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2001 NHL Draft

Alexander Svitov in the 2001 NHL Draft

Tampa Bay Lightning selected Alexander Svitov 3rd overall in the 2001 NHL Draft.

He was the second of the 36 Russians selected that year. It was the first of the 14 picks Tampa Bay Lightning made in the draft. Of the 289 players selected in 2001, 126 have played in the NHL regular season. His 179 games put him 64th in the class.

Overall pick
3
Round and pick
Round 1, pick 3
Drafting team
TBLTampa Bay Lightning
Date
Age at the draft
18 years

The picks around it

Picks 1–6 in the 2001 draft

  1. 1Ilya KovalchukL926 GP · 876 PATL
  2. 2Jason SpezzaC1248 GP · 995 POTT
  3. 3Alexander SvitovC179 GP · 37 PTBL
  4. 4Stephen WeissC732 GP · 423 PFLA
  5. 5Stanislav ChistovR196 GP · 61 PANA
  6. 6Mikko KoivuC1035 GP · 711 PMIN

Games and points are NHL regular season to date.

The 2001 NHL Draft

Place in the draft class

Where he came in the 2001 class

2nd
of 36 Russians selected
3rd
of 159 forwards selected

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

First Russians selected

  1. 1Ilya KovalchukL926 GP · 876 PATL
  2. 3Alexander SvitovC179 GP · 37 PTBL
  3. 5Stanislav ChistovR196 GP · 61 PANA
  4. 15Igor KnyazevDCAR
  5. 33Timofei ShishkanovR24 GP · 5 PNSH
  6. 40Fedor TyutinD872 GP · 264 PNYR
  7. 41Andrei TaratukhinFCGY
  8. 47Alexander PolushinFTBL
  9. 56Andrei MedvedevGCGY
  10. 60Victor UchevatovDNJD

+ 26 more

Every pick from Russia in the 2001 draft

After the draft

The road to the NHL

Alexander Svitov made his NHL debut on October 10, 2002, 1 year and 109 days after the draft.

179
Games
13
Goals
24
Assists
37
Points

NHL regular season to date.

The team's draft

Tampa Bay Lightning picks in the 2001 draft

  1. 3Alexander SvitovC179 GP · 37 PTBL
  2. 47Alexander PolushinFTBL
  3. 61Andreas HolmqvistDTBL
  4. 94Evgeny ArtyukhinR199 GP · 49 PTBL
  5. 123Aaron LobbRTBL
  6. 138Paul LynchDTBL
  7. 188Art FemenellaDTBL
  8. 219Dennis PackardLTBL
  9. 222Jeremy Van HoofDTBL
  10. 252Jean-Francois SoucyCTBL
  11. 259Dimitri BezrukovLTBL
  12. 261Vitali SmolyninovFTBL
  13. 281Ilya SolarevLTBL
  14. 289Henrik BergforsDTBL