Update to post 10 above, a comparison of current NHL players drafted after the second round and undrafted free agents by original drafting/signing team
This table is based on current NHL rosters (March 5th, 2021), the team represents the original drafting team or signing team of undrafted free agents, detailed lists follow further down:
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[TD]Team[/TD]
[TD]Undrafted[/TD]
[TD]Rounds 3 to 7+[/TD]
[TD]Total[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD]Anaheim[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]7[/TD]
[TD]8[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD]Arizona[/TD]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]6[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Boston[/TD]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]7[/TD]
[TD]11[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Buffalo[/TD]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]11[/TD]
[TD]13[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Calgary[/TD]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]7[/TD]
[TD]11[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Carolina[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]6[/TD]
[TD]6[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Chicago[/TD]
[TD]11[/TD]
[TD]8[/TD]
[TD]19[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Colorado[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]4[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Columbus[/TD]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]13[/TD]
[TD]17[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Dallas[/TD]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]8[/TD]
[TD]13[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Detroit[/TD]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]6[/TD]
[TD]11[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Edmonton[/TD]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]7[/TD]
[TD]12[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Florida[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]9[/TD]
[TD]9[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Los Angeles[/TD]
[TD]6[/TD]
[TD]11[/TD]
[TD]17[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Minnesota[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]8[/TD]
[TD]9[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Montreal[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]5[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Nashville[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]7[/TD]
[TD]7[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]New Jersey[/TD]
[TD]3[/TD]
[TD]8[/TD]
[TD]11[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]NY Islanders[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]8[/TD]
[TD]9[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]NY Rangers[/TD]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]6[/TD]
[TD]10[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Ottawa[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]13[/TD]
[TD]14[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Philadelphia[/TD]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]6[/TD]
[TD]10[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Pittsburgh[/TD]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]9[/TD]
[TD]14[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]St. Louis[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]9[/TD]
[TD]9[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]San Jose[/TD]
[TD]9[/TD]
[TD]12[/TD]
[TD]21[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Tampa Bay[/TD]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]9[/TD]
[TD]11[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Toronto[/TD]
[TD]4[/TD]
[TD]11[/TD]
[TD]15[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Vancouver[/TD]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]5[/TD]
[TD]10[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Vegas[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]0[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Washington[/TD]
[TD]2[/TD]
[TD]8[/TD]
[TD]10[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Winnipeg[/TD]
[TD]1[/TD]
[TD]7[/TD]
[TD]8[/TD]
[/TR]
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Who found the undrafted free agents around the league on current NHL rosters?
Original signing team:
Anaheim-(1) Kiefer Sherwood
Arizona-(2) Ilya Lyubushkin, Hunter Miska
Boston-(4) Torey Krug, Kevan Miller, Noel Acciari, Frank Vatrano
Buffalo-(2) Evan Rodriques, Chad Ruhwedel
Calgary-(4) David Rittich, Marc Giordano, Ryan Lomberg, Garnet Hathaway
Carolina-(0)
Chicago-(11) David Kampf, Matthew Highmore, Antti Raanta, Trevor Van Riemsdyk, Artemi Panarin, Dominik Kahun, Jan Rutta, Pius Suter, Tanner Kero, Kevin Lankinen, Collin Delia
Colorado-(1) Logan O’Connor
Columbus-(4) Dean Kukan, Eric Robinson, Nic Holden, Jonathan Marchessault
Dallas-(5) Justin Dowling, Joel Kiviranta, Brendan Dillon, Jordie Benn, Antoine Rouessel
Detroit-(5) Danny Dekeyser, Luke Glendening, Tomas Nosek. Mathias Brome, Dan Renouf
Edmonton-(5) Gaetan Haas, Joakim Nygard, Jordan Oesterle, Brad Hunt, Drake Caggiula
Florida-(0)
Los Angeles-(6) Kurtis MacDermid, Sean Walker, Alex Iafallo, Blake Lizotte, Martin Jones, Matt Luff
Minnesota-(1) Nico Sturm
Montreal-(1) Joel Hanley
Nashville-(0)
New Jersey-(3) Andy Greene, Kevin Rooney, Jacob MacDonald
NYIslanders-(1) Ross Johnston
NYRangers-(4) Alex Georgiev, Cam Talbot, Mats Zuccarello, Neal Pionk
Ottawa-(1) Artem Zub
Philadelphia-(4) Philippe Myers, Michael Raffl, P.E. Bellemare, Sergei Bobrosky
Pittsburgh-(5) Juuso Riikola, Zach Aston-Reese, Carter Rowney, Conor Sheary, Casey DeSmith
St.Louis-(0)
San Jose-(9) Aaron Dell, Radim Simek, Barclay Goodrow, Joel Kellman, Alexander True, Ryan Carpenter, Matt Irwin, Nikolai Knyzhov, Carter Hutton
Tampa Bay-(2) Yanni Gourde, Tyler Johnson
Toronto-(4) Ilya Mikheyev, Trevor Moore, Nikita Zaitsev, Tyler Bozak
Vancouver-(5) Troy Stecher, Chris Tanev, Zack MacEwen, Marc Michaelis, Jalen Chatfield
Vegas-(1) Zach Whitecloud
Washington-(2) Jay Beagle, Nate Schmidt
Winnipeg-(1) Brandon Tanev
94 current undrafted NHLers by my count or the equivalent of 4 teams (just over 12% of the league). Some pretty good players on the list.
This is a comparison of current NHLers drafted after the second round, listed by the team who drafted them:
Anaheim-(7) Josh Mahura 3rd, Josh Manson 6th, Sami Vatanen 4th, Chris Wagner 5th, Frederik Andersen 3rd, Ondrej Kase 7th, Troy Terry 5th
Arizona-(4) Keith Yandle 4th, Conor Garland 5th, Connor Clifton 5th, Adin Hill 3rd
Boston-(7) Nate Thompson 6th, Brad Marchand 3rd, Matt Grzelcyk 3rd, Matt Benning 6th, Danton Heinen 4th, Anders Bjork 5th, Michael Hutchinson 3rd
Buffalo-(11) Ryan Miller 5th, Andrej Sekera 3rd, Paul Byron 6th, Brayden McNabb 3rd, Marcus Foligno 4th, Linus Ulmark 6th, Victor Olofsson 7th, Jonas Johansson 3rd, Cal Petersen 5th, Will Borgen 4th, Brandon Hagel 6th
Calgary-(7) rd, Curtis McElhinney 6th, T.J. Brodie 4th, Adam Fox 3rd, Laurent Brossoit 6th, Johnny Gaudreau 4th, Brett Kulak 4th, Andrew Mangiapane 6th
Carolina-(6) [Frederik Andersen 7th], Jaccob Slavin 4th, Brett Pesce 3rd, Lucas Wallmark 4th, Warren Foegele 3rd, Steven Lorentz 7th, Nicolas Roy 4th
Chicago-(8) Niklas Hjarmalsson 4th, Joakim Nordstrom 3rd, Andrew Shaw 5th, Vinny Hinostroza 6th, John Hayden 3rd, Tyler Motte 4th, Dennis Gilbert 3rd, Philipp Kurasev 4th
Colorado-(3) Brad Richardson 5th, Tyson Barrie 3rd, Will Butcher 5th
Columbus-(13) Kris Russell 3rd, Matt Calvert 5th, Cam Atkinson 6th, David Savard 4th, Keegan Kolesar 3rd, Mike Reilly 4th, Joonas Korpisalo 3rd, Josh Anderson 4th, Oliver Bjorkstrand 3rd, Elvis Merzlikins 3rd, Vladislav Gavrikov 6th, Markus Nutivaara 7th, Emil Bemstrom 4th
Dallas-(8) Mike Smith 5th, Colton Sceviour 4th, Jamie Benn 5th, Reilly Smith 3rd, John Klingberg 5th, Esa Lindell 3rd, Nick Paul 4th. Nicholas Caamano 5th
Detroit-(6) Valteri Filppula 3rd, Darren Helm 5th, Nick Jensen 5th, Petr Mzazek 5th, Andreas Atnanasiou 4th, Matthias Janmark-Nylen 3rd
Edmonton-(7) Tobias Rieder 4th, Erik Gustafsson 4th, Jujhar Khaira 3rd, William Lagesson 4th, Caleb Jones 4th, Ethan Bear 5th, John Marino 6th
Florida-(9) Evgeny Dadonov 3rd, Joonas Donskoi 4th, Zach Hymen 5th, Vincent Trochek 3rd, Josh Brown 6th, Mackenzie Weegar 7th, Juho Lammikko 3rd, Kyle Rau 3rd, Riley Stillman 4th
Los Angeles-(11) Jonathan Quick 3rd, Alec Martinez 4th, Nicolas Deslauriers 3rd, Colin Miller 5th, Dominik Kubalik 7th, Mike Amadio 3rd, Jacob Middleton 7th, Austin Wagner 4th, Matt Roy 7th, Nic Dowd 7th, Michael Anderson 4th
Minnesota-(8) Cal Clutterbuck 3rd, Darcy Kuemper 6th, Erik Haula 7th, Tyler Graovac 7th, Nick Seeler 5th, Kurtis Gabriel 3rd , Kirill Kaprizov 5th , Kaapo Kakhonen 4th
Montreal-(4) Jaroslav Halak 9th, Jake Evans 7th, Brendan Gallagher 5th, Victor Mete 4th
Nashville-(7) Patrik Hornqvist 7th, Craig Smith 4th, Mattias Ekholm 4th, Anthony Bitetto 6th, Jimmy Vesey 3rd, Juuse Saros 4th, Viktor Arvidsson 4th
New Jersey-(8) Adam Henrique 3rd, Blake Coleman 3rd, Alex Kerfoot 5th, Miles Wood 4th, Jesper Bratt 6th, Mikhail Maltsev 4th, Yegor Sharagovich 5th scott Wedgewood 3rd
NY Islanders-(8) Zdeno Chara 3rd, Matt Martin 5th, Jared Spurgeon 6th, Ilya Sorokin 3rd, Casey Cizikas 4th, Anders Lee 6th, Adam Pelech 3rd, Devon Toews 4th
NY Rangers-(6) Carl Hagelin 6th, Jesper Fast 6th, Pavel Buchnevich 3rd, Anthony Duclair 3rd, Ryan Graves 4th, Igor Shesterkin 4th
Ottawa-(13) Brian Elliott 9th, Derek Grant 4th, Mark Borowiecki 5th, Mike Hoffman 5th, Mark Stone 6th, Jean Gabriel Pageau 4th, Ryan Dzingel 7th, Chris Driedger 3rd, Marcus Hogberg 3rd, Drake Batherson 4th, Christian Wolanin 4th, Frederik Claesson 5th, Joey Daccord 7th
Philadelphia-(6) Patrick Maroon 6th, Zac Rinaldo 6th, Nick Cousins 3rd, Shane Gostisbehere 3rd, Oskar Lindblom 5th, Mark Friedman 3rd
Pittsburgh-(9) Kris Letang 3rd, Robert Bortuzzo 3rd, Jake Muzzin 5th, Bryan Rust 3rd, Josh Archibald 6th, Oskar Sundqvist 3rd, Matt Murray 3rd, Jake Guentzel 3rd, Sam Lafferty 4th
St. Louis-(9) Ryan Reaves 5th, Jordan Binnington 3rd, Mackenzie MacEachern 3rd, Colton Parayko 3rd, Sammy Blais 6th, Niko Mikkola 5th, Jake Walman 3rd, Jani Hakanpaa 4th, Ville Husso 4th
San Jose-(12) Joe Pavelski 7th, Thomas Greiss 3rd,, Nick Bonino 6th, Justin Braun 7th, Jason Demers 7th, Sean Kuraly 5th, Dylan DeMelo 6th, Kevin Labanc 6th, Rudolf Balcers 5th, John Leonard 6th, Colin Blackwell 7th, Joachim Blichfield 7th,
Tampa Bay-(9) Alex Killorn 3rd, Radko Gudas 3rd, Ondrej Palat 7th, Cedric Paquette 4th, Nikita Gusev 7th, Brayden Point 3rd, Anthony Cirelli 3rd, Mathieu Joseph 4th, Nikita Nesterov 5th
Toronto-(11) Anton Stralman 7th, James Reimer 4th, Adam Brooks 4th, Leo Komarov 6th, Carl Gunnarson 7th, Josh Leivo 3rd, Andreas Johnsson 7th, Connor Brown 6th, Carter Verhaeghe 3rd, Pierre Engvall 7th, Dakota Joshua 5th
Vancouver-(5) Alex Edler 3rd, Ben Hutton 5th, Adam Gaudette 5th Kevin Connaughton 3rd, Gustav Forsling 5th
Vegas-(0)
Washington-(8) Mathieu Perreault 6th, Braden Holtby 4th, Cody Eakin 3rd, Philipp Grubauer 4th, Chandler Stephenson 3rd, Travis Boyd 6th, Christian Djoos 7th, Nathan Walker 3rd
Winnipeg-(7) Ben Chiarot 4th, Adam Lowry 3rd, Connor Hellebuyck 5th, Tucker Poolman 5th, Andrew Copp 4th, Sami Niku 7th, Mason Appleton 6th
237 players current NHLers drafted after the second round or an average of about 8 per team.
Edit: Add 2nd rd comparison
Second round draft picks who have played in the 2020-21 NHL regular season including games of March 17th, 2021.
By drafting team:
Anaheim (6) Comtois, Karlsson, Montour, Schultz, M Pettersen, Gibson
Arizona (3) Dvorak, Fischer, Martinook
Boston (8) Krecji, Studnicki, Lucic, Bergeron, Donato, Carlo, Lauzon, R Lindgren
Buffalo (5) Lemieux, Compher, Bailey, Aspland, McCabe
Calgary (3) Dube, Kylington, Andersson
Carolina (10) McGinn, Luotstarinen, Kuokanen, DiGiuseppe, Aho, Rask, Dumoulin, Faulk, Alt, Nedeljkovic
Chicago (6) Dibrincat, Pirri, Saad, Keith, I Mitchell, Holl
Colorado (6) Stastny, O'Reilly, Gaunce, Timmins, Meloche, Pickard
Columbus (5) Texier, Jenner, Stenlund, Peeke, Dansk
Dallas (8) Chiasson, B Ritchie, Dv Shore, Neal, Robertson, Eriksson, Hintz, Nemeth
Detroit (8) Jarnkrok, G Smith, Frk, Jurco, Tatar, Bertuzzi, Hronek, Ouellet
Edmonton (2) Pitlick, Petry
Florida (5) Heponiemi, Dr Shore, Hawryluk, Grimaldi, Markstrom
Los Angeles (7) Kaliyev, Anderson-Dolan, Clifford, Toffoli, Simmonds, Cernak, Clague
Minnesota (4) Zucker, J Larsson, Greenway, Scandella
Montreal (4) Lekhonen, De la Rose, Romanov, Subban
Nashville (5) Sissons, Trenin, Josi, Girard, Weber
New Jersey (5) Boquist, Bastian, Severson, Merrill, Blackwood
NY Islanders (4) Comeau, Mayfield, Hamonic, Koskinen
NY Rangers (2) Anisimov, Stepan
Ottawa (3) Chlapik, Silfverberg, Lehner
Philadelphia (3) Aube-Kubel, Hagg, Hart
Pittsburgh (7) Sprong, Blueger, Goligoski, Addison, Harrington, Gustavsson, Jarry
St. Louis (8) Soderberg, Backes, Barbashev, Kyrou, Carrier, Edmundson, Dunn, Allen
San Jose (5) Gambrell, Nieto, Vlasic, Tierney, Ferraro
Tampa Bay (5) Erne, Volkov, Stephens, Panik, Hajek
Toronto (3) Grundstrom, N Robertson, Dermott
Vancouver (2) Hoglander, Demko
Vegas (1) Hague
Washington (5) Sanford, Orlov, Siegenthaler, Bowey, Vanecek
Winnipeg (4) Gustafsson, Harkins, Petan, Comrie
152 players, average of ~5 second rounders per team