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2018 NHL Draft

Vitali Kravtsov in the 2018 NHL Draft

New York Rangers selected Vitali Kravtsov 9th overall in the 2018 NHL Draft.

He was the second of the 19 Russians selected that year. It was the first of the 10 picks New York Rangers made in the draft. Of the 217 players selected in 2018, 99 have played in the NHL regular season. His 64 games put him 61st in the class.

Overall pick
9
Round and pick
Round 1, pick 9
Drafting team
NYRNew York Rangers
Date
Age at the draft
18 years

The picks around it

Picks 6–12 in the 2018 draft

  1. 6Filip ZadinaR262 GP · 91 PDET
  2. 7Quinn HughesD526 GP · 511 PVAN
  3. 8Adam BoqvistD272 GP · 103 PCHI
  4. 9Vitali KravtsovR64 GP · 12 PNYR
  5. 10Evan BouchardD446 GP · 363 PEDM
  6. 11Oliver WahlstromR236 GP · 73 PNYI
  7. 12Noah DobsonD485 GP · 285 PNYI

Games and points are NHL regular season to date.

The 2018 NHL Draft

Place in the draft class

Where he came in the 2018 class

2nd
of 19 Russians selected
6th
of 118 forwards selected

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

First Russians selected

  1. 2Andrei SvechnikovR576 GP · 451 PCAR
  2. 9Vitali KravtsovR64 GP · 12 PNYR
  3. 15Grigori DenisenkoL33 GP · 7 PFLA
  4. 31Alexander AlexeyevD80 GP · 8 PWSH
  5. 38Alexander RomanovD372 GP · 84 PMTL
  6. 43Ruslan IskhakovC1 GP · 1 PNYI
  7. 49Kirill MarchenkoR306 GP · 222 PCBJ
  8. 61Ivan MorozovCVGK
  9. 76Semyon Der-ArguchintsevC1 GP · 0 PTOR
  10. 82Bulat ShafigullinLLAK

+ 9 more

Every pick from Russia in the 2018 draft

After the draft

The road to the NHL

Vitali Kravtsov made his NHL debut on April 3, 2021, 2 years and 285 days after the draft.

64
Games
6
Goals
6
Assists
12
Points

NHL regular season to date.

The team's draft

New York Rangers picks in the 2018 draft

  1. 9Vitali KravtsovR64 GP · 12 PNYR
  2. 22K'Andre MillerD459 GP · 175 PNYR
  3. 28Nils LundkvistD252 GP · 58 PNYR
  4. 39Olof LindbomGNYR
  5. 70Jacob RagnarssonDNYR
  6. 88Joey KeaneD2 GP · 0 PNYR
  7. 101Nico GrossDNYR
  8. 132Lauri PajuniemiRNYR
  9. 163Simon KjellbergDNYR
  10. 216Riley HughesRNYR