WHL8 Rookies List YD = Year Drafted CG = Career Games (Regular Season) player's name Age YD CG Bryan Adams 25 6 0 Craig Adams 25 7 0 David Aebischer 24 7 0 Dmitri Afanasenkov 22 7 5 Ari Ahonen 21 5 0 Keith Aldridge 29 6 0 Nikita Alexeev 21 6 6 Jonas Andersson 21 8 0 Nikolai Antropov 22 5 0 Denis Arkhipov 23 7 0 Colby Armstrong 20 7 0 Tyler Arnason 23 8 0 Arron Asham 24 5 0 Serge Aubin 27 5 0 Alexander Auld 21 8 0 Sean Avery 22 8 0 Anton Babchuk 18 8 0 Jason Bacashihua 20 7 0 Chris Bala 24 8 0 Keith Ballard 20 8 0 Steve Bancroft 32 8 0 Eric Beaudoin 22 8 0 Jaroslav Bednar 26 8 0 Derek Bekar 27 6 0 Eric Belanger 25 7 0 Francis Belanger 24 7 0 Andy Berenzweig 25 6 0 Sean Bergenheim 18 8 0 Christian Berglund 22 8 0 Rick Berry 24 7 0 Karel Betik 24 5 0 Jiri Bicek 24 7 0 Dan Blackburn 19 7 0 Eric Boguniecki 27 6 0 Brian Bonin 29 5 6 Ryan Bonni 23 6 0 Pierre-Marc Bouchard 18 8 0 Tyler Bouck 22 7 0 Eric Boulton 26 7 0 Josef Boumedienne 24 8 0 Jay Bouwmeester 19 8 0 Brad Boyes 20 6 0 Matt Bradley 24 7 0 Travis Brigley 25 6 0 Aris Brimanis 30 6 0 Ilja Bryzgalov 22 8 0 Yuri Butsayev 24 6 0 Kyle Calder 23 6 0 Brian Campbell 23 6 0 Roman Cechmanek 31 7 0 Sebastien Centomo 21 8 0 Luca Cereda 21 5 0 Sebastien Charpentier 25 8 0 Brad Chartrand 28 6 0 Jason Chimera 23 7 0 Stanislav Chistov 19 7 0 Ryan Christie 24 6 0 Martin Cibak 22 8 0 Ivan Ciernik 25 7 0 Chris Clark 26 6 0 Dale Clarke 24 7 0 Greg Classen 25 7 0 Scott Clemmensen 25 8 0 Sylvain Cloutier 28 5 4 Ben Clymer 24 6 11 Carlo Colaiacovo 19 7 0 Erik Cole 24 8 0 Mike Commodore 23 7 9 Paul Comrie 25 6 0 Matt Cooke 24 5 0 Daniel Corso 24 7 0 Jeff Cowan 26 6 0 David Cullen 26 7 0 Jakub Cutta 21 7 0 Pierre Dagenais 24 7 0 Toni Dahlman 23 8 0 Mathieu Darche 26 7 0 Pavel Datsyuk 24 8 0 Matt Davidson 25 8 0 Jeff Daw 30 8 0 Jonathan Delisle 25 5 0 Xavier Delisle 25 5 0 Rick DiPietro 21 6 1 Reinhard Divis 27 8 0 Tomas Divisek 23 7 0 Jiri Dopita 34 8 0 Aaron Downey 28 6 0 Harold Druken 23 6 0 Dave Duerden 25 6 0 Micki Dupont 22 8 0 Pascal Dupuis 23 7 0 Gordie Dwyer 24 6 9 Ben Eager 18 8 0 Mark Eaton 25 6 0 Nils Ekman 26 6 0 Matt Elich 23 6 0 Steve Eminger 19 8 0 John Emmons 28 6 0 Shane Endicott 21 8 0 Martin Erat 21 8 0 John Erskine 22 8 0 Robert Esche 24 5 0 Mike Farrell 24 8 0 Todd Fedoruk 23 7 0 Scott Ferguson 29 8 0 Mike Fisher 22 6 0 Ryan Flinn 22 8 0 Jean-Francois Fortin 23 8 0 Adrian Foster 20 7 0 Kyle Freadrich 24 6 0 Alexander Frolov 20 6 2 Steve Gainey 23 7 0 Tyrone Garner 24 5 0 Brian Gionta 23 8 0 Tim Gleason 19 7 0 Marcel Goc 19 7 0 Sascha Goc 23 7 0 Boyd Gordon 19 8 0 Robb Gordon 26 5 0 Lee Goren 25 7 0 David Gosselin 25 6 0 Benoit Gratton 26 5 0 Denis Grebeshkov 19 8 0 Martin Grenier 22 8 0 Derek Gustafson 23 7 0 Niklas Hagman 23 8 0 Riku Hahl 22 8 0 David Hale 21 6 0 Adam Hall 22 8 0 Denis Hamel 25 6 0 Dan Hamhuis 20 7 0 Tavis Hansen 27 5 0 Mark Hartigan 25 8 0 Scott Hartnell 20 6 11 Bryan Helmer 30 5 0 Ales Hemsky 19 7 0 Jay Henderson 24 5 0 Matt Henderson 28 5 0 Chris Herperger 28 6 0 Chris Higgins 19 8 0 Andy Hilbert 21 8 0 Shane Hnidy 27 7 0 Milan Hnilicka 29 6 0 Johan Holmqvist 24 7 0 Darcy Hordichuk 22 8 0 Marcel Hossa 21 6 0 Petr Hubacek 23 7 0 Ivan Huml 21 8 0 Kristian Huselius 24 8 0 Hannes Hyvonen 27 8 0 Victor Ignatjev 32 5 0 Ryan Jardine 22 8 0 Martti Jarventie 26 8 0 Jason Jaspers 21 8 0 Mike Danton 22 7 0 Jeff Jillson 22 5 0 Jonas Johansson 18 8 0 Niko Kapanen 24 8 0 Steve Kariya 25 6 0 Jens Karlsson 20 7 8 Sheldon Keefe 22 7 0 Scott Kelman 21 5 0 Mikka Kiprusoff 26 7 4 Jakub Klepis 18 8 0 Tomas Kloucek 22 7 0 Igor Knyazev 19 7 0 Chuck Kobasew 20 7 0 Dieter Kochan 28 6 0 Mikko Koivu 19 7 14 Krystofer Kolanos 21 6 0 Juraj Kolnik 22 7 0 Zenith Komarniski 24 6 0 Jakub Koreis 18 8 0 Tom Kostopoulos 23 8 0 Ales Kotalik 24 8 0 Lukas Krajicek 19 7 0 Jordan Krestanovich 21 8 0 Artem Kriukov 20 6 0 Jason Krog 27 6 0 Niklas Kronwall 21 6 0 Mikhail Kuleshov 21 5 0 Jarno Kultanen 29 7 0 Justin Kurtz 25 8 0 Zdenek Kutlak 22 7 0 Joel Kwiatkowski 25 7 0 Jean-Francois Labbe 30 6 0 Dan LaCouture 25 5 0 Simon Lajeunesse 21 8 0 Marc Lamothe 28 6 0 Scott Langkow 27 5 0 Brad Larsen 25 8 0 Pascal Leclaire 20 7 1 Brad Leeb 23 6 11 Guillaume Lefebvre 21 8 0 Kari Lehtonen 19 8 0 Francis Lessard 23 8 0 Alan Letang 27 6 9 Andreas Lilja 27 7 0 Richard Lintner 25 6 0 Neil Little 31 8 0 Reed Low 26 7 0 Joffrey Lupul 19 8 0 Roman Lyashenko 23 6 0 Craig MacDonald 25 5 0 Mike Maneluk 29 5 0 Jussi Markkanen 27 8 0 Radek Martinek 26 8 0 Chris Mason 26 5 0 Marquis Mathieu 29 5 0 Steve McCarthy 21 5 0 Andy McDonald 25 7 0 Josef Melichar 23 7 0 Eric Meloche 26 8 0 Olivier Michaud 19 8 0 Petr Mika 23 6 0 Alexei Mikhnov 20 6 0 Norman Milley 22 8 0 Mike Minard 26 6 0 Steve Montador 23 8 0 Steve Moore 24 8 0 David Moravec 29 6 0 David Morisset 21 8 0 Dave Morissette 31 5 0 Mike Morris 19 8 0 Shaone Morrisonn 20 7 0 Mike Mottau 24 7 0 Mark Mowers 28 5 0 Adam Munro 20 7 0 Ladislav Nagy 23 5 0 Rick Nash 18 8 0 Tyson Nash 27 5 0 Alain Nasreddine 27 5 0 Andrej Nedorost 22 8 0 Vaclav Nedorost 20 6 0 Chris Neil 23 8 0 Jeff Nelson 30 5 0 Chris Nielsen 22 7 0 Antti-Jussi Niemi 25 7 0 Jesse Niinimaki 19 8 0 Peter Nordstrom 28 5 0 Brad Norton 27 8 0 Ivan Novoseltsev 23 5 3 Jiri Novotny 19 7 0 Pasi Nurminen 27 8 0 Eric Nystrom 19 8 0 Jaroslav Obsut 26 7 0 Jimmie Olvestad 22 8 0 Steve Ott 20 6 0 Samuel Pahlsson 25 7 0 Daniel Paille 18 8 0 Greg Pankewicz 32 5 0 Pavel Patera 31 6 0 Serge Payer 23 7 0 Mike Peluso II 28 8 0 Nathan Perrott 26 8 0 Matt Pettinger 22 7 0 Karel Pilar 25 8 0 Kamil Piros 22 8 0 Ales Pisa 25 8 0 Joni Pitkanen 19 8 0 Domenic Pittis 28 5 0 Steve Poapst 33 5 0 Alexei Ponikarovsky 22 7 0 Brian Pothier 25 8 0 Martin Prusek 27 8 0 Dale Purinton 26 6 0 Branko Radivojevic 22 8 0 Andrew Raycroft 22 7 0 Todd Reirden 31 5 0 Mike Ribeiro 22 6 0 Brad Richards 22 7 0 Travis Roche 24 7 0 Todd Rohloff 28 8 0 Dale Rominski 27 6 0 Gaetan Royer 26 8 0 Tuomo Ruutu 19 7 0 Mark Rycroft 24 8 0 Kiril Safronov 21 5 6 Bryce Salvador 26 7 11 Andreas Salomonsson 29 8 0 Martin Samuelsson 20 6 0 Mikael Samuelsson 26 7 0 Andre Savage 32 5 0 Kevin Sawyer 28 6 0 Nick Schultz 20 8 0 Richard Scott 24 8 0 Luke Sellars 21 5 0 Rich Shulmistra 31 6 0 Jonathan Sim 25 5 7 Michal Sivek 21 5 13 Fredrik Sjostrom 19 7 0 Andrei Skopintsev 31 5 12 Jim Slater 20 8 0 Brandon Smith 29 5 0 Nathan Smith 20 6 0 Wyatt Smith 25 6 0 Peter Smrek 23 7 0 Dan Snyder 24 7 0 Martin Spanhel 25 7 0 Bruno St. Jacques 22 8 0 Martin St-Louis 27 5 0 David Steckel 20 7 0 Alexander Steen 18 8 0 Brian Sutherby 20 6 0 Per Svartvadet 27 6 0 Jaroslav Svoboda 22 8 0 Petr Svoboda II 22 7 0 Brian Swanson 26 8 0 Alexander Syemin 18 8 0 Petr Sykora II 24 5 0 Dean Sylvester 30 5 12 Jeff Taffe 21 6 0 Brad Tapper 24 7 9 Dick Tarnstrom 27 8 0 Petr Taticek 19 8 0 Petr Tenkrat 25 7 0 Joey Tetarenko 24 7 0 Billy Tibbetts 28 7 0 Hannu Toivonen 18 8 0 Pavel Torgajev 36 6 0 Vesa Toskala 25 8 0 Jean-Guy Trudel 27 6 0 Marko Tuomainen 30 6 0 Jeff Ulmer 25 7 0 R.J. Umberger 20 7 0 Scottie Upshall 19 8 0 Martin Vagner 18 8 0 Rob Valicevic 31 5 0 Steve Valiquette 25 6 0 David VanDrunen 26 6 9 Sergei Varlamov 24 6 0 Andrey Vasilyev 30 5 0 Jean-Pierre Vigier 26 8 0 Tony Virta 30 8 0 Tomas Vokoun 26 5 3 Anton Volchenkov 20 6 0 Reto VonArx 26 7 0 Pavel Vorobiev 20 6 4 Radim Vrbata 21 8 0 Cam Ward 18 8 0 Lance Ward 24 7 0 Brian White 26 5 0 Trent Whitfield 25 6 0 Ryan Whitney 19 8 0 Jason Williams 22 7 0 Brian Willsie 24 6 0 Johan Witehall 30 5 9 Jeff Woywitka 19 7 0 Mikhail Yakubov 20 6 13 Nolan Yonkman 21 8 0 David Ytfeldt 23 5 7 Jeff Zehr 24 6 0 352 rookies ©2002 Web Hockey League