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2006 NHL Draft

Ivan Vishnevskiy in the 2006 NHL Draft

Dallas Stars selected Ivan Vishnevskiy 27th overall in the 2006 NHL Draft.

He was the second of the 15 Russians selected that year. It was the first of the 5 picks Dallas Stars made in the draft. Of the 213 players selected in 2006, 91 have played in the NHL regular season. His 5 games put him 78th in the class.

Overall pick
27
Round and pick
Round 1, pick 27
Drafting team
DALDallas Stars
Date
Age at the draft
18 years

The picks around it

Picks 24–30 in the 2006 draft

  1. 24Dennis PerssonDBUF
  2. 25Patrik BerglundC717 GP · 326 PSTL
  3. 26Leland IrvingG13 GP · 3 WCGY
  4. 27Ivan VishnevskiyD5 GP · 2 PDAL
  5. 28Nick FolignoL1290 GP · 613 POTT
  6. 29Chris SummersD70 GP · 9 PPHX
  7. 30Matthew CorrenteD34 GP · 6 PNJD

Games and points are NHL regular season to date.

The 2006 NHL Draft

Place in the draft class

Where he came in the 2006 class

2nd
of 15 Russians selected
7th
of 65 defensemen selected

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

First Russians selected

  1. 23Semyon VarlamovG626 GP · 290 WWSH
  2. 27Ivan VishnevskiyD5 GP · 2 PDAL
  3. 33Igor MakarovRCHI
  4. 37Yury AlexandrovDBOS
  5. 44Nikolay KuleminL669 GP · 274 PTOR
  6. 54Artem AnisimovC771 GP · 376 PNYR
  7. 55Denis BodrovDPHI
  8. 58Alexander VasyunovL18 GP · 5 PNJD
  9. 67Kirill TulupovDNJD
  10. 77Vladimir ZharkovR82 GP · 14 PNJD

+ 5 more

Every pick from Russia in the 2006 draft

After the draft

The road to the NHL

Ivan Vishnevskiy made his NHL debut on April 7, 2009, 2 years and 287 days after the draft.

5
Games
0
Goals
2
Assists
2
Points

NHL regular season to date.

The team's draft

Dallas Stars picks in the 2006 draft

  1. 27Ivan VishnevskiyD5 GP · 2 PDAL
  2. 90Aaron SnowLDAL
  3. 120Richard BachmanG48 GP · 20 WDAL
  4. 138David McIntyreC7 GP · 2 PDAL
  5. 150Max WarnLDAL