Tampa Bay Lightning Draft Pick Generator: Ninth-rounder Nick Tarnasky

For this series, I’ve taken a list of every Tampa Bay Lightning draft pick, excluding the expansion draft, and put it into a random name picker. Also excluded are any Steve Yzerman era picks, so the players eligible are BY, Before Yzerman.

Now that the names are in the list, let’s spin the wheel and pick our random Tampa Bay Lightning draft pick.

And the selected player is...

This week’s draft pick is a ninth-round pick of the Lightning, 287th overall in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft. At one time, the NHL Entry Draft actually went all the way to the 12th round. Then it was reduced to nine rounds in the early 90s, and then finally down to the seven rounds we know today after the 2004-05 NHL Lockout.

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