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1998 NHL Draft

Pavel Patera in the 1998 NHL Draft

Dallas Stars selected Pavel Patera 153rd overall in the 1998 NHL Draft, with the 8th pick of round 6.

He was the eleventh of the 21 Czechs selected that year. It was the fourth of the 6 picks Dallas Stars made in the draft. Of the 258 players selected in 1998, 132 have played in the NHL regular season. His 32 games put him 95th in the class.

Overall pick
153
Round and pick
Round 6, pick 8
Drafting team
DALDallas Stars
Date
Age at the draft
26 years

The picks around it

Picks 150–156 in the 1998 draft

  1. 150Trent HunterR497 GP · 236 PANA
  2. 151Adam DeleeuwLDET
  3. 152Gordie DwyerL108 GP · 5 PMTL
  4. 153Pavel PateraL32 GP · 9 PDAL
  5. 154Allan RourkeD55 GP · 5 PTOR
  6. 155Kevin ClausonDNYI
  7. 156Kent HuskinsD318 GP · 68 PCHI

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

11th
of 21 Czechs selected
93rd
of 156 forwards selected

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

First Czechs selected

  1. 17Martin SkoulaD776 GP · 196 PCOL
  2. 23Milan KraftC207 GP · 82 PPIT
  3. 25Jiri FischerD305 GP · 60 PDET
  4. 35Petr SvobodaD18 GP · 3 PTOR
  5. 50Jaroslav KristekR6 GP · 0 PBUF
  6. 91Josef VasicekC460 GP · 183 PCAR
  7. 117Jaroslav SpacekD880 GP · 355 PFLA
  8. 123Jiri DopitaC73 GP · 33 PNYI
  9. 129Robert SchnabelD22 GP · 3 PPHX
  10. 131Tomas KloucekD141 GP · 10 PNYR

+ 11 more

Every pick from Czechia in the 1998 draft

After the draft

The road to the NHL

Pavel Patera made his NHL debut on October 1, 1999, 1 year and 96 days after the draft.

32
Games
2
Goals
7
Assists
9
Points

NHL regular season to date.

The team's draft

Dallas Stars picks in the 1998 draft

  1. 39John ErskineD491 GP · 54 PDAL
  2. 57Tyler BouckL91 GP · 12 PDAL
  3. 86Gabriel KarlssonCDAL
  4. 153Pavel PateraL32 GP · 9 PDAL
  5. 173Niko KapanenC397 GP · 126 PDAL
  6. 200Scott PerryCDAL