| ROUND: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||||
| Round 1 | ||||||
| No. | Team | Player | Pos. | Last team | League | Nationality |
| 1. | Ottawa | Bryan Berard | D | Detroit | OHL | USA |
| 2. | N.Y. Islanders | Wade Redden | D | Brandon | WHL | Canada |
| 3. | Los Angeles | Aki Berg | D | Turku | Fin. Div. 1 | Finland |
| 4. | Anaheim | Chad Kilger | C | Kingston | OHL | Canada |
| 5. | Tampa Bay | Daymond Langkow | C | Tri-City | WHL | Canada |
| 6. | Edmonton | Steve Kelly | C | Prince Albert | WHL | Canada |
| 7. | Winnipeg | Shane Doan | RW | Kamloops | WHL | Canada |
| 8. | Montreal | Terry Ryan | LW | Tri-City | WHL | Canada |
| 9. | Boston | Kyle McLaren | D | Tacoma | WHL | Canada |
| 10. | Florida | Radek Dvorak | RW | Ceske Budejovice | Czech U20 | Czech |
| 11. | Dallas | Jarome Iginla | RW | Kamloops | WHL | Canada |
| 12. | San Jose | Teemu Riihijarvi | LW | Espoo | Finland U20 | Finland |
| 13. | Hartford | Jean-Sebastien Giguere | G | Halifax | QMJHL | Canada |
| 14. | Buffalo | Jay McKee | D | Niagara Falls | OHL | Canada |
| 15. | Toronto | Jeff Ware | D | Oshawa | OHL | Canada |
| 16. | Buffalo | Martin Biron | G | Beauport | QMJHL | Canada |
| 17. | Washington | Brad Church | LW | Prince Albert | WHL | Canada |
| 18. | New Jersey | Petr Sykora | C | Detroit | IHL | Czech |
| 19. | Chicago | Dmitri Nabokov | C | Moscow Soviet Wings | IHL (CIS) | Russia |
| 20. | Calgary | Denis Gauthier | D | Drummondville | QMJHL | Canada |
| 21. | Boston | Sean Brown | D | Belleville | OHL | Canada |
| 22. | Philadelphia | Brian Boucher | G | Tri-City | WHL | USA |
| 23. | Washington | Miika Elomo | LW | Turku | Fin. Div. 1 | Finland |
| 24. | Pittsburgh | Aleksey Morozov | LW | Moscow Soviet Wings | IHL (CIS) | Russia |
| 25. | Colorado | Marc Denis | G | Chicoutimi | QMJHL | Canada |
| 26. | Detroit | Maxim Kuznetsov | D | Moscow Dynamo | CIS Div. 1 | Kazakhstan |
