10 Years of Drafts

1997
Top 5: 1 Boston Joe Thornton 2 San Jose Patrick Marleau 3 Los Angeles Olli Jokinen 4 NY Islanders Roberto Luongo 5 NY Islanders Eric Brewer
Other Notables: Marian Hossa(12th), Scott Hannan (23rd), Brendan Morrow (25th), Kristian Huselius (47th), Maxim Afiniganov (69th), Petr Sykora (76th), Joe Corvo (83rd), Kyle Calder (130th), Mike York (136th)

1998
Top 5: 1 Tampa Bay Vincent Lecavalier 2 Nashville David Legwand 3 San Jose Brad Stuart 4 Vancouver Bryan Allen 5 Anaheim Vitali Vishnevsky
Other Notables: Alex Tanguay (12th), Robin Regehr (19th), Marty Biron (20th), Simon Gagner (22nd), Scott Gomez (27th), Mike Fisher (44th), Brad Richards (64th), Eric Cole (71st), Francois Beauchemin (75th), Brian Gionta (81st)

1999
Top 5: 1 Atlanta Patrik Stefan 2 Vancouver Daniel Sedin 3 Vancouver Henrik Sedin 4 NY Rangers Pavel Brendl 5 NY Islanders Tim Connolly
Other Notables: Martin Havlat (26th), Alex Auld (40th), Jordan Leopold (44th), Niklas Havlid (83rd), Mike Comrie (91st), Ryan Malone (113th), Ryan Miller (138th),

2000
Top 5: 1 NY Islanders Rick DiPietro 2 Atlanta Dany Heatley 3 Minnesota Marian Gaborik
4 Columbus Rostislav Klesla 5 NY Islanders Raffi Torres
Other Notables: Scott Hartnell (6th), Alex Frolov (20th), Anton Volchenkov (21st), Justin Williams (28th), Niklas Kronwall (29th), Lubomir Vishnovsky (118th), Michel Oullett (124th), JM Lilies (159th), Henrik Lundqvist (205th), Matthew Lombardi (215th)

2001
Top 5: 1 Atlanta Ilya Kovalchuk 2 Ottawa Jason Spezza 3 Tampa Bay Alexandr Svitov 4 Florida Stephen Weiss 5 Anaheim Stanislav Chistov
Other Notables: Mike Komisaric(7th), Pascal Leclaire(8th), Dan Hamhuis(12th), Ales Hemsky(13th), Mike Cammalleri(49th), Jason Pominville(55th), Peter Budaj(63rd), Tomas Plekanec(71st), Ray Emery(99th)

2002
Top 5: 1 Columbus Rick Nash 2 Atlanta Kari Lehtonen 3 Florida Jay Bouwmeester 4 Philadelphia Joni Pitkanen 5 Pittsburgh Ryan Whitney
Other Notables: Scott Upshall(6th), Joffrey Lupal(7th), Alex Semin(13th), Chris Higgins(14th), Cam Ward(25th), Matthew Lomardi(90th), Kris Newbury(139th),

2003
Top 5: 1 Pittsburgh Marc-Andre Fleury 2 Carolina Eric Staal 3 Florida Nathan Horton 4 Columbus Nikolai Zherdev 5 Buffalo Thomas Vanek
Other Notables: Milan Michalek(6th), Dion Phanuef(9th), Zach Parise(17th), Ryan Getzlaf(19th), Mike Richards(24th), Correy Perry(28th), Joe Pavelski(204th), Tobias Enstrom(239th), Nick Tarnasky(287th)

2004
Top 5: 1 Washington Alexander Ovechkin 2 Pittsburgh Evgeni Malkin 3 Chicago Cam Barker 4 Carolina Andrew Ladd 5 Phoenix Blake Wheeler
Other Notables: Alex Picard(8th), Alex Radulov(15th), Travis Zajac(20th), Wojtek Wolski(21st), Andre Meszaros(23rd), Johan Franzen(97th), Dustin Boyd(98th), Kris Versteeg(134th), Chris Campolli(227th), Mark Streit(262nd)

2005
Top 5: 1 Pittsburgh Sidney Crosby 2 Anaheim Bobby Ryan 3 Carolina Jack Johnson 4 Minnesota Benoit Pouliot 5 Mtl. Canadiens Carey Price
Other Notables: Gilbert Brule(6th), Devin Setogucci(8th), Anze Kopitar(11th), Marc Staal(12th), Andrew Cogliano(24th), Steve Downie(29th), Paul Stasny(44th), Guillaume Latendresse(45th), Dan Collins(90th), Anton Stralman(216th)

2006
Top 5: 1 St. Louis Erik Johnson 2 Pittsburgh Jordan Staal 3 Chicago Jonathan Toews 4 Washington Nicklas Backstrom 5 Boston Phil Kessel
Other Notables: Peter Mueller(8th), Bob Sangiunetti(21st), Nick Foligno(28th) & not much elsed, bad draft year.

2007
Top 5: 1 Chicago Patrick Kane 2 Philadelphia James Van Riemsdyk 3 Phoenix Kyle Turris 4 Los Angeles Thomas Hickey 5 Washington Karl Alzner
Other Notables: Sam Gagner(6th), Alex Cherpanov(17th), Angelo Esposito(20th) ...still very early!