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1998 NHL Draft

Andrei Markov in the 1998 NHL Draft

Montréal Canadiens selected Andrei Markov 162nd overall in the 1998 NHL Draft, with the 17th pick of round 6.

He was the twelfth of the 21 Russians selected that year. It was the sixth of the 10 picks Montréal Canadiens made in the draft. Of the 258 players selected in 1998, 132 have played in the NHL regular season. His 990 games put him 14th in the class, but only 10 have scored more points than his 572.

Overall pick
162
Round and pick
Round 6, pick 17
Drafting team
MTLMontréal Canadiens
Date
Age at the draft
19 years

The picks around it

Picks 159–165 in the 1998 draft

  1. 159Trevor EttingerDEDM
  2. 160Rickard WallinC79 GP · 19 PPHX
  3. 161Chris NeilR1026 GP · 250 POTT
  4. 162Andrei MarkovD990 GP · 572 PMTL
  5. 163Tomas ZizkaD25 GP · 8 PLAK
  6. 164Ales KotalikR542 GP · 284 PBUF
  7. 165Ryan MilanovicLBOS

Games and points are NHL regular season to date.

The 1998 NHL Draft

Place in the draft class

Where he came in the 1998 class

12th
of 21 Russians selected
52nd
of 79 defensemen selected

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

First Russians selected

  1. 18Dmitri KalininD539 GP · 162 PBUF
  2. 31Artem ChubarovC228 GP · 58 PVAN
  3. 54Alexander ZevakhinRPIT
  4. 60Denis ArkhipovC352 GP · 138 PNSH
  5. 72Dimitri AfanasenkovL227 GP · 54 PTBL
  6. 76Alexey VolkovGNo NHL gamesLAK
  7. 101Petr SchastlivyL129 GP · 40 POTT
  8. 119Anton ButLNJD
  9. 132Andrei BashkirovL30 GP · 3 PMTL
  10. 144Oleg SmirnovLEDM

+ 11 more

Every pick from Russia in the 1998 draft

After the draft

The road to the NHL

Andrei Markov made his NHL debut on October 6, 2000, 2 years and 101 days after the draft.

990
Games
119
Goals
453
Assists
572
Points

NHL regular season to date.

The team's draft

Montréal Canadiens picks in the 1998 draft

  1. 16Eric ChouinardC90 GP · 22 PMTL
  2. 45Mike RibeiroC1074 GP · 793 PMTL
  3. 75Francois BeaucheminD903 GP · 288 PMTL
  4. 132Andrei BashkirovL30 GP · 3 PMTL
  5. 152Gordie DwyerL108 GP · 5 PMTL
  6. 162Andrei MarkovD990 GP · 572 PMTL
  7. 189Andrei KruchininDMTL
  8. 201Craig MurrayCMTL
  9. 216Michael RyderR806 GP · 484 PMTL
  10. 247Darcy HarrisRMTL