NHL Expansion Draft 1999
| NHL Expansion Draft 1999 | |
| league |
 National Hockey League
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| date | June 25, 1999 |
| Expansion franchise (s) | Atlanta Thrashers |
| NHL Expansion and Dispersal Drafts | |
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The 1999 NHL Expansion Draft took place on June 25, 1999 in Boston , Massachusetts . The Expansion Draft was organized because the Atlanta Thrashers opened a new franchise in the NHL ice hockey league and the team's roster had to be filled with players.
The rules
The Thrashers could choose a player from any existing team. With the exception of the Nashville Predators , who had just joined the league a year earlier. Each of the established teams was allowed to ban one goalkeeper, five defenders and nine attackers or two goalkeepers, three defenders and seven attackers from their roster so that they could not be selected by the Thrashers. The teams that had already lost a goalkeeper in the 1998 NHL Expansion Draft (Anaheim, Los Angeles, Montreal, New Jersey and the New York Rangers) did not have to give up a goalkeeper this time.
The Thrashers could choose a total of 26 players, but had to include three goalkeepers, eight defenders and 13 attackers. The remaining two choices could be players of any position.
Draft result
Explanation: T = goalkeeper; V = defender; C = center forward; LF = left winger; RF = right winger.
For the sake of order, the players are numbered, but they do not have to be selected in that order. The order is not relevant as the Atlanta Thrashers were the only team in the 1999 Expansion Draft.
Agreements
In order for the Atlanta Thrashers to refrain from selecting certain unbanned players, they received “compensations” from some teams:
- Ottawa transferred Damian Rhodes to Atlanta on June 18, 1999
- Buffalo transferred Dean Sylvester to Atlanta on June 25, 1999
- Calgary transferred Andreas Karlsson to Atlanta on June 25, 1999
- Detroit transferred Ulf Samuelsson to Atlanta on June 25, 1999
- New Jersey transferred Sergei Vyshedkevich to Atlanta on June 25, 1999
- Phoenix transferred Scott Langkow to Atlanta on June 25, 1999
After the draft
Several players no longer stayed with the team after the draft. For this reason, on the day of the expansion draft, transfers were made with players from the draft:
- Trevor Kidd was transferred to Florida for Gord Murphy , Daniel Tjärnqvist , Herberts Vasiļjevs and a six-round draft pick in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft .
- Peter Ferraro has been transferred to Boston for Randy Robitaille .
Other players were no longer in the Atlanta squad at the start of the 1999/2000 season :
- Phil Crowe was transferred to Nashville on June 26, 1999 for future consideration
- Jamie Pushor was transferred to Dallas on July 15, 1999 for Jason Botterill
- Jeff Williams was acquired by New Jersey on September 30, 1999
- Terry Yake was acquired by St. Louis on September 30, 1999
- Alexei Yegorow was released before the start of the season
- Mark Tinordi was released before the start of the season
