Hockey East in the Nhl Draft
HOCKEY EAST IN THE NHL DRAFT NHL Draftees in Hockey East The NHL draft has become an annual flag-waving ceremony for Hockey East as the number of NHL prospects playing in the Boston College NHL Team Rd. Pick Year league continues to grow. Nearly 50 NHL draftees are slated to Matthew Boldy (Fr., F) Minnesota 1st 12 2019 suit up for Hockey East teams for the upcoming 2019-20 season, David Cotton (Sr., F) Carolina 6th 169 2015 while 27 current and future Hockey East student-athletes were Ben Finkelstein (Sr., D) Florida 7th 195 2016 Drew Helleson (Fr., F) Colorado 2nd 47 2019 selected in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft alone. Logan Hutsko (Jr., F) Florida 3rd 89 2018 Hockey East boasted a league-record five first-round selec- Michael Karrow (Jr., D) Arizona 5th 126 2017 tions in 1986 and 2016, to go along four first-rounders in 2000, Alumni Spencer Knight (Fr., G) Florida 1st 13 2019 2018, and 2019 and three in 2007 and 2015. Boston University’s Jack McBain (So., F) Minnesota 3rd 63 2018 Rick DiPietro is one of only three goalies in NHL history to be Graham McPhee (Sr., F) Edmonton 5th 149 2016 Alex Newhook (Fr., F) Colorado 1st 16 2019 taken first overall (by the New York Islanders in 2000) highlight- Aapeli Rasanen (Jr., F) Edmonton 6th 152 2016 ing a group of 49 Hockey East players who were selected in the Marshall Warren (Fr., D) Minnestoa 6th 166 2019 first round. Nearly 700 NHL draft picks have played in Hockey East in the 35-year history of the league.
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