Historical Hockey Stats & Trivia: 2000 NHL Expansion Draft

For more information see the 1998 NHL Expansion Draft and 1999 NHL Expansion Draft

The Columbus Blue Jackets and Minnesota Wild were the last two expansion clubs allowed into the NHL, admitted in 1997. They wouldn't take to the ice until 2000, after the completion of the construction of their new arenas: Nationwide Arena in Columbus and the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.

The Blue Jackets hired Doug MacLean as general manager on February 11, 1998, about two-and-a-half months after he was dismissed as the Florida Panthers' head coach. MacLean also assumed the title of president shortly thereafter.

The Wild hired former Flames GM Doug Risebrough over a year later, on September 2, 1999.

The rules of the 2000 expansion draft were almost exactly the same as the rules of the 1999 and 1998 expansion drafts. Existing clubs were allowed to protect either up to one goalie, five defencemen and nine forwards or up to two goalies, three defencemen and seven forwards. The Blue Jackets and Wild would alternate selections in a 'snaking' pattern (ABBABAAB) and take two players from each of the 26 existing clubs participating in the draft (a total of 52). Neither the Atlanta Thrashers nor the Nashville Predators would participate, being that they had only taken to the ice one and two years before, respectively.

Each existing club was mandated to expose players with a minimum level of experience. If a team protected two goalies they had to offer a goalie with a minimum of 10 games played in 1999-2000, or 25 games over the course of 1998-99 and 1999-2000. A "game played" in this case was defined as a minimum 31 minutes in a game. A team protecting only one goalie did not have to offer a goalie with any NHL experience. Each team had to offer at least one defenceman and two forwards with 40 games played in the 1999-2000 season or 70 in 1998-99 and 1999-2000.

All first- and second-year professionals were exempt from selection as were any unsigned draft choices, except choices from Europe from 1996 or earlier.

Of the exposed players the Blue Jackets and Wild would select three goalies, eight defencemen and 13 forwards, and two more players of any position. Any existing club that lost a goalie could not lose a defenceman, and no more than one defenceman or goalie could be chosen from an existing club. Each of the new clubs could select a maximum of six players apiece that were due to become free agents of any sort.

The deadline for protected lists was 4:00 pm Mountain Daylight Time on June 12, two days after the Devils beat the Stars for the Stanley Cup. A trade freeze also went into effect at the same time, and would last until the end of the expansion draft on June 23. Prior to the trade deadline a few minor trades were made between the existing clubs:

Blackhawks traded Steve Passmore to the Kings for a 4th round draft pick in 2000 or 2001 to the Blackhawks (Blackhawks chose 2000, and selected Olli Malmivaara) on May 1
Mighty Ducks traded Trent Hunter to the Islanders for the Blue Jackets' 4th round pick in 2000 (Jonas Ronnqvist) on May 23
Hurricanes traded Paul Ranheim to the Flyers for an 8th round pick in 2002 (traded later to the Lightning, who selected Darren Reid) on May 31
Mighty Ducks traded the rights to Stephen Peat to the Capitals for a 4th round pick in 2000 (traded later to the Canadiens, who traded to Penguins, who selected Michel Ouellet) on June 1
Lightning traded the rights to Eric Beaudoin to the Panthers for a 7th round pick in 2000 (Marek Priechodsky) on June 1
Lightning traded Kevin Hodson to the Canadiens for a 7th round pick in 2000 (traded later to the Flyers, who selected John Eichelberger) on June 2
Lightning traded Rich Parent to the Senators for a 7th round pick in 2000 (traded later to the Sabres, who selected Paul Gaustad) on June 4
Flames traded Jean-Sebastien Giguere to the Mighty Ducks for a 2nd round pick in 2000 (traded later to the Capitals, who selected Matt Pettinger) on June 10
Mighty Ducks traded Ed Ward to the Devils for a 7th round pick in 2001 (Tony Martensson) on June 12
Thrashers traded Steve Staios to the Devils for a 9th round pick in 2000 (Simon Gamache) on June 12
Blackhawks traded Mark Janssens to the Flyers for a 9th round pick in 2000 (Arne Ramholt) on June 12
Predators traded Patrick Cote to the Oilers for the Coyotes' 5th round pick in 2000 (Matt Koalska) on June 12
Senators traded Patrick Traverse to the Mighty Ducks for Joel Kwiatkowski on June 12

The most notable trade in retrospect was the Flames trading Giguere to the Ducks. Giguere was about to become a restricted free agent and there was a risk that either one of the Blue Jackets or Wild would have taken the former first-round pick. Instead the Flames dealt him to Anaheim, getting something for him, and Anaheim took the risk that one of Guy Hebert or Corey Hirsch would be selected.

The Blue Jackets and Wild also made several trades, some of which were made with existing clubs on the condition that certain players would or would not be picked in the expansion draft.

Islanders traded Chris Nielsen to the Blue Jackets for a 4th round pick in 2000 (traded to the Ducks, who selected Jonas Ronnqvist) and a 9th round pick in 2000 (Dmitri Altarev) on May 11
Ducks traded Espen Knutsen to the Blue Jackets for a 4th round pick in 2001(Vladimir Korsunov) on May 25
Avalanche traded Marc Denis to the Blue Jackets for a 2nd round pick in 2000 (traded to the Hurricanes, who selected Tomas Kurka) on June 7
Sharks traded Jan Caloun, a 9th round pick in 2000 (Martin Paroulek) and a conditional pick in 2001 to the Blue Jackets for future considerations on June 11
Sharks traded Andy Sutton, a 7th round pick in 2000 (Peter Bartos) and a 3rd round pick in 2001 (later traded to the Thrashers, who traded to the Penguins, who traded to the Blue Jackets, who selected Aaron Johnson) to the Wild for an 8th round pick in 2001 (traded to the Flames, who selected Joe Campbell) and future considerations on June 11
Devils traded Krzysztof Oliwa and future considerations (the rights to Deron Quint) to the Blue Jackets for a 3rd round pick in 2001(Brandon Nolan) and future considerations (Turner Stevenson) on June 12
Stars traded Manny Fernandez and Brad Lukowich to the Wild for a 3rd round pick in 2000 (Joel Lundqvist) and a 4th round pick in 2002 (traded back to the Wild, who traded to the Kings, who selected Aaron Rome) on June 12

The Sharks' trades with the Blue Jackets and Wild were made in order to keep goalie Evgeni Nabokov safe; that was the "future considerations" in both cases. The Avalanche traded Marc Denis to the Blue Jackets as part of a more elaborate deal that I will explain below.

Protected Lists

Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	Boston Bruins	Buffalo Sabres	Calgary Flames
Goaltenders
J.S. Giguere	Byron Dafoe	Martin Biron	Fred Brathwaite
	John Grahame	Dominik Hasek
Defencemen
Jason Marshall	Hal Gill	Jay McKee	Tommy Albelin
Ruslan Salei	Kyle McLaren	Rhett Warrener	Wade Belak
Patrick Traverse	Darren Van Impe	Alexei Zhitnik	Denis Gauthier
Pavel Trnka			Phil Housley
Oleg Tverdovsky			Derek Morris
Forwards
Antti Aalto	Jason Allison	Curtis Brown	Valeri Bure
Marc Chouinard	P.J. Axelsson	Chris Gratton	Jarome Iginla
Matt Cullen	Anson Carter	Mike Peca	Bill Lindsay
Paul Kariya	Mike Knuble	Erik Rasmussen	Andrei Nazarov
Ladislav Kohn	Brian Rolston	Miroslav Satan	Marc Savard
Mike Leclerc	Sergei Samsonov	Vaclav Varada	Jeff Shantz
Marty McInnis	Joe Thornton		Cory Stillman
Steve Rucchin			Jason Wiemer
Teemu Selanne			Clarke Wilm
Carolina Hurricanes	Chicago Blackhawks	Colorado Avalanche	Dallas Stars
Goaltenders
Arturs Irbe	Jocelyn Thibault	Patrick Roy	Ed Belfour
Defencemen
Steven Halko	Jamie Allison	Ray Bourque	Derian Hatcher
Sean Hill	Brad Brown	Adam Foote	Richard Jackman
Marek Malik	Anders Eriksson	Jon Klemm	Richard Matvichuk
Nolan Pratt	Bryan McCabe	Aaron Miller	Darryl Sydor
Glen Wesley	Boris Mironov	Sandis Ozolinsh	Sergei Zubov
Forwards
Bates Battaglia	Tony Amonte	Adam Deadmarsh	Aaron Gavey
Rod Brind'amour	Eric Dazé	Chris Dingman	Brett Hull
Ron Francis	Michal Grosek	Peter Forsberg	Mike Keane
Sami Kapanen	Jean-Yves Leroux	Dan Hinote	Jamie Langenbrunner
Ian MacNeil	Dean McAmmond	Brad Larsen	Jere Lehtinen
Sandy McCarthy	Michael Nylander	Ville Nieminen	Grant Marshall
Jeff O'Neill	Steve Sullivan	Shjon Podein	Mike Modano
Gary Roberts	Ryan Vandenbussche	Joe Sakic	Kirk Muller
Shane Willis	Alexei Zhamnov	Stephane Yelle	Joe Nieuwendyk
Detroit Red Wings	Edmonton Oilers	Florida Panthers	Los Angeles Kings
Goaltenders
Chris Osgood	Tommy Salo	Trevor Kidd	Stephane Fiset
			Jamie Storr
Defencemen
Chris Chelios	Sean Brown	Bret Hedican	Aki Berg
Mathieu Dandenault	Roman Hamrlik	John Jakopin	Rob Blake
Steve Duchesne	Janne Niinimaa	Todd Simpson	Mattias Norstrom
Nicklas Lidstrom	Jason Smith	Robert Svehla
Aaron Ward	Igor Ulanov	Mike Wilson
Forwards
Kris Draper	Mike Grier	Pavel Bure	Kelly Buchberger
Sergei Federov	Bill Guerin	Viktor Kozlov	Ian Laperriere
Tomas Holmstrom	Chad Kilger	Oleg Kvasha	Glen Murray
Vyacheslav Kozlov	Georges Laraque	Paul Laus	Zigmund Palffy
Martin Lapointe	Todd Marchant	Scott Mellanby	Luc Robitaille
Kirk Maltby	Ethan Moreau	Rob Niedermayer	Bryan Smolinski
Darren McCarty	Rem Murray	Mike Sillinger	Jozef Stumpel
Brendan Shanahan	Ryan Smyth	Ray Whitney
Steve Yzerman	Doug Weight	Peter Worrell
Montreal Canadiens	New Jersey Devils	New York Islanders	New York Rangers
Goaltenders
Jeff Hackett	Martin Brodeur	Kevin Weekes	Mike Richter
José Théodore
Defencemen
Patrice Brisebois	Josef Boumedienne	Eric Cairns	Jason Doig
Craig Rivet	Ken Daneyko	Zdeno Chara	Brian Leetch
Sheldon Souray	Scott Niedermayer	Kenny Jonsson	Sylvain Lefebvre
	Scott Stevens	Jamie Rivers	Dale Purinton
	Colin White	Ray Schultz	Stephane Quintal
Forwards
Benoit Brunet	Jason Arnott	Mariusz Czerkawski	Jason Dawe
Saku Koivu	Sergei Brylin	Josh Green	Rob DiMaio
Trevor Linden	Patrik Elias	Brad Isbister	Radek Dvorak
Martin Rucinsky	Bobby Holik	Olli Jokinen	Theoren Fleury
Brian Savage	John Madden	Claude Lapointe	Adam Graves
Sergei Zholtok	Randy McKay	Mats Lindgren	Eric Lacroix
Dainius Zubrus	Alexander Mogilny	Dimitri Nabokov	Darren Langdon
	Jay Pandolfo	Dave Scatchard	Petr Nedved
	Petr Sykora	Steve Webb	Tim Taylor
Ottawa Senators	Philadelphia Flyers	Phoenix Coyotes	Pittsburgh Penguins
Goaltenders
Jani Hurme	Brian Boucher	Nikolai Khabibulin	Jean-Sebastien Aubin
Patrick Lalime
Defencemen
Chris Phillips	Andy Delmore	Keith Carney	Bob Boughner
Wade Redden	Eric Desjardins	Jyrki Lumme	Sven Butenschon
Jason York	Dan McGillis	Stan Neckar	Darius Kasparaitis
	Luke Richardson	Teppo Numminen	Janne Laukkanen
	Chris Therien	Radoslav Suchy	Jiri Slegr
Forwards
Daniel Alfredsson	Mark Greig	Danny Briere	Matthew Barnaby
Magnus Arvedson	Daymond Langkow	Shane Doan	Rene Corbet
Radek Bonk	John LeClair	Travis Green	Robert Dome
Andreas Dackell	Eric Lindros	Trevor Letowski	Jan Hrdina
Shawn McEachern	Kent Manderville	Robert Reichel	Jaromir Jagr
Vaclav Prospal	Gino Odjick	Mikael Renberg	Alexei Kovalev
Andre Roy	Keith Primeau	Jeremy Roenick	Robert Lang
	Paul Ranheim	Keith Tkachuk	Alexei Morozov
	Mark Recchi	Juha Ylonen	Martin Straka
St. Louis Blues	San Jose Sharks	Tampa Bay Lightning	Toronto Maple Leafs
Goaltenders
Brent Johnson	Steve Shields	Dan Cloutier	Curtis Joseph
Roman Turek
Defencemen
Al MacInnis	Shawn Heins	Sergey Gusev	Cory Cross
Chris Pronger	Bryan Marchment	Pavel Kubina	Alexander Karpovtsev
Bryce Salvador	Marcus Ragnarsson	Marek Posmyk	Danny Markov
	Mike Rathje	Petr Svoboda	Chris McAllister
	Gary Suter	Andrei Zyuzin	Dmitri Yushkevich
Forwards
Lubos Bartecko	Vincent Damphousse	Stan Drulia	Sergei Berezin
Craig Conroy	Jeff Friesen	Dwayne Hay	Tie Domi
Pavol Demitra	Todd Harvey	Brian Holzinger	Jonas Hoglund
Michal Handzus	Alexander Korolyuk	Mike Johnson	Dmitri Khristich
Jamal Mayers	Patrick Marleau	Ryan Johnson	Igor Korolev
Pierre Turgeon	Owen Nolan	Fredrik Modin	Yanic Perreault
Scott Young	Mike Ricci	Wayne Primeau	Mats Sundin
	Marco Sturm	Jaroslav Svejkovsky	Steve Thomas
	Niklas Sundstrom	Todd Warriner	Darcy Tucker
Vancouver Canucks	Washington Capitals
Goaltenders
Felix Potvin	Olaf Kolzig
Defencemen
Adrian Aucoin	Sergei Gonchar
Murray Baron	Calle Johansson
Ed Jovanovski	Ken Klee
Mattias Ohlund	Joe Reekie
Jason Strudwick	Brendan Witt
Forwards
Todd Bertuzzi	James Black
Donald Brashear	Peter Bondra
Andrew Cassels	Jan Bulis
Trent Klatt	Ulf Dahlen
Brendan Morrison	Steve Konowalchuk
Markus Naslund	Andrei Nikolishin
Denis Pederson	Adam Oates
Peter Schaefer	Chris Simon
Vadim Sharifijanov	Richard Zednik

Players Available for Selection

Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	Boston Bruins	Buffalo Sabres	Calgary Flames
Goaltenders
Tom Askey^VI	Robbie Tallas^II	Dwayne Roloson^II	Grant Fuhr
Guy Hebert			Tyrone Garner
Corey Hirsch^II			Andrei Trefilov^II
Dominic Roussel
Blaine Russell^II
Defencemen
Timo Ahmaoja^#	Elias Abrahamsson^II	Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre^II	Eric Charron^V
Ladislav Benysek	Johnathan Aitken	Jason Holland^II	Bobby Dollas^III
Mike Crowley	Shane Belter	Doug Houda	Johan Finnstrom^#
Scott Ferguson^VI	Vratislav Cech	Mike Hurlbut	Filip Kuba^II
Kevin Haller^V	Mike Matteucci^II	James Patrick^III	Stewart Malgunas^V
Dean Malkoc^II	Keith McCambridge	Richard Smehlik	Fredrik Oduya
Fredrik Olausson^III	Marty McSorley^III	Jason Woolley^II	Pavel Rajnoha^#
Lloyd Shaw^II	Brandon Smith		Dmitri Riabykin^#
Pascal Trepanier	Don Sweeney^III		Darryl Shannon^III
Nikolai Tsulygin	Mattias Timander		Steve Smith
	Denis Timofeyev		Lee Sorochan^II
	Eric Van Acker		Brad Werenka^III
	Sergei Zhukov^#
Forwards
Frank Banham^VI	Shawn Bates^II	Stu Barnes	Jason Botterill^II
Ted Donato^III	Ken Belanger	Eric Boulton	Marc Bureau
Stu Grimson^III	Aaron Downey^VI	Randy Cunneyworth^III	Jeff Cowan^II
Tony Hrkac	Peter Ferraro	Matt Davidson^II	Steve Dubinsky^II
Tobias Johansson^#	Steve Heinze^II	Mark Dutiaume^II	Benoit Gratton
Peter Leboutillier^VI	Joe Hulbig^VI	Craig Fisher^VI	Andreas Johansson^II
Tommi Miettinen^#	Dmitri Kvartalnov	Doug Gilmour	Mathias Johansson^#
Kip Miller^V	Antti Laaksonen^VI	Denis Hamel	Esa Keskinen^#
Jeff Nielsen	Cameron Mann^II	Paul Kruse^V	Sergei Krivokrasov^II
Jeremy Stevenson^VI	Peter Nordstrom	Scott Nichol^VI	Jan Labraaten^#
Tony Tuzzolino^II	Sean Pronger^II	Dominic Pittis^VI	Jesper Mattson
Bob Wren	Joel Prpic^VI	Rob Ray^III	Marty Murray
	Anders Soderberg^#	Geoff Sanderson^II	Dave Roche^II
	Joel Trottier	Chris Taylor^VI	Martin St. Louis
	Landon Wilson	Vladimir Tsyplakov^III	Josef Straka^#
	Jeff Zehr	Dixon Ward^III	John Tripp^II
			Sergei Zolotov^#
Carolina Hurricanes	Chicago Blackhawks	Colorado Avalanche	Dallas Stars
Goaltenders
Mark Fitzpatrick^III	Marc Lamothe^VI	David Aebischer	Chad Alban
Marc Magliarditi	Erasmo Saltarelli	Frederic Cassivi^VI	Mike Bales^VI
		Kai Fischer^#
		Petr Franek
		Rick Tabaracci^III
Defencemen
Steve Bancroft^VI	Radim Bicanek	Jason Bowen^II	Frederic Bouchard^II
Paul Coffey^III	Ted Crowley^VI	Greg De Vries	Joel Bouchard^II
Len Esau^VI	Kevin Dean^III	Michael Gaul^VI	Shawn Chambers^III
Sergei Fedetov^II	Dallas Eakins^V	Alexei Gusarov	Sylvain Côté^III
Hugh Hamilton^II	Todd Rohloff^VI	Sami Helenius^VI	Alan Letang
Dave Karpa^II	Marty Wilford^II	Eric Messier^II	Dave Manson^III
Curtis Leschyshyn	Doug Zmolek	Dan Smith^II	Matt Martin^II
Mike Rucinski^VI			Evgeny Petrochinin^#
			Jamie Pushor
			Mark Wotton
Forwards
Eric Dandenault^VI	Blair Atcheynum	Dave Andreychuk^III	Guy Carbonneau
Jeff Daniels^V	Jeff Christian^VI	Serge Aubin^VI	Kelly Fairchild^VI
Gilbert Dionne^V	Jeff Daw	Tomi Hirvonen^#	Sergei Luchinkin^#
Martin Gelinas	Chris Herperger^VI	Mikael Johansson^#	Warren Luhning
Dmitri Gorenko^#	David Ling	Christian Matte^VI	Chris Murray^II
Andrei Kovalenko^II	Josef Marha	Jeff Odgers	Brian Skrudland^III
Robert Kron	Ed Olczyk^III	Dave Reid	Scott Thornton^V
Mike Morrone^II	Nathan Perrott^II	Rob Shearer	Jamie Wright^II
Andrei Petrunin	Derek Plante^II
Askhat Rakhmatulin^#	Bob Probert
Byron Ritchie^II
Todd Simon^VI
Kevin Smyth
Detroit Red Wings	Edmonton Oilers	Florida Panthers	Los Angeles Kings
Goaltenders
David Arsenault^II	Mike Minard^II	Ryan Bach	Marcel Cousineau^II
Manny Legace	Bill Ranford^III	Sean Gauthier	Mike O'Neill^VI
Ken Wregget	Kay Whitmore	Denis Khlopotnov^#	Steve Passmore
		Mikhail Shtalenkov^III	Travis Scott
		Rich Shulmistra
		Mike Vernon
Defencemen
Todd Gill	Adam Bennett	Lance Pitlick	Philippe Boucher^II
Yan Golubovsky^II	Brett Hauer	Brent Thompson	Rich Brennan^VI
Uwe Krupp	Frank Musil^III	Jeff Ware^II	Garry Galley^III
Maxim Kuznetsov^II	Alain Nasreddine^II		Dave MacIsaac^VI
Larry Murphy^III	Sami Nuutinen		Jaroslav Modry
	Bert Robertsson		Jan Nemecek^II
	Reijo Ruotsalainen		Sean O'Donnell
	Alexander Zhurik		Martin Strbak^#
	Lukas Zib^#
Forwards
Pavel Agarkov^#	Kevin Brown^VI	Len Barrie	Eric Belanger^II
Doug Brown	Jozef Cierny	Paul Brousseau^VI	Dan Bylsma^II
David Engblom^#	Patrick Cote	Chad Cabana^VI	Bob Corkum
Johan Forsander^#	Boyd Devereaux^II	Dave Duerden^II	Allan Egeland^VI
Brent Gilchrist^III	Jim Dowd	Alex Hicks^II	Nelson Emerson
Alexandre Jacques^II	Ralph Intranuovo	Craig Reichert^VI	Craig Johnson^II
Joey Kocur^III	Dan Lacouture^II	Ray Sheppard^III	Nathan Lafayette^II
Darryl Laplante^II	Rob Murray^V	Cam Stewart	Steve McKenna
Igor Larionov^III	Michel Picard^V	Rocky Thompson^II	Igor Melyakov^#
Stacy Roest	Martin Reichel^#		Jason Morgan
Anatoly Ustyugov	Keijo Sailynoja^#		Jason Podollan^II
Pat Verbeek	Alexander Selivanov^II		Pavel Rosa
B. J. Young^II	Jussi Tarvainen^#		Mikael Simons^#
	German Titov^III		John Thomas
	Alexander Volchkov		Jukka Tiilikainen^#
	Vladimir Vorobiev^VI		Marko Tuomainen^VI
			Juha Vuorivirta^#
			Magnus Wernblom^#
Montreal Canadiens	New Jersey Devils	New York Islanders	New York Rangers
Goaltenders
Frédéric Chabot	Mike Buzak^VI	Wade Flaherty	Milan Hnilicka^VI
Eric Fichaud	Frederic Henry^II		Jean-François Labbé
Kevin Hodson	Chris Terreri		Kirk McLean
			Vitali Yeremeyev^#
Defencemen
Byron Briske^II	Brad Bombardir	Ian Herbers	Drew Bannister^II
Matthieu Descoteaux^II	Vladimir Malakhov^III		Ilja Gorokhov^#
Karl Dykhuis	Pasi Petrilainen^#		Kevin Hatcher^III
Miloslav Guren	Deron Quint^II		Rich Pilon
Scott Lachance^II	Ken Sutton		Ola Sandberg^#
Christian Laflamme			Mathieu Schneider^III
Mike McBain^II			Terry Virtue
Barry Richter			David Wilkie^II
Stephane Robidas^II
Eric Weinrich
Forwards
Niklas Anger^#	Jiri Bicek	Ted Drury	Derek Armstrong^II
Jesse Belanger^V	Steve Brule^VI	Mark Lawrence	Alexandre Daigle^II
Shayne Corson^III	Sylvain Cloutier^VI		Christian Dubé
Jim Cummins^II	Steve Kelly^II		Ken Gernander
Craig Darby^II	Sasha Lakovic^VI		Daniel Goneau^II
Jonathan Delisle^II	Claude Lemieux^III		Valeri Kamensky
Matt Higgins^II	Sergei Nemchinov^III		Chris Kenady^VI
Arto Kuki^#	Richard Rochefort^II		Radoslav Kropac^#
Trent McCleary^II	Rob Skrlac^II		Alexander Lazarenko^#
Boyd Olson^II	Steve Staios		John MacLean
Oleg Petrov	Ed Ward		Brad Smyth
Patrick Poulin^II	Jeff Williams		Kevin Stevens^III
Terry Ryan	Dody Wood		P. J. Stock^VI
Kim Staal	Nikolai Zavarukhin^#		Dmitry Subbotin^#
Turner Stevenson			Rudolf Vercik^#
Peter Strom^#			Chris Wells^II
Timo Vertala^#
Ottawa Senators	Philadelphia Flyers	Phoenix Coyotes	Pittsburgh Penguins
Goaltenders
Tom Barrasso^III	Per-Ragnar Bergkvist^#	Sean Burke^III	Tyler Moss^VI
Mike Fountain	Neil Little	Sylvain Daigle^II	Peter Skudra^II
Rich Parent^VI	John Vanbiesbrouck	Bob Essensa^III	Ron Tugnutt^III
		Henrik Smangs^#
Defencemen
Erich Goldmann^II	Artem Anisimov^#‡	Trent Cull^VI	Jonas Andersson-Junkka^#
Kevin Grimes	Adam Burt^III	J. J. Daigneault^III	Stefan Bergqvist
John Gruden^II	Jeff Lank^VI	Dan Focht^II	Peter Popovic^III
Igor Kravchuk	Dean Melanson	Sean Gagnon^VI	John Slaney
Grant Ledyard^III	Ulf Samuelsson	Chris Joseph	Dan Trebil^VI
David Van Drunen^II		François Leroux
		Per-Anton Lundstrom^#
		Sean McCann^VI
		Lyle Odelein^III
		Brad Tiley^VI
Forwards
Viacheslav Butsayev^II	Craig Berube^III	Greg Adams^III	Jan Alinc^#
Ivan Ciernik^II	Travis Brigley^II	Philippe Audet^II	Josef Beranek
Kevin Dineen	Martin Cerven^II	Louie Debrusk	Dennis Bonvie^VI
Colin Forbes	Jody Hull^III	Dallas Drake^III	Rob Brown^III
David Hruska^#	Mark Janssens	Tavis Hansen	Tom Chorske^III
Joe Juneau	Keith Jones	Benoit Hogue^III	Pat Falloon^II
Kevin Miller^III	Mike Maneluk^VI	Eric Houde^II	Mikhail Kazakevich^#
Yves Sarault^II	Steve McLaren^VI	Steven King^VI	Jiri Kucera^#
Andy Schneider	Jim Montgomery^II	Fredrik Loven^#	Stephen Leach^III
Jeff Shevalier^VI	Sean O'Brien^VI	Craig Mills^II	Ian Moran
Shaun Van Allen^III	Ruslan Shafikov^#	David Oliver^II	Timo Seikkula^#
Rob Zamuner	Radovan Somik^#	Kevin Sawyer^VI	Mika Valila^#
	Martin Streit^#	Mike Sullivan	Tyler Wright
	Rick Tocchet^III	Shayne Toporowski^II	Boris Zelenko^#
	Steve Washburn^II	Jean-Guy Trudel
	Peter White
	Todd White^VI
	Valeri Zelepukin^III
St. Louis Blues	San Jose Sharks	Tampa Bay Lightning	Toronto Maple Leafs
Goaltenders
Jamie McLennan	Jonas Forsberg^#	Zac Bierk^II	Glenn Healy^III
	Terry Friesen	Dieter Kochan	Francis Larivee^II
	Evegeny Nabokov^II	Daren Puppa^III	Jimmy Waite
Defencemen
Marc Bergevin	Chris Armstrong	Jassen Cullimore	Greg Andrusak^VI
Vladimir Chebaturkin	Jon Coleman^VI	Bryan Muir^II	Bryan Berard
Dave Ellett^III	Angel Nikolov^#	Jason Robinson	Nathan Dempsey
Jeff Finley	Jeff Norton^III		Gerald Diduck
Edwin Frylen^#	Bob Rouse		Tommi Rajamaki^#
Yuri Gunko^#			Terran Sandwith^VI
Bryan Hellmer^VI			D.J. Smith^II
Dan Keczmer^V
Ricard Persson^II
Dmitri Plekhanov^#
Rudy Poeschek^III
Libor Prochazka^II
Darren Rumble^V
Matt Smith
Forwards
Bob Bassen^III	Michal Bros^#	Shawn Burr	Kevyn Adams
Derek Bekar^II	Adam Colagiacomo	Xavier Delisle^II	Lonny Bohonos^II
Sylvain Blouin^VI	Mike Craig^V	Bruce Gardiner	Jason Bonsignore^II
Jim Campbell^II	Jarrett Deuling^VI	Dan Kesa^II	Aaron Brand
Kelly Chase^III	Doug Friedman	Steve Martins^II	Wendel Clark^III
Mike Eastwood^III	Tony Granato	Robert Petrovicky^II	Mark Deyell^II
Derek King^III	Eric Landry^VI	Reid Simpson^III	Kris King^II
Reed Low^II	Dave Lowry^III	Pavel Torgayev^VI	Don MacLean^II
Tyson Nash^VI	Stephane Matteau		Alyn McCauley^II
Scott Pellerin^II	Brantt Myhres^II		Marek Melenovsky^#
Andrei Petrakov	Peter Roed^II		David Nemirovsky
Pascal Rhéaume	Jarrod Skalde^II		Ryan Pepperall^II
Stéphane Richer^III	Ron Stern		Shawn Thornton^II
Stéphane Roy	Ron Sutter^III		Garry Valk
Tore Vikingstad^#			Brian Wiseman^II
Vancouver Canucks	Washington Capitals
Goaltenders
Tim Keyes^II	Stephane Beauregard
Corey Schwab^II	Craig Billington^III
Garth Snow^II	Martin Brochu^VI
	Sebastian Charpentier
Defencemen
Roger Akerstrom^#	Nolan Baumgartner^II
Chad Allan^II	Patrick Boileau
Greg Hawgood	Jamie Huscroft
Karri Kivi^#	Dmitri Mironov
Chris O'Sullivan^VI	Oleg Orekhovsky^#
Brent Sopel^II	Steve Poapst^VI
	Rob Zettler^III
	Sergei Zimakov^#
Forwards		Notes
Hakan Ahlund^#	Mike Eagles^III	^II—pending Group II restricted free agent
Evgeny Babariko^#	Miika Elomo	^III—pending Group III unrestricted free agent
Brian Bonin^VI	Trevor Halverson^VI	^V—pending Group V free agent
Paul Ferone^II	Jim McKenzie^II	^VI—pending Group VI free agent
Martin Gendron^VI	Barrie Moore^VI	^#—unsigned European draft choice
Roger Hansson^#	Ryan Mulhern	^‡—Artem Vyacheslavovich Anisimov, born 1976 in Kazan, USSR
Darby Hendrickson	Joe Murphy^III
Brad May	Jeff Nelson
Mark Messier^III	Michal Pivonka^III
Stefan Nilsson^#	Joe Sacco^III
Lubomir Vaic^II	Jeff Toms^II
Harry York^II	Stefan Ustorf
	Terry Yake^III

The Expansion Draft

The expansion draft was held on Friday, June 23 at the Westin Hotel in Calgary. The entry draft was held over the following Saturday and Sunday at the Saddledome.

Over.	Player	Picked from	Picked by
Goaltenders
1	Rick Tabaracci	Colorado Avalanche	Columbus Blue Jackets
2	Jamie McLennan	St. Louis Blues	Minnesota Wild
3	Mike Vernon	Florida Panthers	Minnesota Wild
4	Frédéric Chabot	Montreal Canadiens	Columbus Blue Jackets
5	Dwayne Roloson	Buffalo Sabres	Columbus Blue Jackets
6	Chris Terreri	New Jersey Devils	Minnesota Wild
Defencemen
7	Sean O'Donnell	Los Angeles Kings	Minnesota Wild
8	Mattias Timander	Boston Bruins	Columbus Blue Jackets
9	Bert Robertsson	Edmonton Oilers	Columbus Blue Jackets
10	Curtis Leschyshyn	Carolina Hurricanes	Minnesota Wild
11	Tommi Rajamaki	Toronto Maple Leafs	Columbus Blue Jackets
12	Ladislav Benysek	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	Minnesota Wild
13	Chris Armstrong	San Jose Sharks	Minnesota Wild
14	Jamie Pushor	Dallas Stars	Columbus Blue Jackets
15	Filip Kuba	Calgary Flames	Minnesota Wild
16	Lyle Odelein	Phoenix Coyotes	Columbus Blue Jackets
17	Radim Bicanek	Chicago Blackhawks	Columbus Blue Jackets
18	Oleg Orekhovsky	Washington Capitals	Minnesota Wild
19	Mathieu Schneider	New York Rangers	Columbus Blue Jackets
20	Ian Herbers	New York Islanders	Minnesota Wild
21	Artem Anisimov	Philadelphia Flyers	Minnesota Wild
22	Jonas Andersson-Junkka	Pittsburgh Penguins	Columbus Blue Jackets
Forwards
23	Geoff Sanderson	Buffalo Sabres	Columbus Blue Jackets
24	Stacy Roest	Detroit Red Wings	Minnesota Wild
25	Darryl Laplante	Detroit Red Wings	Minnesota Wild
26	Turner Stevenson	Montreal Canadiens	Columbus Blue Jackets
27	Scott Pellerin	St. Louis Blues	Minnesota Wild
28	Robert Kron	Carolina Hurricanes	Columbus Blue Jackets
29	Steve Heinze	Boston Bruins	Columbus Blue Jackets
30	Jim Dowd	Edmonton Oilers	Minnesota Wild
31	Tyler Wright	Pittsburgh Penguins	Columbus Blue Jackets
32	Sergei Krivokrasov	Calgary Flames	Minnesota Wild
33	Jeff Nielsen	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	Minnesota Wild
34	Kevyn Adams	Toronto Maple Leafs	Columbus Blue Jackets
35	Jeff Odgers	Colorado Avalanche	Minnesota Wild
36	Dmitry Subbotin	New York Rangers	Columbus Blue Jackets
37	Dallas Drake	Phoenix Coyotes	Columbus Blue Jackets
38	Steve McKenna	Los Angeles Kings	Minnesota Wild
39	Bruce Gardiner	Tampa Bay Lightning	Columbus Blue Jackets
40	Michal Bros	San Jose Sharks	Minnesota Wild
41	Joe Juneau	Ottawa Senators	Minnesota Wild
42	Barrie Moore	Washington Capitals	Columbus Blue Jackets
43	Darby Hendrickson	Vancouver Canucks	Minnesota Wild
44	Martin Streit	Philadelphia Flyers	Columbus Blue Jackets
45	Kevin Dineen	Ottawa Senators	Columbus Blue Jackets
46	Jeff Daw	Chicago Blackhawks	Minnesota Wild
47	Jeff Williams	New Jersey Devils	Columbus Blue Jackets
48	Stefan Nilsson	Vancouver Canucks	Minnesota Wild
Additional Players
49	Zac Bierk	Tampa Bay Lightning	Minnesota Wild
50	Sergei Luchinkin	Dallas Stars	Columbus Blue Jackets
51	Cam Stewart	Florida Panthers	Minnesota Wild
52	Ted Drury	New York Islanders	Columbus Blue Jackets

The foremost question on your mind, dear reader, is probably "Why did the Blue Jackets chose Rick Tabaracci with the first pick?". I personally have a soft spot for "the Tabby Cat", but Tabaracci was 31 years old at the time, an unrestricted free agent, and not a highly sought after one at that. Teams that lost free agents were entitled to receive compensatory entry draft picks, and the more those free agents were paid the higher the pick. The Predators' David Poile got a couple compensatory picks after taking Mike Richter and Uwe Krupp in the 1998 Expansion Draft; those two players were expected to receive large contracts and therefore high compensatory picks. Tabaracci wasn't going to sign a big contract with anyone.

Rick Tabaracci was chosen first overall in this expansion draft because of the deal the Avalanche made with the Blue Jackets for Marc Denis two weeks earlier. Denis was a promising young player who was expected to become a great starting goaltender. Most expansion teams start out with a pair of older goalies who hold down the fort until a younger, better goalie can be found. Doug MacLean thought he had scored himself his goalie-of-the-future by trading for Denis. The catch was he not only had to give the Avalanche his 2nd round entry draft pick for Denis, he also had to take Rick Tabaracci in the expansion draft. In taking Tabaracci it meant that the Avalanche wouldn't lose another goalie or defenceman in the draft. It guaranteed that the only other player they would lose would be one of their exposed forwards, any of which they could have done without.

This wasn't the only selection made as part of a side deal. Immediately following the draft the Wild and Blue Jackets made three trades apiece:

Sabres traded Matt Davidson, Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre, the Sharks' 5th round pick in 2000 (Tyler Kolarik) and a 5th round pick in 2001 (traded later to the Flames, who traded to the Red Wings, who selected Andreas Jamtin) to the Blue Jackets for future considerations
Canadiens traded a 2nd round pick in 2001(Kiel MacLeod) to the Blue Jackets for future considerations
Bruins traded a 5th round pick in 2000 (Scott Heffernan) to the Blue Jackets for future considerations
Flames traded Dan Cavanaugh and an 8th round pick in 2000 or 2001 (Wild chose 2001—Jake Riddle) to the Wild for Mike Vernon
Stars traded Aaron Gavey, Pavel Patera, an 8th round pick in 2000 (Eric Johansson) and the Wild's 4th round pick in 2002 (traded to the Kings, who selected Aaron Rome) to the Wild for Brad Lukowich, a 3rd round pick in 2001 (Yared Hagos) and a 9th round pick in 2001 (Dale Sullivan)
Devils traded Brad Bombardir to the Wild for Chris Terreri and a 9th round pick in 2000 (traded to the Lightning, who selected Thomas Ziegler)
Coyotes traded the rights to Rickard Wallin to the Wild for Joe Juneau

The Sabres traded Davidson, Grand-Pierre and the draft picks to the Blue Jackets in exchange for the Blue Jackets taking goalie Dwayne Roloson and winger Geoff Sanderson. Roloson was expendable—the Sabres elected to protect Marty Biron instead—and losing a goalie meant not losing a defenceman, such as Jason Woolley or Richard Smehlik. Sanderson was an offensively-minded forward who struggled under the Sabres' defence-first style of play at the time. In six seasons in Hartford he had seasons of 34, 36, 41 and 46 goals; in Buffalo the best he mustered was 13. Sanderson had been left exposed in the 1999 Expansion Draft but the Thrashers passed. Sanderson would go on to play over three seasons in Columbus and lead the team in scoring that first season with 30 goals and 56 points. Roloson on the other hand was not tendered a qualifying offer to retain his rights and became an unrestricted free agent. He signed a contract with the AHL's Worcester IceCats, and in 2001 returned to the NHL after signing a contract with (ironically) the Minnesota Wild.

The Canadiens traded the draft pick to the Blue Jackets for the Blue Jackets taking Fred Chabot. They did the exact same thing with the Predators in 1998. Losing Chabot meant that they wouldn't lose another goalie or a defenceman such as Eric Weinrich or Stephane Robidas.

Similarly the Wild had acquired Manny Fernandez from the Stars as their goalie-of-the-future, so their goalie selections were also not particularly imperative. Mike Vernon was 37 years old and approaching the end of his career. The Flames were almost certain to lose backup goalie Grant Fuhr to retirement and after trading away J.S. Giguere their only other goalies were RFA Andrei Trefilov and 21-year-old Tyrone Garner. Trefilov was on his way back to Europe and Garner needed much more pro experience if he ever hoped to make the NHL, so the Flames acquired Vernon for a former 2nd round draft pick (Dan Cavanaugh eventually played six years in the AHL, never making a single appearance in an NHL game) and an 8th round pick (a token sum).

The Devils had stocked up on extra forwards prior to the draft, adding Ed Ward and Steve Staios in separate trades, hoping to lose these surplus forwards and keep their Stanley Cup champion roster intact. Devils GM Lou Lamoriello took the risk no one would take the 35-year-old Chris Terreri, who other than a couple years in San Jose and Chicago had spent his career in New Jersey. Doug Risebrough called Lamoriello's bluff and took Terreri anyway. There were some extenuating circumstances at play. Lou Lamoriello is famous for his loyalty to his players, and he had known Terreri since he was head coach of the Providence College Friars hockey team and Chris Terreri was a 17-year-old freshman. Terreri was also close friends with Devils' starter Martin Brodeur. So, following the draft Lamoriello traded Bombardir to the Wild to get Terreri back. In retrospect it was misguided from a hockey operations point of view: less than a year later Terreri was traded to the New York Islanders due to his poor play and retired as a player at the end of the season. But like I said Lou Lamoriello is famous for being loyal to his players; when Terreri retired as a player Lamoriello hired him as the Devils' AHL affiliate's goaltending coach. (Chris Terreri has been the Devils' goalie coach since 2010.)

The Blue Jackets and Wild finished 23rd and 25th overall respectively in their first season. They were well out of playoff contention however they could take some solace in being far better than their expansion brethren Atlanta Thrashers, who finished 28th overall with a scant 60 points. By their third season the Wild had improved to the point that they made the playoffs for the first time, and ended up going to the conference finals (they were upset by the Mighty Ducks). In 13 seasons the Wild have made the playoffs five times. Success has been a little harder to come by in Columbus. The team did not improve upon its inaugural season's record until their fifth year, and in their 13 seasons of play the Blue Jackets have only made the playoffs twice.

Follow-up Question: How did the Islanders end up with only four players exposed?

(June 18, 2016)

In the comments below someone with the handle 'Admin' (Hi! Thanks for the question!) has asked [paraphrased] "How did the Islanders end up with only four players exposed?" The short answer is: they followed the rules. I feel your question deserves a more comprehensive answer than that though, so let's explore that together.

First, let's go over the rules:

Protected list: they could protect either two goalies, three defencemen and five forwards, or one goalie, five defencemen and nine forwards. They elected to do the latter.
Players with fewer than three years of pro experience were not available for selection by the Blue Jackets or Wild, and did not have to be protected.
The Islanders—given they protected one goalie, five defencemen and nine forwards—had to offer at least one defenceman and two forwards with 40 games played in the 1999-2000 season or 70 combined games played across the 1998-99 and 1999-2000 seasons, and one goalie with any experience.

Now let's go over the Islanders' roster at the end of the season, broken down by goalies, defencemen and forwards.

Goalies: Wade Flaherty, Roberto Luongo, Steve Valiquette, Kevin Weekes

Luongo (one year of pro experience) and Valiquette (two years) were exempt by virtue of their inexperience. The Islanders had to leave at least one goalie exposed, so they chose to protect Weekes and expose Flaherty. In choosing to protect only one goalie the Islanders were entitled to protect five defencemen and nine forwards.

Defencemen: Mathieu Biron, Eric Brewer, Eric Cairns, Zdeno Chara, Vladimir Chebaturkin, Ray Giroux, Ian Herbers, Jamie Heward, Kenny Jonsson, Evgeny Korolev, Jamie Rivers, Ray Schultz

Heward was claimed on waivers by the Blue Jackets on May 26, a little over two weeks before the draft. Chebaturkin's contract expired and he signed a deal with the Blues three days before the draft. Biron, Brewer, Giroux and Korolev were exempt given their inexperience.

Remember that five out of the remaining six could be protected. They protected Cairns, Chara, Jonsson, Rivers and Schultz, and left Herbers exposed.

Forwards: Mikael Andersson, Tim Connolly, Mariusz Czerkawski, Johan Davidsson, Ted Drury, Josh Green, Sean Haggerty, Brad Isbister, Olli Jokinen, Jason Krog, Claude Lapointe, Mark Lawrence, Mats Lindgren, Petr Mika, Bill Muckalt, Dimitri Nabokov, Vladimir Orszagh, Scott Pearson, Dave Scatchard, Mike Watt, Steve Webb

Haggerty and Watt were claimed off waivers by the Predators about three weeks before the draft. Andersson, Davidsson, Orszagh and Pearson's contracts expired and they signed new ones with European clubs prior to the draft. Connolly, Krog, Mika, and Muckalt were exempt given their inexperience.

That left Czerkawski, Drury, Green, Isbister, Jokinen, Lapointe, Lawrence, Lindgren, Nabokov, Scatchard and Webb, and of those 11 players the Islanders could protect nine and leave two exposed. The two they left exposed had to have at least 40 NHL games played in the '99-'00 season, or 70 over '98-'99 and '99-'00. Nabokov had only played in 30 NHL games over that two-season span, so by default one of the spots on the protected list had to be used on him. The remaining spots on the list were used on Czerkawski, Green, Isbister, Jokinen, Lapointe, Lindgren, Scatchard and Webb, leaving Drury and Lawrence up for grabs.

And there you have it: they were a young team with many players not having to be protected due to the limited length of their professional careers, they only protected one goalie which gave them the option to protect the most defencemen and forwards possible, and they ended up only having to offer the absolute bare minimum of one goalie, one defenceman and a pair of forwards. Also keep in mind that they had a fairly small total number of players under contract to begin with, almost certainly a result of the penny-pinching of then-owners Howard Milstein and Steve Gluckstern. Milstein and Gluckstern sold the team to Charles Wang and Sanjay Kumar in April, 2000.

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How did the Islanders only left 4 players unprotected?
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And one of the unprotected players, Nabokov, went on to win the Calder that year.
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