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I was looking up Pierre Larouche for another thread and noticed that the 2nd round was better than the 1st round in 1974.
2nd round had 2 HHOF guys in Trottier and Howe and 5 pretty good guys as well.
The first round had Clark Gillies, who is a suspect HHOF guy and some other okayish type of guys in Wilf Paeiment, Larouche and Lee Fogolin.
Even the 3rd round in 74 was pretty decent, comparatively speaking to the first with guys like Bob Murray, Bob Bourne and Charlie simmer, along with Bob Sirous who fizzled very fast.
Sirous later published a book that I heard about although it sounded kind of flawed on the surface as it only looked at stats without greater context it seems.
http://www.thehockeynews.com/articl...ainst-FrenchCanadian-players-in-new-book.html
No doubt there might have been some validity to what he was talking about in the 70's in Canada and with the NHL being mostly Canadian born players, coaches and managers ect but their jobs were to produce and I think Sirous book over exaggerates a point but maybe that's for another topic.
2nd round had 2 HHOF guys in Trottier and Howe and 5 pretty good guys as well.
The first round had Clark Gillies, who is a suspect HHOF guy and some other okayish type of guys in Wilf Paeiment, Larouche and Lee Fogolin.
Even the 3rd round in 74 was pretty decent, comparatively speaking to the first with guys like Bob Murray, Bob Bourne and Charlie simmer, along with Bob Sirous who fizzled very fast.
Sirous later published a book that I heard about although it sounded kind of flawed on the surface as it only looked at stats without greater context it seems.
http://www.thehockeynews.com/articl...ainst-FrenchCanadian-players-in-new-book.html
No doubt there might have been some validity to what he was talking about in the 70's in Canada and with the NHL being mostly Canadian born players, coaches and managers ect but their jobs were to produce and I think Sirous book over exaggerates a point but maybe that's for another topic.
