KHL territorial pick

A KHL territorial pick is a special type of draft pick used in the KHL Junior Draft. A Kontinental Hockey League team could protect up to 3 players from its Minor Hockey League affiliate or its hockey school(s) and use its first-round pick to draft one of its protected players.
However, unlike the NBA territorial picks, where NBA teams used territorial draft picks sparsely, KHL teams frequently used such picks to keep local talent. Also, in the KHL, the territorial draft picks are factored into the overall selection count. As such, a KHL team can draft more than one territorial pick; it happened in 2010 when Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, as well as Traktor Chelyabinsk used their two first-round draft picks on territorial picks.
For 2012, the rules have changed: now a team could protect up to 5 players and use any pick, regardless of round, to select them, unless entering the disaster draft, in which case a team can protect as many players as they want for the five years following the disaster draft.
==Key==
Pos. 	G 	F 	D
Position	Goaltender	Forward	Defenseman
==List of territorial draft picks==
 Draft	Player	 Pos.	Pick	Nationality	KHL team 	Team from (city)
2010 	^ 	G 	4 	Russia 	Vityaz Chekhov 	(Podolsk)
2010 	^ 	F 	6 	Russia 	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 	(Yaroslavl)
2010 	^ 	F 	7 	Russia 	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 	(Yaroslavl)
2010 	^ 	F 	15 	Russia 	Traktor Chelyabinsk 	(Chelyabinsk)
2010 	^ 	F 	16 	Russia 	Ak Bars Kazan 	(Kazan)
2010 	^ 	D 	18 	Russia 	Dynamo Moscow 	(Tver)
2010 	^ 	F 	19 	Russia 	Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk	(Nizhnekamsk)
2010 	^ 	D 	22 	Russia 	Traktor Chelyabinsk 	(Chelyabinsk)
2011 	 	C 	2 	Russia 	Amur Khabarovsk 	(Khabarovsk)
2011 	 	G 	7 	Russia 	Salavat Yulaev Ufa 	(Ufa)
2011 	 	C 	8 	Russia 	HC CSKA Moscow 	(Moscow)
==See also==
*2010 Entry Draft - KHL Territorial Picks
==References==
Category:Kontinental Hockey League