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1996 NHL Draft

Xavier Delisle in the 1996 NHL Draft

Tampa Bay Lightning selected Xavier Delisle 157th overall in the 1996 NHL Draft, with the 22nd pick of round 6.

It was the fifth of the 6 picks Tampa Bay Lightning made in the draft. Of the 241 players selected in 1996, 99 have played in the NHL regular season. His 16 games put him 81st in the class.

Overall pick
157
Round and pick
Round 6, pick 22
Drafting team
TBLTampa Bay Lightning
Date
Age at the draft
19 years

The picks around it

Picks 154–160 in the 1996 draft

  1. 154Brett ClarkD689 GP · 186 PMTL
  2. 155Chris LaneDBOS
  3. 156Gaetan PoirierLFLA
  4. 157Xavier DelisleC16 GP · 5 PTBL
  5. 158Ola SandbergDNYR
  6. 159Stephen WagnerGSTL
  7. 160Kai FischerGCOL

Games and points are NHL regular season to date.

The 1996 NHL Draft

Place in the draft class

Where he came in the 1996 class

157th
of 241 players selected
90th
of 138 forwards selected

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

First off the board

  1. 1Chris PhillipsD1179 GP · 288 POTT
  2. 2Andrei ZyuzinD496 GP · 120 PSJS
  3. 3J-P DumontR822 GP · 523 PNYI
  4. 4Alexander VolchkovL3 GP · 0 PWSH
  5. 5Ric JackmanD231 GP · 77 PDAL
  6. 6Boyd DevereauxC627 GP · 179 PEDM
  7. 7Erik RasmussenC545 GP · 128 PBUF
  8. 8Johnathan AitkenD44 GP · 1 PBOS
  9. 9Ruslan SaleiD917 GP · 204 PANA
  10. 10Lance WardR209 GP · 16 PNJD

+ 231 more

The 1996 NHL Draft

After the draft

The road to the NHL

Xavier Delisle made his NHL debut on February 13, 1999, 2 years and 236 days after the draft.

16
Games
3
Goals
2
Assists
5
Points

NHL regular season to date.

The team's draft

Tampa Bay Lightning picks in the 1996 draft

  1. 16Mario LarocqueD5 GP · 0 PTBL
  2. 69Curtis TiplerRTBL
  3. 125Jason RobinsonDTBL
  4. 152Nikolai IgnatovDTBL
  5. 157Xavier DelisleC16 GP · 5 PTBL
  6. 179Pavel KubinaD970 GP · 386 PTBL