Player drafted 2 times?

[adcap 0]

How can this be? I thought if a club drafts a player he "owns" this player? (unless he is a free agent)

Selected by New Jersey Devils round 2 #47 overall 1996 NHL Entry Draft

Selected by New Jersey Devils round 4 #105 overall 1998 NHL Entry Draft

http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php3?pid=29526

[kosydar 0]

I'm not a draft expert, but you have a certain time period in which to be signed by the club. If you aren't signed you either become a free agent or his rights by whatever club who drafted him are lost, and he can enter the draft again.

[mack 44]

If a player has not been signed before the draft two years after his original draft he is eligible to go back in. I think Boynton's one of the more popular people that this happened to. A lot of people end up being signed right before they're eligible to go back in, in fear of losing them.

[sc37 0]

Happened with Trevor Hendrikx and the CBJ. They like him a lot, but couldn't get a deal worked out and liked him enough to draft him again.

[Allsmokenopancake 0]

The Caps originally drafted Nick Boynton back in 97, then could not come to terms, and was redrafted by the bruins in 99

[skyhigh 0]

Jarret Stoll and Matthew Lombardi

[Meathead 0]

Someone recently (like '04) was drafted for the second time by Anaheim.

[Jake 0]

Tim Brent

[KC83 2]

i believe that was tim brent... drafted by anaheim twice

then there was the infamous fedor federov who was drafted twice but by 2 different teams

[KingPest19 0]

Ottawa drafted Mathieu Chouinard in the 1st in 98, didnt sign him drafted him again in the 2nd in 2000.

[Chadd 916]

Most of the time the player is drafted lower the second time around.

[adcap 0]

ah, I see. Thanks for the answers.

[bigmack 0]

Isn't that such waste of a draft pick though?

[Eazy_b97 1]

No, they are just ahead of the other players in development and step right into the pro system.