MOSCOW, July 8 National Hockey League (NHL) clubs have chosen 23 Russian player in the last draft in Montreal, Canada. The first round took place on Thursday. On this day, Pavel Mintyukov (10th number, Anaheim), Ivan Miroshnichenko (20, Washington) and Danila Yurov (24, Minnesota) were selected. The remaining six rounds took place on Friday. Artem Duda (36, Arizona), Dmitry Buchelnikov (52, Detroit), Gleb Trikozov (60, Carolina) were chosen in the second round. In the third — Alexander Perevalov (71, «Carolina»), Viktor Neuchev (74, «Buffalo»). In the fourth round, Kirill Dolzhenkov (109, «Columbus»), Daniil Orlov (110, «New Jersey»), Sergei Murashov (118, Pittsburgh) and Arseniy Koromyslov (120, St. Louis). In the fifth — Vsevolod Komarov (134, Buffalo), Nikita Grebenkin (135, Toronto), Sergei Ivanov (138, Columbus), son of Olympic champion goalkeeper Vasily Koshechkin Maxim Mayorov (147, Dallas), Vladimir Grudinin (156, Carolina) and the younger brother of St. Louis forward Ivan Barbashev Maxim Barbashev (161, Rangers). Vyacheslav Buteets (178, Anaheim) and Nikita Evseev (190, » Edmonton»). In the seventh — Artem Barabosha (198, «New Jersey»), Alexander Pelevin (205, «Carolina») and Kirill Kudryavtsev (208, «Vancouver»). «Carolina» spent four peaks out of seven on Russian players. In the 2021 NHL Draft, 29 hockey players from Russia were selected.
