1965 NHL Intra-League Draft

The 1965 NHL Intra-League Draft took place on June 9, the day after the Inter-League Draft. Several players involved in the Inter-League Draft and other transactions on the 8th of June were moved as part of the Intra-League Draft proceedings the very next day.

Overall	Player Chosen	By	From	Player Removed From Protected List
Round 1
1	Gerry Cheevers	Boston Bruins	Toronto Maple Leafs	Jack Norris
2	Earl Ingarfield	New York Rangers	Montreal Canadiens
	pass	Toronto Maple Leafs
3	Pat Stapleton	Chicago Black Hawks	Toronto Maple Leafs	Bryan Watson
	pass	Montreal Canadiens
4	Bryan Watson	Detroit Red Wings	Chicago Black Hawks	Butch Paul
Round 2
5	Poul Popeil	Boston Bruins	Chicago Black Hawks
Round 3
6	Norm Schmitz	Boston Bruins	Montreal Canadiens
Round 3
7	Keith Wright	Boston Bruins	New York Rangers

Earl Ingarfield, Pat Stapleton, Bryan Watson and Keith Wright were each moved twice in the span of a day. Ingarfield went from being Rangers' property to the Canadiens and back to Rangers, Stapleton went from the Bruins to Maple Leafs to Black Hawks, Watson went from the Canadiens to the Black Hawks to the Red Wings, and Wright went from the Canadiens to Rangers to Bruins.

Some trivia for you: Arthur Stewart "Butch" Paul, the player the Red Wings dropped from their protected list when they claimed Bryan Watson, was killed less than a year later in a car crash. He died Friday, March 25, 1966 while driving home from a CPHL game in Memphis against the Tulsa Oilers.

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