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1998 NHL Draft

Nik Antropov in the 1998 NHL Draft

Toronto Maple Leafs selected Nik Antropov 10th overall in the 1998 NHL Draft.

He was the first of the 2 Kazakhs selected that year. It was the first of the 10 picks Toronto Maple Leafs made in the draft. Of the 258 players selected in 1998, 132 have played in the NHL regular season. His 788 games put him 22nd in the class.

Overall pick
10
Round and pick
Round 1, pick 10
Drafting team
TORToronto Maple Leafs
Date
Age at the draft
18 years

The picks around it

Picks 7–13 in the 1998 draft

  1. 7Manny MalhotraC991 GP · 295 PNYR
  2. 8Mark BellC450 GP · 182 PCHI
  3. 9Mike RuppL610 GP · 99 PNYI
  4. 10Nik AntropovC788 GP · 465 PTOR
  5. 11Jeff HeeremaR32 GP · 6 PCAR
  6. 12Alex TanguayL1088 GP · 863 PCOL
  7. 13Michael HenrichREDM

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

1st
of 2 Kazakhs selected
7th
of 156 forwards selected

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

First Kazakhs selected

  1. 10Nik AntropovC788 GP · 465 PTOR
  2. 170Andrei TroschinskyCSTL
Every pick from Kazakhstan in the 1998 draft

After the draft

The road to the NHL

Nik Antropov made his NHL debut on October 13, 1999, 1 year and 108 days after the draft.

788
Games
193
Goals
272
Assists
465
Points

NHL regular season to date.

The team's draft

Toronto Maple Leafs picks in the 1998 draft

  1. 10Nik AntropovC788 GP · 465 PTOR
  2. 35Petr SvobodaD18 GP · 3 PTOR
  3. 69Jamie HodsonGNo NHL gamesTOR
  4. 87Alexei PonikarovskyL678 GP · 323 PTOR
  5. 126Morgan WarrenRTOR
  6. 154Allan RourkeD55 GP · 5 PTOR
  7. 181Jonathan GagnonCTOR
  8. 215Dwight WolfeDTOR
  9. 228Mihail TravnicekLTOR
  10. 236Sergei RostovDTOR