Claude Lemieux's son Brendan picked by Buffalo Sabres

Familiar names came off the NHL draft board during both days of the selection process. Sons, cousins, and other relatives of hockey players past were chosen in droves.

Now is the chance for them to make names for themselves.

"It's his career," four-time Stanley Cup champion Claude Lemieux said of his son, Brendan, who went to the Buffalo Sabres yesterday with the first pick of the second round. "It's time to step outside my shadow and go play and be himself."

Three other sons were chosen Saturday during rounds 2-7 by teams for which their fathers played: Boston picked Ryan Donato (Ted) No. 56 in the second round, Carolina selected Josh Wesley (Glen) with the 96th choice in the fourth round, and Daniel Audette (Donald) went to Montreal in the fifth round with pick No. 147.

The most intriguing father-son combo in the two-day draft was perhaps the Kapanens. Their connection goes much deeper than just familial ties, because when Pittsburgh took forward Kasperi Kapanen in the first round on Friday, it gave new Penguins general manager Jim Rutherford the rarest of daily doubles.

The veteran executive also chose Kasperi's father, Sami, in the fourth round of the 1995 draft when he was the general manager of the-then Hartford Whalers.

"Do you know anyone else who has done that?" Rutherford asked. "We drafted Sami in '95, and he had his son in '96. We used to watch him on the ice when he just started skating, and now you end up drafting him."

Dominic Turgeon (No. 63 by Detroit) has a major legacy to live up to as his father, Pierre, was the No. 1 overall pick in the 1987 draft by Buffalo and was a force for the Islanders in the mid 1990s.