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2005 NHL Draft

Radek Smolenak in the 2005 NHL Draft

Tampa Bay Lightning selected Radek Smolenak 73rd overall in the 2005 NHL Draft, with the 12th pick of round 3.

He was the fifth of the 13 Czechs selected that year. It was the second of the 9 picks Tampa Bay Lightning made in the draft. Of the 230 players selected in 2005, 111 have played in the NHL regular season. His 7 games put him 93rd in the class.

Overall pick
73
Round and pick
Round 3, pick 12
Drafting team
TBLTampa Bay Lightning
Date
Age at the draft
18 years

The picks around it

Picks 70–76 in the 2005 draft

  1. 70Vitaly AnikeyenkoDOTT
  2. 71Rich CluneL139 GP · 22 PDAL
  3. 72Jonathan QuickG829 GP · 410 WLAK
  4. 73Radek SmolenakL7 GP · 1 PTBL
  5. 74Dan RyderCCGY
  6. 75Perttu LindgrenC1 GP · 0 PDAL
  7. 76Shea GuthrieFNYI

Games and points are NHL regular season to date.

The 2005 NHL Draft

Place in the draft class

Where he came in the 2005 class

5th
of 13 Czechs selected
39th
of 120 forwards selected

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

First Czechs selected

  1. 17Martin HanzalC673 GP · 338 PPHX
  2. 19Jakub KindlD331 GP · 74 PDET
  3. 39Petr KalusR11 GP · 5 PBOS
  4. 41Ondrej PavelecG398 GP · 156 WATL
  5. 73Radek SmolenakL7 GP · 1 PTBL
  6. 94Jakub VojtaDCAR
  7. 106Vladimir SobotkaC548 GP · 171 PBOS
  8. 131Tomas PopperleG2 GP · 0 WCBJ
  9. 135Tomas PospisilRATL
  10. 136Tomas KudelkaDOTT

+ 3 more

Every pick from Czechia in the 2005 draft

After the draft

The road to the NHL

Radek Smolenak made his NHL debut on December 2, 2008, 3 years and 125 days after the draft.

7
Games
0
Goals
1
Assists
1
Points

NHL regular season to date.

The team's draft

Tampa Bay Lightning picks in the 2005 draft

  1. 30Vladimir MihalikD15 GP · 3 PTBL
  2. 73Radek SmolenakL7 GP · 1 PTBL
  3. 89Chris LawrenceCTBL
  4. 92Marek BartanusRTBL
  5. 102Blair JonesC132 GP · 17 PTBL
  6. 133Stanislav LascekRTBL
  7. 163Marek KvapilRTBL
  8. 165Kevin BeechGTBL
  9. 225John WessbeckerDTBL