2026 NHL Expansion Draft
| 2000 NHL expansion draft | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Date(s) | June 23, 2000 |
| Location | Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| Overview | |
| League | National Hockey League |
| Expansion teams | Columbus Blue Jackets Minnesota Wild |
| Expansion season | 2000–01 |
The 2026 NHL expansion draft was held on June 23, 2026, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The draft took place to fill the rosters of the league's two expansion teams for the 2000–01 season, the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Minnesota Wild.
Rules
26 of the 28 teams existing in the league at the time of the draft were each allowed to protect either one goaltender, five defensemen, and nine forwards or two goaltenders, three defensemen, and seven forwards. The Atlanta Thrashers and Nashville Predators had their entire rosters protected, as they were the two newest franchises in the league, only being in existence for one and two years respectively.
For teams protecting only one goaltender, there was no experience requirement for those left unprotected. For teams protecting two goaltenders, each goaltender left unprotected must have appeared in either 10 NHL games in the 1999–2000 season or 25 games in the 1998–99 season and 1999–2000 seasons combined. A goaltender had to be in net for at least 31 minutes in each game for the game to be counted against these totals.
At least one defense left unprotected by each team had to have appeared in at least 40 games in the 1999–2000 season or 70 games in the 1998–99 season and 1999–2000 seasons combined. At least two forwards left unprotected by each team had to have met the same requirements.
Fifty-two players were chosen in the draft; each previously existing team lost two players, and both expansion teams filled a roster of twenty-six players. Only one goaltender or one defenseman could be selected from each franchise. Both the Blue Jackets and the Wild were to use their first 24 selections on three goaltenders, eight defensemen, and thirteen forwards. The final two picks for each team could be any position.
Protected Players
Anaheim: Leo Carlsson, Sam Colangelo, Lukas Dostal, Cutter Gauthier, Mikael Granlund, Radko Gudas, Drew Helleson, Ville Husso, Ross Johnston, Alex Killorn, Chris Kreider, Jackson LaCombe, Mason McTavish, Pavel Mintyukov, Petr Mrazek, Nikita Nesterenko, Ryan Poehling, Beckett Sennecke, Ryan Strome, Troy Terry, Jacob Trouba, Frank Vatrano, and Olen Zellweger.
Boston: Viktor Arvidsson, John Beecher, Michael Eyssimont, Morgan Geekie, Jordan Harris, Tanner Jeannot, Henri Jokiharju, Mark Kastelic, Marat Khusnutdinov, Joonas Korpisalo, Sean Kuraly, Elias Lindholm, Hampus Lindholm, Mason Lohrei, Charlie McAvoy, Fraser Minten, Casey Mittelstadt, David Pastrnak, Andrew Peeke, Jeremy Swayman, Jeffrey Viel, Pavel Zacha, and Nikita Zadorov.
Buffalo: Zach Benson, Jacob Bryson, Bowen Byram, Rasmus Dahlin, Justin Danforth, Josh Doan, Colten Ellis, Mason Geertsen, Jordan Greenway, Ryan Johnson, Michael Kesselring, Tyson Kozak, Peyton Krebs, Jiri Kulich, Alex Lyon, Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, Beck Malenstyn, Ryan McLeod, Carson Meyer, Josh Norris, Noah Ostlund, Owen Power, Jack Quinn, Mattias Samuelsson, Tage Thompson, Conor Timmins, Alex Tuch, Jason Zucker.
Calgary: Rasmus Andersson, Mikael Backlund, Kevin Bahl, Jake Bean, Blake Coleman, Devin Cooley, Matt Coronato, Joel Farabee, Morgan Frost, Matvei Gridin, Joel Hanley, Samuel Honzek, Nazem Kadri, Justin Kirkland, Adam Klapka, Ryan Lomberg, Daniil Miromanov, Brayden Pachal, Zayne Parekh, Yegor Sharangovich, Mackenzie Weegar, Dustin Wolf, and Connor Zary.
Carolina: Sebastian Aho, Frederik Andersen, Jackson Blake, Brandon Bussi, William Carrier, Jalen Chatfield, Nikolaj Ehlers, Shayne Gostisbehere, Taylor Hall, Mark Jankowski, Seth Jarvis, Pyotr Kochetkov, Jesperi Kotkaniemi, Jordan Martinook, K'Andre Miller, Alexander Nikishin, Mike Reilly, Eric Robinson, Jaccob Slavin, Jordan Staal, Logan Stankoven, Andrei Svechnikov, and Sean Walker.
Chicago: Connor Bedard, Tyler Bertuzzi, Andre Burakovsky, Louis Crevier, Colton Dach, Ethan Del Mastro, Jason Dickinson, Ryan Donato, Nick Foligno, Ryan Greene, Matt Grzelcyk, Wyatt Kaiser, Spencer Knight, Sam Lafferty, Artyom Levshunov, Ilya Mikheyev, Connor Murphy, Frank Nazar, Lukas Reichel, Sam Rinzel, Arvid Soderblom, Teuvo Teravainen, and Alex Vlasic.
Colorado: Jack Ahcan, Zakhar Bardakov, Mackenzie Blackwood, Gavin Brindley, Brent Burns, Ross Colton, Jack Drury, Samuel Girard, Parker Kelly, Joel Kiviranta, Gabriel Landeskog, Artturi Lehkonen, Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar, Sam Malinski, Josh Manson, Trent Miner, Martin Necas, Brock Nelson, Valeri Nichushkin, Victor Olofsson, Devon Toews, and Scott Wedgewood.
Columbus: Zach Aston-Reese, Yegor Chinakhov, Jake Christiansen, Charlie Coyle, Dante Fabbro, Adam Fantilli, Jet Greaves, Erik Gudbranson, Boone Jenner, Kent Johnson, Isac Lundestrom, Kirill Marchenko, Denton Mateychuk, Elvis Merzlikins, Sean Monahan, Mathieu Olivier, Ivan Provorov, Damon Severson, Cole Sillinger, Dmitri Voronkov, Zach Werenski, and Miles Wood.
Dallas: Nathan Bastian, Colin Blackwell, Mavrik Bourque, Casey DeSmith, Matt Duchene, Radek Faksa, Thomas Harley, Miro Heiskanen, Roope Hintz, Wyatt Johnston, Esa Lindell, Nils Lundkvist, Ilya Lyubushkin, Jake Oettinger, Alexander Petrovic, Mikko Rantanen, Jason Robertson, Harrison Scott, Tyler Seguin, Sam Steel, and Trey Taylor.
Detroit: Mason Appleton, Jonatan Berggren, Jacob Bernard-Docker, Michael Brandsegg-Nygard, Ben Chiarot, J.T. Compher, Andrew Copp, Alex DeBrincat, Simon Edvinsson, Emmitt Finnie, John Gibson, Erik Gustafsson, Travis Hamonic, Albert Johansson, Patrick Kane, Marco Kasper, Dylan Larkin, Michael Rasmussen, Lucas Raymond, Axel Sandin-Pellikka, Moritz Seider, Elmer Soderblom, and Cam Talbot.
Edmonton: Evan Bouchard, Leon Draisaitl, Mattias Ekholm, Ty Emberson, Trent Frederic, James Hamblin, Adam Henrique, Kasperi Kapanen, Brett Kulak, Curtis Lazar, Andrew Mangiapane, Connor McDavid, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Darnell Nurse, Noah Philp, Calvin Pickard, Vasily Podkolzin, Alec Regula, Matt Savoie, Stuart Skinner, Troy Stecher, and Jake Walman.
Florida: Uvis Balinskis, Sam Bennett, Sergei Bobrovsky, Jesper Boqvist, Aaron Ekblad, Gustav Forsling, Jonah Gadjovich, A.J. Greer, Seth Jones, Dmitry Kulikov, Luke Kunin, Anton Lundell, Eetu Luostarinen, Brad Marchand, Niko Mikkola, Jeff Petry, Sam Reinhart, Evan Rodrigues, Mackie Samoskevich, Cole Schwindt, Daniil Tarasov, and Carter Verhaeghe.
Los Angeles: Mikey Anderson, Joel Armia, Quinton Byfield, Cody Ceci, Brandt Clarke, Phillip Danault, Drew Doughty, Brian Dumoulin, Joel Edmundson, Kevin Fiala, Warren Foegele, Anton Forsberg, Samuel Helenius, Adrian Kempe, Anze Kopitar, Darcy Kuemper, Andrei Kuzmenko, Alex Laferriere, Jeff Malott, Trevor Moore, Jacob Moverare, and Alex Turcotte.
Minnesota: Zach Bogosian, Matt Boldy, Jonas Brodin, Zeev Buium, Joel Eriksson Ek, Brock Faber, Marcus Foligno, Filip Gustavsson, Hunter Haight, Ryan Hartman, Vinnie Hinostroza, Daemon Hunt, David Jiricek, Marcus Johansson, Kirill Kaprizov, Jacob Middleton, Liam Ohgren, Marco Rossi, Jared Spurgeon, Vladimir Tarasenko, Yakov Trenin, Jesper Wallstedt, and Danila Yurov.
Montreal: Josh Anderson, Zack Bolduc, Alexandre Carrier, Cole Caufield, Kirby Dach, Ivan Demidov, Jakub Dobes, Noah Dobson, Jake Evans, Brendan Gallagher, Kaiden Guhle, Lane Hutson, Oliver Kapanen, Patrik Laine, Mike Matheson, Samuel Montembeault, Alex Newhook, Juraj Slafkovsky, Jayden Struble, Nick Suzuki, Joe Veleno, and Arber Xhekaj.
Nashville: Justus Annunen, Justin Barron, Nick Blankenburg, Michael Bunting, Filip Forsberg, Erik Haula, Roman Josi, Tyson Jost, Joakim Kemell, Jonathan Marchessault, Brady Martin, Michael McCarron, Ryan O'Reilly, Nick Perbix, Juuse Saros, Brady Skjei, Cole Smith, Steven Stamkos, Spencer Stastney, Fedor Svechkov, Ozzy Wiesblatt, Adam Wilsby.
New Jersey: Jake Allen, Jesper Bratt, Connor Brown, Dennis Cholowski, Paul Cotter, Evgenii Dadonov, Brenden Dillon, Cody Glass, Arseny Gritsyuk, Lenni Hameenaho, Dougie Hamilton, Nico Hischier, Jack Hughes, Luke Hughes, Shane Lachance, Juho Lammikko, Jacob Markstrom, Timo Meier, Dawson Mercer, Simon Nemec, Ondrej Palat, Brett Pesce, Jonas Siegenthaler.
NY Islanders: Mathew Barzal, Adam Boqvist, Casey Cizikas, Tony DeAngelo, Jonathan Drouin, Anthony Duclair, Marc Gatcomb, Emil Heineman, Simon Holmstrom, Bo Horvat, Anders Lee, Kyle MacLean, Scott Mayfield, Jean-Gabriel Pageau, Kyle Palmieri, Adam Pelech, Ryan Pulock, David Rittich, Alexander Romanov, Matthew Schaefer, Max Shabanov, Ilya Sorokin, Maxim Tsyplakov.
NY Rangers: Will Borgen, Jonny Brodzinski, Sam Carrick, Will Cuylle, Adam Edstrom, Adam Fox, Vladislav Gavrikov, Noah Laba, Alexis Lafreniere, J.T. Miller, Artemi Panarin, Juuso Parssinen, Jonathan Quick, Taylor Raddysh, Matt Rempe, Matthew Robertson, Braden Schneider, Igor Shesterkin, Carson Soucy, Vincent Trocheck, Urho Vaakanainen, Mika Zibanejad.
Utah:
Draft results
| # | Player | Drafted from | Drafted by |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rick Tabaracci (G) | Colorado Avalanche | Columbus Blue Jackets |
| 2 | Jamie McLennan (G) | St. Louis Blues | Minnesota Wild |
| 3 | Mike Vernon (G) | Florida Panthers | |
| 4 | Frederic Chabot (G) | Montreal Canadiens | Columbus Blue Jackets |
| 5 | Dwayne Roloson (G) | Buffalo Sabres | |
| 6 | Chris Terreri (G) | New Jersey Devils | Minnesota Wild |
| 7 | Sean O'Donnell (D) | Los Angeles Kings | |
| 8 | Mattias Timander (D) | Boston Bruins | Columbus Blue Jackets |
| 9 | Bert Robertsson (D) | Edmonton Oilers | |
| 10 | Curtis Leschyshyn (D) | Carolina Hurricanes | Minnesota Wild |
| 11 | Tommi Rajamaki (D) | Toronto Maple Leafs | Columbus Blue Jackets |
| 12 | Ladislav Benysek (D) | Mighty Ducks of Anaheim | Minnesota Wild |
| 13 | Chris Armstrong (D) | San Jose Sharks | |
| 14 | Jamie Pushor (D) | Dallas Stars | Columbus Blue Jackets |
| 15 | Filip Kuba (D) | Calgary Flames | Minnesota Wild |
| 16 | Lyle Odelein (D) | Phoenix Coyotes | Columbus Blue Jackets |
| 17 | Radim Bicanek (D) | Chicago Blackhawks | |
| 18 | Oleg Orekhovsky (D) | Washington Capitals | Minnesota Wild |
| 19 | Mathieu Schneider (D) | New York Rangers | Columbus Blue Jackets |
| 20 | Ian Herbers (D) | New York Islanders | Minnesota Wild |
| 21 | Artem Anisimov (D) | Philadelphia Flyers | |
| 22 | Jonas Junkka (D) | Pittsburgh Penguins | Columbus Blue Jackets |
| 23 | Geoff Sanderson (LW) | Buffalo Sabres | |
| 24 | Stacy Roest (C) | Detroit Red Wings | Minnesota Wild |
| 25 | Darryl Laplante (C) | ||
| 26 | Turner Stevenson (RW) | Montreal Canadiens | Columbus Blue Jackets |
| 27 | Scott Pellerin (LW) | St. Louis Blues | Minnesota Wild |
| 28 | Robert Kron (C) | Carolina Hurricanes | Columbus Blue Jackets |
| 29 | Steve Heinze (RW) | Boston Bruins | |
| 30 | Jim Dowd (C) | Edmonton Oilers | Minnesota Wild |
| 31 | Tyler Wright (C) | Pittsburgh Penguins | Columbus Blue Jackets |
| 32 | Sergei Krivokrasov (RW) | Calgary Flames | Minnesota Wild |
| 33 | Jeff Nielsen (RW) | Mighty Ducks of Anaheim | |
| 34 | Kevyn Adams (C) | Toronto Maple Leafs | Columbus Blue Jackets |
| 35 | Jeff Odgers (RW) | Colorado Avalanche | Minnesota Wild |
| 36 | Dmitri Subbotin (F) | New York Rangers | Columbus Blue Jackets |
| 37 | Steve McKenna (F) | Los Angeles Kings | Minnesota Wild |
| 38 | Dallas Drake (RW) | Phoenix Coyotes | Columbus Blue Jackets |
| 39 | Bruce Gardiner (C) | Tampa Bay Lightning | |
| 40 | Michal Bros (F) | San Jose Sharks | Minnesota Wild |
| 41 | Joe Juneau (C) | Ottawa Senators | |
| 42 | Barrie Moore (LW) | Washington Capitals | Columbus Blue Jackets |
| 43 | Darby Hendrickson (C) | Vancouver Canucks | Minnesota Wild |
| 44 | Martin Streit (F) | Philadelphia Flyers | Columbus Blue Jackets |
| 45 | Kevin Dineen (RW) | Ottawa Senators | |
| 46 | Jeff Daw (C) | Chicago Blackhawks | Minnesota Wild |
| 47 | Jeff Williams (LW) | New Jersey Devils | Columbus Blue Jackets |
| 48 | Stefan Nilsson (F) | Vancouver Canucks | Minnesota Wild |
| 49 | Zac Bierk (G) | Tampa Bay Lightning | |
| 50 | Sergei Luchinkin (RW) | Dallas Stars | Columbus Blue Jackets |
| 51 | Cam Stewart (LW) | Florida Panthers | Minnesota Wild |
| 52 | Ted Drury (C) | New York Islanders | Columbus Blue Jackets |
