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2000 NHL Draft

Alexei Smirnov in the 2000 NHL Draft

Anaheim Ducks selected Alexei Smirnov 12th overall in the 2000 NHL Draft.

He was the third of the 40 Russians selected that year. It was the first of the 5 picks Anaheim Ducks made in the draft. Of the 293 players selected in 2000, 118 have played in the NHL regular season. His 52 games put him 66th in the class.

Overall pick
12
Round and pick
Round 1, pick 12
Drafting team
ANAAnaheim Ducks
Date
Age at the draft
18 years

The picks around it

Picks 9–15 in the 2000 draft

  1. 9Brent KrahnG1 GP · 0 WCGY
  2. 10Mikhail YakubovC53 GP · 12 PCHI
  3. 11Pavel VorobievR57 GP · 25 PCHI
  4. 12Alexei SmirnovL52 GP · 6 PANA
  5. 13Ron HainseyD1132 GP · 311 PMTL
  6. 14Vaclav NedorostC99 GP · 20 PCOL
  7. 15Artem KriukovCBUF

Games and points are NHL regular season to date.

The 2000 NHL Draft

Place in the draft class

Where he came in the 2000 class

3rd
of 40 Russians selected
8th
of 163 forwards selected

Counted in draft order across the whole draft. The position is the one listed at the draft.

First Russians selected

  1. 8Nikita AlexeevR159 GP · 37 PTBL
  2. 10Mikhail YakubovC53 GP · 12 PCHI
  3. 12Alexei SmirnovL52 GP · 6 PANA
  4. 15Artem KriukovCBUF
  5. 20Alex FrolovL579 GP · 397 PLAK
  6. 21Anton VolchenkovD696 GP · 133 POTT
  7. 31Ilya NikulinDATL
  8. 34Ruslan ZainullinRTBL
  9. 44Ilya BryzgalovG465 GP · 221 WANA
  10. 50Sergei SoinFCOL

+ 30 more

Every pick from Russia in the 2000 draft

After the draft

The road to the NHL

Alexei Smirnov made his NHL debut on October 10, 2002, 2 years and 108 days after the draft.

52
Games
3
Goals
3
Assists
6
Points

NHL regular season to date.

The team's draft

Anaheim Ducks picks in the 2000 draft

  1. 12Alexei SmirnovL52 GP · 6 PANA
  2. 44Ilya BryzgalovG465 GP · 221 WANA
  3. 98Jonas RönnqvistR38 GP · 4 PANA
  4. 134Peter PodhradskyDANA
  5. 153Bill CassDANA