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Rookies making the cut in the NHL, 2008-09
Written by: HF Staff on 10/09/2008 
Below are the rookies who made the opening roster for each NHL team.
Anaheim: Nathan McIver
Atlanta: Zach Bogosian, Brett Sterling, Nathan Oystrick
Boston: Blake Wheeler
Buffalo: none
Calgary: Brandon Prust, Adam Pardy, Gord Baldwin, Curtis McElhinney, Kevin Lalande (IR)
Carolina: Brandon Sutter, Zach Boychuk
Chicago: Kris Versteeg, Colin Fraser, Jack Skille, Niklas Hjalmarsson
Colorado: none
Columbus: Derick Brassard, Jakub Voracek, Steve Mason
Dallas: Fabian Brunnstrom, Brandon Crombeen, Tobias Stephan, James Neal
Detroit: Jimmy Howard (IR)
Edmonton: Jeff Deslauriers
Florida: Michael Frolik
Los Angeles: Matt Moulson, Richard Clune, Brian Boyle, Marc-Andre Cliche, Oscar Moller, Wayne Simmonds, Drew Doughty
Minnesota: Colton Gillies, Benoit Pouliot, John Scott (IR)
Montreal: Mathieu Carle
Nashville: Patric Hornqvist, Ryan Jones, Kevin Klein, Pekka Rinne
New Jersey: Petr Vrana, Barry Tallackson, Anssi Salmela
NY Islanders: Nate Thompson, Joshua Bailey, Kyle Okposo, Jack Hillen
NY Rangers: Lauri Korpikoski
Ottawa: Jesse Winchester, Brian Lee
Philadelphia: Luca Sbisa, Ryan Parent
Phoenix: Mikkel Boedker, Kevin Porter, Kyle Turris, Viktor Tikhonov, Jonas Ahnelov
Pittsburgh: Paul Bissonnette, Alex Goligoski
San Jose: Tomas Plihal, Lukas Kaspar
St. Louis: Patrik Berglund, T.J. Oshie, Chris Porter, Alex Pietrangelo, Jonas Junland, Steve Wagner
Tampa Bay: Steven Stamkos
Toronto: John Mitchell, Mikhail Grabovski, Nikolai Kulemin, Luke Schenn
Vancouver: Jannik Hansen, Rick Rypien, Mike Brown
Washington: none
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