Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Whalers and Spirit to draft Europeans tomorrow

Both the Plymouth Whalers and Saginaw Spirit will participate in tomorrow's Canadian Hockey League Import Draft.

Plymouth selects 27th and 39th overall. The Whalers acquired the 27th pick today from Belleville in exchange for a fifth-round draft choice in next year's OHL Priority Selection.

Since, 1992, Plymouth's draft selections:

2005 - Ondrej Otcenas
2004 - Michael Kolarz
2003 - Vaclav Meidl
2002 - Martin Cizek
2001 - Jonas Fiedler
2000 - no selections
1999 - Tomas Kurka, Libor Ustrnul
1998 - Denis Arkhipov, Tomek Valtonen
1997 - Steve Lyle, Yuri Babenko
1996 - Sergei Fedotov
1995 - Jan Vodrazka
1994 - Milan Kostolny
1993 - Jozek Kohut
1992 - Richard Ujvary

Saginaw has the 33rd pick (from the Ryan McDonough trade last year) and their own 36th pick.

The Spirit's draft choices since 2002:

2005 - no selections
2004 - Marek Kvapil
2003 - Grigory Misharin
2002 - Tomas Csabi

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