2000 NHL entry draft

2000 NHL entry draft
General information
Date(s)	June 24–25, 2000
Location	Pengrowth Saddledome Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Overview
293 total selections in 9 rounds
First selection	Rick DiPietro (New York Islanders)
Hall of Famers	1 G Henrik Lundqvist
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The 2000 NHL entry draft was the 38th NHL entry draft. It was held on June 24 and 25, 2000 at the Pengrowth Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta, following the 2000 NHL expansion draft on June 23 for the Columbus Blue Jackets and Minnesota Wild. This was the second NHL Entry Draft in which a goaltender was taken first overall (at that point),^[1] when the New York Islanders selected Rick DiPietro with the first overall pick. Previously, Michel Plasse was selected first overall in the 1968 NHL Amateur Draft.

12 players from this draft have won one or more Stanley Cup in their careers: Justin Williams, Ron Hainsey, Antoine Vermette, Marián Gáborík, Brooks Orpik, Niklas Kronwall, Travis Moen, Niclas Wallin, Mike Rupp, Andreas Lilja, Tomáš Kopecký, and Ilya Bryzgalov.

The last active players in the NHL from this draft class were Justin Williams, Ron Hainsey, Deryk Engelland and Henrik Lundqvist, who all played their last NHL games in the 2019–20 season.