WHL9 Rookies List YD = Year Drafted CG = Career Games (Regular Season) player's name Age YD CG Craig Adams 25 7 0 Dmitri Afanasenkov 22 7 5 Nikita Alexeev 21 6 6 Bobby Allen 25 9 0 Craig Andersson 22 9 0 Jonas Andersson 21 8 0 Colby Armstrong 20 7 0 Tyler Arnason 23 8 0 Alexander Auld 21 8 0 Jared Aulin 21 9 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 Scott Barney 24 9 0 Milan Bartovic 22 9 0 Ryan Bayda 23 9 0 Francois Beauchemin 23 9 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 Shawn Belle 18 9 0 Blake Bellefeuille 26 9 0 Andy Berenzweig 25 6 0 Marc-Andre Bergeron 23 9 0 Christian Berglund 22 8 0 Steve Bernier 18 9 0 Rick Berry 24 7 0 Jiri Bicek 24 7 0 Zdenek Blatny 22 9 0 Eric Boguniecki 27 6 14 Ryan Bonni 23 6 0 Tyler Bouck 22 7 0 Jesse Boulerice 25 9 0 Eric Boulton 26 7 0 Josef Boumedienne 24 8 0 Brad Boyes 20 6 0 Brian Boyle 19 9 0 Matt Bradley 24 7 0 Kip Brennan 23 9 0 Dustin Brown 19 9 0 Ilja Bryzgalov 22 8 0 Brent Burns 18 9 0 Yuri Butsayev 24 6 0 Dmitri Bykov 26 9 0 Petr Cajanek 28 9 0 Kyle Calder 23 6 0 Mike Cammalleri 21 9 0 Sebastien Caron 23 9 0 Jeff Carter 18 9 0 Frederic Cassivi 28 9 0 Sebastien Centomo 21 8 0 Sebastien Charpentier 25 8 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 Scott Clemmensen 25 8 0 Ben Clymer 24 6 11 Braydon Coburn 18 9 0 Mike Commodore 23 7 9 Daniel Corso 24 7 10 Joe Corvo 26 9 0 Jeff Cowan 26 6 0 Jakub Cutta 21 7 0 Pierre Dagenais 24 7 0 Toni Dahlman 23 8 0 Mike Danton 22 7 0 Matt Davidson 25 8 0 Rob Davison 23 9 0 Brad DeFauw 26 9 0 Niko Dimitrakos 24 9 0 Joe DiPenta 24 9 0 Rick DiPietro 21 6 2 Reinhard Divis 27 8 0 Tomas Divisek 23 7 0 Aaron Downey 28 6 0 Harold Druken 23 6 0 Micki Dupont 22 8 0 Pascal Dupuis 23 7 0 Gordie Dwyer 24 6 12 Ben Eager 18 8 0 Patrick Eaves 19 9 0 Ray Emery 21 9 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 6 Garnet Exelby 22 9 0 Jim Fahey 24 9 0 Mike Farrell 24 8 0 Fedor Fedorov 22 9 0 Todd Fedoruk 23 7 0 Eric Fehr 18 9 0 Scott Ferguson 29 8 0 Jesse Fibiger 25 9 0 Vernon Fiddler 23 9 0 Marc-Andre Fleury 19 9 0 Ryan Flinn 22 8 0 Jean-Francois Fortin 23 8 0 Adrian Foster 20 7 0 Kurtis Foster 22 9 0 Kyle Freadrich 24 6 0 Alexander Frolov 20 6 2 Steve Gainey 23 7 0 Simon Gamache 22 9 0 Paul Gaustad 21 9 0 Martin Gerber 29 9 0 Ryan Getzlaf 18 9 0 Brian Gionta 23 8 0 Tim Gleason 19 7 0 Marcel Goc 19 7 2 Sascha Goc 23 7 0 Eric Godard 23 9 0 Boyd Gordon 19 8 0 Lee Goren 25 7 0 David Gosselin 25 6 0 Denis Grebeshkov 19 8 0 Martin Grenier 22 8 0 Kari Haakana 30 9 0 Niklas Hagman 23 8 0 Riku Hahl 22 8 0 David Hale 21 6 0 Adam Hall 22 8 11 Denis Hamel 25 6 0 Dan Hamhuis 20 7 10 Mark Hartigan 25 8 0 Darren Haydar 24 9 0 Radoslav Hecl 29 9 0 Jonathan Hedstrom 26 9 0 Ales Hemsky 19 7 0 Alex Henry 24 9 0 Burke Henry 24 9 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 Nathan Horton 18 9 0 Marcel Hossa 21 6 0 Petr Hubacek 23 7 0 Cristobal Huet 28 9 0 Ivan Huml 21 8 0 Trent Hunter 23 9 0 Hannes Hyvonen 27 8 0 Doug Janik 23 9 0 Ryan Jardine 22 8 0 Martti Jarventie 26 8 0 Jason Jaspers 21 8 0 Hugh Jessiman 19 9 0 Jonas Johansson 18 8 0 Mathias Johansson 29 9 0 Mikko Jokela 23 9 0 Niko Kapanen 24 8 0 Steve Kariya 25 6 0 Jens Karlsson 20 7 8 Pat Kavanagh 24 9 0 Sheldon Keefe 22 7 0 Ryan Kesler 19 9 0 Jason King 22 9 0 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 Tom Koivisto 29 9 0 Mikko Koivu 19 7 14 Krystofer Kolanos 21 6 0 Juraj Kolnik 22 7 0 Evgeny Konstantinov 22 9 0 Jakub Koreis 18 8 0 Andrei Kostitsyn 18 9 0 Tom Kostopoulos 23 8 0 Ales Kotalik 24 8 0 Ryan Kraft 28 9 0 Lukas Krajicek 19 7 0 Jordan Krestanovich 21 8 0 Jaroslav Kristek 23 9 0 Artem Kriukov 20 6 0 Niklas Kronwall 21 6 0 Tomas Kurka 22 9 0 Zdenek Kutlak 22 7 0 Joel Kwiatkowski 25 7 0 Jean-Francois Labbe 30 6 0 Simon Lajeunesse 21 8 0 Josh Langfeld 26 9 0 Brad Larsen 25 8 0 Kirby Law 26 9 0 Pascal Leclaire 20 7 1 Brad Leeb 23 6 11 Guillaume Lefebvre 21 8 0 Kari Lehtonen 19 8 0 Michael Leighton 22 9 0 Jordan Leopold 23 9 0 Francis Lessard 23 8 0 Alan Letang 27 6 9 Richard Lintner 25 6 0 Neil Little 31 8 0 Reed Low 26 7 0 Lynn Loyns 22 9 0 Ross Lupaschuk 22 9 0 Ian MacNeil 26 9 0 Ivan Majesky 27 9 0 Tomas Malec 21 9 0 Paul Manning 24 9 0 Justin Mapletoft 22 9 0 Jussi Markkanen 27 8 1 Radek Martinek 26 8 0 Kent McDonell 24 9 0 Brett McLean 25 9 0 Sean McMorrow 21 9 0 Josef Melichar 23 7 0 Eric Meloche 26 8 0 Milan Michalek 19 9 0 Olivier Michaud 19 8 0 Petr Mika 23 6 0 Alexei Mikhnov 20 6 0 Ryan Miller 23 9 0 Norman Milley 22 8 0 Steve Montador 23 8 0 Steve Moore 24 8 0 David Morisset 21 8 0 Mike Morris 19 8 0 Shaone Morrisonn 20 7 0 Mike Mottau 24 7 0 Rick Mrozik 28 9 0 Adam Munro 20 7 0 Curtis Murphy 28 9 0 Rick Nash 18 8 0 Andrej Nedorost 22 8 0 Vaclav Nedorost 20 6 0 Chris Neil 23 8 14 Chris Nielsen 22 7 0 Jesse Niinimaki 19 8 12 Robert Nilsson 18 9 0 Brad Norton 27 8 0 Jiri Novotny 19 7 0 Pasi Nurminen 27 8 0 Eric Nystrom 19 8 0 Jimmie Olvestad 22 8 0 Steve Ott 20 6 0 Samuel Pahlsson 25 7 5 Daniel Paille 18 8 0 Zach Parise 19 9 0 Jeff Paul 25 9 0 Serge Payer 23 7 0 Mike PelusoII 28 8 0 Nathan Perrott 26 8 0 Corey Perry 18 9 0 Tomi Pettinen 26 9 0 Matt Pettinger 22 7 0 Dion Phaneuf 18 9 0 Lasse Pirjeta 29 9 0 Kamil Piros 22 8 0 Ales Pisa 25 8 0 Fernando Pisani 27 9 0 Joni Pitkanen 19 8 2 Alexei Ponikarovsky 22 7 0 Brian Pothier 25 8 0 Marc-Antoine Pouliot 18 9 0 Martin Prusek 27 8 0 Dale Purinton 26 6 0 Branko Radivojevic 22 8 0 Igor Radulov 21 9 0 Andrew Raycroft 22 7 0 Brandon Reid 22 9 0 Mike Ribeiro 22 6 0 Brad Richards 22 7 0 Mike Richards 18 9 0 Travis Roche 24 7 0 Todd Rohloff 28 8 0 Gaetan Royer 26 8 0 Cody Rudkowsky 25 9 0 Andreas Salomonsson 29 8 0 Martin Samuelsson 20 6 0 Mikael Samuelsson 26 7 0 Curtis Sanford 24 9 0 Kurt Sauer 22 9 0 Kevin Sawyer 28 6 0 Chris Schmidt 27 9 0 Robert Schnabel 25 9 0 Nick Schultz 20 8 0 Richard Scott 24 8 0 Brent Seabrook 18 9 0 Dennis Seidenberg 22 9 0 Peter Sejna 24 9 0 Alexei Semenov 22 9 0 Alexander Semin 18 8 4 Cam Severson 25 9 0 Patrick Sharp 22 9 0 Jody Shelley 27 9 0 Mike Siklenka 24 9 0 Ben Simon 25 9 0 Fredrik Sjostrom 19 7 0 Jim Slater 20 8 0 Nathan Smith 20 6 0 Wyatt Smith 25 6 0 Jerred Smithson 24 9 0 Radovan Somik 26 9 0 Bruno St.Jacques 22 8 0 Eric Staal 19 9 0 Matthew Stajan 20 9 0 David Steckel 20 7 0 Alexander Steen 18 8 0 Anthony Stewart 18 9 0 Jarret Stoll 21 9 0 Mark Stuart 19 9 0 Damian Surma 22 9 0 Tomas Surovy 22 9 0 Ryan Suter 18 9 0 Brian Sutherby 20 6 0 Per Svartvadet 27 6 0 Jaroslav Svoboda 22 8 0 Petr SvobodaII 22 7 0 Brian Swanson 26 8 0 Jeff Taffe 21 6 0 Jeff Tambellini 19 9 0 Brad Tapper 24 7 9 Dick Tarnstrom 27 8 0 Petr Taticek 19 8 0 Mikael Tellqvist 24 9 0 Petr Tenkrat 25 7 0 Joey Tetarenko 24 7 0 Tim Thomas 29 9 0 Shawn Thornton 26 9 0 Billy Tibbetts 28 7 0 Hannu Toivonen 18 8 0 Vesa Toskala 25 8 0 John Tripp 26 9 0 Jean-Guy Trudel 27 6 0 Jeff Ulmer 25 7 0 R.J. Umberger 20 7 0 Martin Vagner 18 8 0 Jim Vandermeer 23 9 0 Thomas Vanek 19 9 0 Sergei Varlamov 24 6 0 Stephane Veilleux 22 9 0 Kris Vernarsky 21 9 0 Jean-Pierre Vigier 26 8 3 Tony Virta 30 8 0 Anton Volchenkov 20 6 0 Pavel Vorobiev 20 6 4 Matt Walker 23 9 0 Rickard Wallin 23 9 0 Derrick Walser 25 9 0 Kyle Wanvig 22 9 0 Cam Ward 18 8 0 Mike Weaver 25 9 0 Mattias Weinhandl 23 9 0 Duvie Westcott 26 9 0 Trent Whitfield 25 6 0 Ryan Whitney 19 8 2 Jason Williams 22 7 0 Brian Willsie 24 6 0 Chad Wiseman 22 9 0 Jeff Woywitka 19 7 0 Mikhail Yakubov 20 6 13 Miroslav Zalesak 23 9 0 Jeff Zehr 24 6 0 Henrik Zetterberg 23 9 0 Nikolai Zherdev 19 9 0 Mike Zigomanis 22 9 0 Tomas Zizka 24 9 0 373 rookies ©2003 Web Hockey League