2021 NHL Entry Draft

Secaucus, New Jersey - July 23 and 24, 2021

Summary statistics

			POSITION SPLIT			NATIONALITY SPLIT
ROUND	TO NHL	GP	FWD	DEF	GOA..
Round 1	78.13%	83.0	65.6%	25.0%	6.3%	56.3%	18.8%	18.8%	3.1%	0.0%	0.0%
Round 2	46.88%	32.0	59.4%	40.6%	0.0%	31.3%	21.9%	3.1%	18.8%	18.8%	6.3%
Round 3	15.63%	1.3	50.0%	37.5%	12.5%	43.8%	15.6%	9.4%	9.4%	3.1%	18.8%
Round 4	21.88%	7.2	50.0%	37.5%	12.5%	43.8%	21.9%	6.3%	3.1%	9.4%	15.6%
Round 5	12.50%	1.6	53.1%	37.5%	9.4%	43.8%	12.5%	9.4%	15.6%	12.5%	6.3%
Round 6	0.00%	0.0	50.0%	37.5%	12.5%	28.1%	28.1%	12.5%	15.6%	3.1%	12.5%
Round 7	3.13%	0.7	50.0%	37.5%	12.5%	25.0%	28.1%	12.5%	25.0%	3.1%	6.3%
TOTAL¹		18.0	54.0%	36.2%	9.4%	38.8%	21.0%	10.3%	12.9%	7.1%	9.4%
TO NHL²	25.45%		30.6%	19.8%	19.1%	32.2%	25.5%	26.1%	6.9%	31.3%	19.1%

¹⁾ Percentage of drafted players in each category (e.g. 38.8% of all drafted players were Canadian).
²⁾ Percentage of players that made it to NHL (e.g. 32.2% 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	Buffalo Sabres	9.36	11	27.3%	278	22	95	117	25.3	2.0	8.6	10.6
2	Seattle Kraken	12.23	7	71.4%	381	68	114	182	54.4	9.7	16.3	26.0
3	Anaheim Ducks	18.96	8	25.0%	317	69	100	169	39.6	8.6	12.5	21.1
4	New Jersey Devils	21.34	7	14.3%	155	17	76	93	22.1	2.4	10.9	13.3
5	Los Angeles Kings	22.51	4	50.0%	153	11	37	48	38.3	2.8	9.3	12.0
6	Columbus Blue Jackets	24.07	9	44.4%	499	91	137	228	55.4	10.1	15.2	25.3
7	Detroit Red Wings	26.31	8	37.5%	105	10	25	35	13.1	1.3	3.1	4.4
8	Arizona Coyotes	32.89	10	40.0%	582	82	166	248	58.2	8.2	16.6	24.8
9	Ottawa Senators	34.75	6	16.7%	63	1	3	4	10.5	0.2	0.5	0.7
10	Winnipeg Jets	42.28	4	25.0%	5	3	1	4	1.3	0.8	0.3	1.0
11	San Jose Sharks	44.19	9	22.2%	180	36	75	111	20.0	4.0	8.3	12.3
12	St. Louis Blues	47.14	4	25.0%	97	24	21	45	24.3	6.0	5.3	11.3
13	Nashville Predators	47.66	6	50.0%	115	13	19	32	19.2	2.2	3.2	5.3
14	Minnesota Wild	49.84	7	14.3%	5	0	0	0	0.7	0.0	0.0	0.0
15	Calgary Flames	54.40	8	12.5%	112	27	29	56	14.0	3.4	3.6	7.0
16	Colorado Avalanche	59.24	4	25.0%	4	0	0	0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
17	New York Rangers	61.09	8	12.5%	25	0	2	2	3.1	0.0	0.3	0.3
18	Dallas Stars	68.62	10	20.0%	348	109	120	229	34.8	10.9	12.0	22.9
19	Vegas Golden Knights	68.94	6	16.7%	9	0	0	0	1.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
20	Florida Panthers	70.89	6	16.7%	79	15	16	31	13.2	2.5	2.7	5.2
21	Edmonton Oilers	74.23	6	0.0%
22	Boston Bruins	78.24	7	14.3%	12	1	2	3	1.7	0.1	0.3	0.4
23	Montréal Canadiens	83.55	9	33.3%	61	8	10	18	6.8	0.9	1.1	2.0
24	Chicago Blackhawks	86.49	8	37.5%	94	5	16	21	11.8	0.6	2.0	2.6
25	Carolina Hurricanes	93.57	13	30.8%	107	19	30	49	8.2	1.5	2.3	3.8
26	Philadelphia Flyers	99.04	6	16.7%	17	0	0	0	2.8	0.0	0.0	0.0
27	Toronto Maple Leafs	101.75	3	33.3%	161	44	50	94	53.7	14.7	16.7	31.3
28	Washington Capitals	105.53	6	16.7%	9	0	1	1	1.5	0.0	0.2	0.2
29	Vancouver Canucks	108.42	6	0.0%
30	New York Islanders	110.76	6	33.3%	49	9	5	14	8.2	1.5	0.8	2.3
31	Pittsburgh Penguins	131.14	5	0.0%
32	Tampa Bay Lightning	158.67	7	14.3%	2	1	0	1	0.3	0.1	0.0	0.1

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	Owen Power	2002	Buffalo Sabres	D	242	19	92	111	70	8
2	Matthew Beniers	2002	Seattle Kraken	F	249	62	84	146	36	2
3	Mason McTavish	2003	Anaheim Ducks	F	229	60	80	140	170	-39
4	Luke Hughes	2003	New Jersey Devils	D	155	17	76	93	44	-34
5	Kent Johnson	2002	Columbus Blue Jackets	F	198	46	70	116	42	-17
6	Simon Edvinsson	2003	Detroit Red Wings	D	103	10	25	35	83	5
7	William Eklund	2002	San Jose Sharks	F	174	35	75	110	67	-60
8	Brandt Clarke	2003	Los Angeles Kings	D	103	7	34	41	62	6
9	Dylan Guenther	2003	Arizona Coyotes	F	148	51	59	110	50	-12
10	Tyler Boucher	2003	Ottawa Senators	F
11	Forfeited pick		Arizona Coyotes
12	Cole Sillinger	2003	Columbus Blue Jackets	F	286	43	64	107	140	-60
13	Matt Coronato	2002	Calgary Flames	F	112	27	29	56	31	-8
14	Isak Rosén	2003	Buffalo Sabres	F	15	0	1	1	0	-6
15	Sebastian Cossa	2002	Detroit Red Wings	G	1	0	0	0	0
16	Brennan Othmann	2003	New York Rangers	F	25	0	2	2	2	7
17	Zachary Bolduc	2003	St. Louis Blues	F	97	24	21	45	43	20
18	Chaz Lucius	2003	Winnipeg Jets	F
19	Fyodor Svechkov	2003	Nashville Predators	F	52	8	9	17	14	-17
20	Jesper Wallstedt	2002	Minnesota Wild	G	5	0	0	0	2
21	Fabian Lysell	2003	Boston Bruins	F	12	1	2	3	6	-4
22	Xavier Bourgault	2002	Edmonton Oilers	F
23	Wyatt Johnston	2003	Dallas Stars	F	246	89	88	177	72	22
24	Matthew Samoskevich	2002	Florida Panthers	F	79	15	16	31	12	-7
25	Corson Ceulemans	2003	Columbus Blue Jackets	D
26	Carson Lambos	2003	Minnesota Wild	D
27	Zachary L'Heureux	2003	Nashville Predators	F	62	5	10	15	63	-6
28	Oskar Olausson	2002	Colorado Avalanche	F	4	0	0	0	0	0
29	Chase Stillman	2003	New Jersey Devils	F
30	Zachary Dean	2003	Vegas Golden Knights	F	9	0	0	0	6	-4
31	Logan Mailloux	2003	Montréal Canadiens	D	8	2	3	5	6	-4
32	Nolan Allan	2003	Chicago Blackhawks	D	43	1	7	8	16	-13

Round 2

No.	Name	Born	Team	Pos	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-
33	Prokhor Poltapov	2003	Buffalo Sabres	F
34	Olen Zellweger	2003	Anaheim Ducks	D	88	9	20	29	24	-5
35	Ryker Evans	2001	Seattle Kraken	D	109	6	28	34	50	-17
36	Shai Buium	2003	Detroit Red Wings	D
37	Josh Doan	2002	Arizona Coyotes	F	62	12	16	28	8	4
38	Daniil Chayka	2002	Vegas Golden Knights	D
39	Zack Ostapchuk	2003	Ottawa Senators	F	63	1	3	4	45	-9
40	Scott Morrow	2002	Carolina Hurricanes	D	16	1	5	6	0	1
41	Danila Klimovich	2003	Vancouver Canucks	F
42	Francesco Pinelli	2003	Los Angeles Kings	F
43	Ilya Fedotov	2003	Arizona Coyotes	F
44	Aleksi Heimosalmi	2003	Carolina Hurricanes	D
45	William Strömgren	2003	Calgary Flames	F
46	Samu Tuomaala	2003	Philadelphia Flyers	F
47	Logan Stankoven	2003	Dallas Stars	F	102	20	32	52	22	9
48	Artyom Grushnikov	2003	Dallas Stars	D
49	Ben Roger	2002	Ottawa Senators	D
50	Nikita Chibrikov	2003	Winnipeg Jets	F	5	3	1	4	0	1
51	Ville Koivunen	2003	Carolina Hurricanes	F	8	0	7	7	4	0
52	Aatu Räty	2002	New York Islanders	F	48	9	5	14	18	-1
53	Alexander Kisakov	2002	Buffalo Sabres	F
54	Jack Peart	2003	Minnesota Wild	D
55	Vinny Iorio	2002	Washington Capitals	D	9	0	1	1	0	1
56	Evan Nause	2003	Florida Panthers	D
57	Matthew Knies	2002	Toronto Maple Leafs	F	161	44	50	94	90	17
58	Tristan Broz	2002	Pittsburgh Penguins	F
59	Samuel Helenius	2002	Los Angeles Kings	F	50	4	3	7	25	1
60	J.J. Moser	2000	Arizona Coyotes	D	259	18	68	86	108	-7
61	Sean Behrens	2003	Colorado Avalanche	D
62	Colton Dach	2003	Chicago Blackhawks	F	25	2	5	7	17	-3
63	Riley Kidney	2003	Montréal Canadiens	F
64	Oliver Kapanen	2003	Montréal Canadiens	F	18	0	2	2	2	-5

Round 3

No.	Name	Born	Team	Pos	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-
65	Jayden Grubbe	2003	New York Rangers	F
66	Sasha Pastujov	2003	Anaheim Ducks	F
67	Ryan Winterton	2003	Seattle Kraken	F	21	0	1	1	2	-12
68	Samu Salminen	2003	New Jersey Devils	F
69	Stanislav Svozil	2003	Columbus Blue Jackets	D	2	0	1	1	2	-3
70	Carter Mazur	2002	Detroit Red Wings	F	1	0	0	0	0	0
71	Simon Robertsson	2003	St. Louis Blues	F
72	Anton Olsson	2003	Nashville Predators	D
73	Ayrton Martino	2002	Dallas Stars	F
74	Oliver Johansson	2003	Ottawa Senators	F
75	Ryder Korczak	2002	New York Rangers	F
76	Tyson Hinds	2003	Anaheim Ducks	D
77	Cole Huckins	2003	Calgary Flames	F
78	Alexei Kolosov	2002	Philadelphia Flyers	G	17	0	0	0	0
79	Justin Ertel	2003	Dallas Stars	F
80	Brent Johnson	2003	Washington Capitals	D
81	Benjamin Gaudreau	2003	San Jose Sharks	G
82	Dmitri Kuzmin	2003	Winnipeg Jets	D
83	Patrik Hamrla	2003	Carolina Hurricanes	G
84	Kirill Kirsanov	2002	Los Angeles Kings	D
85	Brett Harrison	2003	Boston Bruins	F
86	Caedan Bankier	2003	Minnesota Wild	F
87	Dmitri Kostenko	2002	Montréal Canadiens	D
88	Stiven Sardaryan	2003	Buffalo Sabres	F
89	Cameron Whynot	2003	Calgary Flames	D
90	Luca Münzenberger	2002	Edmonton Oilers	D
91	Taige Harding	2002	Chicago Blackhawks	D
92	Andrei Buyalsky	2000	Colorado Avalanche	F
93	Tristan Lennox	2002	New York Islanders	G	1	0	0	0	0
94	Aidan Hreschuk	2003	Carolina Hurricanes	D
95	Josh Bloom	2003	Buffalo Sabres	F
96	Roman Schmidt	2003	Tampa Bay Lightning	D

Round 4

No.	Name	Born	Team	Pos	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-
97	Olivier Nadeau	2003	Buffalo Sabres	F
98	Josh Lopina	2001	Anaheim Ducks	F
99	Ville Ottavainen	2002	Seattle Kraken	D	1	0	1	1	0	0
100	Jakub Málek	2002	New Jersey Devils	G
101	Guillaume Richard	2003	Columbus Blue Jackets	D
102	Jakub Brabenec	2003	Vegas Golden Knights	F
103	Gannon Laroque	2003	San Jose Sharks	D
104	Brody Lamb	2003	New York Rangers	F
105	Ethan Del Mastro	2003	Chicago Blackhawks	D	26	2	4	6	6	-3
106	Kalle Väisänen	2003	New York Rangers	F
107	Emil Martinsen Lilleberg	2001	Arizona Coyotes	D	113	1	23	24	121	-16
108	Victor Stjernborg	2003	Chicago Blackhawks	F
109	Jackson Blake	2003	Carolina Hurricanes	F	81	17	17	34	30	8
110	Brian Zanetti	2003	Philadelphia Flyers	D
111	Conner Roulette	2003	Dallas Stars	F
112	Talyn Boyko	2002	New York Rangers	G
113	William Trudeau	2002	Montréal Canadiens	D
114	Redmond Savage	2003	Detroit Red Wings	F
115	Ryan Ufko	2003	Nashville Predators	D	1	0	0	0	0	0
116	Jake Chiasson	2003	Edmonton Oilers	F
117	Philip Svedebäck	2002	Boston Bruins	G
118	Kyle Masters	2003	Minnesota Wild	D
119	Joaquim Lemay	2002	Washington Capitals	D
120	Vladislav Lukashevich	2003	Florida Panthers	D
121	Ethan Cardwell	2002	San Jose Sharks	F	6	1	0	1	2	-2
122	Rasmus Korhonen	2002	Arizona Coyotes	G
123	Carson Latimer	2003	Ottawa Senators	F
124	Jack Matier	2003	Nashville Predators	D
125	Cameron Berg	2002	New York Islanders	F
126	Dylan Duke	2003	Tampa Bay Lightning	F	2	1	0	1	0	0
127	Josh Pillar	2002	Minnesota Wild	F
128	Jakub Demek	2003	Vegas Golden Knights	F

Round 5

No.	Name	Born	Team	Pos	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-
129	Topias Vilén	2003	New Jersey Devils	D
130	Sean Tschigerl	2003	Anaheim Ducks	F
131	Jacob Melanson	2003	Seattle Kraken	F	1	0	0	0	0	0
132	Nikolai Makarov	2003	Columbus Blue Jackets	D
133	James Malatesta	2003	Columbus Blue Jackets	F	13	2	2	4	5	-2
134	Liam Dower Nilsson	2003	Detroit Red Wings	F
135	Artem Guryev	2003	San Jose Sharks	D
136	Robert Orr	2003	Carolina Hurricanes	F
137	Aku Koskenvuo	2003	Vancouver Canucks	G
138	Jack Bar	2002	Dallas Stars	D
139	Manix Landry	2002	Arizona Coyotes	F
140	Jonathan Myrenberg	2003	Vancouver Canucks	D
141	Cole Jordan	2002	Calgary Flames	D
142	Daniil Sobolev	2003	Montréal Canadiens	D
143	Jacob Holmes	2003	Dallas Stars	D
144	Jaroslav Chmelar	2003	New York Rangers	F
145	Tyson Galloway	2003	St. Louis Blues	D
146	Dmitry Rashevsky	2000	Winnipeg Jets	F
147	Justin Robidas	2003	Carolina Hurricanes	F	2	1	1	2	0	1
148	Gage Alexander	2002	Anaheim Ducks	G
149	Oskar Jellvik	2003	Boston Bruins	F
150	Joshua Roy	2003	Montréal Canadiens	F	35	6	5	11	2	-8
151	Håkon Hänelt	2003	Washington Capitals	F
152	Kirill Gerasimyuk	2003	Florida Panthers	G
153	Ty Voit	2003	Toronto Maple Leafs	F
154	Isaac Belliveau	2002	Pittsburgh Penguins	D
155	Oscar Plandowski	2003	Detroit Red Wings	D
156	Max McCue	2003	San Jose Sharks	F
157	Eetu Liukas	2002	New York Islanders	F
158	Ty Murchison	2003	Philadelphia Flyers	D
159	Viljami Marjala	2003	Buffalo Sabres	F
160	Cameron MacDonald	2003	Tampa Bay Lightning	F

Round 6

No.	Name	Born	Team	Pos
161	William Von Barnekow	2002	Buffalo Sabres	F
162	Kyle Kukkonen	2002	Anaheim Ducks	F
163	Semyon Vyazovoi	2003	Seattle Kraken	G
164	Viktor Hurtig	2002	New Jersey Devils	D
165	Ben Boyd	2003	Columbus Blue Jackets	F
166	Pasquale Zito	2003	Detroit Red Wings	F
167	Liam Gilmartin	2003	San Jose Sharks	F
168	Jack Beck	2003	Calgary Flames	F
169	Hugo Gabrielson	2002	Vancouver Canucks	D
170	Bryce Montgomery	2002	Carolina Hurricanes	D
171	Cal Thomas	2003	Arizona Coyotes	D
172	Ilya Safonov	2001	Chicago Blackhawks	F
173	Lucas Ciona	2003	Calgary Flames	F
174	Ethan Samson	2003	Philadelphia Flyers	D
175	Francesco Arcuri	2003	Dallas Stars	F
176	Dru Krebs	2003	Washington Capitals	D
177	Theo Jacobsson	2003	San Jose Sharks	F
178	Connor Lockhart	2003	Vancouver Canucks	F
179	Simon Knak	2002	Nashville Predators	F
180	Matvei Petrov	2003	Edmonton Oilers	F
181	Ryan Mast	2003	Boston Bruins	D
182	Nate Benoit	2002	Minnesota Wild	D
183	Chase Clark	2002	Washington Capitals	G
184	Jakub Kos	2003	Florida Panthers	F
185	Vyacheslav Peksa	2002	Toronto Maple Leafs	G
186	Shane Lachance	2003	Edmonton Oilers	F
187	Nikita Quapp	2003	Carolina Hurricanes	G
188	Nikita Novikov	2003	Buffalo Sabres	D
189	Aleksi Malinen	2003	New York Islanders	D
190	Artur Cholach	2003	Vegas Golden Knights	D
191	Xavier Simoneau	2001	Montréal Canadiens	F
192	Alex Gagne	2002	Tampa Bay Lightning	D

Round 7

No.	Name	Born	Team	Pos	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-
193	Tyson Kozak	2002	Buffalo Sabres	F	21	3	2	5	2	-2
194	Ryan McCleary	2003	Pittsburgh Penguins	D
195	Justin Janicke	2003	Seattle Kraken	F
196	Daniil Pylenkov	2000	Tampa Bay Lightning	D
197	Martin Rysavy	2003	Columbus Blue Jackets	F
198	Ivan Vorobyov	2002	St. Louis Blues	F
199	Evgeny Kashnikov	2002	San Jose Sharks	D
200	Yegor Naumov	2003	Carolina Hurricanes	G
201	Lucas Forsell	2003	Vancouver Canucks	F
202	Chandler Romeo	2003	Ottawa Senators	D
203	Zakhar Bardakov	2001	New Jersey Devils	F
204	Connor Kelley	2002	Chicago Blackhawks	D
205	Arseni Sergeyev	2002	Calgary Flames	G
206	Owen McLaughlin	2003	Philadelphia Flyers	F
207	Albert Sjöberg	2003	Dallas Stars	F
208	Hank Kempf	2002	New York Rangers	D
209	Nikita Guslistov	2002	Carolina Hurricanes	F
210	Braden Haché	2003	Florida Panthers	D
211	Robert Flinton	2003	Tampa Bay Lightning	F
212	Maximus Wanner	2003	Edmonton Oilers	D
213	Andre Gasseau	2003	Boston Bruins	F
214	Joe Vrbetic	2002	Montréal Canadiens	G
215	Daniel Laatsch	2002	Pittsburgh Penguins	D
216	Jalen Luypen	2002	Chicago Blackhawks	F
217	Ty Gallagher	2003	Boston Bruins	D
218	Kirill Tankov	2002	Pittsburgh Penguins	F
219	Joel Nyström	2002	Carolina Hurricanes	D
220	Taylor Makar	2001	Colorado Avalanche	F
221	Tomas Machu	2003	New York Islanders	D
222	Carl Lindbom	2003	Vegas Golden Knights	G
223	Sam Lipkin	2003	Arizona Coyotes	F
224	Niko Huuhtanen	2003	Tampa Bay Lightning	F

Current season NHL stats last updated: June 18, 2025
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