# 1999 NHL expansion draft

The 1999 NHL expansion draft was an expansion draft held by the National Hockey League (NHL) to fill the roster of the league's expansion team for the 1999–2000 season, the Atlanta Thrashers. The draft took place on June 25, 1999, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

## Rules

The Thrashers were to select 26 players, one from each existing franchise (except for the Nashville Predators) at the time of the draft. Each franchise was allowed to protect either one goaltender, five defensemen, and nine forwards or two goaltenders, three defensemen, and seven forwards. Teams which lost goaltenders in the 1998 NHL expansion draft (Anaheim, Los Angeles, Montreal, New Jersey and the New York Rangers) could not lose a goaltender in the 1999 draft.
The Thrashers were to choose at least three goaltenders, eight defensemen, and thirteen forwards. Their final two choices could be from any position.

## Protected players
### Eastern Conference

Atlantic Division :
| Position | New Jersey | NY Islanders | NY Rangers | Philadelphia | Pittsburgh |
| Forwards | Jason Arnott | Mariusz Czerkawski | Adam Graves | Rod Brind'Amour | Matthew Barnaby |
| Forwards | Patrik Elias | Sean Haggerty | Todd Harvey | Keith Jones | Jan Hrdina |
| Forwards | Bobby Holik | Brad Isbister | Mike Knuble | Daymond Langkow | Alexei Kovalev |
| Forwards | Randy McKay | Olli Jokinen | Eric Lacroix | John LeClair | Jaromir Jagr |
| Forwards | Krzysztof Oliwa | Jorgen Jonsson | Darren Langdon | Eric Lindros | Robert Lang |
| Forwards | Jay Pandolfo | Claude Lapointe | John MacLean | Sandy McCarthy | Kip Miller |
| Forwards | Denis Pederson | Mark Lawrence | Petr Nedved | Mark Recchi | Ian Moran |
| Forwards | Brian Rolston | Mats Lindgren | Kevin Stevens | Mikael Renberg | Martin Straka |
| Forwards | Petr Sykora | Vladimir Orszagh | Niklas Sundstrom | Valeri Zelepukin | German Titov |
| Defencemen | Ken Daneyko | Eric Cairns | Jason Doig | Adam Burt | Sven Butenschon |
| Defencemen | Scott Niedermayer | Zdeno Chara | Brian Leetch | Eric Desjardins | Kevin Hatcher |
| Defencemen | Lyle Odelein | Kenny Jonsson | Rumun Ndur | Karl Dykhuis | Darius Kasparaitis |
| Defencemen | Sheldon Souray | Rich Pilon | Peter Popovic | Dan McGillis | Jiri Slegr |
| Defencemen | Scott Stevens | Barry Richter | Mathieu Schneider | Chris Therien | Brad Werenka |
| Goaltender | | Felix Potvin | | John Vanbiesbrouck | Tom Barrasso |
Northeast Division :
| Position | Boston | Buffalo | Montreal | Ottawa | Toronto |
| Forwards | Jason Allison | Stu Barnes | Benoit Brunet | Daniel Alfredsson | Sergei Berezin |
| Forwards | Ken Belanger | Curtis Brown | Shayne Corson | Radek Bonk | Mike Johnson |
| Forwards | Anson Carter | Michal Grosek | Saku Koivu | Vyacheslav Butsayev | Igor Korolev |
| Forwards | Rob DiMaio | Brian Holzinger | Trevor Linden | Andreas Dackell | Fredrik Modin |
| Forwards | Steve Heinze | Michael Peca | Martin Rucinsky | Bruce Gardiner | Yanic Perreault |
| Forwards | Dmitri Khristich | Wayne Primeau | Brian Savage | Steve Martins | Steve Sullivan |
| Forwards | Randy Robitaille | Miroslav Satan | Turner Stevenson | Shawn McEachern | Mats Sundin |
| Forwards | Tim Taylor | Vaclav Varada | Scott Thornton | Vaclav Prospal | Steve Thomas |
| Forwards | Landon Wilson | Dixon Ward | Dainius Zubrus | Alexei Yashin | Todd Warriner |
| Defencemen | Ray Bourque | Jay McKee | Patrice Brisebois | Igor Kravchuk | Bryan Berard |
| Defencemen | Kyle McLaren | Richard Smehlik | Vladimir Malakhov | Janne Laukkanen | Sylvain Cote |
| Defencemen | Don Sweeney | Rhett Warrener | Craig Rivet | Lance Pitlick | Alexander Karpovtsev |
| Defencemen | Mattias Timander | Jason Woolley | Igor Ulanov | Wade Redden | Chris McAllister |
| Defencemen | Darren Van Impe | Alexei Zhitnik | Eric Weinrich | Jason York | Dmitri Yushkevich |
| Goaltender | Byron Dafoe | Dominik Hasek | | Patrick Lalime | Curtis Joseph |
Southeast Division :
| Position | Carolina | Florida | Tampa Bay | Washington |
| Forwards | Bates Battaglia | Pavel Bure | Colin Forbes | James Black |
| Forwards | Ron Francis | Radek Dvorak | Chris Gratton | Peter Bondra |
| Forwards | Martin Gelinas | Viktor Kozlov | Steve Kelly | Benoit Gratton |
| Forwards | Sami Kapanen | Ryan Johnson | Michael Nylander | Steve Konowalchuk |
| Forwards | Andrei Kovalenko | Bill Lindsay | Robert Petrovicky | Andrei Nikolishin |
| Forwards | Kent Manderville | Scott Mellanby | Mike Sillinger | Adam Oates |
| Forwards | Jeff O'Neill | Rob Niedermayer | Corey Spring | Chris Simon |
| Forwards | Keith Primeau | Chris Wells | Darcy Tucker | Jaroslav Svejkovsky |
| Forwards | Gary Roberts | Ray Whitney | Rob Zamuner | Richard Zednik |
| Defencemen | Steven Halko | Bret Hedican | Drew Bannister | Sergei Gonchar |
| Defencemen | Sean Hill | Filip Kuba | Cory Cross | Calle Johansson |
| Defencemen | Marek Malik | Paul Laus | Sergey Gusev | Ken Klee |
| Defencemen | Nolan Pratt | Robert Svehla | Petr Svoboda | Joe Reekie |
| Defencemen | Glen Wesley | Mike Wilson | | Brendan Witt |
| Goaltender | Arturs Irbe | Sean Burke | Kevin Hodson | Olaf Kolzig |

### Western Conference

Central Division :
| Position | Chicago | Detroit | St. Louis |
| Forwards | Tony Amonte | Kris Draper | Jim Campbell |
| Forwards | Eric Daze | Sergei Fedorov | Craig Conroy |
| Forwards | Doug Gilmour | Tomas Holmstrom | Pavol Demitra |
| Forwards | Jean-Yves Leroux | Vyacheslav Kozlov | Mike Eastwood |
| Forwards | Josef Marha | Martin Lapointe | Jamal Mayers |
| Forwards | Dean McAmmond | Kirk Maltby | Scott Pellerin |
| Forwards | Chris Murray | Darren McCarty | Pascal Rheaume |
| Forwards | Reid Simpson | Brendan Shanahan | Pierre Turgeon |
| Forwards | Alexei Zhamnov | Steve Yzerman | Scott Young |
| Defencemen | Jamie Allison | Chris Chelios | Jeff Finley |
| Defencemen | Brad Brown | Mathieu Dandenault | Al MacInnis |
| Defencemen | Anders Eriksson | Nicklas Lidstrom | Ricard Persson |
| Defencemen | Boris Mironov | Larry Murphy | Libor Prochazka |
| Defencemen | Bryan Muir | Aaron Ward | Chris Pronger |
| Goaltender | Jeff Hackett | Chris Osgood | Roman Turek |
Northwest Division :
| Position | Calgary | Colorado | Edmonton | Vancouver |
| Forwards | Valeri Bure | Adam Deadmarsh | Josef Beranek | Todd Bertuzzi |
| Forwards | Rene Corbet | Shean Donovan | Mike Grier | Donald Brashear |
| Forwards | Hnat Domenichelli | Theoren Fleury | Bill Guerin | Darby Hendrickson |
| Forwards | Jarome Iginla | Peter Forsberg | Chad Kilger | Brad May |
| Forwards | Andrei Nazarov | Valeri Kamensky | Georges Laraque | Mark Messier |
| Forwards | Jeff Shantz | Claude Lemieux | Todd Marchant | Alexander Mogilny |
| Forwards | Cory Stillman | Shjon Podein | Ethan Moreau | Markus Naslund |
| Forwards | Jason Wiemer | Joe Sakic | Ryan Smyth | Dave Scatchard |
| Forwards | Clarke Wilm | Stephane Yelle | Doug Weight | Harry York |
| Defencemen | Tommy Albelin | Greg de Vries | Sean Brown | Chad Allan |
| Defencemen | Sami Helenius | Adam Foote | Roman Hamrlik | Adrian Aucoin |
| Defencemen | Cale Hulse | Jon Klemm | Christian Laflamme | Ed Jovanovski |
| Defencemen | Todd Simpson | Aaron Miller | Janne Niinimaa | Bryan McCabe |
| Defencemen | | Sandis Ozolinsh | Jason Smith | Jason Strudwick |
| Goaltender | Fred Brathwaite | Patrick Roy | Tommy Salo | Kevin Weekes |
Pacific Division :
| Position | Anaheim | Dallas | Los Angeles | Phoenix | San Jose |
| Forwards | Frank Banham | Brett Hull | Donald Audette | Greg Adams | Michal Bros |
| Forwards | Ted Donato | Mike Keane | Craig Johnson | Shane Doan | Vincent Damphousse |
| Forwards | Travis Green | Jamie Langenbrunner | Ian Laperriere | Dallas Drake | Jeff Friesen |
| Forwards | Paul Kariya | Jere Lehtinen | Glen Murray | Tavis Hansen | Steve Guolla |
| Forwards | Mike Leclerc | Grant Marshall | Luc Robitaille | Robert Reichel | Stephane Matteau |
| Forwards | Marty McInnis | Mike Modano | Zigmund Palffy | Jeremy Roenick | Brantt Myhres |
| Forwards | Steve Rucchin | Joe Nieuwendyk | Bryan Smolinski | Keith Tkachuk | Owen Nolan |
| Forwards | Teemu Selanne | Derek Plante | Jozef Stumpel | Rick Tocchet | Mike Ricci |
| Forwards | Jeremy Stevenson | Jamie Wright | Marko Tuomainen | Juha Ylonen | Ron Stern |
| Defencemen | Kevin Haller | Derian Hatcher | Aki Berg | Keith Carney | Bryan Marchment |
| Defencemen | Jason Marshall | Brad Lukowich | Rob Blake | Jyrki Lumme | Jeff Norton |
| Defencemen | Fredrik Olausson | Richard Matvichuk | Mattias Norstrom | Teppo Numminen | Marcus Ragnarsson |
| Defencemen | Ruslan Salei | Darryl Sydor | Jaroslav Modry | Deron Quint | Mike Rathje |
| Defencemen | Pavel Trnka | Sergei Zubov | Sean O'Donnell | Oleg Tverdovsky | Gary Suter |
| Goaltender | | Ed Belfour | | Nikolai Khabibulin | Steve Shields |

## Draft results

These results are numbered 1–26 for aesthetic purposes, but the players were not necessarily chosen in this order. As the Thrashers were the only team participating in the draft, the order is inconsequential.
| # | Player | Drafted from |
| 1. | Trevor Kidd (G) | Carolina Hurricanes |
| 2. | Norm Maracle (G) | Detroit Red Wings |
| 3. | Corey Schwab (G) | Tampa Bay Lightning |
| 4. | Petr Buzek (D) | Dallas Stars |
| 5. | Brett Clark (D) | Montreal Canadiens |
| 6. | Kevin Dean (D) | New Jersey Devils |
| 7. | Maxim Galanov (D) | Pittsburgh Penguins |
| 8. | David Harlock (D) | New York Islanders |
| 9. | Jamie Pushor (D) | Mighty Ducks of Anaheim |
| 10. | Darryl Shannon (D) | Buffalo Sabres |
| 11. | Chris Tamer (D) | New York Rangers |
| 12. | Mark Tinordi (D) | Washington Capitals |
| 13. | Yannick Tremblay (D) | Toronto Maple Leafs |
| 14. | Kelly Buchberger (RW) | Edmonton Oilers |
| 15. | Sylvain Cloutier (C) | Chicago Blackhawks |
| 16. | Phil Crowe (RW) | Ottawa Senators |
| 17. | Peter Ferraro (RW) | Boston Bruins |
| 18. | Johan Garpenlov (LW) | Florida Panthers |
| 19. | Jody Hull (RW) | Philadelphia Flyers |
| 20. | Matt Johnson (LW) | Los Angeles Kings |
| 21. | Tomi Kallio (LW) | Colorado Avalanche |
| 22. | Steve Staios (RW/D) | Vancouver Canucks |
| 23. | Mike Stapleton (C) | Phoenix Coyotes |
| 24. | Ed Ward (RW) | Calgary Flames |
| 25. | Terry Yake (C) | St. Louis Blues |
| 26. | Alexei Yegorov (RW) | San Jose Sharks |

## Deals

In return for agreeing not to select certain unprotected players, the Thrashers were granted concessions by other franchises. The trades were officially booked as being for "future considerations":
* Ottawa traded Damian Rhodes to Atlanta on June 18, 1999
* Buffalo traded Dean Sylvester to Atlanta on June 25, 1999
* Calgary traded Andreas Karlsson to Atlanta on June 25, 1999
* Detroit traded Ulf Samuelsson to Atlanta on June 25, 1999
* New Jersey traded Sergei Vyshedkevich to Atlanta on June 25, 1999
* Phoenix traded Scott Langkow to Atlanta on June 25, 1999

## Post-draft

Several of the players selected by the Thrashers in the expansion draft did not stay with the team long after the draft. In fact, the Thrashers traded two players later in the same day:
* Trevor Kidd (traded to Florida for Gord Murphy, Daniel Tjarnqvist, Herberts Vasiljevs, and a sixth-round pick (Justin Cox) in the 1999 NHL entry draft)
* Peter Ferraro (traded to Boston for Randy Robitaille)
Other players who were no longer on the Thrashers' roster at the start of the 1999–2000 season include the following:
* Phil Crowe (traded to Nashville for future considerations on June 26, 1999)
* Jamie Pushor (traded to Dallas for Jason Botterill and cash and seventh-round draft pick on July 15, 1999)
* Terry Yake (claimed off waivers by St. Louis on September 30, 1999)
* Alexei Yegorov (released before the season began)
* Mark Tinordi (retired before the season began)