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2002 NHL Draft

Valtteri Filppula in the 2002 NHL Draft

Detroit Red Wings selected Valtteri Filppula 95th overall in the 2002 NHL Draft, with the 32nd pick of round 3.

He was the seventh of the 26 Finns selected that year. It was the third of the 10 picks Detroit Red Wings made in the draft. Of the 290 players selected in 2002, 104 have played in the NHL regular season. Only 4 of them have played more games than his 1056, and only 3 have scored more points than his 530.

Overall pick
95
Round and pick
Round 3, pick 32
Drafting team
DETDetroit Red Wings
Date
Age at the draft
18 years

The picks around it

Picks 92–98 in the 2002 draft

  1. 92Derek KrestanovichCWSH
  2. 93Alexander KojevnikovLCHI
  3. 94Eric LundbergDCOL
  4. 95Valtteri FilppulaC1056 GP · 530 PDET
  5. 96Jeff GenovyCCBJ
  6. 97Lance MonychRPHX
  7. 98Ivan TkachenkoFCBJ

Games and points are NHL regular season to date.

The 2002 NHL Draft

Place in the draft class

Where he came in the 2002 class

7th
of 26 Finns selected
54th
of 165 forwards selected

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

First Finns selected

  1. 2Kari LehtonenG648 GP · 310 WATL
  2. 4Joni PitkanenD535 GP · 282 PPHI
  3. 15Jesse NiinimakiCEDM
  4. 22Sean BergenheimL506 GP · 180 PNYI
  5. 29Hannu ToivonenG61 GP · 18 WBOS
  6. 75Arttu LuttinenFOTT
  7. 95Valtteri FilppulaC1056 GP · 530 PDET
  8. 103Joonas VihkoFANA
  9. 107Mikko KaltevaDCOL
  10. 110Jarkko A. ImmonenCDAL

+ 16 more

Every pick from Finland in the 2002 draft

After the draft

The road to the NHL

Valtteri Filppula made his NHL debut on December 15, 2005, 3 years and 176 days after the draft.

1056
Games
197
Goals
333
Assists
530
Points

NHL regular season to date.

The team's draft

Detroit Red Wings picks in the 2002 draft

  1. 58Jiri HudlerR708 GP · 428 PDET
  2. 63Tomas FleischmannL657 GP · 335 PDET
  3. 95Valtteri FilppulaC1056 GP · 530 PDET
  4. 131Johan BerggrenDDET
  5. 166Logan KoopmansGDET
  6. 197James CuddihyCDET
  7. 229Derek MeechD144 GP · 17 PDET
  8. 260Pierre-Olivier BeaulieuDDET
  9. 262Christian SoderstromFDET
  10. 291Jonathan EricssonD680 GP · 125 PDET