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1998 NHL Draft

Ales Kotalik in the 1998 NHL Draft

Buffalo Sabres selected Ales Kotalik 164th overall in the 1998 NHL Draft, with the 19th pick of round 6.

He was the 13th of the 21 Czechs selected that year. It was the seventh of the 10 picks Buffalo Sabres made in the draft. Of the 258 players selected in 1998, 132 have played in the NHL regular season. His 542 games put him 31st in the class.

Overall pick
164
Round and pick
Round 6, pick 19
Drafting team
BUFBuffalo Sabres
Date
Age at the draft
19 years

The picks around it

Picks 161–167 in the 1998 draft

  1. 161Chris NeilR1026 GP · 250 POTT
  2. 162Andrei MarkovD990 GP · 572 PMTL
  3. 163Tomas ZizkaD25 GP · 8 PLAK
  4. 164Ales KotalikR542 GP · 284 PBUF
  5. 165Ryan MilanovicLBOS
  6. 166Jonathan PelletierGCHI
  7. 167Alexander RiazantsevDCOL

Games and points are NHL regular season to date.

The 1998 NHL Draft

Place in the draft class

Where he came in the 1998 class

13th
of 21 Czechs selected
97th
of 156 forwards selected

Counted in draft order across the whole draft. The position is the one listed at the draft.

First Czechs selected

  1. 17Martin SkoulaD776 GP · 196 PCOL
  2. 23Milan KraftC207 GP · 82 PPIT
  3. 25Jiri FischerD305 GP · 60 PDET
  4. 35Petr SvobodaD18 GP · 3 PTOR
  5. 50Jaroslav KristekR6 GP · 0 PBUF
  6. 91Josef VasicekC460 GP · 183 PCAR
  7. 117Jaroslav SpacekD880 GP · 355 PFLA
  8. 123Jiri DopitaC73 GP · 33 PNYI
  9. 129Robert SchnabelD22 GP · 3 PPHX
  10. 131Tomas KloucekD141 GP · 10 PNYR

+ 11 more

Every pick from Czechia in the 1998 draft

After the draft

The road to the NHL

Ales Kotalik made his NHL debut on November 12, 2001, 3 years and 138 days after the draft.

542
Games
136
Goals
148
Assists
284
Points

NHL regular season to date.

The team's draft

Buffalo Sabres picks in the 1998 draft

  1. 18Dmitri KalininD539 GP · 162 PBUF
  2. 34Andrew PetersL229 GP · 7 PBUF
  3. 47Norman MilleyR29 GP · 6 PBUF
  4. 50Jaroslav KristekR6 GP · 0 PBUF
  5. 77Mike PandolfoL3 GP · 0 PBUF
  6. 137Aaron GoldadeCBUF
  7. 164Ales KotalikR542 GP · 284 PBUF
  8. 191Brad MoranC8 GP · 3 PBUF
  9. 218David MoravecR1 GP · 0 PBUF
  10. 249Edo TerglavRBUF