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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NHL Draft Results

1965 NHL Inter-League Draft

The 1965 Inter-League Draft was held on Tuesday, June 8. The draft price was $20,000. Three of the draft choices were so-called "bookkeeping" choices, in which the NHL club claimed a player from one of their own farm teams. In effect the NHL team would be paying their own farm club.

Overall	Player Chosen	By	From
Round 1
1	Claude Dufour	Boston Bruins	Hershey Bears (AHL) (Montreal Canadiens)
2	Don Simmons	New York Rangers	Rochester Americans (AHL) (Toronto Maple Leafs)
3	Larry Johnston	Toronto Maple Leafs	Tulsa Oilers (CPHL) (Toronto Maple Leafs)
4	Ernie Wakely	Chicago Black Hawks	Quebec Aces (AHL) (Montreal Canadiens)
5	Norm Schmitz	Montreal Canadiens	Omaha Knights (CPHL) (Montreal Canadiens)
6	Pat Hannigan	Detroit Red Wings	Buffalo Bisons (AHL) (Chicago Black Hawks)
Round 2
7	Glen Sather	Boston Bruins	Pittsburgh Hornets (AHL) (Detroit Red Wings)
8	Larry Mickey	New York Rangers	St. Louis Braves (CPHL) (Chicago Black Hawks)
9	Keith Walsh	Montreal Canadiens	Pittsburgh Hornets (AHL) (Detroit Red Wings)
10	Irv Spencer	Detroit Red Wings	Pittsburgh Hornets (AHL) (Detroit Red Wings)
Round 3
11	Keith Wright	New York Rangers	Cleveland Barons (AHL) (Montreal Canadiens)
12	Dunc McCallum	Detroit Red Wings	Vancouver Canucks (WHL) (New York Rangers)

The day also featured several trades and a couple waiver claims, which overshadowed the draft proceedings a bit.

Before the draft the Red Wings claimed Don McKenney off waivers from the Maple Leafs and the Rangers claimed Bill Knibbs off waivers from the Bruins. Each of these transactions carried a $30,000 price.

The Canadiens traded Cesare Maniago and Gary Peters earlier in the day to the Rangers for Earl Ingarfield, Gord Labossiere, Dave McComb, Noel Price and $10,000. (Ingarfield was left exposed in the Intra-League Draft the following day and was reclaimed by the Rangers.)

Meanwhile the Maple Leafs traded Ron Stewart to the Bruins for Orland Kurtenbach, Andy Hebenton and Pat Stapleton. (Stapleton was left exposed in the Intra-League Draft and taken by the Black Hawks.)

After the Inter-League Draft and before the protected lists for the Intra-League Draft had to be submitted the Canadiens completed another trade, sending Bryan Watson to the Black Hawks for Don Johns and $30,000. (Watson was dropped off the Black Hawks' protected list during the Intra-League Draft and was claimed by the Red Wings.)

1965 Reverse Draft

1965 was the year of the inaugural Reverse Draft. Held June 10 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, WHL and AHL teams paid $10,000 per pick to the NHL teams. In theory this draft was for the purpose of allowing the minor league teams to draft talent from the NHL clubs, clubs who had been poaching their players for many years. In practice this draft consisted mostly of the big clubs exchanging players from one minor league affiliate to another. The Portland Buckaroos of the WHL, the only WHL club at the time which had no affiliation with an NHL team, didn't bother participating; they passed on all their draft choices.


The draft picks listed below are listed with both the NHL team whom they were nominally picked from as well as the minor-league affiliate they had been playing for in the 1964-65 season.


Note that Carl Wetzel, the goalie taken in the first round by the Quebec Aces, was the only player taken who had spent any time in the NHL in the '64-'65 season. He was the back-up to Roger Crozier and only appeared in two games. In January, 1965 he was demoted to Pittsburgh of the AHL.

Overall	Player Chosen	By	From
Round 1
	Frank Martin	Providence Reds	Montreal Canadiens (Quebec Aces, AHL)
	Adam Keller	Cleveland Barons	Detroit Red Wings (Pittsburgh Hornets, AHL)
	Howie Menard	Springfield Indians	Detroit Red Wings (Memphis Wings, CPHL)
	Pete Ford	Pittsburgh Hornets	Chicago Black Hawks (St. Louis Braves, CPHL)
	Ken Stephanson	Baltimore Clippers	Detroit Red Wings (Minneapolis Bruins, CPHL)1
	Pete Panagabko	Hershey Bears	Boston Bruins (Minneapolis Bruins, CPHL)
	Roger Lafreniere	Buffalo Bisons	Detroit Red Wings (Providence Reds, AHL)
	Carl Wetzel	Quebec Aces	Detroit Red Wings (Pittsburgh Hornets, AHL)
	Bob Barlow	Rochester Americans	Montreal Canadiens (Seattle Totems, WHL)
Round 2
	Dave McComb	Cleveland Barons	Montreal Canadiens (Cleveland Barons, AHL)
	Brent Hughes	Springfield Indians	Boston Bruins (Minneapolis Bruins, CPHL)
	Danny Belisle	Pittsburgh Hornets	New York Rangers (Vancouver Canucks, WHL)
	Duncan MacDonald	Baltimore Clippers	Toronto Maple Leafs (Minneapolis Bruins, CPHL)2
	Gerry Ouellette	Buffalo Bisons	Boston Bruins (Minneapolis Bruins, CPHL)
	Moe Mantha	Quebec Aces	Montreal Canadiens (Seattle Totems, WHL)
	Barrie Ross	Rochester Americans	New York Rangers (St. Paul Rangers, CPHL)
Round 3
	Wayne Schultz	Cleveland Barons	Boston Bruins (Minneapolis Bruins, CPHL)
	Jean Cossette	Baltimore Clippers	Montreal Canadiens (Seattle Totems, WHL)
Round 4
	Gerry Brisson	Cleveland Barons	Montreal Canadiens (Seattle Totems, WHL)
	Mike Corbett	Baltimore Clippers	Toronto Maple Leafs (Tulsa Oilers, CPHL)

1. Boston Bruins traded Ken Stephanson to Detroit Red Wings with Ab McDonald and John McKenzie for Bob Dillabough, Ron Harris, Junior Langlois and Parker MacDonald, May 31, 1965.
2. I'm not sure why Duncan MacDonald had been playing for a Bruins affiliate instead of the Maple Leafs; I suspect he had been loaned to the Minneapolis Bruins for the rest of the '64-'65 season. It was not uncommon back then.

Overall	Player Chosen	By	From
Round 1
	Jerry Toppazzini	Los Angeles Blades	Detroit Red Wings (Pittsburgh Hornets, AHL)
	John Gravel	San Francisco Seals	Boston Bruins (Minneapolis Bruins, CPHL)
	Bob Perreault	Victoria Maple Leafs	Boston Bruins (San Francisco Seals, WHL)
	Ron Boehm	Vancouver Canucks	Boston Bruins (Minneapolis Bruins, CPHL)
	Doug Senior	Seattle Totems	Montreal Canadiens (Seattle Totems, WHL)
	pass	Portland Buckaroos
Round 2
	Harry Sinden	San Francisco Seals	Boston Bruins (Minneapolis Bruins, CPHL)
	Wayne Muloin	Vancouver Canucks	Detroit Red Wings (St. Paul Rangers, CPHL)
	Ray Kinasewich	Seattle Totems	Montreal Canadiens (Seattle Totems, WHL)
Round 3
	Buddy Boone	Vancouver Canucks	New York Rangers (Vancouver Canucks, WHL)

Again, as with the 1966 Amateur Draft I have assigned no overall order to the picks because I can't be sure whether the AHL and WHL teams picked together or each league had its turn one after the other. The order presented here is accurate with respect to each league.

Source:
"Eight From Habs In Reverse Draft". Montreal Gazette. June 11, 1965. p. 27. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SIY1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=Wp8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4308%2C2428581