2001 NHL Draft

Tomas Plekanec in the 2001 NHL Draft

Montréal Canadiens selected Tomas Plekanec 71st overall in the 2001 NHL Draft, with the 8th pick of round 3.

He was the seventh of the 31 Czechs selected that year. It was the fourth of the 8 picks Montréal Canadiens made in the draft. Of the 289 players selected in 2001, 126 have played in the NHL regular season. Only 4 of them have played more games than his 1001, and only 6 have scored more points than his 608.

Overall pick: 71
Round and pick: Round 3, pick 8
Drafting team: MTLMontréal Canadiens
Date: June 23, 2001
Age at the draft: 18 years

The picks around it

Picks 68–74 in the 2001 draft

68Grant McNeillD3 GP · 0 PFLAFlorida Panthers
69Joel SteppFANAAnaheim Ducks
70Yared HagosCDALDallas Stars
71Tomas PlekanecC1001 GP · 608 PMTLMontréal Canadiens
72Brandon NolanC6 GP · 1 PNJDNew Jersey Devils
73Craig AndersonG709 GP · 319 WCHIChicago Blackhawks
74Chris HeidDMINMinnesota Wild

Games and points are NHL regular season to date.

The 2001 NHL Draft

Place in the draft class

Where he came in the 2001 class

7th

of 31 Czechs selected

44th

of 159 forwards selected

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

First Czechs selected

13Ales HemskyR845 GP · 572 PEDMEdmonton Oilers
22Jiri NovotnyC189 GP · 51 PBUFBuffalo Sabres
24Lukas KrajicekD328 GP · 72 PFLAFlorida Panthers
39Karel PilarD90 GP · 30 PTORToronto Maple Leafs
45Martin PodlesakCPHXPhoenix Coyotes
51Jaroslav BednarC102 GP · 35 PLAKLos Angeles Kings
71Tomas PlekanecC1001 GP · 608 PMTLMontréal Canadiens
126Daniel VolrabCDALDallas Stars
129Miroslav BlatakDDETDetroit Red Wings
132Dusan SalfickyGNo NHL gamesNYINew York Islanders

+ 21 more

Every pick from Czechia in the 2001 draft

After the draft

The road to the NHL

Tomas Plekanec made his NHL debut on December 31, 2003, 2 years and 191 days after the draft.

1001

Games

233

Goals

375

Assists

608

Points

NHL regular season to date.

The team's draft

Montréal Canadiens picks in the 2001 draft

7Mike KomisarekD551 GP · 81 PMTLMontréal Canadiens
25Alexander PerezhoginR128 GP · 34 PMTLMontréal Canadiens
37Duncan MilroyR5 GP · 1 PMTLMontréal Canadiens
71Tomas PlekanecC1001 GP · 608 PMTLMontréal Canadiens
109Martti JarventieD1 GP · 0 PMTLMontréal Canadiens
171Eric HimelfarbCMTLMontréal Canadiens
203Andrew ArcherDMTLMontréal Canadiens
266Viktor UjcikFMTLMontréal Canadiens