1997 Draft Choices Round 2 - New Jersey Devils

1997 Draft Choices Round 2

Year:	Team:	Position:	Round:

Austria
Round	Pick	Overall	Team	Player	Pos	Country	Ht	Wt	Amateur League	Amateur Team
2	11	37	MTL	Gregor Baumgartner	R	AUT			QMJHL	Laval Titan College Francais
Canada
Round	Pick	Overall	Team	Player	Pos	Country	Ht	Wt	Amateur League	Amateur Team
2	3	29	LAK	Scott Barney	C	CAN	6' 4"	225	OHL	Peterborough Petes
2	5	31	NYI	Jeff Zehr	L	CAN	6' 3"	195	OHL	Windsor Spitfires
2	6	32	CGY	Evan Lindsay	G	CAN			WHL	Prince Albert Raiders
2	7	33	TBL	Kyle Kos	D	CAN	6' 3"	184	WHL	Red Deer Rebels
2	8	34	VAN	Ryan Bonni	D	CAN	6' 4"	213	WHL	Saskatoon Blades
2	9	35	WSH	Jean-Francois Fortin	D	CAN	6' 3"	210	QMJHL	Sherbrooke Faucons
2	10	36	VAN	Harold Druken	C	CAN	6' 0"	205	OHL	Detroit Whalers
2	13	39	CHI	Jeremy Reich	C	CAN	6' 1"	203	WHL	Seattle Thunderbirds
2	14	40	STL	Tyler Rennette	C	CAN	6' 0"	175	OHL	North Bay Centennials
2	15	41	EDM	Patrick Dovigi	G	CAN	6' 0"	180	OHL	Erie Otters
2	16	42	CGY	John Tripp	R	CAN	6' 3"	223	OHL	Oshawa Generals
2	20	46	NYR	Wes Jarvis	D	CAN	6' 4"	203	OHL	Kitchener Rangers
2	24	50	PHI	Pat Kavanagh	R	CAN	6' 3"	200	OHL	Peterborough Petes
2	27	53	COL	Graham Belak	L	CAN	6' 5"	235	WHL	Edmonton Ice
Finland
Round	Pick	Overall	Team	Player	Pos	Country	Ht	Wt	Amateur League	Amateur Team
2	17	43	PHX	Juha Gustafsson	D	FIN	6' 3"	200	FNL	Kiekko-Espoo
Russia
Round	Pick	Overall	Team	Player	Pos	Country	Ht	Wt	Amateur League	Amateur Team
2	19	45	ANA	Maxim Balmochnykh	L	RUS	6' 0"	209	Russia	Tolyatti Lada
2	23	49	DET	Yuri Butsayev	L	RUS	6' 0"	195	Russia	Tolyatti Lada
2	25	51	CGY	Dmitri Kokorev	D	RUS	6' 3"	198	Russia	Moscow Dynamo
2	26	52	DAL	Roman Lyashenko	C	RUS	6' 0"	196	Russia	Yaroslavl Torpedo
Slovakia
Round	Pick	Overall	Team	Player	Pos	Country	Ht	Wt	Amateur League	Amateur Team
2	12	38	NJD	Stanislav Gron	C	SVK	6' 1"	189	Slovakia	Bratislava
Sweden
Round	Pick	Overall	Team	Player	Pos	Country	Ht	Wt	Amateur League	Amateur Team
2	21	47	FLA	Kristian Huselius	L	SWE	6' 2"	184	SEL	Farjestads BK Karlstad
2	22	48	BUF	Henrik Tallinder	D	SWE	6' 4"	210	Sweden	AIK Jr.
United States
Round	Pick	Overall	Team	Player	Pos	Country	Ht	Wt	Amateur League	Amateur Team
2	1	27	BOS	Ben Clymer	R	USA	6' 1"	200	NCAA	U. of Minnesota
2	2	28	CAR	Brad Defauw	L	USA	6' 2"	220	NCAA	U. of North Dakota
2	4	30	PHI	Jean-Marc Pelletier	G	USA	6' 3"	209	NCAA	Cornell U.
2	18	44	PIT	Brian Gaffaney	D	USA	6' 5"	205	USHL	North Iowa Huskies

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