Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei:
I te 2001 NHL Entry Draft i whakaingoatia ko te Top CHL Prospect, i whakaingoatia a Spezza e te Ottawa Senators, i muri i a Ilya Kovalchuk i tohua e te Atlanta Thrashers. Ko te tuarua o nga whiringa katoa no te New York Islanders engari i hokona ki Ottawa (me Zdeno Chára me Bill Muckalt) hei utu mo Alexei Yashin i te ra o te Kaupapa. I te raumati o te tau 2001, i tukuna e Spezza he tono ki te puni raumati o te kapa rangatahi o Canada na te mea i kii ia e hiahia ana ia ki te whakarite mo tana puni NHL tuatahi.