The 2013

KHL The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL; russian: Континентальная хоккейная лига (КХЛ), Kontinental'naya khokkeynaya liga) is an international professional ice hockey league founded in 2008. It comprises member clubs b ...

Expansion Draft An expansion draft, in professional sports, occurs when a sports league decides to create one or more new expansion teams or franchises. This occurs mainly in North American sports. One of the ways of stocking the new team or teams is an expansion ...

was held on 17 June 2013 in order to fill the roster of the league's expansion team

Admiral Vladivostok Hockey Club Admiral, Also Known as The Admiral Vladivostok, (russian: Хоккейный клуб Адмирал)are a professional ice hockey team based in Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Russia. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of the ...

for the 2013-14 season.

Rules

was able to select players from any of the

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n-based teams in the

, except from

Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Hockey Club Lokomotiv (russian: ХК Локомотив, en, Locomotive HC), also known as Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, is a Russian professional ice hockey team, based in the city of Yaroslavl, playing in the top level Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) ...

. This exception was because Lokomotiv had been still recovering from the

2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash On 7 September 2011, YAK-Service Flight 9633, a Yakovlev Yak-42 air charter, charter flight operated by Yak-Service, YAK-Service carrying players and coaching staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team, crashed on take-off nea ...

. Five days before the draft, each team submitted five players to be available for selection in the expansion draft and the Vladivostok team was allowed to choose one player from each club. The players submitted for selection might have been either Russian or foreign. However, the Vladivostok roster had to contain no more than seven foreign players and no more than one foreign goaltender. The players submitted to the draft had to meet the following criteria: * Players must be born in 1992 or earlier and have an existing contract with KHL clubs and a first team experience * Players who have received offers of a trial period or a contract from clubs * Their contracts do not contain a clause prohibiting an exchange with another club * Players whose contractual status is not In Conflict, Secured Rights or Reserved Player The players names available for Admiral to choose from were not revealed to public due to ethical issues and league agreements with the various teams.

Draft picks

Below are all players drafted to Admiral in the extension draft:

References

{{Kontinental Hockey League 2013–14 KHL season Kontinental Hockey League expansion drafts Admiral Vladivostok