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2022 NHL Draft

Juraj Slafkovský in the 2022 NHL Draft

Montréal Canadiens selected Juraj Slafkovský first overall in the 2022 NHL Draft.

He was the first of the 6 Slovaks selected that year. It was the first of the 11 picks Montréal Canadiens made in the draft. Of the 225 players selected in 2022, 83 have played in the NHL regular season. None of them has played more games than his 300, and none has scored more points than his 196.

Overall pick
1
Round and pick
Round 1, pick 1
Drafting team
MTLMontréal Canadiens
Date
Age at the draft
18 years

The picks around it

Picks 1–4 in the 2022 draft

  1. 1Juraj SlafkovskýL300 GP · 196 PMTL
  2. 2Simon NemecD173 GP · 55 PNJD
  3. 3Logan CooleyC229 GP · 173 PARI
  4. 4Shane WrightC187 GP · 82 PSEA

Games and points are NHL regular season to date.

The 2022 NHL Draft

Place in the draft class

Where he came in the 2022 class

1st
of 6 Slovaks selected
1st
of 132 forwards selected

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

First Slovaks selected

  1. 1Juraj SlafkovskýL300 GP · 196 PMTL
  2. 2Simon NemecD173 GP · 55 PNJD
  3. 26Filip MesarRMTL
  4. 63Adam SykoraL11 GP · 4 PNYR
  5. 185Servac PetrovskyCMIN
  6. 204Adam ZlnkaRARI
Every pick from Slovakia in the 2022 draft

After the draft

The road to the NHL

Juraj Slafkovský made his NHL debut on October 12, 2022, 97 days after the draft.

300
Games
74
Goals
122
Assists
196
Points

NHL regular season to date.

The team's draft

Montréal Canadiens picks in the 2022 draft

  1. 1Juraj SlafkovskýL300 GP · 196 PMTL
  2. 26Filip MesarRMTL
  3. 33Owen BeckC34 GP · 5 PMTL
  4. 62Lane HutsonD184 GP · 164 PMTL
  5. 75Vinzenz RohrerCMTL
  6. 92Adam EngströmD27 GP · 3 PMTL
  7. 127Cedrick GuindonLMTL
  8. 130Jared DavidsonC10 GP · 1 PMTL
  9. 162Emmett CroteauGMTL
  10. 194Petteri NurmiDMTL
  11. 216Miguël TourignyDMTL