**IMPORTANT**
The following players, drafted in year 4 only, will no longer be protected by the draft. Therefore, if any of the players below have not played in the NHL in the 2002-03 season, then they will be considered for removal from the league or will be put onto the protected list.
| DRAFT YEAR 4 | DRAFT YEAR 5 | ||||
| Antii | Aalto | Kevyn | Adams | ||
| Jamie | Allison | Maxim | Afinigenov | ||
| JS | Aubin | Miko | Alatalo | ||
| Lubos | Bartecko | Nikita | Aleexev | ||
| Sean | Bates | Nikolai | Antripov | ||
| Bates | Battaglia | Michel | Biron | ||
| Kris | Beech | Jason | Blake | ||
| Wade | Belak | Brian | Boucher | ||
| Josef | Beranak | Francis | Bouillon | ||
| Martin | Biron | Yuri | Butsayev | ||
| Stephane | Bordeleau | Petr | Buzek | ||
| Fred | Braithwaite | Ben | Clymer | ||
| Pavel | Brendel | Matt | Cooke | ||
| Daniel | Briere | Ulf | Dahlen | ||
| Sean | Brown | Craig | Darby | ||
| Brad | Brown | Andy | Delmore | ||
| Zdeno | Chara | Rick | Dipietro | ||
| Brett | Clark | Hnat | Domenichelli | ||
| Tim | Connolly | Harold | Druken | ||
| Patrick | Cote | Stan | Drulia | ||
| Johan | Davidsson | Mikko | Eloranta | ||
| Marc | Denis | Robert | Esche | ||
| Chris | Drury | Scott | Fankhouser | ||
| Christian | Dube | Manny | Fernandez | ||
| Brian | Finley | Jiri | Fischer | ||
| Denis | Gauthier | Marian | Gaborik | ||
| Yan | Golubvsky | Simon | Gange | ||
| Benoit | Gratton | Scott | Gomez | ||
| Miroslav | Guren | John | Grahame | ||
| Sergey | Gusev | Ron | Hainsey | ||
| Michal | Handzus | Steve | Halko | ||
| David | Harlock | Jeff | Halpern | ||
| Milan | Hejduk | Scott | Hartnell | ||
| Matt | Herr | Niclas | Havelid | ||
| Marian | Hossa | Greg | Hawgood | ||
| Jan | Hrdina | Dany | Heatley | ||
| Tomas | Kaberle | Jochen | Hecht | ||
| Daniel | Kesa | Jan | Hlavac | ||
| Patrick | Kjelberg | Ryan | Johnson | ||
| Alexander | Korolyuk | Lars | Jonsson | ||
| Pavel | Kubina | Kim | Jonsson | ||
| Oleg | Kvasha | Hans | Jonsson | ||
| Denny | Lambert | Frantisek | Kaberle | ||
| Mark | Lawrence | Jere | Karalathi | ||
| Manny | Legace | Steve | Kariya | ||
| Jamie | Lundmark | Roti | Klesla | ||
| Marek | Malik | Espen | Knutsen | ||
| Mike | Maneluk | Ladislav | Kohn | ||
| Norm | Maracle | Brent | Krahn | ||
| Jamal | Mayers | Scott | Langkow | ||
| Branislav | Mezei | Georges | Laraque | ||
| Kip | Miller | Mike | LeClerc | ||
| Brendan | Morrison | Trevor | Letkowski | ||
| Bill | Muckalt | Brad | Lukowich | ||
| Brian | Muir | Roman | Lyashenko | ||
| Rumun | Ndur | John | Madden | ||
| Jay | Pandolfo | Glen | Metropolit | ||
| Mark | Parrish | Craig | Millar | ||
| Steve | Passamore | Brendan | Morrow | ||
| Ville | Peltonen | Evengi | Nabakov | ||
| Michael | Picard | Tyson | Nash | ||
| Tom | Poti | Vaclav | Nederost | ||
| Nolan | Pratt | Jeff | Nielsen | ||
| Tyler | Pyatt | Oleg | Petrov | ||
| Erik | Rasmussen | Vaclav | Prospal | ||
| Peter | Ratachuk | Brian | Rafalski | ||
| Marty | Reasoner | Robyn | Regher | ||
| Stacey | Roest | Todd | Rierden | ||
| Pavel | Rosa | Randy | Robitaille | ||
| Sami | Salo | Michal | Roszival | ||
| Oleg | Saprykin | Cory | Sarich | ||
| Marc | Savard | Andre | Savage | ||
| Peter | Schaefer | Karlis | Skrastins | ||
| Henrik | Sedin | Martin | Skuola | ||
| Daniel | Sedin | Blake | Sloan | ||
| Jeff | Serowik | Alexi | Smirinov | ||
| Vadim | Sharifijanov | Martin | St. Louis | ||
| Dennis | Shvidki | Radislav | Suchy | ||
| Jaroslav | Spacek | Dean | Sylvester | ||
| Patrick | Stefan | David | Tanabe | ||
| Jaroslav | Svejkovsky | Alex | Tanguay | ||
| Kimmo | Timmonen | Raffi | Torres | ||
| Jeff | Toms | Steve | Valiquette | ||
| Patrick | Traverse | Pavel | Vorobiev | ||
| Yanick | Tremblay | Tommy | Westlund | ||
| Mike | Watt | Clarke | Wilm | ||
| Peter | Worrell | Mikhail | Yakubov | ||
| Mike | York | ||||