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Re-drafting the 1995 NHL Draft lottery

Shane Doan and Jarome Iginla highlight the top players from the 1995 NHL Entry Draft in this first-round redraft.

Jarome Iginla, Shane Doan | Dave Sandford/GettyImages

The Los Angeles Kings won the first-ever NHL Draft lottery in 1995, allowing them to move up a few spots to draft third overall. This early-first-round draft pick for the Kings came at a time when LA had a three-year-long playoff drought in the Western Conference in the mid-1990s.

Moving up four spots, the Los Angeles Kings picked third overall in the first round of the 1995 NHL Draft as the winner of the league's first-ever lottery process results

With their third overall pick in the 1995 draft, the Kings selected defenseman Aki Berg.