List of Carolina Hurricanes draft picks

The Carolina Hurricanes are a professional ice hockey franchise based in Raleigh, North Carolina. They play in the Metropolitan Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Hockey League (NHL). The franchise was founded in 1971 as the New England Whalers, and relocated to North Carolina in 1997. Since arriving in North Carolina, the Hurricanes have drafted 90 players.

The NHL Entry Draft is held each June, allowing teams to select players who have turned 18 years old by September 15 in the year the draft is held. The draft order is determined by the previous season's order of finish, with non-playoff teams drafting first, followed by the teams that made the playoffs, with the specific order determined by the number of points earned by each team.^[1] The NHL holds a weighted lottery for the 14 non-playoff teams, allowing the winner to move up a maximum of four positions in the entry draft.^[2] The team with the fewest points has the best chance of winning the lottery, with each successive team given a lower chance of moving up in the draft.^[1] The Hurricanes have never won the lottery.^[3] Between 1986 and 1994, the NHL also held a Supplemental Draft for players in American colleges.^[4]

Carolina's first draft pick was Nikos Tselios, taken 22nd overall in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. The highest that Carolina has drafted is second overall. They selected Eric Staal in 2003, and he went on to become the first player selected after the move from Hartford that went on to play over 1,000 NHL games. No Hurricanes picks have been elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Key[]

	Played in at least one NHL game with the Hurricanes
	Played in at least one NHL All-Star Game

Abbreviations for statistical columns
Pos	Position	GP	Games played
G	Goals	A	Assists
Pts	Points	PIM	Penalties in minutes
GAA	Goals against average	W	Wins
L	Losses	T	Ties
OT	Overtime or shootout losses		Does not apply

Position abbreviations
G	Goaltender
D	Defenseman
LW	Left Wing
C	Center
RW	Right Wing
F	Forward

Draft picks[]

Statistics are complete as of the 2020–21 NHL season and show each player's career regular season totals in the NHL. Wins, losses, ties, overtime losses and goals against average apply to goaltenders and are used only for players at that position. This list includes players drafted by the team in Carolina only.

Draft	Round	Pick	Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	W	L	T	OT	GAA	SV%
1997	1	22	Nikos Tselios	D	2	0	0	0	6
1997	2	28	Brad DeFauw	LW	9	3	0	3	2
1997	3	80	Francis Lessard	RW	115	1	3	4	346
1997	4	88	Shane Willis	RW	174	31	43	74	77
1997	6	142	Kyle Dafoe	D
1997	7	169	Andrew Merrick	LW
1997	8	195	Niklas Nordgren	LW	58	4	2	6	34
1997	8	199	Randy Fitzgerald	LW
1997	9	225	Kent McDonell	RW	32	1	2	3	36
1998	1	11	Jeff Heerema	RW	32	4	2	6	6
1998	3	70	Kevin Holdridge	D
1998	3	71	Erik Cole	LW	892	265	267	532	659
1998	4	91	Josef Vasicek	C	460	77	106	183	311
1998	4	93	Tommy Westlund	LW	203	9	13	22	48
1998	4	97	Chris Madden	G
1998	7	184	Donald Smith	C
1998	8	208	Jaroslav Svoboda	LW	134	12	17	29	62
1998	8	211	Mark Kosick	C
1998	9	239	Brent McDonald	C
1999	1	16	David Tanabe	D	449	30	84	114	245
1999	2	49	Brett Lysak	C	2	0	0	0	2
1999	3	84	Brad Fast	D	1	1	0	1	0
1999	4	113	Ryan Murphy	LW
1999	6	174	Damian Surma	LW	2	1	1	2	0
1999	7	202	Jim Baxter	D
1999	8	231	David Evans	RW
1999	8	237	Antti Jokela	G
1999	9	259	Yauhenni Kurilin	C
2000	2	32	Tomas Kurka	LW	17	3	2	5	2
2000	3	80	Ryan Bayda	LW	179	16	24	40	94
2000	4	97	Niclas Wallin	D	614	21	58	79	460
2000	4	110		D
2000	6	181	J. D. Forrest	D
2000	7	212	Magnus Kahnberg	F
2000	8	235	Craig Kowalski	G
2000	9	276	Troy Ferguson	F
2001	1	15	Igor Knyazev	D
2001	2	46	Michael Zigomanis	C	197	21	19	40	89
2001	3	91	Kevin Estrada	LW
2001	4	110	Rob Zepp	G	10	0	0	0	0	5	2		0	2.89	.888
2001	6	181	Daniel Boisclair	G
2001	7	211	Sean Curry	D
2001	8	244	Carter Trevisani	D
2001	9	274	Peter Reynolds	D
2002	1	25	Cam Ward	G	701	1	12	13	48	334	256		88	2.74	.909
2002	3	91	Jesse Lane	D
2002	5	160	Daniel Manzato	G
2002	7	224	Adam Taylor	C
2003	1	2	Eric Staal	C	1293	441	593	1034	828
2003	2	31	Danny Richmond	D	49	0	3	3	75
2003	4	102	Aaron Dawson	D
2003	4	126	Kevin Nastiuk	G
2003	4	130	Matej Trojovsky	D
2003	5	137	Tyson Strachan	D	186	1	19	20	199
2003	7	198	Shay Stephenson	LW	2	0	0	0	0
2003	8	230	Jamie Hoffmann	F
2003	9	262	Ryan Rorabeck	C
2004	1	4	Andrew Ladd	LW	950	249	289	538	568
2004	2	38	Justin Peters	G	83	0	2	2	8	25	38		9	3.08	.901
2004	3	69	Casey Borer	D	16	1	2	3	9
2004	4	109	Brett Carson	D	90	2	11	13	20
2004	5	137	Magnus Akerlund	G
2004	7	202	Ryan Pottruff	D
2004	8	235	Jonas Fiedler	RW
2004	9	268	Martin Vagner	D
2005	1	3	Jack Johnson	D	950	71	232	303	529
2005	2	58	Nate Hagemo	D
2005	3	64	Joe Barnes	C
2005	4	94	Jakub Vojta	D
2005	4	123	Ondrej Otcenas	C
2005	5	145	Timothy Kunes	D
2005	5	159	Risto Korhonen	D
2005	6	192	Nicolas Blanchard	LW	9	0	0	0	20
2005	7	198	Kyle Lawson	D
2006	2	63	Jamie McBain	D	348	30	80	110	72
2006	3	93	Harrison Reed	RW
2006	4	123		C
2006	5	153	Stefan Chaput	C
2006	6	183	Nick Dodge	RW
2006	7	213	Justin Krueger	D
2007	1	11	Brandon Sutter	C	770	152	137	289	149
2007	3	72	Drayson Bowman	LW	179	15	18	33	53
2007	4	102	Justin McCrae	C
2007	5	132	Chris Terry	LW	152	22	16	38	34
2007	6	162	Brett Bellemore	D	121	4	16	20	79
2008	1	14	Zach Boychuk	C	127	12	18	30	16
2008	2	45	Zac Dalpe	C	153	14	14	28	36
2008	4	105	Michal Jordan	D	79	3	4	7	18
2008	6	165	Mike Murphy	G	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.00	1.000
2008	7	195	Samuel Morneau	LW
2009	1	27	Philippe Paradis	C
2009	2	51	Brian Dumoulin	D	388	15	81	96	106
2009	3	88	Mattias Lindstrom	LW
2009	5	131	Matt Kennedy	RW
2009	6	178	Rasmus Rissanen	D	6	0	0	0	4
2009	7	208	Tommi Kivisto	D
2010	1	7	Jeff Skinner	C	773	265	214	479	336
2010	2	37	Justin Faulk	D	684	97	202	299	332
2010	2	53	Mark Alt	D	20	0	0	0	4
2010	3	67	Danny Biega	D	10	0	2	2	0
2010	3	85	Austin Levi	D
2010	4	105	Justin Shugg	LW	3	0	0	0	2
2010	6	167	Tyler Stahl	D
2010	7	187	Frederik Andersen	G	393	0	9	9	26	226	100		48	2.65	.915
2011	1	12	Ryan Murphy	D	175	8	35	43	54
2011	2	42	Victor Rask	C	459	80	122	202	84
2011	3	73	Keegan Lowe	D	4	0	0	0	10
2011	4	103	Gregory Hofmann	C	24	2	5	7	8
2011	6	163	Matt Mahalak	G
2011	7	193	Brody Sutter	C	12	0	0	0	0
2012	2	38	Phil Di Giuseppe	LW	201	16	37	53	73
2012	2	47	Brock McGinn	LW	345	51	55	106	81
2012	3	69	Daniel Altshuller	G
2012	4	99	Erik Karlsson	LW
2012	4	115	Trevor Carrick	D	7	0	0	0	12
2012	4	120	Jaccob Slavin	D	429	32	134	166	60
2012	5	129	Brendan Woods	LW	7	0	0	0	7
2012	6	159	Collin Olson	G
2012	7	189	Brendan Collier	LW
2013	1	5	Elias Lindholm	C	581	139	228	367	140
2013	3	66	Brett Pesce	D	405	24	103	127	125
2013	5	126	Brent Pedersen	LW
2013	6	156	Tyler Ganly	D
2014	1	7	Haydn Fleury	D	179	7	20	27	32
2014	2	37	Alex Nedeljkovic	G	29	0	1	1	4	17	7		4	2.01	.928
2014	3	67	Warren Foegele	LW	200	35	33	68	74
2014	4	96	Josh Wesley	D
2014	4	97	Lucas Wallmark	RW	187	23	36	59	64
2014	5	127	Clark Bishop	C	38	1	6	7	14
2014	7	187	Kyle Jenkins	D
2015	1	5	Noah Hanifin	D	436	32	121	153	111
2015	2	35	Sebastian Aho	RW	366	145	175	320	134
2015	4	93	Callum Booth	G
2015	4	96	Nicolas Roy	C	85	11	14	25	24
2015	5	126	Luke Stevens	LW
2015	5	138	Spencer Smallman	RW
2015	6	156	Jake Massie	D
2015	6	169	David Cotton	C
2015	7	186	Steven Lorentz	C	45	2	6	8	8
2016	1	13	Jake Bean	D	44	1	11	12	12
2016	1	21	Julien Gauthier	RW	47	2	9	11	22
2016	2	43	Janne Kuokkanen	LW	62	8	17	25	18
2016	3	67	Matt Filipe	LW
2016	3	74	Hudson Elynuik	C
2016	3	75	Jack LaFontaine	G
2016	4	104	Max Zimmer	LW
2016	5	134	Jeremy Helvig	G
2016	6	164	Noah Carroll	D
2017	1	12	Martin Necas	C	125	31	48	79	32
2017	2	42	Eetu Luostarinen	C	52	3	6	9	12
2017	2	52	Luke Martin	D
2017	3	67	Morgan Geekie	C	38	6	7	13	12
2017	3	73	Stelio Mattheos	C
2017	4	104	Eetu Mäkiniemi	G
2017	6	166	Brendan de Jong	D
2017	7	197		D
2018	1	2	Andrei Svechnikov	RW	205	59	81	140	160
2018	2	42	Jack Drury	C
2018	4	96	Luke Henman	C
2018	4	104	Lenni Killinen	RW
2018	6	166	Jesper Sellgren	D
2018	7	197	Jacob Kucharski	G
2019	1	28	Ryan Suzuki	C
2019	2	36	Pyotr Kochetkov	G
2019	2	44		C
2019	3	73	Patrik Puistola	RW
2019	3	83	Anttoni Honka	D
2019	3	90	Domenick Fensore	D
2019	4	99	Cade Webber	D
2019	4	121		RW
2019	5	152	Kirill Slepets	RW
2019	6	181	Kevin Wall	RW
2019	6	183	Blake Murray	C
2019	7	216	Massimo Rizzo	C
2020	1	13	Seth Jarvis	C	9	4	1	5	0
2020	2	41		RW
2020	2	53	Vasili Ponomaryov	C
2020	3	69	Alexander Nikishin	D
2020	4	115	Zion Nybeck	LW
2020	6	159	Lucas Mercuri	C
2020	7	199		RW
2020	7	208	Ronan Seeley	D
2021	2	40	Scott Morrow	D
2021	2	44	Aleksi Heimosalmi	D
2021	2	51	Ville Koivunen	LW
2021	3	83	Patrik Hamrla	G
2021	3	94	Aidan Hreschuk	D
2021	4	109	Jackson Blake	RW
2021	5	136	Robert Orr	C
2021	5	147	Justin Robidas	C
2021	6	170	Bryce Montgomery	D
2021	6	187	Nikita Quapp	G
2021	7	200	Yegor Naumov	G
2021	7	209	Nikita Guslistov	C
2021	7	219	Joel Nystrom	D

References[]

"All-time roster for the Carolina Hurricanes of the NHL". The Internet Hockey Database. Retrieved 2008-07-04.
"Carolina Hurricanes Draft History". The Internet Hockey Database. Retrieved 2008-07-04.

^ ^a ^b "NHL FAQ – Hockey Operations Guidelines". National Hockey League. Retrieved 2008-10-24.
^ "Lightning win NHL draft lottery". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 2008-04-07. Retrieved 2008-10-24.
^ "Blackhawks are No. 1". TSN. Archived from the original on 2007-08-14. Retrieved 2008-10-24.
^ Podnieks, Andrew (2007). The Complete Hockey Dictionary. Fenn Publishing. p. 211. ISBN 978-1-55168-309-6.

[NHLFAQ-1] "NHL FAQ – Hockey Operations Guidelines". National Hockey League. Retrieved 2008-10-24.

[2] "Lightning win NHL draft lottery". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 2008-04-07. Retrieved 2008-10-24.

[3] "Blackhawks are No. 1". TSN. Archived from the original on 2007-08-14. Retrieved 2008-10-24.

[4] Podnieks, Andrew (2007). The Complete Hockey Dictionary. Fenn Publishing. p. 211. ISBN 978-1-55168-309-6.

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