2000 NHL expansion draft
The 2000 NHL expansion draft was held on June 23, 2000, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The draft took place to fill the rosters of the league's two expansion teams for the 2000–01 season, the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Minnesota Wild.
Rules
26 of the 28 teams existing in the league at the time of the draft were each allowed to protect either one goaltender, five defensemen, and nine forwards or two goaltenders, three defensemen, and seven forwards. The Atlanta Thrashers and Nashville Predators had their entire rosters protected, as they were the two newest franchises in the league, only being in existence for one and two years respectively.For teams protecting only one goaltender, there was no experience requirement for those left unprotected. For teams protecting two goaltenders, each goaltender left unprotected must have appeared in either 10 NHL games in the 1999–2000 season or 25 games in the 1998–99 season and 1999–2000 seasons combined. A goaltender had to be in net for at least 31 minutes in each game for the game to be counted against these totals.
At least one defenseman left unprotected by each team had to have appeared in at least 40 games in the 1999–2000 season or 70 games in the 1998–99 season and 1999–2000 seasons combined. At least two forwards left unprotected by each team had to have met the same requirements.
Fifty-two players were chosen in the draft; each previously existing team lost two players, and both expansion teams filled a roster of twenty-six players. Only one goaltender or one defenseman could be selected from each franchise. Both the Blue Jackets and the Wild were to use their first 24 selections on three goaltenders, eight defensemen, and thirteen forwards. The final two picks for each team could be any position.
Protected players
Eastern Conference">Eastern Conference (NHL)">Eastern Conference
| Position | Boston | Buffalo | Montreal | Ottawa | Toronto |
| Forwards | Jason Allison | Curtis Brown | Benoit Brunet | Daniel Alfredsson | Sergei Berezin |
| Forwards | P. J. Axelsson | Chris Gratton | Saku Koivu | Magnus Arvedson | Tie Domi |
| Forwards | Anson Carter | Michael Peca | Trevor Linden | Radek Bonk | Jonas Hoglund |
| Forwards | Mike Knuble | Erik Rasmussen | Martin Rucinsky | Andreas Dackell | Dmitri Khristich |
| Forwards | Brian Rolston | Miroslav Satan | Brian Savage | Shawn McEachern | Igor Korolev |
| Forwards | Sergei Samsonov | Vaclav Varada | Sergei Zholtok | Vaclav Prospal | Yanic Perreault |
| Forwards | Joe Thornton | Dainius Zubrus | Andre Roy | Mats Sundin | |
| Forwards | Steve Thomas | ||||
| Forwards | Darcy Tucker | ||||
| Defencemen | Hal Gill | Jay McKee | Patrice Brisebois | Chris Phillips | Cory Cross |
| Defencemen | Kyle McLaren | Rhett Warrener | Craig Rivet | Wade Redden | Alexander Karpovtsev |
| Defencemen | Darren Van Impe | Alexei Zhitnik | Sheldon Souray | Jason York | Danny Markov |
| Defencemen | Chris McAllister | ||||
| Defencemen | Dmitri Yushkevich | ||||
| Goaltender | Byron Dafoe | Martin Biron | Jeff Hackett | Jani Hurme | Curtis Joseph |
| Goaltender | John Grahame | Dominik Hasek | Jose Theodore | Patrick Lalime |
| Position | Carolina | Florida | Tampa Bay | Washington |
| Forwards | Bates Battaglia | Pavel Bure | Stan Drulia | James Black |
| Forwards | Rod Brind'Amour | Viktor Kozlov | Dwayne Hay | Peter Bondra |
| Forwards | Ron Francis | Oleg Kvasha | Brian Holzinger | Jan Bulis |
| Forwards | Sami Kapanen | Paul Laus | Mike Johnson | Ulf Dahlen |
| Forwards | Ian MacNeil | Scott Mellanby | Ryan Johnson | Steve Konowalchuk |
| Forwards | Sandy McCarthy | Rob Niedermayer | Fredrik Modin | Andrei Nikolishin |
| Forwards | Jeff O'Neill | Mike Sillinger | Wayne Primeau | Adam Oates |
| Forwards | Gary Roberts | Ray Whitney | Jaroslav Svejkovsky | Chris Simon |
| Forwards | Shane Willis | Peter Worrell | Todd Warriner | Richard Zednik |
| Defencemen | Steven Halko | Bret Hedican | Sergey Gusev | Sergei Gonchar |
| Defencemen | Sean Hill | John Jakopin | Pavel Kubina | Calle Johansson |
| Defencemen | Marek Malik | Todd Simpson | Marek Posmyk | Ken Klee |
| Defencemen | Nolan Pratt | Robert Svehla | Petr Svoboda | Joe Reekie |
| Defencemen | Glen Wesley | Mike Wilson | Andrei Zyuzin | Brendan Witt |
| Goaltender | Arturs Irbe | Trevor Kidd | Dan Cloutier | Olaf Kolzig |
Western Conference">Western Conference (NHL)">Western Conference
| Position | Calgary | Colorado | Edmonton | Vancouver |
| Forwards | Valeri Bure | Adam Deadmarsh | Mike Grier | Todd Bertuzzi |
| Forwards | Jarome Iginla | Chris Dingman | Bill Guerin | Donald Brashear |
| Forwards | Bill Lindsay | Peter Forsberg | Chad Kilger | Andrew Cassels |
| Forwards | Andrei Nazarov | Dan Hinote | Georges Laraque | Trent Klatt |
| Forwards | Marc Savard | Brad Larsen | Todd Marchant | Brendan Morrison |
| Forwards | Jeff Shantz | Ville Nieminen | Ethan Moreau | Markus Naslund |
| Forwards | Cory Stillman | Shjon Podein | Rem Murray | Denis Pederson |
| Forwards | Jason Wiemer | Joe Sakic | Ryan Smyth | Peter Schaefer |
| Forwards | Clarke Wilm | Stephane Yelle | Doug Weight | Vadim Sharifijanov |
| Defencemen | Tommy Albelin | Ray Bourque | Sean Brown | Adrian Aucoin |
| Defencemen | Wade Belak | Adam Foote | Roman Hamrlik | Murray Baron |
| Defencemen | Denis Gauthier | Jon Klemm | Janne Niinimaa | Ed Jovanovski |
| Defencemen | Phil Housley | Aaron Miller | Jason Smith | Mattias Ohlund |
| Defencemen | Derek Morris | Sandis Ozolinsh | Igor Ulanov | Jason Strudwick |
| Goaltender | Fred Brathwaite | Patrick Roy | Tommy Salo | Felix Potvin |
| Position | Anaheim | Dallas | Los Angeles | Phoenix | San Jose |
| Forwards | Antti Aalto | Aaron Gavey | Kelly Buchberger | Daniel Briere | Vincent Damphousse |
| Forwards | Marc Chouinard | Brett Hull | Ian Laperriere | Shane Doan | Jeff Friesen |
| Forwards | Matt Cullen | Mike Keane | Glen Murray | Travis Green | Todd Harvey |
| Forwards | Paul Kariya | Jamie Langenbrunner | Zigmund Palffy | Trevor Letowski | Alexander Korolyuk |
| Forwards | Ladislav Kohn | Jere Lehtinen | Luc Robitaille | Robert Reichel | Patrick Marleau |
| Forwards | Mike Leclerc | Grant Marshall | Bryan Smolinski | Mikael Renberg | Owen Nolan |
| Forwards | Marty McInnis | Mike Modano | Jozef Stumpel | Jeremy Roenick | Mike Ricci |
| Forwards | Steve Rucchin | Kirk Muller | Keith Tkachuk | Marco Sturm | |
| Forwards | Teemu Selanne | Joe Nieuwendyk | Juha Ylonen | Niklas Sundstrom | |
| Defencemen | Jason Marshall | Derian Hatcher | Aki Berg | Keith Carney | Shawn Heins |
| Defencemen | Ruslan Salei | Ric Jackman | Rob Blake | Jyrki Lumme | Bryan Marchment |
| Defencemen | Patrick Traverse | Richard Matvichuk | Mattias Norstrom | Stanislav Neckar | Marcus Ragnarsson |
| Defencemen | Pavel Trnka | Darryl Sydor | Teppo Numminen | Mike Rathje | |
| Defencemen | Oleg Tverdovsky | Sergei Zubov | Radoslav Suchy | Gary Suter | |
| Goaltender | Jean-Sebastien Giguere | Ed Belfour | Stephane Fiset | Nikolai Khabibulin | Steve Shields |
| Goaltender | Jamie Storr |
Draft results
Deals
In return for agreeing not to select certain unprotected players, the Blue Jackets and Wild were granted concessions by other franchises. The trades not involving Blue Jacket or Wild draft picks were booked as being for "future considerations":Columbus
- San Jose traded Jan Caloun, a ninth-round pick in the 2000 NHL entry draft, and a conditional pick in the 2001 NHL entry draft to Columbus on June 11, 2000, after the Blue Jackets agreed not to select Evgeni Nabokov.
- Buffalo traded Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre, Matt Davidson, and two fifth-round draft picks, one each in the 2000 and 2001 Entry Drafts, to Columbus on June 23, 2000, after the Blue Jackets agreed not to select Dominik Hasek or Martin Biron.
- San Jose traded Andy Sutton, a seventh-round pick in the 2000 Entry Draft and a third-round pick in the 2001 Entry Draft to Minnesota on June 11, 2000, for an eighth-round pick in the 2000 Entry Draft after the Wild agreed not to select Evgeni Nabokov.