I believe that Radim Vrbata was another name and the next-best after Aulin.
EDIT: Hearing these names again makes it feel like 2001 all over again. In hindsight, Vrbata would've been a better pick, but he still isn't an impact player, so it's probably not that big of a deal. Aulin turned out decently enough. At least he fetched Carter (who knows, maybe Cammalleri would've gone in that deal if Aulin hadn't).
There was this defenseman that the Kings could have taken, he had been taken in that years draft by the Avs and was playing his sophomore year at Michigan St. He has had a pretty nice start to his NHL career and will represent the USA at the Olympics, some kid from Indiana with a French sounding name, some guy named John-Michael Liles.
But we really can't fault the Kings for taking Aulin, he was the consensus pick for the "future considerations" from the day the trade went down.
But the list was anyone who hadn't played in the NHL yet. This list isn't all the guys they could chose from (because they may have acquired more kids or signed some UFA's who hadn't played in the NHL yet). And all the guys on this list weren't available to them (because several had already played in the NHL. But it's a starting point.
1995
25 G Marc Denis
51 L Nic Beaudoin
77 R John Tripp
81 L Tomi Kallio
129 G Brent Johnson
155 C John Cirjak
181 D Dan Smith
207 C Tomi Hirvonen
228 R Chris George
1996
25 D Peter Ratchuk
51 C Yuri Babenko
79 R Mark Parrish
98 D Ben Storey
107 G Randy Petruk
134 L Luke Curtin
146 R Brian Willsie
160 G Kai Fischer
167 C Dan Hinote
176 C Samuel Pahlsson
188 Roman Pylner
214 D Matt Scorsune
240 R Justin Clark
1997
26 D Kevin Grimes
53 L Graham Belak
55 D Rick Berry
78 L Ville Nieminen
87 L Brad Larsen
133 W Aaron Miskovich
161 G David Aebischer
217 D Doug Schmidt
243 L Kyle Kidney
245 D Steve Lafleur
1998
12 C Alex Tanguay
17 D Martin Skoula
19 D Robyn Regehr
20 R Scott Parker
28 L Ramzi Abid
38 G Philippe Sauve
53 F Steve Moore
79 R Evgeny Lazarev
141 L K.C. Timmons
167 D Alex Riazantsev
1999
25 L Mikhail Kuleshov
45 D Martin Grenier
93 R Branko Radivojevic
112 D Sanny Lindstrom
122 R Kristian Kovac
142 D Will Magnuson
152 W Jordan Krestanovich
158 C Anders Lovdahl
183 C Riku Hahl
212 R Radim Vrbata
240 D Jeff Finger
2000
14 C Vaclav Nedorost
47 C Jared Aulin
50 C Sergei Soin
63 D Agris Saviels
88 D Kurt Sauer
92 W Sergei Klyazmin
119 D Brian Fahey
159 D John-Michael Liles
189 D Chris Bahen
221 G Aaron Molnar
252 W Darryl Bootland
266 F Sean Kotary
285 G Blake Ward
