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1978 NHL Entry Draft

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Overall	Team	Player	Seasons	GP	G	A	TP	PIM
	Round 1
#1	Minnesota North Stars	Bobby Smith (C)	15	1077	357	679	1036	917
#2	Washington Capitals	Ryan Walter (C)	15	1003	264	382	646	946
#3	St. Louis Blues	Wayne Babych (RW)	9	519	192	246	438	498
#4	Vancouver Canucks	Bill Derlago (C)	9	555	189	227	416	247
#5	Colorado Rockies	Mike Gillis (LW)	6	246	33	43	76	186
#6	Philadelphia Flyers	Behn Wilson (D)	9	601	98	260	358	1480
#7	Philadelphia Flyers	Ken Linseman (LW)	14	859	256	551	807	1727
#8	Montréal Canadiens	Daniel Geoffrion (RW)	3	111	20	32	52	99
#9	Detroit Red Wings	William Huber (D)	10	655	104	217	321	950
#10	Chicago Blackhawks	Tim Higgins (F)	11	706	154	198	352	719
#11	Atlanta Flames	Brad Marsh (D)	15	1086	23	175	198	1241
#12	Detroit Red Wings	Brent Peterson (RW)	11	620	72	141	213	484
#13	Buffalo Sabres	Larry Playfair (D)	12	688	26	94	120	1814
#14	Philadelphia Flyers	Dan Lucas (RW)	1	6	1	0	1	0
#15	New York Islanders	Steve Tambellini (C)	10	553	160	150	310	105
#16	Boston Bruins	Al Secord (LW)	12	766	273	222	495	2093
#17	Montréal Canadiens	Dave Hunter (F)	10	746	133	190	323	918
#18	Washington Capitals	Tim Coulis (LW)	4	47	4	5	9	138
	Round 2
#19	Minnesota North Stars	Steve Payne (LW)	10	613	228	238	466	435
#20	Washington Capitals	Paul Mulvey (LW)	4	225	30	51	81	613
#21	Toronto Maple Leafs	Joel Quenneville (D)	13	803	54	136	190	705
#22	Vancouver Canucks	Curt Fraser (LW)	12	704	193	240	433	1306
#23	missing data
#24	Minnesota North Stars	Steve Christoff (C)	5	248	77	64	141	108
#25	missing data
#26	New York Rangers	Don Maloney (LW)	13	765	214	350	564	815
#27	Colorado Rockies	Merlin Malinowski (F)	5	282	54	111	165	121
#28	missing data
#29	missing data
#30	missing data
#31	Detroit Red Wings	Al Jensen (G)	7	179	-	-	-	-
#32	Buffalo Sabres	Tony McKegney (LW)	13	912	320	319	639	517
#33	missing data
#34	missing data
#35	Boston Bruins	Graeme Nicolson (D)	3	52	2	7	9	60
#36	Montréal Canadiens	Ron Carter (RW)	1	2	0	0	0	0
	Round 3
#37	Philadelphia Flyers	Gord Salt (RW)
#38	Washington Capitals	Glen Currie (LW)	8	326	39	79	118	100
#39	St. Louis Blues	Steve Harrison (D)
#40	Vancouver Canucks	Stan Smyl (RW)	13	898	262	411	673	1556
#41	Colorado Rockies	Paul Messier (C)	1	9	0	0	0	4
#42	Montréal Canadiens	Richard David (LW)	3	31	4	4	8	10
#43	New York Rangers	Ray Markham (RW)	1	14	1	1	2	21
#44	New York Rangers	Dean Turner (D)	4	35	1	0	1	59
#45	missing data
#46	Chicago Blackhawks	Rick Paterson (F)	9	430	50	43	93	136
#47	Atlanta Flames	Tim Bernhardt (G)	4	67	-	-	-	-
#48	Toronto Maple Leafs	Mark Kirton (C)	6	266	57	56	113	121
#49	Buffalo Sabres	Rob McClanahan (LW)	6	224	38	63	101	126
#50	Philadelphia Flyers	Glen Cochrane (D)	10	411	17	72	89	1556
#51	New York Islanders	Dwayne Lowdermilk (D)	1	2	0	1	1	2
#52	missing data
#53	Detroit Red Wings	Doug Derkson (C)
	Round 4
#54	Minnesota North Stars	Curt Giles (D)	14	895	43	199	242	733
#55	Washington Capitals	Bengt-Åke Gustafsson (C)	9	629	196	359	555	196
#56	missing data
#57	Vancouver Canucks	Brad Smith (RW)	9	222	28	34	62	591
#58	missing data
#59	New York Rangers	David Silk (RW)	7	249	54	59	113	271
#60	New York Rangers	André Doré (D)	7	257	14	81	95	261
#61	missing data
#62	Detroit Red Wings	Bjørn Skaare (F)	1	1	0	0	0	0
#63	Chicago Blackhawks	Brian Young (D)	1	8	0	2	2	6
#64	missing data
#65	Toronto Maple Leafs	Bob Parent (G)	2	3	-	-	-	-
#66	Buffalo Sabres	Mike Gazdic (D)
#67	missing data
#68	missing data
#69	Montréal Canadiens	Kevin Reeves (C)
#70	missing data
#71	missing data
#72	missing data
#73	missing data
#74	missing data
#75	missing data
#76	missing data
#77	missing data
#78	missing data
#79	missing data
#80	missing data
#81	Toronto Maple Leafs	Jordy Douglas (F)	6	268	76	62	138	169
	Round 5
#70	Minnesota North Stars	Roy Kerling (C)
#71	Washington Capitals	Lou Franceschetti (RW)	10	459	59	81	140	747
#72	St. Louis Blues	Kevin Willison (D)
#73	missing data
#74	missing data
#75	missing data
#76	New York Rangers	Mike McDougall (RW)	4	61	8	10	18	43
#77	missing data
#78	Detroit Red Wings	Ted Nolan (LW)	3	78	6	16	21	105
#79	missing data
#80	Atlanta Flames	Gord Wappel (D)	3	20	1	1	2	10
#81	missing data
#82	missing data
#83	missing data
#84	New York Islanders	Greg Hay (LW)
#85	Boston Bruins	Daryl MacLeod (LW)
#86	missing data
	Round 6
#87	Minnesota North Stars	Bob Bergloff (D)	1	2	0	0	0	5
#88	missing data
#89	St. Louis Blues	Jim Nill (RW)	9	524	58	87	145	854
#90	Vancouver Canucks	Gerry Minor (C)	5	140	11	21	32	173
#91	missing data
#92	missing data
#93	New York Rangers	Tom Laidlaw (D)	10	705	25	139	164	717
#94	missing data
#95	Detroit Red Wings	Sylvain Locas (C)
#96	Chicago Blackhawks	Dave Feamster (D)	4	169	13	24	37	154
#97	Atlanta Flames	Greg Meredith (RW)	2	38	6	4	10	8
#98	missing data
#99	Buffalo Sabres	Cam MacGregor (LW)
#100	missing data
#101	missing data
#102	Boston Bruins	Jeff Brubaker (LW)	8	178	16	9	25	512
#103	Montréal Canadiens	Keith Acton (C)	15	1023	226	358	584	1172
#104	missing data
#105	Washington Capitals	Mats Hallin (LW)	5	152	17	14	31	193
	Round 7
#106	St. Louis Blues	Steven Stockman (C)
#107	missing data
#108	missing data
#109	St. Louis Blues	Paul MacLean (RW)	11	719	324	349	673	968
#110	missing data
#111	Los Angeles Kings	Don Waddell (D)	1	1	0	0	0	0
#112	missing data
#113	missing data
#114	missing data
#115	missing data
#116	missing data
#117	Philadelphia Flyers	Mike Ewanouski (RW)
#118	missing data
#119	New York Islanders	Richard Pépin (RW)
#120	missing data
	Round 8
#121	Minnesota North Stars	Mike Cotter (D)
#122	missing data
#123	St. Louis Blues	Denis Houle (LW)
#124	Vancouver Canucks	Steve O'Neill (F)
#125	missing data
#126	Philadelphia Flyers	Jerry Price (G)
#127	missing data
#128	missing data
#129	missing data
#130	missing data
#131	Atlanta Flames	Dave Morrison (F)
#132	missing data
#133	Buffalo Sabres	Eric Strobel (RW)
#134	missing data
#135	missing data
#136	Boston Bruins	Bobby Hehir (C)
#137	Montréal Canadiens	Larry Landon (LW)	2	9	0	0	0	2
	Round 9
#100	Philadelphia Flyers	Mark Taylor (C)	5	209	42	68	110	73
#101	missing data
#102	missing data
#103	missing data
#104	missing data
#105	missing data
#106	missing data
#107	missing data
#108	missing data
#109	missing data
#110	missing data
#111	missing data
#112	missing data
#113	missing data
#114	missing data
#115	missing data
#116	missing data
#117	missing data
#118	missing data
#119	missing data
#120	missing data
#121	missing data
#122	missing data
#123	missing data
#124	missing data
#125	missing data
#126	missing data
#127	missing data
#128	missing data
#129	missing data
#130	missing data
#131	missing data
#132	missing data
#133	missing data
#134	missing data
#135	missing data
#136	missing data
#137	missing data
#138	missing data
#139	Washington Capitals	Denis Pomerleau (RW)
#140	missing data
#141	Vancouver Canucks	Charlie Antetomaso (D)
#142	Colorado Rockies	Kevin Krook (D)	1	3	0	0	0	2
#143	St. Louis Blues	Rick Simpson (LW)
#144	New York Rangers	Brian McDavid (D)
#145	missing data
#146	missing data
#147	missing data
#148	missing data
#149	missing data
#150	missing data
#151	missing data
#152	New York Islanders	Paul Joswiak (G)
#153	Boston Bruins	Craig MacTavish (C)	17	1093	213	267	481	891
#154	Montréal Canadiens	Kevin Constantine (G)
#155	missing data
#156	missing data
#157	missing data
#158	missing data
	Round 10
#159	Colorado Rockies	Jeff Jensen (LW)
#160	St. Louis Blues	Bob Froese (G)	8	242	-	-	-	-
#161	missing data
#162	missing data
#163	missing data
#164	missing data
#165	Atlanta Flames	Mark Green (C)
#166	missing data
#167	missing data
#168	Philadelphia Flyers	Don Lucia (D)
#169	missing data
#170	missing data
#171	missing data
#172	missing data
#173	missing data
#174	Colorado Rockies	Bo Ericson (D)
#175	St. Louis Blues	Dan Hermansson (F)
	Round 11
#172	Washington Capitals	Mark Toffolo (D)
#173	missing data
#174	missing data
#175	missing data
#176	New York Rangers	Steve Weeks (G)	13	290	-	-	-	-
#177	missing data
#178	missing data
#179	Chicago Blackhawks	Darryl Sutter (LW)	8	406	161	118	279	288
#180	Atlanta Flames	Robert Sullivan (LW)	1	62	18	19	37	18
#181	St. Louis Blues	Jean-François Boutin (LW)
#182	missing data
#183	missing data
#184	New York Islanders	Christer Löwdahl (F)
#185	St. Louis Blues	John Sullivan (F)
#186	missing data
#187	missing data
#188	missing data
#189	Montréal Canadiens	Daniel Métivier (RW)
	Round 12
#189	Washington Capitals	Steve Barger (RW)
#190	Colorado Rockies	Jari Viitala (F)
#191	St. Louis Blues	Don Boyd (RW)
#192	St. Louis Blues	Serge Ménard (RW)
#193	Los Angeles Kings	Claude Larochelle (C)
#194	Detroit Red Wings	Ladislav Svozil (F)
#195	missing data
#196	missing data
#197	St. Louis Blues	Paul Stasiuk (LW)
#198	missing data
#199	New York Islanders	Gunnar Persson (D)
#200	St. Louis Blues	Gerd Truntschka (C)
#201	Montréal Canadiens	Vyacheslav Fetisov (D)	9	546	36	192	228	656
	Round 13
#173	St. Louis Blues	Risto Siltanen (D)	8	562	90	265	355	266
#174	missing data
#175	missing data
#176	missing data
#177	missing data
#178	missing data
#179	missing data
#180	missing data
#181	missing data
#182	missing data
#183	missing data
#184	missing data
#185	missing data
#186	missing data
#187	missing data
#188	missing data
#189	missing data
#190	missing data
#191	missing data
#192	missing data
#193	missing data
#194	missing data
#195	missing data
#196	missing data
#197	missing data
#198	missing data
#199	missing data
#200	missing data
#201	missing data
#202	missing data
#203	St. Louis Blues	Viktor Shkurdyuk (F)
#204	Colorado Rockies	Ulf Zetterström (F)
#205	St. Louis Blues	Carl Bloomberg (G)
#206	missing data
#207	St. Louis Blues	Terry Kitching (RW)
#208	missing data
#209	missing data
#210	missing data
#211	St. Louis Blues	Matt Pidgeon (C)
#212	missing data
	Round 14
#213	Washington Capitals	Wes Jarvis (C)	9	237	31	55	86	98
#214	missing data
#215	missing data
#216	St. Louis Blues	Joe Casey (D)
#217	New York Rangers	Todd Johnson (F)
#218	missing data
#219	missing data
#220	St. Louis Blues	Frank Johnson (D)
#221	missing data
#222	missing data
	Round 15
#223	New York Rangers	Dan McCarthy (C)	1	5	4	0	4	4
#224	missing data
#225	Montréal Canadiens	George Goulakos (LW)
#226	missing data
#227	missing data
#228	missing data
	Round 17
#229	Montréal Canadiens	Serge LeBlanc (D)
	Round 18
#230	Montréal Canadiens	Bob Magnuson (F)
	Round 19
#231	Montréal Canadiens	Chris Nilan (RW)	13	688	110	115	225	3043
#232	missing data
	Round 21
#233	Montréal Canadiens	Louis Sleigher (RW)	6	194	46	53	99	146
	Round 22
#234	Montréal Canadiens	Doug Robb (RW)

number of players drafted: 137

Players drafted per nation:

	Canada	90 players
	USA	31 players
	Sweden	7 players
	Russia	2 players
	Finland	2 players
	Austria	1 players
	Netherlands	1 players
	Germany	1 players
	Czech Rep.	1 players
	Norway	1 players