Now that we have that thing about the 1978-79 season sorted out, there aren't big/strange disparities between the scoring and the Golden Hockey Stick - for me, anyway.
Well, the only one I can think of is Ivan Hlinka's absence in the GHS voting in 1975. He obviously had a big scoring year in the domestic league and yet was not even in the top 6 in the voting (according to
http://www.passionhockey.com/Archives.html):
1 VladimÃr Martinec (Pardubice), 2 Jirà Holecek (Sparta Prague), 3 Jirà HolÃk (Jihlava), 4 Milan Nový (Kladno), 5 František PospÚil (Kladno), 6 Oldrich Machac (Brno).
Was his international play (I think we've established that it counted) poor that season? Or was there some other
faux pas?
The other thing is Vaclav Nedomansky's reasonably weak success in the voting; he was never even in the top 2 (1969-74, the source again being
www.passionhockey.com), despite his consistent high scoring both in the Czechoslovak league and World Championships - not to mention his numerous all-star berths in the latter. Not that it's a shame to lose to Suchy, Pospisil, Martinec, Holecek, but anyway. I can understand that after the 1974 defection, he wasn't very popular among his countrymen, but looks like he was strangely underappreciated already during his years in Czechoslovakia.
BTW, I thought that Martinec's scoring success in 1978-79 had something to do with him playing for Jihlava that season, but having seen those Hokej 79 stats, it was not the case at all; he just seemed to hit another - and his last - peak then.