Andre Boudrias played nearly 700 NHL games with five different teams in a 13 year career. He would also have 140 WHA games finishing his career with a 2 year stint on the Quebec Nordiques. He made his 1st NHL appearance with the Canadiens getting a 4 game stop in Montreal during the '63-64 season. Over the next 3 years he would only see Montreal for 3 more game over 2 stops. Expansion saw him traded to the Minnesota North Stars where he scored 53 points in 1967-68. After 53 games in '68-69 he was dealt to the Black Hawks but after 20 games to finish the season he was off to St. Louis. 1970-71 saw him in Vancouver for the 1st of 6 seasons. Boudrias topped the 60-point mark in each of his first five years with the club before taking on a more defensive role and serving as the club's captain in 1975-76. He then added offensive savvy and leadership on the WHA's Quebec Nordiques before retiring in 1978. His '67-68 rookie card and his '69-70 cards show him as a North Star and '70-71 had him in a Canucks uniform, here's his Chicago custom.
Jean-Paul LeBlanc scored 19 goals as a rookie pro with the CHL's Dallas Black Hawks in 1967-68 and got a 6 game call to Chicago in 1968-69. It would be 1975-76 before he saw another NHL game. Spent 4 seasons in the WHA starting in '72-73 with the L.A. Sharks with other stops with the Michigan/Baltimore Blades and the Denver/Ottawa Civics. Detroit acquired his rights in 1975 and he would play another 147 NHL games over 4 seasons. LeBlanc retired in 1981 after playing two years with the AHL's Adirondack Red Wings. His official rookie card was issued in the '74-75 OPC WHA set, here's his Hawks custom.
Ray McKay turned pro with the Dallas Black Hawks of the CHL in 1967-68 and was chiefly a Chicago farmhand for three years only see the NHL ice for 28 games. The Buffalo Sabres picked up McKay in the Intra-League Draft and he played 39 games while providing leadership on the club's young blueline. After spending '72-73 in the AHL, winning a Calder Cup, he was claimed by the California Golden Seals in the Intra League Draft. He played 72 games in '73-74 before joining the WHA Edmonton Oilers in '74-75 and played for Cleveland, Minnesota, Birmingham and Edmonton over the next 4 years. He returned to the AHL in 1978-79 with the Springfield Indians and retired after playing most of the next year with the Hershey Bears. He would never earn a hockey card.
Jack Norris played 58 career games for three different NHL clubs. In 1964-65 he won ten games and recorded a shutout during a 23 game stop in Boston. On May 15, 1967 he was traded to Chicago and played 10 games over 2 seasons for the Hawks before he was claimed by the Canadiens in the 1969 Intra-League Draft. He would spend his Montreal time in the minors and prior to the '70-71 season was traded to the L.A. Kings where he played 25 games as back up to Denis Dejordy. Norris joined the WHA Alberta Oilers during the '72-73 season and remained with the franchise the next year before joining the Phoenix Roadrunners. He spent two years splitting the goaltending chores with Gary Kurt and retired in 1976 after winning 21 games in 41 appearances for Phoenix. He would get a '70-71 rookie card with the Kings and a '75-76 WHA card as a Roadrunner.
Tom Reid graduated from the amateur ranks just in time to take advantage of the NHL's expansion in 1967. After a brief time in the minors, he joined the Blackhawks for '67-68 and quickly established himself as a steady defenseman. Reid lasted with Chicago until 1969, at which time the Minnesota North Stars acquired him. For the nine seasons that followed he served as a North Star mainstay until he was forced to retire due to severe allergic reactions to his equipment. All his cards were issued as a North Star.
Paul Shmyr began his NHL career with a brief three game stint with the Chicago Blackhawks in the 1968-69 season. He would play the next season with both Chicago and their CHL affiliate Dallas Blackhawks. The 1970-71 season would see Shmyr spend his first full season in the NHL as a Hawk, only to be traded to the California Golden Seals before the start of the next season. He would only play one season for the Seals before moving to the WHA. He would spend 7 seasons in the WHA, with Cleveland, San Diego and Edmonton, before returning to the NHL for 3 seasons in Minnesota. In 1981 Shmyr would sign with the Hartford Whalers as a free agent and would play his last season retiring in 1982. His 1970-71 rookie card shows him as a Golden Seal.
Howie Young saw his first NHL action with the Detroit Red Wings in the 1960-61 season. He was traded to Chicago by Detroit after the 1962-63 season and appeared in 39 games with the Blackhawks before they traded him to the Los Angeles Blades of the WHL. After two years in the WHL he found himself back in the NHL with the Red Wings in 1966-67. The expansion of the NHL in 1967 allowed Young another couple of years in the league with both Detroit and Chicago before his NHL days drew to a close as a member of the Vancouver Canucks in 1970-71. After sitting out the '71-72 season he returned with the WHL Phoenix Roadrunners and joined the WHA Roadrunners in '74-75 before being traded to the Winnipeg Jets in mid-season. He sat out '75-76 but signed with Phoenix as a free agent in February 1977 and played another 26 WHA games before playing 2 seasons in the PHL and retiring. Made a comeback in '85-86 after 6 seasons off playing 4 games in the IHL and 7 more in the ACHL before finishing his hockey career for good. After all that he would get 5 hockey cards issued, a '63-64 Topps Hawks rookie, a '67-68 Topps Hawks card, a 68-69 Topps Oakland card and 2 different '68-69 OPC Hawks cards.
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