KHL territorial pick

A KHL territorial pick was a special type of draft pick used in the KHL Junior Draft. A Kontinental Hockey League team could protect up to 3 players from its Minor Hockey League affiliate or its hockey school(s) and use its first-round pick to draft one of its protected players.[1]

However, unlike the NBA territorial picks, where NBA teams used territorial draft picks sparsely, KHL teams frequently used such picks to keep local talent. Also, in the KHL, the territorial draft picks were factored into the overall selection count. As such, a KHL team could draft more than one territorial pick; it happened in 2010 when Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, as well as Traktor Chelyabinsk used their two first-round draft picks on territorial picks.

For 2012, the rules changed: now a team could protect up to 5 players and use any pick, regardless of round, to select them, unless entering the disaster draft, in which case a team can protect as many players as they want for the five years following the disaster draft. The KHL Junior Draft was discontinued in 2016.

Key
Pos.GFD
PositionGoaltenderForwardDefenseman

List of territorial draft picks
 Draft Player  Pos. Pick Nationality KHL team Team from (city)
2010 Maxim Alyapkin^ G 4 Russia Vityaz Chekhov Russkie Vityazi (Podolsk)
2010 Alexei Shubin^ F 6 Russia Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Loko (Yaroslavl)
2010 Alexei Shamin^ F 7 Russia Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Loko (Yaroslavl)
2010 Maxim Shalunov^ F 15 Russia Traktor Chelyabinsk Belye Medvedi (Chelyabinsk)
2010 Denis Perevozchikov^ F 16 Russia Ak Bars Kazan Bars (Kazan)
2010 Andrei Pedan^ D 18 Russia Dynamo Moscow Sherif (Tver)
2010 Nail Yakupov^ F 19 Russia Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk Reaktor (Nizhnekamsk)
2010 Nikita Nesterov^ D 22 Russia Traktor Chelyabinsk Belye Medvedi (Chelyabinsk)
2011 Igor Ishaev C 2 Russia Amur Khabarovsk Amurskie Tigry (Khabarovsk)
2011 Andrei Vasilevski G 7 Russia Salavat Yulaev Ufa Tolpar (Ufa)
2011 Mikhail Grigorenko C 8 Russia HC CSKA Moscow Krasnaya Armia (Moscow)

References
  1. "2010 KHL Entry Draft". russianhockeyfans.com. Russian Hockey Fans. Retrieved December 30, 2010.
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