| ROUND: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||||
| Round 1 | ||||||
| No. | Team | Player | Pos. | Last team | League | Nationality |
| 1. | Tampa Bay | Vincent Lecavalier | C | Rimouski | QMJHL | Canada |
| 2. | Nashville | David Legwand | C | Plymouth | OHL | USA |
| 3. | San Jose | Brad Stuart | D | Regina | WHL | Canada |
| 4. | Vancouver | Bryan Allen | D | Oshawa | OHL | Canada |
| 5. | Anaheim | Vitaly Vishnevski | D | Yaroslavl | Russia Div. 1 | Ukraine |
| 6. | Calgary | Rico Fata | C | London | OHL | Canada |
| 7. | N.Y. Rangers | Manny Malhotra | C | Guelph | OHL | Canada |
| 8. | Chicago | Mark Bell | C | Ottawa | OHL | Canada |
| 9. | N.Y. Islanders | Michael Rupp | LW | Erie | OHL | USA |
| 10. | Toronto | Nikolai Antropov | C | Ust-Kamenogorsk | Russia Div. 1 | Kazakhstan |
| 11. | Carolina | Jeff Heerema | RW | Sarnia | OHL | Canada |
| 12. | Colorado | Alex Tanguay | C | Halifax | QMJHL | Canada |
| 13. | Edmonton | Mike Henrich | RW | Barrie | OHL | Canada |
| 14. | Phoenix | Patrick DesRochers | G | Sarnia | OHL | Canada |
| 15. | Ottawa | Mathieu Chouinard | G | Shawinigan | QMJHL | Canada |
| 16. | Montreal | Eric Chouinard | C | Quebec | QMJHL | Canada |
| 17. | Colorado | Martin Skoula | D | Barrie | OHL | Czech |
| 18. | Buffalo | Dmitri Kalinin | D | Chelyabinsk | RHL | Russia |
| 19. | Colorado | Robyn Regehr | D | Kamloops | WHL | Canada |
| 20. | Colorado | Scott Parker | RW | Kelowna | WHL | USA |
| 21. | Los Angeles | Mathieu Biron | D | Shawinigan | QMJHL | Canada |
| 22. | Philadelphia | Simon Gagne | C | Quebec | QMJHL | Canada |
| 23. | Pittsburgh | Milan Kraft | C | Plzen | Czech U20 | Czech |
| 24. | St. Louis | Christian Backman | D | Gothenburg | Sweden U20 | Sweden |
| 25. | Detroit | Jiri Fischer | D | Hull | QMJHL | Czech |
| 26. | New Jersey | Mike Van Ryn | D | Michigan | CCHA | Canada |
| 27. | New Jersey | Scott Gomez | C | Tri-City | WHL | USA |
