The Minnesota Wild will draft 24th in the first round of the 2008 entry draft, according to an order of selection released Tuesday by the league.

The draft will take place June 20-21 at Scotiabank Place in Ottawa, Canada. Picks 1-14 are the result of the draft drawing held April 7. Picks 15-22 are for teams eliminated in the first two rounds of the Stanley Cup playoffs that didn’t win a regular season division titles, in inverse order of points. Picks 23-26 are for teams that won division titles but were elimininated in the first two rounds of the playoffs, in inverse order of points. The final four picks will be decided as the playoffs progress. Here is the first-round order for picks 1-16:

1. Tampa Bay; 2. Los Angeles; 3. Atlanta; 4. St. Louis; 5. New York Islanders; 6. Columbus; 7. Toronto; 8. Phoenix; 9. Nashville (from Florida); 10. Vancouver; 11. Chicago; 12. Anaheim (from Edmonton); 13. Buffalo; 14. Carolina; 15. Nashville; 16. Boston; 17. Calgary; 18. Ottawa; 19. Columbus (from Colorado); 20. New York Rangers; 21. New Jersey; 22. Edmonton (from Anaheim); 23. Washington; 24. Minnesota; 25. Montreal; 26. Buffalo (from San Jose).

Picks 27 and 28 will go to the teams eliminated in the conference finals. The Stanley Cup final runner-up will draft 29th and the champions wil draft No. 30.

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