DUCKS UPDATE: DUCKS HAVE HIGH HOPES FOR NO. 5 PICK CHISTOV.Byline: Frank Welch
Frank Welch (1835 – 1878) was a Nebraska Republican politician. He was born at Bunker Hill, Charlestown, Massachusetts on February 10, 1835 and moved to Boston in with his parents. Staff Writer ANAHEIM - Jaromir Jagr was selected fifth overall by the Pittsburgh Penguins The Pittsburgh Penguins are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). in the National Hockey League's 1990 entry draft. Jagr's name is the biggest in a star-studded field of previous No. 5 picks that also includes Scott Stevens For other persons named Scott Stevens, see Scott Stevens (disambiguation). Ronald Scott Stevens (born 1 April 1964, in Kitchener, Ontario) is a retired professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League. (drafted by Washington in 1982), Tom Barrasso Thomas Patrick Barrasso (born March 31, 1965 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a former National Hockey League goaltender who played 18 seasons for the Buffalo Sabres, Pittsburgh Penguins, Ottawa Senators, Carolina Hurricanes, Toronto Maple Leafs and St. Louis Blues. (Buffalo, '83), Darius Kasparaitis (New York Islanders The New York Islanders are a professional ice hockey team based in Uniondale, a hamlet located on Long Island in Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, United States. , '92), Rob Niedermayer (Florida, '93) and the Mighty Ducks' Vitaly Vishnevski three years ago. So when the Ducks selected Russian center Stanislav Chistov with the fifth overall pick during Saturday's 2001 NHL entry draft The NHL Entry Draft is a collective meeting in which the franchises of the National Hockey League systematically select the rights to available amateur players who meet the eligibility requirements to play professional hockey in the NHL. in Sunrise, Fla., Anaheim general manager Pierre Gauthier saw no reason why the 18-year-old Paul Kariya clone couldn't reach the heights of his draft predecessors. ``I believe that he - along with the top six players in this draft - will eventually become front-line NHL players,'' Gauthier said of a talented group that included Chistov. ``He is a tremendously skilled player with amazing hands. He also is very creative and explosive, a high-level talent.'' Gauthier's selection of the 5-foot-10, 172-pound Chistov was not at all surprising. Anaheim also selected a pair of 18-year-old Canadians with its second- and third-round picks. Defenseman Mark Popovic went in round two, 35th overall, and center Joel Stepp was the third-round choice, 69th overall. The Ducks traded away a second-round pick, 41st overall, last week to Phoenix in exchange for Coyotes veteran defenseman Keith Carney. The Ducks have eight picks today during rounds four through nine. Gauthier added that it is unlikely his team would trade for big-name players today. ``The only thing we might do is change some draft positions,'' he said. Gauthier called the drafting of Chistov, ``a silver lining from a season I do not want to go through again.'' Anaheim's 66 points and 26th overall finish in the 30-team NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there last season led to its high draft spot. Chistov reminds many of Kariya, who was Anaheim's fourth overall pick in 1993. |
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