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2003 NHL Draft

Andrei Kostitsyn in the 2003 NHL Draft

Montréal Canadiens selected Andrei Kostitsyn 10th overall in the 2003 NHL Draft.

He was the first of the 2 Belarusians selected that year. It was the first of the 11 picks Montréal Canadiens made in the draft. Of the 292 players selected in 2003, 130 have played in the NHL regular season. His 398 games put him 55th in the class.

Overall pick
10
Round and pick
Round 1, pick 10
Drafting team
MTLMontréal Canadiens
Date
Age at the draft
18 years

The picks around it

Picks 7–13 in the 2003 draft

  1. 7Ryan SuterD1526 GP · 696 PNSH
  2. 8Braydon CoburnD983 GP · 234 PATL
  3. 9Dion PhaneufD1048 GP · 494 PCGY
  4. 10Andrei KostitsynL398 GP · 222 PMTL
  5. 11Jeff CarterC1321 GP · 851 PPHI
  6. 12Hugh JessimanR2 GP · 0 PNYR
  7. 13Dustin BrownR1296 GP · 712 PLAK

Games and points are NHL regular season to date.

The 2003 NHL Draft

Place in the draft class

Where he came in the 2003 class

1st
of 2 Belarusians selected
6th
of 176 forwards selected

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

First Belarusians selected

  1. 10Andrei KostitsynL398 GP · 222 PMTL
  2. 101Konstantin ZakharovFSTL
Every pick from Belarus in the 2003 draft

After the draft

The road to the NHL

Andrei Kostitsyn made his NHL debut on December 1, 2005, 2 years and 163 days after the draft.

398
Games
103
Goals
119
Assists
222
Points

NHL regular season to date.

The team's draft

Montréal Canadiens picks in the 2003 draft

  1. 10Andrei KostitsynL398 GP · 222 PMTL
  2. 40Cory UrquhartCMTL
  3. 61Maxim LapierreC614 GP · 139 PMTL
  4. 79Ryan O'ByrneD308 GP · 39 PMTL
  5. 113Corey LockeC9 GP · 1 PMTL
  6. 123Danny StewartLMTL
  7. 177Christopher Heino-LindbergGMTL
  8. 188Mark FloodD39 GP · 8 PMTL
  9. 217Oskari KorpikariDMTL
  10. 241Jimmy BonneauLMTL
  11. 271Jaroslav HalakG581 GP · 295 WMTL