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1996 NHL Draft

Pavel Kubina in the 1996 NHL Draft

Tampa Bay Lightning selected Pavel Kubina 179th overall in the 1996 NHL Draft, with the 17th pick of round 7.

He was the ninth of the 11 Czechs selected that year. It was the sixth and last of the 6 picks Tampa Bay Lightning made in the draft. Of the 241 players selected in 1996, 99 have played in the NHL regular season. Only 7 of them have played more games than his 970, and only 9 have scored more points than his 386.

Overall pick
179
Round and pick
Round 7, pick 17
Drafting team
TBLTampa Bay Lightning
Date
Age at the draft
19 years

The picks around it

Picks 176–182 in the 1996 draft

  1. 176Samuel PåhlssonC798 GP · 199 PCOL
  2. 177Reed LowR256 GP · 19 PSTL
  3. 178Reggie BergCTOR
  4. 179Pavel KubinaD970 GP · 386 PTBL
  5. 180Michael AndersonRWSH
  6. 181Timo VertalaLMTL
  7. 182Thomas BrownDBOS

Games and points are NHL regular season to date.

The 1996 NHL Draft

Place in the draft class

Where he came in the 1996 class

9th
of 11 Czechs selected
60th
of 80 defensemen selected

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

First Czechs selected

  1. 17Jaroslav SvejkovskyR113 GP · 42 PWSH
  2. 28Pavel SkrbekD12 GP · 0 PPIT
  3. 36Marek PosmykD19 GP · 3 PTOR
  4. 43Jan BulisC552 GP · 245 PWSH
  5. 105Michal RozsivalD963 GP · 309 PPIT
  6. 122Josef StrakaCCGY
  7. 128Petr SachlCNYI
  8. 135Michal PodolkaGDET
  9. 179Pavel KubinaD970 GP · 386 PTBL
  10. 188Roman PylnerCCOL

+ 1 more

Every pick from Czechia in the 1996 draft

After the draft

The road to the NHL

Pavel Kubina made his NHL debut on March 14, 1998, 1 year and 265 days after the draft.

970
Games
110
Goals
276
Assists
386
Points

NHL regular season to date.

The team's draft

Tampa Bay Lightning picks in the 1996 draft

  1. 16Mario LarocqueD5 GP · 0 PTBL
  2. 69Curtis TiplerRTBL
  3. 125Jason RobinsonDTBL
  4. 152Nikolai IgnatovDTBL
  5. 157Xavier DelisleC16 GP · 5 PTBL
  6. 179Pavel KubinaD970 GP · 386 PTBL