1974 NHL Inter-League Draft

The 1974 Inter-League Draft was held June 12, immediately following the expansion draft. Only the expansion Kansas City Scouts and Washington Capitals took part.

Overall	Player Chosen	By	From
1	Jim Hrycuik	Washington Capitals	Hershey Bears (AHL)
2	Hugh Harvey	Kansas City Scouts	Hershey Bears (AHL)

Hrycuik later scored the very first goal in Capitals franchise history, beating Eddie Giacomin at 5:06 of the first period in the Capitals' first regular season game against the Rangers on October 9, 1974. The Capitals lost the game 6-3, the first of 67 losses in the '74-'75 season. They went on to set a record in futility by winning only eight games that season, a low-mark that is still unsurpassed by an NHL team having played 70 or more games in a season.

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.)

1971 NHL Inter-League Draft

The 1971 Inter-League Draft was held June 7. It was a short affair, with only four teams exercising picks. All other teams passed.

Overall	Player Chosen	By	From
1	Gary Kurt	California Golden Seals	Cleveland Barons (AHL)
2	Andy Brown	Detroit Red Wings	Baltimore Clippers (AHL)
3	Andy Spencer	Vancouver Canucks	Tidewater Wings (AHL)
4	Jim McLeod	St. Louis Blues	Portland Buckaroos (WHL)

1969 NHL Inter-League Draft

The 1969 Inter-League Draft was held June 10. The draft price was the same $15,000 as it had been before.

Overall	Player Chosen	By	From
Round 1
1	Darryl Sly	Minnesota North Stars	Vancouver Canucks (WHL)
2	Bill Saunders	Chicago Black Hawks	Portland Buckaroos (WHL)
3	Nick Harbaruk	Pittsburgh Penguins	Vancouver Canucks (WHL)
4	Chuck Hamilton	Detroit Red Wings	Hershey Bears (AHL)
5	Bob Barlow	Philadelphia Flyers	Vancouver Canucks (WHL)
6	Jerry Lafond	Oakland Seals	Providence Reds (AHL)
7	Bob Pate	Montreal Canadiens	Denver Spurs (WHL)
Round 2
8	Sandy McGregor	Pittsburgh Penguins	Baltimore Clippers (AHL)

1970 NHL Inter-League Draft

The 1970 Inter-League Draft was held June 9, just after the intra-league draft. The Buffalo Sabres were the only team to participate. The Canucks were excluded because they had been a WHL team themselves, thus they already had a few minor league players under contract. The rest of the league was excluded in order to give the expansion Sabres the best pick of the minor league players. This was a relatively small concession as of the four picks only Bill Inglis had any NHL experience up to that point.

Overall	Player Chosen	By	From
1	Kevin O'Shea	Buffalo Sabres	San Diego Gulls (WHL)
2	Cliff Schmautz	Buffalo Sabres	Portland Buckaroos (WHL)
3	Brian McDonald	Buffalo Sabres	Denver Spurs (WHL)
4	Bill Inglis	Buffalo Sabres	Montreal Voyageurs (AHL)1 (Montreal Canadiens)

1. Bill Inglis was claimed by the Montreal Canadiens from the Los Angeles Kings in the Intra-League Draft earlier in the day. He never played for the Montreal Canadiens or their affiliate in the AHL.

A tidbit of trivia for you: Kevin O'Shea and Cliff Schmautz each had more famous brothers playing in the NHL. Kevin's older brother Danny played 370 games, mostly with the North Stars. Cliff's younger brother Bobby played 764 games, mostly with the Bruins.

The 1972 NHL Expansion and Inter-League Drafts

In November, 1971 the NHL awarded two new expansion franchises: one to Atlanta Hockey Inc., to play out of the new Omni Coliseum in Atlanta, and the other to Nassau Sports Ltd., playing out of Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Long Island, New York. The decision to place teams in Atlanta and Long Island were seen as pre-emptive strikes against the World Hockey Association who might otherwise have operated teams in the new arenas. For the third time in only five years the NHL was expanding.

Like the 1967 and 1970 expansion drafts before it the 1972 draft allowed the new teams, the Atlanta Flames and New York Islanders, to draft players from the existing clubs. The two new teams paid $6,000,000 expansion fees and with those fees were allowed to pick 21 players, three players from each of the 14 existing teams. In other terms they paid $285,714.29 per new player. (The Islanders also paid a $4,000,000 indemnification fee to the Rangers for having encroached upon the Rangers' 'territory', so in a sense the Islanders spent $476,190.48 on each player!)

The rules were similar to the previous expansion drafts in 1967 and 1970: existing teams protected their best players (in this case 15 skaters and two goalies) and the expansion teams could have their pick of the rest. When a pick was made the team losing a player was allowed to add another to its protected list. The existing teams could lose only a maximum of three players, including a maximum of one goaltender. The Seals, Flyers, Canadiens and Blues could exempt themselves from losing a goaltender because they had each lost a goalie in the 1970 Expansion Draft. Montreal and St. Louis chose to leave themselves open losing a goalie again. First-year pros were also exempt.

Like the 1967 Expansion Draft, unlike the 1970 draft, the goaltenders were chosen first. Because each team could only lose one goaltender they didn't have to fill their protected list with another, they could fill with a player of any position. This had particular implications for the Canadiens which I will explain after the table of results.

The draft order was determined by a coin toss and a gentlemen's agreement between Flames General Manager Cliff Fletcher (who, if you're a new hockey fan, you might not know is the father of Minnesota Wild GM Chuck Fletcher) and Islanders GM Bill Torrey. The rules were that two coin tosses were to occur to determine who would chose first in the expansion draft and who would chose first in the amateur draft. The winner of the former coin toss would also chose first in the inter-league draft, only participated in this year by the Islanders and Flames. The expansion draft order would reverse after the second round of goalie selections, so that the team who lost the coin toss for first pick (of a goaltender) would get the first choice of skater.

The rules for determining the draft order were similar in 1970, when Sabres GM Punch Imlach won a coin toss for first choice in the intra-league draft and a roulette-esque game of chance over Canucks GM Bud Poile for first choices in the expansion and amateur drafts. Imlach chose Tom Webster with the first pick in the expansion draft, whom he traded to the Red Wings later that day for goalie Roger Crozier, giving him arguably the better goaltending between the two expansion clubs on top of having the first choice of forwards and defencemen. To top it off he had first overall in the amateur draft and chose future hall-of-famer Gilbert Perreault; the Canucks settled for Dale Tallon.

This brings us back to the gentlemen's agreement I mentioned before. Rather than leave themselves open to being on the losing side of both coin tosses, as Bud Poile was in 1970, Fletcher and Torrey decided to have the single coin toss for first overall in the amateur draft (since the amateur draft was expected to produce a future star player while the expansion draft was merely a pick of the dregs of the established teams). The winner of the coin toss would retain first choice in the amateur draft and cede first choices in the expansion and inter-league drafts to the other. Torrey won the coin toss, giving the Flames first choice (of goaltenders) in the expansion and inter-league drafts while the Islanders retained first choice in the amateur draft (and by extension the first choice of skaters in the expansion draft).

The existing teams protected the following players:

Boston Bruins	Buffalo Sabres	California Golden Seals	Chicago Black Hawks	Detroit Red Wings	Los Angeles Kings	Minnesota North Stars
Goaltenders
Gerry Cheevers	Roger Crozier	exempt	Tony Esposito	Andy Brown	Gary Edwards	Cesare Maniago
Eddie Johnston	Dave Dryden		Gary Smith	Al Smith	Rogie Vachon	Gump Worsley
Skaters
Don Awrey	Steve Anderson	Ivan Boldirev	Chris Bordeleau	Red Berenson	Ralph Backstrom	Fred Barrett
Garnet Bailey	Mike Byers	Gary Croteau	J.P. Bordeleau	Gary Bergman	Doug Barrie	Jude Drouin
John Bucyk	Butch Deadmarsh	Stan Gilbertson	Dennis Hull	Arnie Brown	Serge Bernier	Barry Gibbs
Wayne Cashman	Al Hamilton	Joe Johnston	Bobby Hull	Guy Charron	Bob Berry	Bill Goldsworthy
Phil Esposito	Tim Horton	Pete Laframboise	Doug Jarrett	Bill Collins	Larry Brown	Danny Grant
Ken Hodge	Jim Lorentz	Reggie Leach	Jerry Korab	Alex Delvecchio	Mike Corrigan	Ted Harris
Don Marcotte	Don Luce	Bert Marshall	Cliff Koroll	Gary Doak	Paul Curtis	Buster Harvey
Fred O'Donnell	Ray McKay	Walt McKechnie	Darryl Maggs	Tim Eccleston	Butch Goring	Dennis Hextall
Ron Plumb	Gerry Meehan	Gerry Pinder	Keith Magnuson	Tom Gilmore	Jim Johnson	Doug Mohns
Bobby Orr	Gilbert Perreault	Dick Redmond	Chico Maki	Larry Johnston	Real Lemieux	Lou Nanne
Derek Sanderson	Tracy Pratt	Bobby Sheehan	Pit Martin	Al Karlander	Bill Lesuk	Bob Nevin
Dallas Smith	Rene Robert	Paul Shmyr	Stan Mikita	Serge Lajeunesse	Barry Long	Dennis O'Brien
Fred Stanfield	Paul Terbenche	Rick Smith	Jim Pappin	Nick Libett	Gilles Marotte	Murray Oliver
Carol Vadnais	Jim Watson	Bob Stewart	Pat Stapleton	Mickey Redmond	Doug Volmar	J. P. Parise
Mike Walton	Randy Wyrozub	Tom Webster	Bill White	Ron Stackhouse	Juha Widing	Tom Reid
Montreal Canadiens	New York Rangers	Philadelphia Flyers	Pittsburgh Penguins	St. Louis Blues	Toronto Maple Leafs	Vancouver Canucks
Goaltenders
Ken Dryden	Ed Giacomin	exempt	Cam Newton	Jacques Caron	Bernie Parent	George Gardner
Michel Plasse	Gilles Villemure		Jim Rutherford	Peter McDuffe	Jacques Plante	Dunc Wilson
Skaters
Pierre Bouchard	Ab DeMarco	Barry Ashbee	Syl Apps	Curt Bennett	Bobby Baun	Dave Balon
Yvan Cournoyer	Jim Dorey	Bill Brossart	Larry Bignell	Andre Dupont	Ron Ellis	Greg Boddy
Terry Harper	Bill Fairbairn	Bobby Clarke	Dave Burrows	Jack Egers	Brian Glennie	Andre Boudrias
Rejean Houle	Rod Gilbert	Bill Clement	Steve Cardwell	Chris Evans	Jim Harrison	Dave Dunn
Jacques Laperriere	Vic Hadfield	Gary Dornhoefer	Darryl Edestrand	Fran Huck	Paul Henderson	Jim Hargreaves
Guy Lapointe	Ted Irvine	Rick Foley	Nick Harbaruk	Mike Murphy	Pierre Jarry	Dennis Kearns
Claude Larose	Bruce MacGregor	Bob Kelly	Bryan Hextall	Danny O'Shea	Dave Keon	Orland Kurtenbach
Jacques Lemaire	Jim Neilson	Ross Lonsberry	Sheldon Kannegiesser	Kevin O'Shea	Rick Ley	Wayne Maki
Frank Mahovlich	Brad Park	Rick MacLeish	Rick Kessell	Barclay Plager	Jim McKenny	Gerry O'Flaherty
Pete Mahovlich	Jean Ratelle	Simon Nolet	Al McDonough	Bob Plager	Garry Monahan	Rosie Paiement
Henri Richard	Dale Rolfe	Jean Potvin	Greg Polis	Phil Roberto	Mike Pelyk	Poul Popeil
Jim Roberts	Bobby Rousseau	Don Saleski	Jean Pronovost	Gary Sabourin	Larry Pleau	Bobby Schmautz
Serge Savard	Rod Seiling	Dave Schultz	Duane Rupp	Frank St. Marseille	Darryl Sittler	Dale Tallon
Marc Tardif	Pete Stemkowski	Ed Van Impe	Ron Schock	Floyd Thompson	Errol Thompson	Don Tannahill
J.C. Tremblay	Walt Tkaczuk	Joe Watson	Bryan Watson	Garry Unger	Norm Ullman	Barry Wilkins

The draft proceeded as follows on June 6, 1972:

Overall	Player Chosen	By	From	Fill-In
Goaltenders
1	Phil Myre	Atlanta Flames	Montreal Canadiens	Chuck Lefley
2	Gerry Desjardins	New York Islanders	Chicago Black Hawks	Dan Maloney
3	Dan Bouchard	Atlanta Flames	Boston Bruins	John McKenzie
4	Billy Smith	New York Islanders	Los Angeles Kings	Bob Woytowich
Skaters
5	Bart Crashley	New York Islanders	Montreal Canadiens	Bob Murdoch
6	Kerry Ketter	Atlanta Flames	Montreal Canadiens
7	Dave Hudson	New York Islanders	Chicago Black Hawks	John Marks
8	Norm Gratton	Atlanta Flames	New York Rangers	Glen Sather
9	Ed Westfall	New York Islanders	Boston Bruins	Nick Beverley
10	Ron Harris	Atlanta Flames	Detroit Red Wings	Leon Rochefort
11	Garry Peters	New York Islanders	Boston Bruins
12	Larry Romanchych	Atlanta Flames	Chicago Black Hawks
13	Larry Hornung	New York Islanders	St. Louis Blues	John Arbour
14	Bill MacMillan	Atlanta Flames	Toronto Maple Leafs	Denis Dupere
15	Bryan Lefley	New York Islanders	New York Rangers	Steve Andrascik
16	Randy Manery	Atlanta Flames	Detroit Red Wings	Ralph Stewart
17	Brian Spencer	New York Islanders	Toronto Maple Leafs	Guy Trottier
18	Keith McCreary	Atlanta Flames	Pittsburgh Penguins	Eddie Shack
19	Terry Crisp	New York Islanders	St. Louis Blues	Noel Picard
20	Ernie Hicke	Atlanta Flames	California Golden Seals	Wayne Carleton
21	Ted Hampson	New York Islanders	Minnesota North Stars	Bob Paradise
22	Lew Morrison	Atlanta Flames	Philadelphia Flyers	Bill Flett
23	Gerry Hart	New York Islanders	Detroit Red Wings
24	Lucien Grenier	Atlanta Flames	Los Angeles Kings	Wayne Lachance
25	John Schella	New York Islanders	Vancouver Canucks	John Wright
26	Bill Plager	Atlanta Flames	St. Louis Blues
27	Bill Mikkelson	New York Islanders	Los Angeles Kings
28	Morris Stefaniw	Atlanta Flames	New York Rangers
29	Craig Cameron	New York Islanders	Minnesota North Stars	Gord Labossiere
30	John Stewart	Atlanta Flames	Pittsburgh Penguins	Ken Schinkel
31	Tom Miller	New York Islanders	Buffalo Sabres	Danny Lawson
32	Bob Leiter	Atlanta Flames	Pittsburgh Penguins
33	Brian Marchinko	New York Islanders	Toronto Maple Leafs
34	Pat Quinn	Atlanta Flames	Vancouver Canucks	Wayne Connelly
35	Ted Taylor	New York Islanders	Vancouver Canucks
36	Larry Hale	Atlanta Flames	Philadelphia Flyers	Mike Parizeau
37	Norm Ferguson	New York Islanders	California Golden Seals	Marshall Johnston
38	Bill Heindl	Atlanta Flames	Minnesota North Stars
39	Jim Mair	New York Islanders	Philadelphia Flyers
40	Frank Hughes	Atlanta Flames	California Golden Seals
41	Ken Murray	New York Islanders	Buffalo Sabres	Jack Taggart
42	Rod Zaine	Atlanta Flames	Buffalo Sabres

Note that, as I said before, the Canadiens could have exempted themselves from losing another goaltender in an expansion draft (they lost two in 1967 and one in 1970, most of any club up to that point), and chose not to. They had a plethora of talented young goaltenders and were willing to lose one in order to keep a few of their top prospects. Behind closed doors the Canadiens made deals with both the Flames and Islanders so that Montreal would get to keep its pick of prospects. In exchange for taking the players the Canadiens wanted them to take the Flames and Islanders would receive several Canadiens players as compensation at a later date.

When the Flames took Phil Myre first overall in the expansion draft this allowed the Canadiens to protect Chuck Lefley, then a point-per-game player for the AHL's Nova Scotia Voyageurs (Montreal's top affiliate). The Islanders and Flames agreed to take Bart Crashley and Kerry Ketter as the first and second skater selections, allowing the Canadiens to keep Bob Murdoch (defenceman Robert John Murdoch, who played for the Canadiens, Kings and eventually the Flames; not winger Robert Lovell Murdoch, who played for the Golden Seals, Barons and Blues). Over the following couple months the Canadiens made several trades with the Flames and Islanders to compensate them; the Flames ended up with Rey Comeau, Noel Price, Lynn Powis and Ted Tucker while the Islanders got Denis DeJordy, Chico Resch and Germain Gagnon. Going back to the Canadiens were mostly high draft picks and 'cash'. I say 'cash' with scare quotes because it was well understood at the time that the consideration in these deals was not money but rather having followed the Canadiens' draft plans.

Later that day the Flames chose defenceman Bill Speer first overall in the Inter-League Draft. Speer had signed a contract with the WHA's New York Raiders and never played in the NHL again. The Flames chose to pass on the rest of their selections while the Islanders picked four players. Where applicable I have added the NHL team that held the chosen player's rights in parentheses. (Bill Speer's rights were sold to the Providence Reds by the Bruins on Nov. 5, 1971.)

Overall	Player Chosen	By	From
1	Bill Speer	Atlanta Flames	Providence Reds (AHL)
2	Neil Nicholson	New York Islanders	Salt Lake Golden Eagles (WHL) (California Golden Seals)
3	Don Blackburn	New York Islanders	Providence Reds (AHL) (New York Rangers)
4	Connie Forey	New York Islanders	Hershey Bears (AHL) (Pittsburgh Penguins)
5	Dennis Kassian	New York Islanders	Cincinnati Swords (AHL) (Buffalo Sabres)

Sources:
"Hockey Draft Is To Start Tuesday". The Spartanburg Herald. Associated Press. (Spartanburg, South Carolina). June 5, 1972. s. B p. 3. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=l4AsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NM0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6650%2C901924
"The protected lists". Montreal Gazette. June 6, 1972. p. 13

1973 NHL Inter-League Draft

I thought I'd follow up today's earlier post about the Inter-League and Reserve Drafts with the results of the 1973 Inter-League Draft. Why that draft? An interesting piece of trivia: only one player was taken.


That's right, only one. Hartland Monahan, son-in-law of Bernie Geoffrion, was picked by the California Golden Seals from their WHL affiliate in Salt Lake City.


Monahan was an Amateur Draft pick of the Golden Seals in 1971. Why he had to be reacquired from the WHL farm team I don't know; at some point in 1972 his rights must have been transferred to the Golden Eagles. In 1971-72 he split his time between the AHL's Baltimore Clippers (who had an affiliation agreement with the Golden Seals) and the IHL's Columbus Golden Seals (who were another Golden Seals farm club). The Golden Seals added the Salt Lake Golden Eagles as an affiliate in 1972. I presume they acquired Monahan's rights as part of the affiliation agreement.


The reason for only one player being selected? Floyd Curry, then the Assistant General Manager of the Canadiens, was quoted saying, " ... with the price tag set at $30,000 I don't think anybody was too interested in making a move."


Source:
Gilbert, Doug. (June 12, 1973). "Monahan lone pick". Montreal Gazette. p. 35. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=85guAAAAIBAJ&sjid=r6EFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2024%2C3310883

The NHL Inter-League Draft & Reverse Draft

A lot of my research into the Seals has gone into player transactions. That's why I wanted to track down the draft order of the 1967 Expansion Draft. It wasn't enough for me to copy and paste a list of players drafted by the Seals: I wanted to know how the draft played out. Why the Seals picked one player over another. To see who was still available at any given point, who got picked before who, who got passed over.


This also led me to do a little investigating into the annual NHL drafts of the time. The NHL had instituted a "Intra-League Draft" in the early 1950s to help the Bruins and Black Hawks be more competitive. This eventually became the Waiver Draft, which lasted until the 2003-2004 season. The 2005 Collective Bargaining Agreement between the NHL and NHLPA eliminated the Waiver Draft. The purpose of this draft was to improve the non-playoff teams by allowing them to acquire their pick of some of the worst players on the playoff teams.


In the 1960s three other drafts were instituted: the Amateur Draft (now the Entry Draft), the Inter-League Draft and the Reverse Draft. The Inter-League Draft was akin to the Amateur Draft in that NHL teams picked players from other leagues but whereas the Amateur Draft was a draft of (mostly) junior players the Inter-League Draft was a draft of minor-league professionals playing in the Western Hockey League (not to be confused with the current Major Junior WHL), AHL and CPHL.


The Reverse Draft, inaugurated in 1965, was a 'reverse' version of the Inter-League Draft: WHL and AHL teams could draft players from the NHL teams. Pickings were usually quite slim as the number of players 'protected' by the NHL teams was two to three dozen. The minor pro teams were drafting players who were already playing in the minors anyway, some already playing for the minor team in question after been loaned to them by an NHL affiliate.


The results of Inter-League and Reverse Drafts weren't always reported well, probably because in some years these affairs were very brief. Tracing my way back through rosters there were a few players picked up by or lost from NHL teams for seemingly no reason when in fact they had been exchanged as part of these drafts.


The following are the results of the 1968 Inter-League Draft, which weren't even published in the NHL Guide that year.

Overall	Player Chosen	By	From
Round 1
1	Brian Perry	Oakland Seals	Providence Reds (AHL)
	pass	Detroit Red Wings
	pass	Pittsburgh Penguins
	pass	Toronto Maple Leafs
2	Larry Hale	Minnesota North Stars	Seattle Totems (WHL)
3	Myron Stankiewicz	St. Louis Blues	Hershey Bears (AHL)
	pass	Los Angeles Kings
	pass	Philadelphia Flyers
4	Larry Leach	Chicago Black Hawks	Portland Buckaroos (WHL)
	pass	Boston Bruins
	pass	New York Rangers
5	Len Ronson	Montreal Canadiens	San Diego Gulls (WHL)
Round 2
all teams passed

The NHL teams paid the respective minor league teams $30,000 for each pick.


Sources:
"NHL clubs pick 5 players in interleague drafting". The Globe & Mail (Toronto). p. 30. June 12, 1968.