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2008 NHL Draft

Evgeny Grachev in the 2008 NHL Draft

New York Rangers selected Evgeny Grachev 75th overall in the 2008 NHL Draft, with the 14th pick of round 3.

He was the fifth of the 8 Russians selected that year. It was the third of the 7 picks New York Rangers made in the draft. Of the 211 players selected in 2008, 107 have played in the NHL regular season. His 34 games put him 82nd in the class.

Overall pick
75
Round and pick
Round 3, pick 14
Drafting team
NYRNew York Rangers
Date
Age at the draft
18 years

The picks around it

Picks 72–78 in the 2008 draft

  1. 72Jyri NiemiDNYI
  2. 73Kirill PetrovRNYI
  3. 74Andrew CampbellD42 GP · 2 PLAK
  4. 75Evgeny GrachevC34 GP · 4 PNYR
  5. 76Mathieu BrodeurDPHX
  6. 77Michael HutchinsonG154 GP · 57 WBOS
  7. 78Lance BoumaL357 GP · 76 PCGY

Games and points are NHL regular season to date.

The 2008 NHL Draft

Place in the draft class

Where he came in the 2008 class

5th
of 8 Russians selected
39th
of 110 forwards selected

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

First Russians selected

  1. 6Nikita FilatovL53 GP · 14 PCBJ
  2. 32Slava VoynovD190 GP · 81 PLAK
  3. 58Dmitri KugryshevRWSH
  4. 73Kirill PetrovRNYI
  5. 75Evgeny GrachevC34 GP · 4 PNYR
  6. 123Andrei LoktionovC155 GP · 48 PLAK
  7. 138Maxim TrunevFMTL
  8. 150Alexander PechurskiyG1 GP · 0 WPIT
Every pick from Russia in the 2008 draft

After the draft

The road to the NHL

Evgeny Grachev made his NHL debut on October 29, 2010, 2 years and 130 days after the draft.

34
Games
1
Goals
3
Assists
4
Points

NHL regular season to date.

The team's draft

New York Rangers picks in the 2008 draft

  1. 20Michael Del ZottoD736 GP · 262 PNYR
  2. 51Derek StepanC890 GP · 515 PNYR
  3. 75Evgeny GrachevC34 GP · 4 PNYR
  4. 90Tomas KundratekD30 GP · 7 PNYR
  5. 111Dale WeiseR513 GP · 125 PNYR
  6. 141Chris DoyleCNYR
  7. 171Mitch GaultonDNYR