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2009 NHL Draft

Tomas Tatar in the 2009 NHL Draft

Detroit Red Wings selected Tomas Tatar 60th overall in the 2009 NHL Draft, with the 30th pick of round 2.

He was the second of the 5 Slovaks selected that year. It was the second of the 7 picks Detroit Red Wings made in the draft. Of the 210 players selected in 2009, 116 have played in the NHL regular season. His 927 games put him 21st in the class.

Overall pick
60
Round and pick
Round 2, pick 30
Drafting team
DETDetroit Red Wings
Date
Age at the draft
18 years

The picks around it

Picks 57–63 in the 2009 draft

  1. 57Taylor DohertyDSJS
  2. 58Jesse BlackerD1 GP · 0 PTOR
  3. 59Brandon PirriC276 GP · 121 PCHI
  4. 60Tomas TatarL927 GP · 496 PDET
  5. 61Philip SamuelssonD13 GP · 0 PPIT
  6. 62Anders NilssonG161 GP · 59 WNYI
  7. 63Ben HanowskiR16 GP · 3 PPIT

Games and points are NHL regular season to date.

The 2009 NHL Draft

Place in the draft class

Where he came in the 2009 class

2nd
of 5 Slovaks selected
36th
of 119 forwards selected

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

First Slovaks selected

  1. 52Richard PanikR521 GP · 195 PTBL
  2. 60Tomas TatarL927 GP · 496 PDET
  3. 136Radoslav IlloCANA
  4. 162Jaroslav JanusGTBL
  5. 189Marek ViedenskyCSJS
Every pick from Slovakia in the 2009 draft

After the draft

The road to the NHL

Tomas Tatar made his NHL debut on December 31, 2010, 1 year and 187 days after the draft.

927
Games
227
Goals
269
Assists
496
Points

NHL regular season to date.

The team's draft

Detroit Red Wings picks in the 2009 draft

  1. 32Landon FerraroC77 GP · 12 PDET
  2. 60Tomas TatarL927 GP · 496 PDET
  3. 75Andrej NestrasilC128 GP · 48 PDET
  4. 90Gleason FournierDDET
  5. 150Nick JensenD697 GP · 174 PDET
  6. 180Mitch CallahanR5 GP · 0 PDET
  7. 210Adam AlmquistD2 GP · 1 PDET