NHL DRAFT SELECTIONS


 Selection      Team           Player      Position  1996-97 Team  League

First Round

     8      Boston (from   Sergei Samsonov    LW       Detroit       IHL
              Hartford)

Second Round

 45        Anaheim       Maxim Balmochnykh LW  Lada Togliatti    European
 49        Detroit         Yuri Butsayev   C   Lada Togliatti    European
 51     Calgary (from     Dimitri Kokorev  D     Dynamo Jr.      European
          Carolina)
 52        Dallas         Roman Lyashenko  C      Yaroslavl      European

Third Round

 68        Edmonton           Sergei      D      Las Vegas         IHL
                             Yerkovich
 69   Buffalo (from St.        Maxim      RW   Dynamo Moscow    European
            Louis)          Afinogenov

Fourth Round

  95  Florida (from St.  Ivan Novoseltsev  RW   Krylja Sovtov    European
           Louis)
 103    Philadelphia      Mihail Chernov    D     Yaroslavl      European

Fifth Round

 118      Montreal         Konstantin    D      Chelybinsk      European
                             Sidulov
 122 Montreal (from St.   Gennady Razin  D       Kamloops          WHL
           Louis)

Sixth round

 135        Boston        Denis Timofeev   D    CSKA Moskow     European
 140  Calgary (from N.Y.   Ilja Demidov    D    Dynamo Jr.      European
          Islanders)
 153   Tampa Bay (from        Andrei       D     TPS Turko      European
           Anaheim)         Skopintsev
 160        Dallas         Alexei Timkin   W     Yaroslavl      European

Eighth round

 202    Montreal     Andrei Sidyakin LW      Russia           European
 204     Chicago         Sergei      RW  Lada Togliatti       European
                        Shikhanov
 216     Dallas      Alexei Komarov  D      Yaroslavl         European

Ninth round

 231      Edmonton        Alexandre    G     St. Albert          T2
                          Fomitchev
 232     St. Louis         Dmitri      D    Nizhnekamsk       European
                          Plekhanov