College Hockey:NHL Draft 2006
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 (WCHA) 5 Boston Phil Kessel, F Minnesota (WCHA) 7 New York Islanders Kyle Okposo, F (I) Minnesota (WCHA) 17 Los Angeles Trevor Lewis, F (I) Michigan (CCHA) 19 Anaheim Mark Mitera, D Michigan (CCHA) 20 Montreal David Fischer, D (I) Minnesota (WCHA) 29 Phoenix Chris Summers, D (I) Michigan (CCHA)
Round Two
Pick NHL Team Name, Pos School (Conference) 32 Pittsburgh Carl Sneep, D (I) Boston College (HEA) 39 Philadelphia Andreas Nodl, F (I) St. Cloud State (WCHA) 42 Philadelphia Michael Ratchuk, D (I) Michigan State (CCHA) 45 Edmonton Jeff Petry, D (07) Michigan State (CCHA) 51 Colorado Nigel Williams, D (I) Wisconsin (WCHA) 52 Washington Keith Seabrook, D (07) Denver (WCHA) 56 Nashville Blake Geoffrion, F (I) Wisconsin (WCHA) 61 Chicago Simon Danis-Pepin, D Maine (HEA) 63 Carolina Jamie McBain, D (I) Wisconsin (WCHA)
Round Three
Pick NHL Team Name, Pos School (Conference) 65 Pittsburgh Brian Strait, D (I) Boston Univ. (HEA) 68 Ottawa Eric Gryba, D (I) Boston Univ. (HEA) 74 Los Angeles Jeff Zatkoff, G Miami (CCHA) 79 Philadelphia Jonathan Matsumoto, F Bowling Green (CCHA) 80 Atlanta Michael Forney, F (I) North Dakota (WCHA) 81 Colorado Michael Carman, F (I) Minnesota (WCHA)
Round Four
Pick NHL Team Name, Pos School (Conference) 94 St. Louis Ryan Turek, F (I) Michigan State (CCHA) 96 Chicago Joe Palmer, G (I) Ohio State (CCHA) 100 New York Islanders Rhett Rakhshani, F (I) Denver (WCHA) 102 Minnesota Kyle Medvec, D (07) Vermont (HEA) 107 New Jersey T.J. Miller, D (I) Northern Michigan (CCHA) 108 New York Islanders Jase Weselosky, G (07) St. Cloud State (WCHA) 110 Colorado Kevin Montgomery, D (I) Ohio State (CCHA) 116 Florida Derrick LaPoint, D (07) North Dakota (WCHA) 119 New York Islanders Doug Rogers, F (I) Harvard (ECACHL) 120 Dallas Richard Bachman, G (07) Colorado College (WCHA)
Round Five
Pick NHL Team Name, Pos School (Conference) 124 St. Louis Andy Sackrison, F (07) Minnesota State (WCHA) 125 Pittsburgh Chad Johnson, G Alaska-Fairbanks (CCHA) 126 New York Islanders Shane Sims, D (07) Ohio State (CCHA) 130 Phoenix Brett Bennett, G (I) Boston Univ. (HEA) 134 Los Angeles David Meckler, F Yale (ECACHL) 135 Atlanta Alex Kangas, G (07) Minnesota (WCHA) 136 Columbus Nick Sucharski, F Michigan State (CCHA) 138 Dallas David McIntyre, F (I) Colgate (ECACHL) 140 Edmonton Cody Wild, D Providence (HEA) 144 Los Angeles Martin Nolet, G (I) Massachusetts (HEA) 145 Philadelphia Jonathan Rheault, F Providence (HEA) 146 Nashville Mark Dekanich, G Colgate (ECACHL) 147 Buffalo Alex Biega, D (I) Harvard (ECACHL)
Round Six
Pick NHL Team Name, Pos School (Conference) 154 St. Louis Matthew McCollem, F (07) Harvard (ECACHL) 161 Toronto Viktor Stlberg, F (I) Vermont (HEA) 166 Toronto Tyler Ruegsegger, F (07) Denver (WCHA) 169 Chicago Chris Auger, F (I) Mass.-Lowell (HEA) 171 New York Islanders Brian Day, F (07) Colgate (ECACHL) 176 Nashville Ryan Flynn, F (I) Minnesota (WCHA) 178 New Jersey Tony Romano, F (I) Cornell (ECACHL) 179 Calgary Jordan Fulton, F (I) Minn.-Duluth (WCHA) 181 Ottawa Kevin Koopman, D (07) Brown (ECACHL) 183 Carolina Nick Dodge, F Clarkson (ECACHL)
Round Seven
Pick NHL Team Name, Pos School (Conference) 186 Chicago Peter LeBlanc, F (I) New Hampshire (HEA) 188 Phoenix Chris Frank, D Western Michigan (CCHA) 191 Detroit Nick Oslund, F (07) St. Cloud State (WCHA) 192 Minnesota Chris Hickey, F (08) Wisconsin (WCHA) 193 Florida Marc Cheverie, G (07) Denver (WCHA) 195 Atlanta Jesse Martin, F (07) Denver (WCHA) 196 Phoenix Benn Ferriero, F Boston College (HEA) 201 Colorado Billy Sauer, G Michigan (CCHA) 202 San Jose John McCarthy, F Boston University (HEA) 203 San Jose Jay Barriball, F (07) Minnesota (WCHA) 211 Ottawa Erik Condra, F Notre Dame (CCHA) 213 Carolina Justin Krueger, F (I) Cornell (ECACHL)


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