	D
186	Peter LeBlanc	1988	Chicago Blackhawks	F	1	0	0	0	0	0
187	Devin DiDiomete	1988	Calgary Flames	F
188	Chris Frank	1986	Phoenix Coyotes	D
189	Derek Dorsett	1986	Columbus Blue Jackets	F	515	51	76	127	1314	-49
190	Troy Mattila	1988	New York Islanders	F
191	Nick Oslund	1987	Detroit Red Wings	F
192	Chris Hickey	1988	Minnesota Wild	F
193	Marc Cheverie	1987	Florida Panthers	G
194	Matt Marquardt	1987	Columbus Blue Jackets	F
195	Jesse Martin	1988	Atlanta Thrashers	F
196	Benn Ferriero	1987	Phoenix Coyotes	F	98	14	9	23	25	12
197	Evan Fuller	1988	Vancouver Canucks	F
198	Denis Kazionov	1987	Tampa Bay Lightning	F
199	Cameron Cepek	1988	Montreal Canadiens	D
200	Arturs Kulda	1988	Atlanta Thrashers	D	15	0	2	2	8	3
201	Billy Sauer	1988	Colorado Avalanche	G
202	John McCarthy	1986	San Jose Sharks	F	88	3	3	6	22	-24
203	Jay Barriball	1987	San Jose Sharks	F
204	Lukas Zeliska	1988	New York Rangers	F
205	Andrei Popov	1988	Philadelphia Flyers	F
206	Viktor Sjödin	1988	Nashville Predators	F
207	Benjamin Breault	1988	Buffalo Sabres	F
208	Kyell Henegan	1987	New Jersey Devils	D
209	Per Johnsson	1988	Calgary Flames	D
210	Will O'Neill	1988	Atlanta Thrashers	D	1	0	0	0	0	0
211	Erik Condra	1986	Ottawa Senators	F	372	40	59	99	176	16
212	Logan Pyett	1988	Detroit Red Wings	D
213	Justin Krueger	1986	Carolina Hurricanes	D

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