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2018 NHL Draft

Ty Smith in the 2018 NHL Draft

New Jersey Devils selected Ty Smith 17th overall in the 2018 NHL Draft.

It was the first of the 6 picks New Jersey Devils made in the draft. Of the 217 players selected in 2018, 99 have played in the NHL regular season. His 131 games put him 49th in the class.

Overall pick
17
Round and pick
Round 1, pick 17
Drafting team
NJDNew Jersey Devils
Date
Age at the draft
18 years

The picks around it

Picks 14–20 in the 2018 draft

  1. 14Joel FarabeeL513 GP · 261 PPHI
  2. 15Grigori DenisenkoL33 GP · 7 PFLA
  3. 16Martin KautR56 GP · 11 PCOL
  4. 17Ty SmithD131 GP · 49 PNJD
  5. 18Liam FoudyC105 GP · 22 PCBJ
  6. 19Jay O'BrienCPHI
  7. 20Rasmus KupariC217 GP · 38 PLAK

Games and points are NHL regular season to date.

The 2018 NHL Draft

Place in the draft class

Where he came in the 2018 class

17th
of 217 players selected
6th
of 70 defensemen selected

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

First off the board

  1. 1Rasmus DahlinD598 GP · 443 PBUF
  2. 2Andrei SvechnikovR575 GP · 450 PCAR
  3. 3Jesperi KotkaniemiC534 GP · 211 PMTL
  4. 4Brady TkachukL588 GP · 480 POTT
  5. 5Barrett HaytonC375 GP · 164 PARI
  6. 6Filip ZadinaR262 GP · 91 PDET
  7. 7Quinn HughesD524 GP · 507 PVAN
  8. 8Adam BoqvistD272 GP · 103 PCHI
  9. 9Vitali KravtsovR64 GP · 12 PNYR
  10. 10Evan BouchardD446 GP · 363 PEDM

+ 207 more

The 2018 NHL Draft

After the draft

The road to the NHL

Ty Smith made his NHL debut on January 14, 2021, 2 years and 206 days after the draft.

131
Games
9
Goals
40
Assists
49
Points

NHL regular season to date.

The team's draft

New Jersey Devils picks in the 2018 draft

  1. 17Ty SmithD131 GP · 49 PNJD
  2. 110Xavier BernardDNJD
  3. 136Akira SchmidG90 GP · 37 WNJD
  4. 141Yegor SharangovichC454 GP · 231 PNJD
  5. 172Mitchell HoelscherCNJD
  6. 203Eetu PakkilaLNJD