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VANCOUVER — The following college players or recruits were chosen in the National Hockey League’s 2006 entry draft:<\/p>\n
(I)<\/b> = Incoming Recruit
\n(*)<\/b> = No Longer With Team<\/p>\n
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\r\n\r\nPick NHL Team Name, Pos School (Conference)<\/b>\r\n 1 St. Louis Erik Johnson, D (I) Minnesota (WCHA)\r\n 3 Chicago Jonathan Toews, F North Dakota (WCHA)\r\n 5 Boston Phil Kessel, F Minnesota (WCHA)\r\n 7 New York Islanders Kyle Okposo, F (I) Minnesota (WCHA)\r\n 17 Los Angeles Trevor Lewis, F (I) Michigan (CCHA)\r\n 19 Anaheim Mark Mitera, D Michigan (CCHA)\r\n 20 Montreal David Fischer, D (I) Minnesota (WCHA)\r\n 29 Phoenix Chris Summers, D (I) Michigan (CCHA)\r\n<\/pre>\nRound Two<\/h4>\n
\r\n\r\nPick NHL Team Name, Pos School (Conference)<\/b>\r\n 32 Pittsburgh Carl Sneep, D (I) Boston College (HEA)\r\n 39 Philadelphia Andreas Nodl, F (I) St. Cloud State (WCHA)\r\n 42 Philadelphia Michael Ratchuk, D (I) Michigan State (CCHA)\r\n 45 Edmonton Jeff Petry, D (07) Michigan State (CCHA)\r\n 51 Colorado Nigel Williams, D (I) Wisconsin (WCHA)\r\n 52 Washington Keith Seabrook, D (07) Denver (WCHA)\r\n 56 Nashville Blake Geoffrion, F (I) Wisconsin (WCHA)\r\n 61 Chicago Simon Danis-Pepin, D Maine (HEA)\r\n 63 Carolina Jamie McBain, D (I) Wisconsin (WCHA)\r\n<\/pre>\nRound Three<\/h4>\n
\r\nPick NHL Team Name, Pos School (Conference)<\/b>\r\n 65 Pittsburgh Brian Strait, D (I) Boston Univ. (HEA)\r\n 68 Ottawa Eric Gryba, D (I) Boston Univ. (HEA)\r\n 74 Los Angeles Jeff Zatkoff, G Miami (CCHA)\r\n 79 Philadelphia Jonathan Matsumoto, F Bowling Green (CCHA)\r\n 80 Atlanta Michael Forney, F (I) North Dakota (WCHA)\r\n 81 Colorado Michael Carman, F (I) Minnesota (WCHA)\r\n<\/pre>\nRound Four<\/h4>\n
\r\nPick NHL Team Name, Pos School (Conference)<\/b>\r\n 94 St. Louis Ryan Turek, F (I) Michigan State (CCHA)\r\n 96 Chicago Joe Palmer, G (I) Ohio State (CCHA)\r\n 100 New York Islanders Rhett Rakhshani, F (I) Denver (WCHA)\r\n 102 Minnesota Kyle Medvec, D (07) Vermont (HEA)\r\n 107 New Jersey T.J. Miller, D (I) Northern Michigan (CCHA)\r\n 108 New York Islanders Jase Weselosky, G (07) St. Cloud State (WCHA)\r\n 110 Colorado Kevin Montgomery, D (I) Ohio State (CCHA)\r\n 116 Florida Derrick LaPoint, D (07) North Dakota (WCHA)\r\n 119 New York Islanders Doug Rogers, F (I) Harvard (ECACHL)\r\n 120 Dallas Richard Bachman, G (07) Colorado College (WCHA)\r\n<\/pre>\nRound Five<\/h4>\n
\r\nPick NHL Team Name, Pos School (Conference)<\/b>\r\n 124 St. Louis Andy Sackrison, F (07) Minnesota State (WCHA)\r\n 125 Pittsburgh Chad Johnson, G Alaska-Fairbanks (CCHA)\r\n 126 New York Islanders Shane Sims, D (07) Ohio State (CCHA)\r\n 130 Phoenix Brett Bennett, G (I) Boston Univ. (HEA)\r\n 134 Los Angeles David Meckler, F Yale (ECACHL)\r\n 135 Atlanta Alex Kangas, G (07) Minnesota (WCHA)\r\n 136 Columbus Nick Sucharski, F Michigan State (CCHA)\r\n 138 Dallas David McIntyre, F (I) Colgate (ECACHL)\r\n 140 Edmonton Cody Wild, D Providence (HEA)\r\n 144 Los Angeles Martin Nolet, G (I) Massachusetts (HEA)\r\n 145 Philadelphia Jonathan Rheault, F Providence (HEA)\r\n 146 Nashville Mark Dekanich, G Colgate (ECACHL)\r\n 147 Buffalo Alex Biega, D (I) Harvard (ECACHL)\r\n<\/pre>\nRound Six<\/h4>\n
\r\nPick NHL Team Name, Pos School (Conference)<\/b>\r\n 154 St. Louis Matthew McCollem, F (07) Harvard (ECACHL)\r\n 161 Toronto Viktor St\ufffdlberg, F (I) Vermont (HEA)\r\n 166 Toronto Tyler Ruegsegger, F (07) Denver (WCHA)\r\n 169 Chicago Chris Auger, F (I) Mass.-Lowell (HEA)\r\n 171 New York Islanders Brian Day, F (07) Colgate (ECACHL)\r\n 176 Nashville Ryan Flynn, F (I) Minnesota (WCHA)\r\n 178 New Jersey Tony Romano, F (I) Cornell (ECACHL)\r\n 179 Calgary Jordan Fulton, F (I) Minn.-Duluth (WCHA)\r\n 181 Ottawa Kevin Koopman, D (07) Brown (ECACHL)\r\n 183 Carolina Nick Dodge, F Clarkson (ECACHL)\r\n<\/pre>\nRound Seven<\/h4>\n
\r\nPick NHL Team Name, Pos School (Conference)<\/b>\r\n 186 Chicago Peter LeBlanc, F (I) New Hampshire (HEA)\r\n 188 Phoenix Chris Frank, D Western Michigan (CCHA)\r\n 191 Detroit Nick Oslund, F (07) St. Cloud State (WCHA)\r\n 192 Minnesota Chris Hickey, F (08) Wisconsin (WCHA)\r\n 193 Florida Marc Cheverie, G (07) Denver (WCHA)\r\n 195 Atlanta Jesse Martin, F (07) Denver (WCHA)\r\n 196 Phoenix Benn Ferriero, F Boston College (HEA)\r\n 201 Colorado Billy Sauer, G Michigan (CCHA) \r\n 202 San Jose John McCarthy, F Boston University (HEA)\r\n 203 San Jose Jay Barriball, F (07) Minnesota (WCHA)\r\n 211 Ottawa Erik Condra, F Notre Dame (CCHA)\r\n 213 Carolina Justin Krueger, F (I) Cornell (ECACHL)\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 24 VANCOUVER — The following college players or recruits were chosen in the National Hockey League’s 2006 entry draft: (I) = Incoming Recruit (*) = No Longer With Team Round One Pick NHL Team Name, Pos School (Conference) 1 St. Louis Erik Johnson, D (I) Minnesota (WCHA) 3 Chicago Jonathan Toews, F North Dakota […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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