1999 NHL expansion draft

[Mayor Bee]

For the 1999 expansion draft to stock the Atlanta Thrashers, the following parameters were set.
- 26 players would be selected, one from each existing team save for Nashville
- Existing teams could protect either 1 goalie, 5 defensemen, and 9 forwards OR 2 goalies, 3 defensemen, and 7 forwards
- Teams that had lost a goalie in 1998 to Nashville could not lose a goalie
- Atlanta would be required to draft 3 goalies, 8 defensemen, and 13 forwards, plus 2 wild cards



Unprotected Players - drafted players are in purple

Anaheim
Forwards - Ted Drury, Stu Grimson, Peter Leboutillier, Eric Lecompte, Jim McKenzie, Tommi Miettinen, Jeff Nielsen, Igor Nikulin, Craig Reichert, Tomas Sandstrom, Bob Wren
Defensemen - Byron Briske, Scott Ferguson, Jamie Pushor, Terran Sandwith, Dan Trebil, Pascal Trepanier, Nikolai Tsulygin.
Goalies - None

Boston
Forwards - Ken Baumgartner, Peter Ferraro, Chris Taylor
Defensemen - Dean Chynoweth, Dave Ellett, Grant Ledyard, Andrei Sapozhnikov, Yevgeny Shaldybin, Dennis Vaske, Terry Virtue, Sergei Zhukov
Goalies- Joakim Persson, Paxton Schafer, Robbie Tallas

Buffalo
Forwards - Randy Cunneyworth, Craig Fisher, Joe Juneau, Paul Kruse, Scott Nichol, Dominic Pittis, Rob Ray, Geoff Sanderson, Steffon Walby
Defensemen - Jason Holland, Mike Hurlbut, James Patrick, Darryl Shannon
Goalies- Tom Draper, Dwayne Roloson

Calgary
Forwards - Bob Bassen, Andrew Cassels, Tom Chorske, Jeff Cowan, Steve Dubinsky, Nisse Ekman, Jan Hlavac, Mattias Johansson, Andreas Karlsson, Esa Keskinen, Jan Labraaten, Jesper Mattsson, Marty Murray, Dave Roche, Ed Ward, Sergei Zolotov
Defensemen - Tommy Albelin, Steve Bancroft, Eric Charron, David Cooper, Trevor Doyle, Johan Finnstrom, Pavel Rajnoha, Dimitri Riabykin, Steve Smith, Lee Sorochan
Goalies- Tyler Moss, Andrei Trefilov, Ken Wregget

Carolina
Forwards - Tom Buckley, Kevin Dineen, Dimitri Gorenko, Robert Kron, Scott Levins, Paul Ranheim, Ray Sheppard, Kevin Smyth
Defensemen - Paul Coffey, Joacim Esbjors, Al Iafrate, Dave Karpa, Curtis Leschyshyn, Mike Rucinski
Goalies- Mike Fountain, Pat Jablonski, Trevor Kidd

Chicago
Forwards - Sylvain Cloutier, Chris Herperger, Mark Janssens, David Ling, Craig Mills, Ed Olczyk, Bob Probert, Ryan Vandenbussche
Defensemen - Frank Bialowas, Radim Bicanek, Dave Manson, Doug Zmolek
Goalies- Kirk Daubenspeck, Mark Fitzpatrick, Marc Lamothe

Colorado
Forwards - Serge Aubin, Chris Dingman, Tomi Hirvonen, Dale Hunter, Mikael Johansson, Martin Lamarche, Tomi Kallio, Christian Matte, Jeff Odgers, Warren Rychel, Rob Shearer
Defensemen - Jeff Buchanan, Michael Gaul, Alexei Gusarov, Sami Helenius, Sylvain Lefebvre, Eric Messier, Cam Russell
Goalies- Craig Billington, Petr Franek

Dallas
Forwards - Guy Carbonneau, Kelly Fairchild, Marty Flichel, Aaron Gavey, Benoit Hogue, Tony Hrkac, Lee Jinman, Sergei Luchinkin, Jeff Mitchell, Dave Reid, David Roberts, Brent Severyn, Brian Skrudland, Pat Verbeek
Defensemen - Petr Buzek, Shawn Chambers, Alan Letang, Doug Lidster, Craig Ludwig, Matt Martin, Evgeny Petrochinin
Goalies- Mike Bales, Manny Fernandez

Detroit
Forwards - Pavel Agarkov, Doug Brown, Wendel Clark, David Engblom, Brent Gilchrist, Petr Klima, Joe Kocur, Igor Larionov, Barry Potomski, Andrei Samokvalov, Anatoly Ustugov
Defensemen - Todd Gill, Sean Gillam, Yan Golubovsky, Doug Houda, Uwe Krupp, Jamie Macoun, Ulf Samuelsson
Goalies- Norm Maracle

Edmonton
Forwards - Kelly Buchberger, Brad Church, Jozef Cierny, Jeff Daw, Jim Dowd, Pat Falloon, Chris Ferraro, Joe Hulbig, Ralph Intranuovo, Daniel Lacroix, Rem Murray, Martin Reichel, Keijo Sailynoja, Alexander Selivanov, Jussi Tarvainen, Vladimir Vorobiev
Defensemen - Adam Bennett, Ladislav Benysek, Jason Bowen, Brett Hauer, Marty McSorley, Craig Millar, Frantisek Musil, Sami Nuutinen, Reijo Ruotsalainen, Alexander Zhurik, Lukas Zib
Goalies- Bob Essensa, Mike Minard, Steve Passmore

Florida
Forwards - Chad Cabana, Dino Ciccarelli, Brian Farrell, Craig Ferguson, Johan Garpenlov, Alex Hicks, Kirk Muller, Konstantin Shafranov, Herbert Vasilyev
Defensemen - Terry Carkner, Gord Murphy, Daniel Tjarnqvist, Jeff Ware
Goalies- Aaron MacDonald, Todd MacDonald, Kirk McLean

Los Angeles
Forwards - Dan Bylsma, Brandon Convery, Russ Courtnall, Andrew Dale, Ray Ferraro, Matt Johnson, Nathan Lafayette, Steve McKenna, Igor Melyakov, Sandy Moger, Jason Morgan, Jason Podollan, Sean Pronger, Chris Schmidt, Jukka Tiilikainen, Vladimir Tsyplakov, Tomas Vlasak, Juha Vuorivirta, Magnus Wernblom
Defensemen - David Babych, Doug Bodger, Philippe Boucher, Garry Galley, Jan Nemecek, Martin Strebak, Mark Visheau
Goalies- None

Montreal
Forwards - Niklas Anger, Sylvain Blouin, Jason Dawe, Martin Gendron, Jonas Hoglund, Eric Houde, J.F. Jomphe, Arto Kuki, Trent McCleary, Boyd Olson, Oleg Petrov, Patrick Poulin, Peter Strom, Sergei Zholtok
Defensemen - Steve Cheredaryk, Brett Clark, Miloslav Guren, Marc Hussey, Scott Lachance, Alain Nasreddine, Stephane Quintal.
Goalies- None

New Jersey
Forwards - Dave Andreychuk, Eric Bertrand, Steve Brule, Sergei Brylin, Bob Carpenter, Scott Daniels, Bobby House, Sasha Lakovic, Sergei Nemchinov, Vadim Sharifijanov, Jeff Williams, Dody Wood, Nikolai Zavarukhin
Defensemen - Brad Bombardir, Kevin Dean, Geordie Kinnear, Vlastimil Kroupa, Ken Sutton, Sergei Vyshedkevich
Goalies- None

NY Islanders
Forwards - Nic Beaudoin, Vladimir Grachev, Pavel Gross, Peter Hogardh, Mike Hough, Ryan Huska, Dane Jackson, Craig Janney, Mike Kennedy, Tomas Klimt, Gino Odjick, Joe Sacco, Jason Stewart, Steve Webb
Defensemen - Ted Crowley, David Harlock, Daniel Johansson, Mike Mader, Dean Malkoc, John Namestnikov, Dick Tarnstrom
Goalies- Wade Flaherty, Mark McArthur, Steve Valiquette

NY Rangers
Forwards - Derek Armstrong, Kevin Brown, Christian Dube, Bob Errey, Brent Fedyk, Scott Fraser, Ken Gernander, Daniel Goneau, Chris Kenady, Radoslav Kropac, Alexei Lazarenko, Mike Maneluk, Brad Smyth, Esa Tikkanen, Rudolf Vercik
Defensemen - Jeff Beukeboom, Rich Brennan, Ilja Gorohov, Chris O'Sullivan, Adam Smith, Chris Tamer, Brent Thompson
Goalies- None

Ottawa
Forwards - Bill Berg, Phil Crowe, Nelson Emerson, David Hruska, Andreas Johansson, David Oliver, Mike Prokopec, Andre Roy, Yves Sarault, Andy Schneider, Shaun Van Allen
Defensemen - John Gruden, Chris Luongo, Patrick Traverse
Goalies- Frederic Cassivi, Ron Tugnutt

Philadelphia
Forwards - Mikael Andersson, Craig Berube, Dennis Bonvie, Marc Bureau, Mark Greig, Paul Healey, Jody Hull, Patrik Juhlin, Dan Kordic, Shawn McCosh, Steve McLaren, Jim Montgomery, Richard Park, Ruslan Shafikov, Radovan Somik, Martin Streit, Roman Vopat, Peter White, Jason Zent
Defensemen - Artem Anisimov, Steve Duchesne, Chris Joseph, Jeff Lank, Dave MacIsaac, Luke Richardson
Goalies- Ron Hextall, Neil Little.

Phoenix
Forwards - Mika Alatalo, Bob Corkum, Jim Cummins, Louie Debrusk, Joe Dziedzic, Stephen Leach, Jocelyn Lemieux, Frederik Loven, Rob Murray, Barry Nieckar, Brian Noonan, Mike Stapleton, Mike Sullivan, Andrei Vasilyev
Defensemen - J.J. Daigneault, Gerald Diduck, Jamie Huscroft, Sean McCann, Stan Neckar, Michel Petit, Brad Tiley
Goalies- Scott Langkow, Mikhail Shtalenkov, Henrik Smangs, Jimmy Waite

Pittsburgh
Forwards - Jan Alinc, Brian Bonin, Rob Brown, Todd Hlushko, Mikhail Kazakevich, Dan Kesa, Jiri Kucera, Patrick Lebeau, Brent Peterson, Ryan Savoia, Mika Valila, Tyler Wright, Boris Zelenko
Defensemen - Jonas Andersson-Junkka, Greg Andrusak, Stefan Bergqvist, Bobby Dollas, Maxim Galanov, Tuomas Gronman, Viktor Ignatjev, Jeff Serowik, Neil Wilkinson
Goalies- Brian Leitza

St. Louis
Forwards - Blair Atcheynum, Kelly Chase, Geoff Courtnall, Tyson Nash, Michel Picard, Stephane Roy, Kevin Sawyer, Shayne Toporowski, Tony Twist, Terry Yake
Defensemen - Marc Bergevin, Rory Fitzpatrick, Edvin Frylen, Yuri Gunko, Bryan Helmer, Chris McAlpine, Rudy Poeschek, Jamie Rivers, Brad Shaw, Geoff Smith, Jason Widmer
Goalies- Jim Carey, Grant Fuhr, Jamie McLennan

San Jose
Forwards - Eric Bennett, Shawn Burr, Jan Caloun, Mike Craig, Murray Craven, Jarrett Deuling, Anatoli Filatov, Tony Granato, Timo Hakanen, Dave Lowry, Mikko Markkanen, Joe Murphy, Greg Pankewicz, Teemu Riihijarvi, Jarrod Skalde, Ron Sutter, Markus Thuresson, Alexei Yegorov
Defensemen - Peter Allen, Alexandre Boikov, Bill Houlder, Angel Nikolov, Fredrik Oduya, Jon Rohloff, Bob Rouse
Goalies- Jonas Forsberg, Sean Gauthier, Bruce Racine, Mike Vernon

Tampa Bay
Forwards - Jesse Belanger, Jason Bonsignore, Brian Bradley, Colin Cloutier, Alexandre Daigle, Stephane Richer, Paul Ysebaert
Defensemen - Jassen Cullimore, Kjell Samuelsson, Michal Sykora, David Wilkie
Goalies- Daren Puppa, Corey Schwab, Derek Wilkinson.

Toronto
Forwards - Niklas Andersson, Lonny Bohonos, Aaron Brand, Nathan Dempsey, Mark Deyell, Tie Domi, Mikael Hakansson, Derek King, Kris King, Ladislav Kohn, Marek Melenovsky, David Nemirovsky, Scott Pearson, Garry Valk
Defensemen - Kevin Dahl, Dallas Eakins, Glen Featherstone, Tommi Rajamaki, Greg Smyth, Yannick Tremblay, Dmitri Yakushin
Goalies- Doug Bonner, Glenn Healy, Jeff Reese

Vancouver
Forwards - Hakan Ahlund, Jevgeni Babariko, Larry Courville, Dave Gagner, Robb Gordon, Roger Hansson, Trent Klatt, Steffan Nilsson, Darren Sinclair, Steve Staios, Steve Washburn, Peter Zezel
Defensemen - Roger Akerstrom, Murray Baron, Karri Kivi, Dana Murzyn, Bert Robertsson, Mark Wotton
Goalies- Corey Hirsch, Garth Snow

Washington
Forwards - Patrik Augusta, Brian Bellows, Mike Eagles, Miika Elomo, Trevor Halverson, Mark Major, Kelly Miller, Barrie Moore, Jeff Nelson, Michal Pivonka, Jeff Toms, Stefan Ustorf
Defensemen - Nolan Baumgartner, Patrick Boileau, Enrico Ciccone, Stewart Malgunas, Dmitri Mironov, Steve Poapst, Mark Tinordi
Goalies- Stephane Beauregard, Martin Brochu, Michael Rosati, Rick Tabaracci

 

[Mayor Bee]

Conditional moves, all for "future considerations". I'm still digging up exactly what the conditions for each of these moves was.

Ottawa traded Damian Rhodes
Buffalo traded Dean Sylvester
Calgary traded Andreas Karlsson
Detroit traded Ulf Samuelsson
New Jersey traded Sergei Vyshedkevich
Phoenix traded Scott Langkow
Montreal traded a 2000 6th-round pick (#180, Darcy Hordichuk) in exchange for Atlanta selecting Brett Clark in the expansion draft
Nashville traded Andrew Brunette to Atlanta for a 2000 conditional draft pick (#131, Matt Hendricks)

Post-draft moves

Trevor Kidd was traded to Florida for Gord Murphy, Daniel Tjarnqvist, Herberts Vasiljevs, and a sixth-round pick (#184, Justin Cox) in the 1999 draft
Peter Ferraro was traded to Boston for Randy Robitaille
Phil Crowe was traded to Nashville for future considerations
Jamie Pushor was traded to Dallas for Jason Botterill
Martin Prochazka was acquired from Toronto for a 2001 6th-round pick (#168, Maxim Kondratiev)
Terry Yake was claimed off waivers by St. Louis
Alexei Yegorov was released before the season began
Mark Tinordi retired before the season began

 

[Mayor Bee]

For the first time in one of these, I'll editorialize a bit now that the information is in place. Atlanta was the team I followed in the Eastern Conference during their tenure, and I feel (somewhat) qualified to do so.

In my never-humble opinion, the problems with the Thrashers began right at this moment. Expansion drafts generally don't contain a hell of a lot, but this was a perfect opportunity. All over the unprotected list were veteran defensemen, good goalie prospects, and good scoring forwards, nearly all of whom had been buried by their previous teams. There's a handful of enforcers and defensive forwards. Don Waddell talked about drafting "character" and "experience", completely ignoring the fact that he could have put together a pretty good team right off the bat.

At the height of the dead puck era, actual scoring forwards were being phased out. Look at Geoff Sanderson, who was buried on the bench or in the press box with Buffalo; he ended up being drafted by Columbus in 2000 and scored 30 goals. Did he develop into a 30-goal scorer? No, he'd always been one, he just was no longer being given the opportunity to do so. Given the chance, he rebounded.

Look at Nashville after their expansion draft. Nashville and Atlanta operated under the same set of conditions, yet the Predators in their first year scored 26 goals fewer than the league average while allowing 45 more (overall -71); they had 63 points against a league average of 82. Atlanta scored 55 goals fewer than league average and allowed 88 more (overall -143), posting 39 points against a league average of 86.

This expansion draft started the problems. The leading goal-scorer from 1998-99 they could have picked was Wendel Clark, who had 32. The league goal-scorer they actually took was Terry Yake, who had 9; they lost him on waivers before the season started anyway.

Besides the lack of scoring, there was the lack of a plan. Don Waddell spoke of character and experience, yet passed on plenty skilled players who had both. He talked about the importance of getting assets for the future, but drafted few players who had actual trade value (while passing on several who are exactly the type of guys who everyone covets in a playoff run). The lack of any type of cohesive plan led to a disastrous first season that saw the team finish 7-43-8 after a surprising 7-14-3 start. And without a cohesive team philosophy, it led to the mediocrity that prevented people from actually getting attached in the first place.

 

[TheDevilMadeMe]

it would be helpful (to me at least) if you marked the players who were technically associated with a team, but were actually UFAs. Doug Gilmour, for example, would have certainly been picked (or more likely, protected) if he were under contract for the following year.

 

[Mayor Bee]

it would be helpful (to me at least) if you marked the players who were technically associated with a team, but were actually UFAs. Doug Gilmour, for example, would have certainly been picked (or more likely, protected) if he were under contract for the following year.

Unfortunately, finding that information is slightly more difficult. The other thing involves team budgets, particularly for an expansion team. A couple of huge contracts could hinder the team right from the start, but getting exact dollar amounts is fairly time-consuming (and not always accurate).

To the idea of picking a pending UFA, Nashville had done exactly that in 1998 and simply raked in the compensatory picks in 1999 (Richter, Krupp, and a roundabout one involving Brett Hull).

 

[ForsbergForever]

it would be helpful (to me at least) if you marked the players who were technically associated with a team, but were actually UFAs. Doug Gilmour, for example, would have certainly been picked (or more likely, protected) if he were under contract for the following year.

Thank you...I was thinking the same thing, with the '98 draft, if you look at Detroit they had a ton of good veteran d-men but I assume many if not all were UFAs. This way we can at least appreciate the selections for the conditions under which they were made.

 

[Passchendaele]

Why they'd pick Ed Ward over Andrew Cassels is beyond me.

 

[pdd]

For the 1999 expansion draft to stock the Atlanta Thrashers, the following parameters were set.
- 26 players would be selected, one from each existing team save for Nashville
- Existing teams could protect either 1 goalie, 5 defensemen, and 9 forwards OR 2 goalies, 3 defensemen, and 7 forwards
- Teams that had lost a goalie in 1998 to Nashville could not lose a goalie
- Atlanta would be required to draft 3 goalies, 8 defensemen, and 13 forwards, plus 2 wild cards



Unprotected Players - drafted players are in purple

Anaheim
Forwards - Ted Drury, Stu Grimson, Peter Leboutillier, Eric Lecompte, Jim McKenzie, Tommi Miettinen, Jeff Nielsen, Igor Nikulin, Craig Reichert, Tomas Sandstrom, Bob Wren
Defensemen - Byron Briske, Scott Ferguson, Jamie Pushor, Terran Sandwith, Dan Trebil, Pascal Trepanier, Nikolai Tsulygin.
Goalies - None

Boston
Forwards - Ken Baumgartner, Peter Ferraro, Chris Taylor
Defensemen - Dean Chynoweth, Dave Ellett, Grant Ledyard, Andrei Sapozhnikov, Yevgeny Shaldybin, Dennis Vaske, Terry Virtue, Sergei Zhukov
Goalies- Joakim Persson, Paxton Schafer, Robbie Tallas

Buffalo
Forwards - Randy Cunneyworth, Craig Fisher, Joe Juneau, Paul Kruse, Scott Nichol, Dominic Pittis, Rob Ray, Geoff Sanderson, Steffon Walby
Defensemen - Jason Holland, Mike Hurlbut, James Patrick, Darryl Shannon
Goalies- Tom Draper, Dwayne Roloson

Calgary
Forwards - Bob Bassen, Andrew Cassels, Tom Chorske, Jeff Cowan, Steve Dubinsky, Nisse Ekman, Jan Hlavac, Mattias Johansson, Andreas Karlsson, Esa Keskinen, Jan Labraaten, Jesper Mattsson, Marty Murray, Dave Roche, Ed Ward, Sergei Zolotov
Defensemen - Tommy Albelin, Steve Bancroft, Eric Charron, David Cooper, Trevor Doyle, Johan Finnstrom, Pavel Rajnoha, Dimitri Riabykin, Steve Smith, Lee Sorochan
Goalies- Tyler Moss, Andrei Trefilov, Ken Wregget

Carolina
Forwards - Tom Buckley, Kevin Dineen, Dimitri Gorenko, Robert Kron, Scott Levins, Paul Ranheim, Ray Sheppard, Kevin Smyth
Defensemen - Paul Coffey, Joacim Esbjors, Al Iafrate, Dave Karpa, Curtis Leschyshyn, Mike Rucinski
Goalies- Mike Fountain, Pat Jablonski, Trevor Kidd

Chicago
Forwards - Sylvain Cloutier, Chris Herperger, Mark Janssens, David Ling, Craig Mills, Ed Olczyk, Bob Probert, Ryan Vandenbussche
Defensemen - Frank Bialowas, Radim Bicanek, Dave Manson, Doug Zmolek
Goalies- Kirk Daubenspeck, Mark Fitzpatrick, Marc Lamothe

Colorado
Forwards - Serge Aubin, Chris Dingman, Tomi Hirvonen, Dale Hunter, Mikael Johansson, Martin Lamarche, Tomi Kallio, Christian Matte, Jeff Odgers, Warren Rychel, Rob Shearer
Defensemen - Jeff Buchanan, Michael Gaul, Alexei Gusarov, Sami Helenius, Sylvain Lefebvre, Eric Messier, Cam Russell
Goalies- Craig Billington, Petr Franek

Dallas
Forwards - Guy Carbonneau, Kelly Fairchild, Marty Flichel, Aaron Gavey, Benoit Hogue, Tony Hrkac, Lee Jinman, Sergei Luchinkin, Jeff Mitchell, Dave Reid, David Roberts, Brent Severyn, Brian Skrudland, Pat Verbeek
Defensemen - Petr Buzek, Shawn Chambers, Alan Letang, Doug Lidster, Craig Ludwig, Matt Martin, Evgeny Petrochinin
Goalies- Mike Bales, Manny Fernandez

Detroit
Forwards - Pavel Agarkov, Doug Brown, Wendel Clark, David Engblom, Brent Gilchrist, Petr Klima, Joe Kocur, Igor Larionov, Barry Potomski, Andrei Samokvalov, Anatoly Ustugov
Defensemen - Todd Gill, Sean Gillam, Yan Golubovsky, Doug Houda, Uwe Krupp, Jamie Macoun, Ulf Samuelsson
Goalies- Norm Maracle

Edmonton
Forwards - Kelly Buchberger, Brad Church, Jozef Cierny, Jeff Daw, Jim Dowd, Pat Falloon, Chris Ferraro, Joe Hulbig, Ralph Intranuovo, Daniel Lacroix, Rem Murray, Martin Reichel, Keijo Sailynoja, Alexander Selivanov, Jussi Tarvainen, Vladimir Vorobiev
Defensemen - Adam Bennett, Ladislav Benysek, Jason Bowen, Brett Hauer, Marty McSorley, Craig Millar, Frantisek Musil, Sami Nuutinen, Reijo Ruotsalainen, Alexander Zhurik, Lukas Zib
Goalies- Bob Essensa, Mike Minard, Steve Passmore

Florida
Forwards - Chad Cabana, Dino Ciccarelli, Brian Farrell, Craig Ferguson, Johan Garpenlov, Alex Hicks, Kirk Muller, Konstantin Shafranov, Herbert Vasilyev
Defensemen - Terry Carkner, Gord Murphy, Daniel Tjarnqvist, Jeff Ware
Goalies- Aaron MacDonald, Todd MacDonald, Kirk McLean

Los Angeles
Forwards - Dan Bylsma, Brandon Convery, Russ Courtnall, Andrew Dale, Ray Ferraro, Matt Johnson, Nathan Lafayette, Steve McKenna, Igor Melyakov, Sandy Moger, Jason Morgan, Jason Podollan, Sean Pronger, Chris Schmidt, Jukka Tiilikainen, Vladimir Tsyplakov, Tomas Vlasak, Juha Vuorivirta, Magnus Wernblom
Defensemen - David Babych, Doug Bodger, Philippe Boucher, Garry Galley, Jan Nemecek, Martin Strebak, Mark Visheau
Goalies- None

Montreal
Forwards - Niklas Anger, Sylvain Blouin, Jason Dawe, Martin Gendron, Jonas Hoglund, Eric Houde, J.F. Jomphe, Arto Kuki, Trent McCleary, Boyd Olson, Oleg Petrov, Patrick Poulin, Peter Strom, Sergei Zholtok
Defensemen - Steve Cheredaryk, Brett Clark, Miloslav Guren, Marc Hussey, Scott Lachance, Alain Nasreddine, Stephane Quintal.
Goalies- None

New Jersey
Forwards - Dave Andreychuk, Eric Bertrand, Steve Brule, Sergei Brylin, Bob Carpenter, Scott Daniels, Bobby House, Sasha Lakovic, Sergei Nemchinov, Vadim Sharifijanov, Jeff Williams, Dody Wood, Nikolai Zavarukhin
Defensemen - Brad Bombardir, Kevin Dean, Geordie Kinnear, Vlastimil Kroupa, Ken Sutton, Sergei Vyshedkevich
Goalies- None

NY Islanders
Forwards - Nic Beaudoin, Vladimir Grachev, Pavel Gross, Peter Hogardh, Mike Hough, Ryan Huska, Dane Jackson, Craig Janney, Mike Kennedy, Tomas Klimt, Gino Odjick, Joe Sacco, Jason Stewart, Steve Webb
Defensemen - Ted Crowley, David Harlock, Daniel Johansson, Mike Mader, Dean Malkoc, John Namestnikov, Dick Tarnstrom
Goalies- Wade Flaherty, Mark McArthur, Steve Valiquette

NY Rangers
Forwards - Derek Armstrong, Kevin Brown, Christian Dube, Bob Errey, Brent Fedyk, Scott Fraser, Ken Gernander, Daniel Goneau, Chris Kenady, Radoslav Kropac, Alexei Lazarenko, Mike Maneluk, Brad Smyth, Esa Tikkanen, Rudolf Vercik
Defensemen - Jeff Beukeboom, Rich Brennan, Ilja Gorohov, Chris O'Sullivan, Adam Smith, Chris Tamer, Brent Thompson
Goalies- None

Ottawa
Forwards - Bill Berg, Phil Crowe, Nelson Emerson, David Hruska, Andreas Johansson, David Oliver, Mike Prokopec, Andre Roy, Yves Sarault, Andy Schneider, Shaun Van Allen
Defensemen - John Gruden, Chris Luongo, Patrick Traverse
Goalies- Frederic Cassivi, Ron Tugnutt

Philadelphia
Forwards - Mikael Andersson, Craig Berube, Dennis Bonvie, Marc Bureau, Mark Greig, Paul Healey, Jody Hull, Patrik Juhlin, Dan Kordic, Shawn McCosh, Steve McLaren, Jim Montgomery, Richard Park, Ruslan Shafikov, Radovan Somik, Martin Streit, Roman Vopat, Peter White, Jason Zent
Defensemen - Artem Anisimov, Steve Duchesne, Chris Joseph, Jeff Lank, Dave MacIsaac, Luke Richardson
Goalies- Ron Hextall, Neil Little.

Phoenix
Forwards - Mika Alatalo, Bob Corkum, Jim Cummins, Louie Debrusk, Joe Dziedzic, Stephen Leach, Jocelyn Lemieux, Frederik Loven, Rob Murray, Barry Nieckar, Brian Noonan, Mike Stapleton, Mike Sullivan, Andrei Vasilyev
Defensemen - J.J. Daigneault, Gerald Diduck, Jamie Huscroft, Sean McCann, Stan Neckar, Michel Petit, Brad Tiley
Goalies- Scott Langkow, Mikhail Shtalenkov, Henrik Smangs, Jimmy Waite

Pittsburgh
Forwards - Jan Alinc, Brian Bonin, Rob Brown, Todd Hlushko, Mikhail Kazakevich, Dan Kesa, Jiri Kucera, Patrick Lebeau, Brent Peterson, Ryan Savoia, Mika Valila, Tyler Wright, Boris Zelenko
Defensemen - Jonas Andersson-Junkka, Greg Andrusak, Stefan Bergqvist, Bobby Dollas, Maxim Galanov, Tuomas Gronman, Viktor Ignatjev, Jeff Serowik, Neil Wilkinson
Goalies- Brian Leitza

St. Louis
Forwards - Blair Atcheynum, Kelly Chase, Geoff Courtnall, Tyson Nash, Michel Picard, Stephane Roy, Kevin Sawyer, Shayne Toporowski, Tony Twist, Terry Yake
Defensemen - Marc Bergevin, Rory Fitzpatrick, Edvin Frylen, Yuri Gunko, Bryan Helmer, Chris McAlpine, Rudy Poeschek, Jamie Rivers, Brad Shaw, Geoff Smith, Jason Widmer
Goalies- Jim Carey, Grant Fuhr, Jamie McLennan

San Jose
Forwards - Eric Bennett, Shawn Burr, Jan Caloun, Mike Craig, Murray Craven, Jarrett Deuling, Anatoli Filatov, Tony Granato, Timo Hakanen, Dave Lowry, Mikko Markkanen, Joe Murphy, Greg Pankewicz, Teemu Riihijarvi, Jarrod Skalde, Ron Sutter, Markus Thuresson, Alexei Yegorov
Defensemen - Peter Allen, Alexandre Boikov, Bill Houlder, Angel Nikolov, Fredrik Oduya, Jon Rohloff, Bob Rouse
Goalies- Jonas Forsberg, Sean Gauthier, Bruce Racine, Mike Vernon

Tampa Bay
Forwards - Jesse Belanger, Jason Bonsignore, Brian Bradley, Colin Cloutier, Alexandre Daigle, Stephane Richer, Paul Ysebaert
Defensemen - Jassen Cullimore, Kjell Samuelsson, Michal Sykora, David Wilkie
Goalies- Daren Puppa, Corey Schwab, Derek Wilkinson.

Toronto
Forwards - Niklas Andersson, Lonny Bohonos, Aaron Brand, Nathan Dempsey, Mark Deyell, Tie Domi, Mikael Hakansson, Derek King, Kris King, Ladislav Kohn, Marek Melenovsky, David Nemirovsky, Scott Pearson, Garry Valk
Defensemen - Kevin Dahl, Dallas Eakins, Glen Featherstone, Tommi Rajamaki, Greg Smyth, Yannick Tremblay, Dmitri Yakushin
Goalies- Doug Bonner, Glenn Healy, Jeff Reese

Vancouver
Forwards - Hakan Ahlund, Jevgeni Babariko, Larry Courville, Dave Gagner, Robb Gordon, Roger Hansson, Trent Klatt, Steffan Nilsson, Darren Sinclair, Steve Staios, Steve Washburn, Peter Zezel
Defensemen - Roger Akerstrom, Murray Baron, Karri Kivi, Dana Murzyn, Bert Robertsson, Mark Wotton
Goalies- Corey Hirsch, Garth Snow

Washington
Forwards - Patrik Augusta, Brian Bellows, Mike Eagles, Miika Elomo, Trevor Halverson, Mark Major, Kelly Miller, Barrie Moore, Jeff Nelson, Michal Pivonka, Jeff Toms, Stefan Ustorf
Defensemen - Nolan Baumgartner, Patrick Boileau, Enrico Ciccone, Stewart Malgunas, Dmitri Mironov, Steve Poapst, Mark Tinordi
Goalies- Stephane Beauregard, Martin Brochu, Michael Rosati, Rick Tabaracci

SI recap of 1999 expansion draft

Atlanta, which traded last week for Damian Rhodes of Ottawa, added Detroit's Norm Maracle, Tampa Bay's Corey Schwab and Carolina's Trevor Kidd in the draft.

The 10 defensemen chosen were Shannon, Jamie Pushor from Anaheim, Petr Buzek from Dallas, Brett Clark from Montreal, Kevin Dean from New Jersey, David Harlock from the New York Islanders, Chris Tamer from the New York Rangers, Maxim Galanov from Pittsburgh, Yannick Tremblay from Toronto and Mark Tinordi from Washington.

The 13 forwards taken were Ward, Buchberger, Hull, Yake, Stapleton, Peter Ferraro from Boston, Sylvain Cloutier from Chicago, Tomi Kallio from Colorado, Johan Garpenlov from Florida, Matt Johnson from Los Angeles, Phil Crowe from Ottawa, Alexei Yegorov from San Jose and Steve Staios from Vancouver.

Conditional moves, all for "future considerations". I'm still digging up exactly what the conditions for each of these moves was.

Ottawa traded Damian Rhodes

Protection for Ron Tugnutt; Realistically Waddell could have gotten much more in this deal alone; agreeing not to draft a goalie who just finished third in Vezina voting, and taking as compensation for that agreement his backup? Of course he was a ****** GM so let's be real.

Buffalo traded Dean Sylvester
Calgary traded Andreas Karlsson
Detroit traded Ulf Samuelsson

One last bit of protection for Igor Larionov.

New Jersey traded Sergei Vyshedkevich
Phoenix traded Scott Langkow
Montreal traded a 2000 6th-round pick (#180, Darcy Hordichuk) in exchange for Atlanta selecting Brett Clark in the expansion draft
Nashville traded Andrew Brunette to Atlanta for a 2000 conditional draft pick (#131, Matt Hendricks)

Post-draft moves

Trevor Kidd was traded to Florida for Gord Murphy, Daniel Tjarnqvist, Herberts Vasiljevs, and a sixth-round pick (#184, Justin Cox) in the 1999 draft
Peter Ferraro was traded to Boston for Randy Robitaille
Phil Crowe was traded to Nashville for future considerations
Jamie Pushor was traded to Dallas for Jason Botterill
Martin Prochazka was acquired from Toronto for a 2001 6th-round pick (#168, Maxim Kondratiev)
Terry Yake was claimed off waivers by St. Louis
Alexei Yegorov was released before the season began
Mark Tinordi retired before the season began

I've always thought that last one hurts. Although I think it was kind of a dick move by Tinordi. The Thrashers basically were shorted a pick because he either a) decided he didn't want to play for them, or b) couldn't be bothered to inform those who it actually affects that he was considering retirement.

 

[pdd]

Why they'd pick Ed Ward over Andrew Cassels is beyond me.

That's probably what the Karlsson trade is about.

 

[BlueSinceBirth]

Why the Thrashers waived Yake is beyond me. He always seemed like a guy that would be able to produce in that kind of situation. Waste of an expansion pick.

 

[boredmale]

Why they'd pick Ed Ward over Andrew Cassels is beyond me.

Just did a quick search Cassels signed as a UFA with Vancouver in 1999 meaning picking Cassels would have given either expansion team a grand total of a week or so to own his rights

 

[Curufinwe]

So back in 1999 the NHL made public which players were protected, and which players were available to be picked by Atlanta?

 

[Terry Yake]

Why the Thrashers waived Yake is beyond me. He always seemed like a guy that would be able to produce in that kind of situation. Waste of an expansion pick.

agreed

so messed up

 

[Kyle McMahon]

Not hard to see why the Thrashers were awful out of the gate. It's pretty ridiculous that teams could protect 15 players. Don Waddell made a bad situation worse with some awful picks, but there's not really any hidden gems that he missed out on either.

One area that Atlanta really could have done better in was in net. Rhodes was highly touted but flamed out, Maracle and Schwab never amounted to anything, Kidd got traded. Manny Fernandez and Dwayne Roloson (who oddly enough both ended up in Minnesota in the next year's expansion draft) might have yielded better results. Though who knows how they would have developed in a different organization.

 

[Ensane]

I've always thought that last one hurts. Although I think it was kind of a dick move by Tinordi. The Thrashers basically were shorted a pick because he either a) decided he didn't want to play for them, or b) couldn't be bothered to inform those who it actually affects that he was considering retirement.

I can't recall the exact circumstances, if they ever became public, but he was a pending unrestricted free agent with knee issues that led to him playing 56, 47, and 48 games in the previous 3 seasons. I feel like it was a calculated risk taken by the Thrashers that didn't pan out.

 

[Hoser]

I've always thought that last one hurts. Although I think it was kind of a dick move by Tinordi. The Thrashers basically were shorted a pick because he either a) decided he didn't want to play for them, or b) couldn't be bothered to inform those who it actually affects that he was considering retirement.

Tinordi shattered a bone in his ankle in Feb. '99. It wasn't believed to be as serious as it ended up being, which was career-ending. Thrashers didn't do their homework when they drafted him; not his fault he could never play pro hockey again. He was also a UFA, meaning the Thrashers owned his rights for all of five days.

 

[Sam Pollock]

Just did a quick search Cassels signed as a UFA with Vancouver in 1999 meaning picking Cassels would have given either expansion team a grand total of a week or so to own his rights

If memory serves me right, Cassels was a RFA in 1999. Brian Sutter and Al Coates did not want him on the team and didn't tender him a qualifying offer making him a UFA.

 

[ShelbyZ]

On the Tinordi thing, he didn't "officially" retire during the off season directly following the expansion draft. I distinctly remember a lot of speculation leading up to the 2000 trade deadline that he might be ready or was available to sign with a contender for the rest of the season.

Here is one example: http://slam.canoe.com/HockeyColoradoArchive/feb29_har.html

And another: http://www.canoe.ca/HockeyMontrealArchive/feb27_hab.html

The Red Wings are seeking another defenceman for playoff insurance and could jump at Montreal's Vladimir Malakhov, or get in line for free agent Mark Tinordi. The latter's ankle is close to being healed finally. The Sabres also are interested in Tinordi, who is looking for $650,000 US over two years, a far cry from the three-year, $3.1-million offer he turned down with Washington.

If that was the case, his selection wasn't completely bad. He had apparently turned down an extension worth $3M+ a year from the Caps, and if he would've signed something similar with another team after his selection, Atlanta would've gotten a decent compensation pick.

 

[FerrisRox]

Why they'd pick Ed Ward over Andrew Cassels is beyond me.

Andrew Cassels was an unrestricted free agent who signed with Vancouver shortly after this expansion draft.