Historical context of Kings’ 2016 draft picks

The Kings currently have four draft picks:

First Round (Traded to CAR with Roland McKeown for Andrej Sekera)
Second Round, 51st overall
Third Round (Traded to PHI with Jordan Weal for Vincent Lecavalier, Luke Schenn)
Fourth Round, 112th overall
Fifth Round, 142nd overall

Sixth Round (Traded to PHI with LAK’s fourth round draft pick in 2015 for PHI’s fourth round draft pick – originally belonging to CBJ – in 2015)
Seventh Round, 202nd overall

51st Overall
Current NHL players selected 51st overall: Calle Jarnkrok (2010), Brian Dumoulin (2009), Derek Stepan (2008), Mason Raymond (2005), Colin McDonald (2003)
Other notable picks selected 51st overall: Patrik Elias (1994), Sean Pronger (1991), Patrick Roy (1984), Butch Goring (1969)
Number of players to play at least 100 games in the NHL: 14
Previous second round picks under Dean Lombardi: Joe Ryan (2006), Oscar Moller (2007), Wayne Simmonds (2007), Slava Voynov (2008), Kyle Clifford (2009), Tyler Toffoli (2010), Christopher Gibson (2011), Valentin Zykov (2013), Roland McKeown (2014), Alex Lintuniemi (2014), Erik Cernak (2015)

112th Overall
Current NHL players selected 112th overall: Viktor Arvidsson (2014), Philipp Grubauer (2010), Colton Sceviour (2007), Matt Beleskey (2006), Alex Stalock (2005)
Other notable picks selected 112th overall: Damian Rhodes (1987), Rod Buskas (1981), Doug Crossman (1979), Dave Langevin (1974)
Number of players to play at least 100 games in the NHL: 7
Previous fourth round picks under Dean Lombardi: Niclas Andersen (2006), Alec Martinez (2007), Dwight King (2007), J-F Berube (2009), Linden Vey (2009), Michael Mersch (2011), Nikolay Prokhorkin (2012), Justin Auger (2013), Hudson Fasching (2013), Steven Johnson (2014), Austin Wagner (2015)

142nd Overall
Current NHL players selected 142nd overall: Nathan Gerbe
Other notable players selected 142nd overall: Define “notable”
Number of players to play at least 100 games in the NHL: 2
Previous fifth round picks under Dean Lombardi: David Meckler (2006), Martin Nolet (2006), Linden Rowat (2007), Joshua Turnbull (2007), Andrei Loktionov (123rd), David Kolomatis (2009), Kevin Gravel (2010), Joel Lowry (2011), Colin Miller (2012), Patrik Bartosak (2013), Jonny Brodzinski (2013), Alec Dillon (2014), Matt Schmalz (2015)

202nd Overall
Current NHL players selected 202nd overall: John McCarthy
Other notable players selected 202nd overall: Derek Boogaard (2001), Roman Oksiuta (1989), Greg Hawgood (1986), Kevin Miller (1984)
Number of players to play at least 100 games in the NHL: 5
Previous seventh round picks under Dean Lombardi: Josh Kidd (2007), Matt Fillier (2007), Garrett Roe (2008), Jordan Nolan (2009), Nic Dowd (2009), Michael Schumacher (2011), Nick Ebert (2012), Dominik Kubalik (2013), Spencer Watson (2014), Jacob Middleton (2014), Chaz Reddekopp (2015), Matt Roy (2015)

Draft history via Hockey Reference

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