Draft
Actual 1998 DraftPowered by CORE
Pick Draft Team Name Pos Current Team Career Impact
1 Team LogoLightning Vincent Lecavalier C Inactive 465
2 Team LogoPredators David Legwand C Inactive 232
3 Team LogoSharks Brad Stuart D Inactive 152
4 Team LogoCanucks Bryan Allen D Inactive 55
5 Team LogoDucks Vitaly Vishnevski D Inactive 18
6 Team LogoFlames Rico Fata LW Inactive 18
7 Team LogoRangers Manny Malhotra C Inactive 87
8 Team LogoBlackhawks Mark Bell C Inactive 64
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10 Team LogoMaple Leafs Nik Antropov C Inactive 189
11 Team LogoHurricanes Jeff Heerema RW Inactive 1
12 Team LogoAvalanche Alex Tanguay LW Inactive 386
13 Team LogoOilers Michael Henrich RW Inactive
14 NHL LogoPHX Patrick Desrochers G Inactive 1
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16 Team LogoCanadiens Eric Chouinard C Inactive 6
17 Team LogoAvalanche Martin Skoula D Inactive 83
18 Team LogoSabres Dmitri Kalinin D Inactive 71
19 Team LogoAvalanche Robyn Regehr D Inactive 78
20 Team LogoAvalanche Scott Parker RW Inactive 4
21 Team LogoKings Mathieu Biron D Inactive 4
22 Team LogoFlyers Simon Gagne LW Inactive 292
23 Team LogoPenguins Milan Kraft C Inactive 29
24 Team LogoBlues Christian Backman D Inactive 32
25 Team LogoRed Wings Jiri Fischer D Inactive 28
26 Team LogoDevils Mike Van Ryn D Inactive 63
27 Team LogoDevils Scott Gomez C Inactive 291
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Pick Draft Team Name Pos Current Team Career Impact
29 Team LogoSharks Jonathan Cheechoo RW Inactive 141
30 Team LogoPanthers Kyle Rossiter D Inactive 0
31 Team LogoCanucks Artem Chubarov C Inactive 16
32 Team LogoDucks Stephen Peat RW Inactive 2
33 Team LogoFlames Blair Betts C Inactive 21
34 Team LogoSabres Andrew Peters LW Inactive 1
35 Team LogoMaple Leafs Petr Svoboda D Inactive 0
36 Team LogoIslanders Chris Nielsen RW Inactive 4
37 Team LogoDevils Christian Berglund LW Inactive 8
38 Team LogoAvalanche Philippe Sauve G Inactive 6
39 Team LogoStars John Erskine D Inactive 14
40 Team LogoRangers Randy Copley RW Inactive
41 Team LogoBlues Maxim Linnik D Inactive
42 Team LogoFlyers Jason Beckett D Inactive
43 NHL LogoPHX Ossi Vaananen D Inactive 27
44 Team LogoSenators Mike Fisher C Inactive 238
45 Team LogoCanadiens Mike Ribeiro C Inactive 328
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47 Team LogoSabres Norman Milley RW Inactive 1
48 Team LogoBruins Jonathan Girard D Inactive 20
49 Team LogoCapitals Jomar Cruz G Inactive
50 Team LogoSabres Jaroslav Kristek RW Inactive 0
51 Team LogoFlyers Ian Forbes D Inactive
52 Team LogoBruins Bobby Allen D Inactive 0
53 Team LogoAvalanche Steve Moore C Inactive 3
54 Team LogoPenguins Alexander Zevakhin RW Inactive
55 Team LogoRed Wings Ryan Barnes LW Inactive 0
56 Team LogoRed Wings Tomek Valtonen RW Inactive
57 Team LogoStars Tyler Bouck LW Inactive 2
58 Team LogoSenators Chris Bala LW Inactive 0
Pick Draft Team Name Pos Current Team Career Impact
59 Team LogoCapitals Todd Hornung C Inactive
60 Team LogoPredators Denis Arkhipov C Inactive 45
61 Team LogoPanthers Joe Dipenta D Inactive 10
62 Team LogoFlames Paul Manning D Inactive 0
63 Team LogoPanthers Lance Ward RW Inactive 3
64 Team LogoLightning Brad Richards C Inactive 425
65 Team LogoSharks Eric Laplante LW Inactive
66 Team LogoRangers Jason LaBarbera G Inactive 64
67 Team LogoOilers Alex Henry D Inactive 2
68 Team LogoCanucks Jarkko Ruutu LW Inactive 38
69 Team LogoMaple Leafs Jamie Hodson G Inactive
70 Team LogoHurricanes Kevin Holdridge D Inactive
71 Team LogoHurricanes Erik Cole LW Inactive 232
72 Team LogoLightning Dimitri Afanasenkov LW Inactive 15
73 NHL LogoPHX Pat O'Leary C Inactive
74 Team LogoSenators Julien Vauclair D Inactive 0
75 Team LogoCanadiens Francois Beauchemin D Inactive 133
76 Team LogoKings Alexey Volkov G Inactive
77 Team LogoSabres Mike Pandolfo LW Inactive 0
78 Team LogoBruins Peter Nordstrom RW Inactive 0
79 Team LogoAvalanche Evgeny Lazarev LW Inactive
80 Team LogoPenguins David Cameron C Inactive
81 Team LogoCanucks Justin Morrison RW Inactive
82 Team LogoDevils Brian Gionta RW Inactive 254
83 Team LogoBlues Matt Walker D Inactive 7
84 Team LogoRed Wings Jake McCracken G Inactive
85 Team LogoPredators Geoff Koch LW Inactive
86 Team LogoStars Gabriel Karlsson C Inactive
Pick Draft Team Name Pos Current Team Career Impact
87 Team LogoMaple Leafs Alexei Ponikarovsky LW Inactive 119
88 Team LogoPredators Kent Sauer D Inactive
89 Team LogoPanthers Ryan Jardine LW Inactive 0
90 Team LogoCanucks Regan Darby D Inactive
91 Team LogoHurricanes Josef Vasicek C Inactive 62
92 Team LogoLightning Eric Beaudoin LW Inactive 2
93 Team LogoHurricanes Tommy Vestlund LW Inactive 5
94 Team LogoBlackhawks Matthias Trattnig LW Inactive
95 Team LogoIslanders Andy Burnham RW Inactive
96 Team LogoDevils Mikko Jokela D Inactive 0
97 Team LogoHurricanes Chris Madden G Inactive
98 Team LogoSharks Rob Davison D Inactive 4
99 Team LogoOilers Shawn Horcoff C Inactive 185
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101 Team LogoSenators Petr Schastlivy LW Inactive 12
102 Team LogoFlames Shaun Sutter C Inactive
103 Team LogoKings Kip Brennan LW Inactive 0
104 Team LogoSharks Miroslav Zalesak RW Inactive 0
105 Team LogoDevils Pierre Dagenais RW Inactive 22
106 Team LogoCapitals Krys Barch RW Inactive 7
107 Team LogoCapitals Chris Corrinet RW Inactive 0
108 Team LogoFlames Dany Sabourin G Inactive 19
109 Team LogoFlyers Jean-Philippe Morin D Inactive
110 Team LogoPenguins Scott Myers G Inactive
111 Team LogoRed Wings Brent Hobday C Inactive
112 Team LogoDucks Viktor Wallin D Inactive
113 Team LogoOilers Kristian Antila G Inactive
114 Team LogoRangers Boyd Kane LW Inactive 0
Pick Draft Team Name Pos Current Team Career Impact
115 NHL LogoPHX Jay Leach D Inactive 1
116 NHL LogoPHX Josh Blackburn G Inactive
117 Team LogoPanthers Jaroslav Spacek D Inactive 193
118 Team LogoCapitals Mike Siklenka RW Inactive 0
119 Team LogoDevils Anton But LW Inactive
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121 Team LogoLightning Curtis Rich D Inactive
122 Team LogoRangers Patrick Leahy RW Inactive 2
123 Team LogoIslanders Jiri Dopita C Inactive 11
124 Team LogoFlyers Francis Belanger LW Inactive 0
125 Team LogoCapitals Erik Wendell C Inactive
126 Team LogoMaple Leafs Morgan Warren RW Inactive
127 Team LogoSharks Brandon Coalter LW Inactive
128 Team LogoOilers Paul Elliott D Inactive
129 NHL LogoPHX Robert Schnabel D Inactive 2
130 Team LogoSenators Gavin McLeod D Inactive
131 Team LogoRangers Tomas Kloucek D Inactive 1
132 Team LogoCanadiens Andrei Bashkirov LW Inactive 0
133 Team LogoKings Joe Rullier D Inactive
134 Team LogoPenguins Rob Scuderi D Inactive 41
135 Team LogoBruins Andrew Raycroft G Inactive 116
136 Team LogoCanucks David Ytfeldt D Inactive
137 Team LogoSabres Aaron Goldade C Inactive
138 Team LogoPredators Martin Beauchesne D Inactive
139 Team LogoFlyers Garrett Prosofsky C Inactive
140 Team LogoCanucks Rick Bertran D Inactive
141 Team LogoAvalanche K.C. Timmons LW Inactive
142 Team LogoRed Wings Calle Steen RW Inactive
143 Team LogoDevils Ryan Flinn LW Inactive 0
144 Team LogoOilers Oleg Smirnov LW Inactive
145 Team LogoSharks Mikael Samuelsson RW Inactive 130
Pick Draft Team Name Pos Current Team Career Impact
146 Team LogoLightning Sergei Kuznetsov C Inactive
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148 Team LogoPanthers Chris Ovington D Inactive
149 Team LogoCanucks Paul Cabana RW Inactive
150 Team LogoDucks Trent Hunter RW Inactive 87
151 Team LogoRed Wings Adam Deleeuw LW Inactive
152 Team LogoCanadiens Gordie Dwyer LW Inactive 0
153 Team LogoStars Pavel Patera LW Inactive 2
154 Team LogoMaple Leafs Allan Rourke D Inactive 2
155 Team LogoIslanders Kevin Clauson D Inactive
156 Team LogoBlackhawks Kent Huskins D Inactive 36
157 Team LogoBlues Brad Voth D Inactive
158 Team LogoBlackhawks Jari Viuhkola C Inactive
159 Team LogoOilers Trevor Ettinger D Inactive
160 NHL LogoPHX Rickard Wallin C Inactive 5
161 Team LogoSenators Chris Neil RW Inactive 71
162 Team LogoCanadiens Andrei Markov D Inactive 374
163 Team LogoKings Tomas Zizka D Inactive 1
164 Team LogoSabres Ales Kotalik RW Inactive 114
165 Team LogoBruins Ryan Milanovic LW Inactive
166 Team LogoBlackhawks Jonathan Pelletier G Inactive
167 Team LogoAvalanche Alexander Riazantsev D Inactive
168 Team LogoFlyers Antero Niittymaki G Inactive 86
169 Team LogoPenguins Jan Fadrny C Inactive
170 Team LogoBlues Andrei Troschinsky C Inactive
171 Team LogoRed Wings Pavel Datsyuk C Inactive 469
172 Team LogoDevils Jacques Lariviere LW Inactive
173 Team LogoStars Niko Kapanen C Inactive 35
Pick Draft Team Name Pos Current Team Career Impact
174 Team LogoLightning Brett Allan LW Inactive
175 Team LogoFlyers Cam Ondrik G Inactive
176 Team LogoPanthers B.J. Ketcheson D Inactive
177 Team LogoCanucks Vincent Malts RW Inactive
178 Team LogoDucks Jesse Fibiger D Inactive 0
179 Team LogoCapitals Nathan Forster D Inactive
180 Team LogoRangers Stefan Lundqvist LW Inactive
181 Team LogoMaple Leafs Jonathan Gagnon C Inactive
182 Team LogoIslanders Evgeny Korolev D Inactive 0
183 Team LogoBlackhawks Tyler Arnason C Inactive 88
184 Team LogoHurricanes Donald Smith C Inactive
185 Team LogoSharks Robert Mulick D Inactive
186 Team LogoOilers Mike Morrison G Inactive 7
187 NHL LogoPHX Erik Westrum C Inactive 0
188 Team LogoSenators Michel Periard D Inactive
189 Team LogoCanadiens Andrei Kruchinin D Inactive
190 Team LogoKings Tommi Hannus C Inactive
191 Team LogoSabres Brad Moran C Inactive 0
192 Team LogoFlames Radek Duda RW Inactive
193 Team LogoCapitals Rastislav Stana G Inactive 0
194 Team LogoLightning Oak Hewer C Inactive
195 Team LogoFlyers Tomas Divisek RW Inactive 0
196 Team LogoPenguins Joel Scherban C Inactive
197 Team LogoBlues Brad Twordik C Inactive
198 Team LogoRed Wings Jeremy Goetzinger D Inactive
199 Team LogoDevils Erik Jensen RW Inactive
200 Team LogoStars Scott Perry C Inactive
Pick Draft Team Name Pos Current Team Career Impact
201 Team LogoCanadiens Craig Murray C Inactive
202 Team LogoPredators Martin Bartek LW Inactive
203 Team LogoPanthers Ian Jacobs RW Inactive
204 Team LogoCanucks Graig Mischler C Inactive
205 Team LogoDucks David Bernier RW Inactive
206 Team LogoFlames Jonas Frogren D Inactive 2
207 Team LogoRangers Johan Witehall LW Inactive 1
208 Team LogoHurricanes Jaroslav Svoboda LW Inactive 7
209 Team LogoIslanders Frederik Brind'Amour G Inactive
210 Team LogoBlackhawks Sean Griffin D Inactive
211 Team LogoHurricanes Mark Kosick C Inactive
212 Team LogoSharks Jim Fahey D Inactive 7
213 Team LogoOilers Christian Lefebvre D Inactive
214 NHL LogoPHX Justin Hansen RW Inactive
215 Team LogoMaple Leafs Dwight Wolfe D Inactive
216 Team LogoCanadiens Michael Ryder RW Inactive 211
217 Team LogoKings Jim Henkel C Inactive
218 Team LogoSabres David Moravec RW Inactive 0
219 Team LogoCanucks Curtis Valentine LW Inactive
220 Team LogoCapitals Michael Farrell RW Inactive 0
221 Team LogoLightning Daniel Hulak D Inactive
222 Team LogoFlyers Lubomir Pistek RW Inactive
223 Team LogoSenators Sergey Verenikin RW Inactive
224 Team LogoPenguins Mika Lehto G Inactive
225 Team LogoBlues Yevgeny Pastukh LW Inactive
226 Team LogoRed Wings David Petrasek D Inactive
227 Team LogoDevils Marko Ahosilta C Inactive
228 Team LogoMaple Leafs Mihail Travnicek LW Inactive
Pick Draft Team Name Pos Current Team Career Impact
229 Team LogoLightning Chris Lyness D Inactive
230 Team LogoPredators Karlis Skrastins D Inactive 39
231 Team LogoPanthers Adrian Wischer C Inactive
232 Team LogoCanucks Jason Metcalfe D Inactive
233 Team LogoDucks Pelle Prestberg RW Inactive
234 Team LogoFlames Kevin Mitchell D Inactive
235 Team LogoRangers Jan Mertzig D Inactive 0
236 Team LogoMaple Leafs Sergei Rostov D Inactive
237 Team LogoIslanders Ben Blais D Inactive
238 Team LogoBlackhawks Alexandre Couture LW Inactive
239 Team LogoHurricanes Brent McDonald C Inactive
240 Team LogoBlackhawks Andrei Yershov D Inactive
241 Team LogoOilers Maxim Spiridonov RW Inactive
242 Team LogoIslanders Jason Doyle RW Inactive
243 Team LogoFlyers Petr Hubacek C Inactive 0
244 Team LogoPenguins Toby Petersen C Inactive 21
245 Team LogoDucks Andreas Andersson G Inactive
246 Team LogoSenators Rastislav Pavlikovsky C Inactive
247 Team LogoCanadiens Darcy Harris RW Inactive
248 Team LogoKings Matthew Yeats G Inactive 0
249 Team LogoSabres Edo Terglav RW Inactive
250 Team LogoIslanders Radek Matejovsky RW Inactive
251 Team LogoCapitals Blake Evans C Inactive
252 Team LogoLightning Martin Cibak C Inactive 4
253 Team LogoFlyers Bruno St. Jacques D Inactive 2
254 Team LogoPenguins Matt Hussey C Inactive 1
255 Team LogoBlues John Pohl C Inactive 12
256 Team LogoRed Wings Petja Pietilainen LW Inactive
257 Team LogoDevils Ryan Held C Inactive
258 Team LogoFlyers Sergei Skrobot D Inactive
258 players drafted
1998 RedraftPowered by CORE
A redraft of the 1998 NHL Draft class according to each player's career impact so far:
Pick Draft Team Name Pos Current Team Difference Career Impact
1 Team LogoLightning Pavel Datsyuk C Inactive 170 469
2 Team LogoPredators Vincent Lecavalier C Inactive 1 465
3 Team LogoSharks Brad Richards C Inactive 61 425
4 Team LogoCanucks Alex Tanguay LW Inactive 8 386
5 Team LogoDucks Andrei Markov D Inactive 157 374
6 Team LogoFlames Mike Ribeiro C Inactive 39 328
7 Team LogoRangers Simon Gagne LW Inactive 15 292
8 Team LogoBlackhawks Scott Gomez C Inactive 19 291
9 NHL Logo Brian Gionta RW Inactive 73 254
10 Team LogoMaple Leafs Mike Fisher C Inactive 34 238
11 Team LogoHurricanes David Legwand C Inactive 9 232
12 Team LogoAvalanche Erik Cole LW Inactive 59 232
13 Team LogoOilers Michael Ryder RW Inactive 203 211
14 NHL LogoPHX Jaroslav Spacek D Inactive 103 193
15 NHL Logo Nik Antropov C Inactive 5 189
16 Team LogoCanadiens Shawn Horcoff C Inactive 83 185
17 Team LogoAvalanche Brad Stuart D Inactive 14 152
18 Team LogoSabres Jonathan Cheechoo RW Inactive 11 141
19 Team LogoAvalanche Francois Beauchemin D Inactive 56 133
20 Team LogoAvalanche Mikael Samuelsson RW Inactive 125 130
21 Team LogoKings Alexei Ponikarovsky LW Inactive 66 119
22 Team LogoFlyers Andrew Raycroft G Inactive 113 116
23 Team LogoPenguins Ales Kotalik RW Inactive 141 114
24 Team LogoBlues Tyler Arnason C Inactive 159 88
25 Team LogoRed Wings Manny Malhotra C Inactive 18 87
26 Team LogoDevils Trent Hunter RW Inactive 124 87
27 Team LogoDevils Antero Niittymaki G Inactive 141 86
28 NHL Logo Martin Skoula D Inactive 11 83
29 Team LogoSharks Robyn Regehr D Inactive 10 78
30 Team LogoPanthers Dmitri Kalinin D Inactive 12 71
31 Team LogoCanucks Chris Neil RW Inactive 130 71
32 Team LogoDucks Mark Bell C Inactive 24 64
Team Draft SuccessPowered by CORE
Most successful Teams in the 1998 Draft according to the players they drafted, versus the players they could have drafted instead:
Team Career Impact Draft Capital Difference
Team LogoCanadiens 1’052 217 835
Team LogoLightning 911 481 430
Team LogoDevils 638 221 417
Team LogoRed Wings 497 118 379
Team LogoSenators 321 45 276
Team LogoFlyers 380 170 210
Team LogoPanthers 206 87 119
Team LogoBruins 136 41 95
Team LogoHurricanes 307 243 64
Team LogoMaple Leafs 310 307 3
Team LogoStars 53 53 0
Team LogoOilers 194 217 -23
Team LogoCapitals 7 32 -25
Team LogoPenguins 92 132 -40
Team LogoIslanders 15 56 -41
Team LogoSabres 187 249 -62
Team LogoBlues 51 126 -75
Team LogoSharks 434 510 -76
Team LogoBlackhawks 188 292 -104
Team LogoKings 5 122 -117
Team LogoAvalanche 560 708 -148
Team LogoPredators 316 478 -162
Team LogoRangers 155 337 -182
Team LogoPHX 36 229 -193
Team LogoDucks 107 438 -331
Team LogoFlames 60 399 -339
Team LogoCanucks 109 466 -357
Team Logo 0 553 -553