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2000 NHL Draft

Rick DiPietro in the 2000 NHL Draft

New York Islanders selected Rick DiPietro first overall in the 2000 NHL Draft.

It was the first of the 9 picks New York Islanders made in the draft. Of the 293 players selected in 2000, 118 have played in the NHL regular season. His 317 games put him 41st in the class.

Overall pick
1
Round and pick
Round 1, pick 1
Drafting team
NYINew York Islanders
Date
Age at the draft
18 years

The picks around it

Picks 1–4 in the 2000 draft

  1. 1Rick DiPietroG317 GP · 130 WNYI
  2. 2Dany HeatleyL869 GP · 791 PATL
  3. 3Marian GaborikR1035 GP · 815 PMIN
  4. 4Rostislav KleslaD659 GP · 159 PCBJ

Games and points are NHL regular season to date.

The 2000 NHL Draft

Place in the draft class

Where he came in the 2000 class

1st
of 293 players selected
1st
of 32 goaltenders selected

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

First off the board

  1. 1Rick DiPietroG317 GP · 130 WNYI
  2. 2Dany HeatleyL869 GP · 791 PATL
  3. 3Marian GaborikR1035 GP · 815 PMIN
  4. 4Rostislav KleslaD659 GP · 159 PCBJ
  5. 5Raffi TorresL635 GP · 260 PNYI
  6. 6Scott HartnellL1249 GP · 707 PNSH
  7. 7Lars JonssonD8 GP · 2 PBOS
  8. 8Nikita AlexeevR159 GP · 37 PTBL
  9. 9Brent KrahnG1 GP · 0 WCGY
  10. 10Mikhail YakubovC53 GP · 12 PCHI

+ 283 more

The 2000 NHL Draft

After the draft

The road to the NHL

Rick DiPietro made his NHL debut on January 27, 2001, 217 days after the draft.

317
Games
130
Wins
16
Shutouts
.902
Save %

NHL regular season to date.

The team's draft

New York Islanders picks in the 2000 draft

  1. 1Rick DiPietroG317 GP · 130 WNYI
  2. 5Raffi TorresL635 GP · 260 PNYI
  3. 101Arto TukioDNYI
  4. 105Vladimir GorbunovFNYI
  5. 136Dimitri UpperCNYI
  6. 148Kristofer OttossonFNYI
  7. 202Ryan CaldwellD4 GP · 0 PNYI
  8. 264Dimitri AltarevFNYI
  9. 267Tomi PettinenD24 GP · 0 PNYI