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1998 NHL Draft

Petr Svoboda in the 1998 NHL Draft

Toronto Maple Leafs selected Petr Svoboda 35th overall in the 1998 NHL Draft, with the 8th pick of round 2.

He was the fourth of the 21 Czechs selected that year. It was the second of the 10 picks Toronto Maple Leafs made in the draft. Of the 258 players selected in 1998, 132 have played in the NHL regular season. His 18 games put him 108th in the class.

Overall pick
35
Round and pick
Round 2, pick 8
Drafting team
TORToronto Maple Leafs
Date
Age at the draft
18 years

The picks around it

Picks 32–38 in the 1998 draft

  1. 32Stephen PeatR130 GP · 10 PANA
  2. 33Blair BettsC477 GP · 78 PCGY
  3. 34Andrew PetersL229 GP · 7 PBUF
  4. 35Petr SvobodaD18 GP · 3 PTOR
  5. 36Chris NielsenR52 GP · 14 PNYI
  6. 37Christian BerglundL86 GP · 27 PNJD
  7. 38Philippe SauveG32 GP · 10 WCOL

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

4th
of 21 Czechs selected
12th
of 79 defensemen 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

Petr Svoboda made his NHL debut on October 7, 2000, 2 years and 102 days after the draft.

18
Games
1
Goals
2
Assists
3
Points

NHL regular season to date.

The team's draft

Toronto Maple Leafs picks in the 1998 draft

  1. 10Nik AntropovC788 GP · 465 PTOR
  2. 35Petr SvobodaD18 GP · 3 PTOR
  3. 69Jamie HodsonGNo NHL gamesTOR
  4. 87Alexei PonikarovskyL678 GP · 323 PTOR
  5. 126Morgan WarrenRTOR
  6. 154Allan RourkeD55 GP · 5 PTOR
  7. 181Jonathan GagnonCTOR
  8. 215Dwight WolfeDTOR
  9. 228Mihail TravnicekLTOR
  10. 236Sergei RostovDTOR