2000 NHL Draft
Nikita Alexeev in the 2000 NHL Draft
Tampa Bay Lightning selected Nikita Alexeev 8th overall in the 2000 NHL Draft.
He was the first of the 40 Russians selected that year. It was the first of the 10 picks Tampa Bay Lightning made in the draft. Of the 293 players selected in 2000, 118 have played in the NHL regular season. His 159 games put him 50th in the class.
- Overall pick
- 8
- Round and pick
- Round 1, pick 8
- Drafting team
- TBLTampa Bay Lightning
- Date
- Age at the draft
- 18 years
The picks around it
Picks 5–11 in the 2000 draft
- 5Raffi TorresL635 GP · 260 PNYINew York Islanders
- 6Scott HartnellL1249 GP · 707 PNSHNashville Predators
- 7Lars JonssonD8 GP · 2 PBOSBoston Bruins
- 8Nikita AlexeevR159 GP · 37 PTBLTampa Bay Lightning
- 9Brent KrahnG1 GP · 0 WCGYCalgary Flames
- 10Mikhail YakubovC53 GP · 12 PCHIChicago Blackhawks
- 11Pavel VorobievR57 GP · 25 PCHIChicago Blackhawks
Games and points are NHL regular season to date.
Place in the draft class
Where he came in the 2000 class
1st
of 40 Russians selected
5th
of 163 forwards selected
Counted in draft order across the whole draft. The position is the one listed at the draft.
First Russians selected
- 8Nikita AlexeevR159 GP · 37 PTBLTampa Bay Lightning
- 10Mikhail YakubovC53 GP · 12 PCHIChicago Blackhawks
- 12Alexei SmirnovL52 GP · 6 PANAAnaheim Ducks
- 15Artem KriukovCBUFBuffalo Sabres
- 20Alex FrolovL579 GP · 397 PLAKLos Angeles Kings
- 21Anton VolchenkovD696 GP · 133 POTTOttawa Senators
- 31Ilya NikulinDATLAtlanta Thrashers
- 34Ruslan ZainullinRTBLTampa Bay Lightning
- 44Ilya BryzgalovG465 GP · 221 WANAAnaheim Ducks
- 50Sergei SoinFCOLColorado Avalanche
+ 30 more
After the draft
The road to the NHL
Nikita Alexeev made his NHL debut on October 7, 2001, 1 year and 105 days after the draft.
159
Games
20
Goals
17
Assists
37
Points
NHL regular season to date.
The team's draft
Tampa Bay Lightning picks in the 2000 draft
- 8Nikita AlexeevR159 GP · 37 PTBLTampa Bay Lightning
- 34Ruslan ZainullinRTBLTampa Bay Lightning
- 81Alexandre KharitonovR71 GP · 22 PTBLTampa Bay Lightning
- 126Johan HagglundCTBLTampa Bay Lightning
- 161Pavel SedovRTBLTampa Bay Lightning
- 191Aaron GionetDTBLTampa Bay Lightning
- 222Marek PriechodskyDTBLTampa Bay Lightning
- 226Brian EklundG1 GP · 0 WTBLTampa Bay Lightning
- 233Alexander PolukeyevGTBLTampa Bay Lightning
- 263Thomas ZieglerC5 GP · 0 PTBLTampa Bay Lightning