2002 Hockey’s Future Reader’s Mock Draft

By pbadmin
This year there were only 16 readers present for the draft. They included: Duff88, Battleship, Blue Bullet, GLUhipfan, hawkfan50, Mayor MAC, phantompenguin, VO #23, Stock Rocks, G Man, Postman, Brock, hbk, TD84, Chainshot and Draftman.

The results of this year’s draft were as follows:

1 Florida – Jay Bouwmeester
2 Atlanta – Joni Pitkanen
3 Columbus – Rick Nash
4 Tampa Bay – Anton Babchuk
5 Pittsburgh – Kari Lehtonen
6 Nashville – Ryan Whitney
7 Anaheim – Scottie Upshall
8 Minnesota – Steve Eminger
9 Calgary – Jiri Hudler
10 Florida – Joffrey Lupul
11 Buffalo – Alexander Semin
12 Washington – Vladislav Evseev
13 Dallas – Denis Grebeshkov
14 Edmonton – Petr Taticek
15 Montreal – Johnny Boychuk
16 Ottawa – Eric Nystrom
17 Washington – Michal Barnika
18 Los Angeles – Martin Vagner
19 Phoenix – Jakub Koreis
20 Dallas – Sean Bergenheim
21 Chicago – Richard Stehilk
22 NY Islanders – Adam Henrich
23 Phoenix – Jeff Deslauriers
24 Toronto – Aaron Rome
25 Carolina – Dan Paille
26 Washington – Sergei Anshakov
27 San Jose – Lance Monych
28 Colorado – Chris Higgins
29 Boston – Daniel Fernholm
30 Buffalo – Pierre-Marc Bouchard

This year’s draft went very smoothly and was completed in one hour. There was some discussion at the end of the draft about having a second round next week. Hockey’s Future would like to thank Bob Seperson for setting up and providing the results of the 2002 Hockey’s Future reader’s NHL Mock Draft.