Overtime Christmas Auction #9
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/5/2006
Never before had the National Hockey League expanded like it did prior to the 1967-68 season, adding six new teams to create the Western Division, and never before have we come across these intriguing and revealing official expansion draft documents. Three identical three-page documents list the players protected, along with “fills”, of the “original six” teams prior to the draft, the selections of the six new teams and a list of the players claimed from each of the “old” teams. A similar working copy that was filled in as the June 6, 1967 draft went along is also present, showing among other things that Terry Sawchuk and Glenn Hall were the first picks of Los Angeles and St. Louis respectively. Interesting to check out the order and the way the new teams picked their squads for their landmark first season. Also included in the package from former NHL stats man Ron Andrews is a statistical summary (final standings, individual team scoring including shots on goal and scoring percentage) of the ’67-68 season. Amazing look back at a special time in NHL history.
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