KHL territorial pick

A KHL territorial pick is 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.

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 are factored into the overall selection count. As such, a KHL team can 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 have 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.

Key

Pos.	G	F	D
Position	Goaltender	Forward	Defenseman

List of territorial draft picks

Draft	Player	Pos.	Pick	Nationality	KHL team	Team from (city)
2010	Alyapkin, MaxinMaxin Alyapkin ^	G	4	Russia	Vityaz Chekhov	Vityazi Russkie Vityazi (Podolsk)
2010	Shubin, AlexeiAlexei Shubin ^	F	6	Russia	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	Loko Loko (Yaroslavl)
2010	Shamin, AlexeiAlexei Shamin ^	F	7	Russia	Lokomotiv Yaroslavl	Loko Loko (Yaroslavl)
2010	Shalunov, MaximMaxim Shalunov ^	F	15	Russia	Traktor Chelyabinsk	Belye Belye Medvedi (Chelyabinsk)
2010	Perevozchikov, DenisDenis Perevozchikov ^	F	16	Russia	Ak Bars Kazan	Bars Bars (Kazan)
2010	Pedan, AndreiAndrei Pedan ^	D	18	Russia	Dynamo Moscow	Sherif Sherif (Tver)
2010	Yakupov, NailNail Yakupov ^	F	19	Russia	Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk	VReaktor Reaktor (Nizhnekamsk)
2010	Nesterov, NikitaNikita Nesterov ^	D	22	Russia	Traktor Chelyabinsk	Belye Belye Medvedi (Chelyabinsk)
2011	Ishaev, IgorIgor Ishaev	C	2	Russia	Amur Khabarovsk	Amurskie Amurskie Tigry (Khabarovsk)
2011	Vasilevski, AndreiAndrei Vasilevski	G	7	Russia	Salavat Yulaev Ufa	Tolpar Tolpar (Ufa)
2011	Grigorenko, MikhailMikhail Grigorenko	C	8	Russia	HC CSKA Moscow	Krasnaya Krasnaya Armia (Moscow)

See also

• 2010 Entry Draft - KHL Territorial Picks