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2023 NHL Draft

Aydar Suniev in the 2023 NHL Draft

Calgary Flames selected Aydar Suniev 80th overall in the 2023 NHL Draft, with the 16th pick of round 3.

He was the sixth of the 19 Russians selected that year. It was the third of the 6 picks Calgary Flames made in the draft. Of the 224 players selected in 2023, 48 have played in the NHL regular season. His 21 games put him 29th in the class.

Overall pick
80
Round and pick
Round 3, pick 16
Drafting team
CGYCalgary Flames
Date
Age at the draft
18 years

The picks around it

Picks 77–83 in the 2023 draft

  1. 77Mathieu CatafordCVGK
  2. 78Koehn ZiemmerRLAK
  3. 79Brad GardinerCDAL
  4. 80Aydar SunievL21 GP · 6 PCGY
  5. 81Tanner LudtkeCARI
  6. 82Zach NehringRWPG
  7. 83Dylan MacKinnonDNSH

Games and points are NHL regular season to date.

The 2023 NHL Draft

Place in the draft class

Where he came in the 2023 class

6th
of 19 Russians selected
56th
of 129 forwards selected

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

First Russians selected

  1. 6Dmitri SimashevD45 GP · 6 PARI
  2. 7Matvei MichkovR179 GP · 127 PPHI
  3. 12Daniil ButL42 GP · 11 PARI
  4. 31Mikhail GulyayevDCOL
  5. 44Roman KantserovR17 GP · 10 PCHI
  6. 80Aydar SunievL21 GP · 6 PCGY
  7. 87Egor ZavraginGPHI
  8. 100Alexander RykovRCAR
  9. 110Bogdan KonyushkovDMTL
  10. 126Stanislav YarovoiRCAR

+ 9 more

Every pick from Russia in the 2023 draft

After the draft

The road to the NHL

Aydar Suniev made his NHL debut on April 17, 2025, 1 year and 292 days after the draft.

21
Games
4
Goals
2
Assists
6
Points

NHL regular season to date.

The team's draft

Calgary Flames picks in the 2023 draft

  1. 16Samuel HonzekL27 GP · 4 PCGY
  2. 48Etienne MorinDCGY
  3. 80Aydar SunievL21 GP · 6 PCGY
  4. 112Jaden LipinskiCCGY
  5. 176Yegor YegorovGCGY
  6. 208Axel HurtigDCGY