NHL Entry Draft was created in 1963.
The 2008 NHL entry draft occured on June 20-21
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The 1990 NHL Entry Draft was held in BC Place Stadium, Vancouver. Owen Nolan was the first overall selection in that draft.
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2002 was the last
If your talking about the NHL Vancouver Canucks, which I assume you are, there are two answers. In the expansion draft which is a draft where teams can pick the players that make up their team when the enter the league the Canucks picked 24-year old stay at home defenseman Gary Doak. If you mean in the NHL Entry Draft, the Canucks lost the spin of the wheel to the Buffalo Sabres and ended up picking 2nd Overall in the 1970 NHL Entry Draft. The Canucks picked 19-year old defender Dale Tallon.
Which Russian was drafted first round of a NHL entry draft
Thomas Vokoun (G)
Jake Riddle
With the 230th overall pick in the 1998 NHL entry draft, the Nashville Predators selected Karlis Skrastins. They drafted the Latvian defenceman from TPS Turku in Finland.
Sergei Fedorov was a 4th round pick of the Red Wings in the 1989 NHL entry draft.