1968 NHL Amateur Draft

Montreal, Quebec - June 13, 1968

Summary statistics

			POSITION SPLIT			NATIONALITY SPLIT
ROUND	TO NHL	GP	FWD	DEF	GOA..
Round 1	58.33%	166.3	58.3%	25.0%	16.7%	100.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Round 2	28.57%	83.9	85.7%	14.3%	0.0%	71.4%	28.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Round 3	0.00%	0.0	40.0%	40.0%	20.0%	100.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
TOTAL¹		107.6	62.5%	25.0%	12.5%	91.7%	8.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
TO NHL²	37.50%		40.0%	16.7%	66.7%	36.4%	50.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%

¹⁾ Percentage of drafted players in each category (e.g. 91.7% of all drafted players were Canadian).
²⁾ Percentage of players that made it to NHL (e.g. 36.4% of all drafted Canadians have played in NHL).

Summary statistics on team draft performance

					OVERALL				PER DRAFT PICK
Rk	TEAM	WAPP¹	PICKS	TO NHL	GP	G	A	P	GP	G	A	P
1	Montreal Canadiens	2.13	4	25.0%	298	0	9	9	74.5	0.0	2.3	2.3
2	Los Angeles Kings	7.00	1	0.0%
3	Philadelphia Flyers	8.00	1	100.0%	564	39	52	91	564.0	39.0	52.0	91.0
4	Pittsburgh Penguins	8.13	3	66.7%	16	4	3	7	5.3	1.3	1.0	2.3
5	St. Louis Blues	8.73	2	100.0%	866	152	189	341	433.0	76.0	94.5	170.5
6	Chicago Black Hawks	9.00	1	100.0%	657	112	163	275	657.0	112.0	163.0	275.0
7	Minnesota North Stars	9.61	3	0.0%
8	Toronto Maple Leafs	10.00	1	100.0%	162	7	40	47	162.0	7.0	40.0	47.0
9	Detroit Red Wings	13.36	2	0.0%
10	Oakland Seals	15.76	2	0.0%
11	Boston Bruins	16.62	3	33.3%	20	1	2	3	6.7	0.3	0.7	1.0
12	New York Rangers	19.00	1	0.0%

¹⁾ The Weighted Average Pick Position (WAPP) is determined using a harmonic mean, which gives the highest weight to the first overall pick, the second highest to the second overall pick, etc. The thinking behind this approach is that the relative difference between the first and the fifth pick is much higher than the difference between e.g. the 130th and 135th pick. The smallest number is granted to the team with the lowest overall pick position in the draft.

Round 1

No.	Name	Born	Team	Pos	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-
1	Michel Plasse	1948	Montreal Canadiens	G	298	0	9	9	52
2	Roger Belisle	1947	Montreal Canadiens	F
3	Jim Pritchard	1948	Montreal Canadiens	D
4	Garry Swain	1947	Pittsburgh Penguins	F	9	1	1	2	0	-1
5	Jim Benzelock	1947	Minnesota North Stars	F
6	Gary Edwards	1947	St. Louis Blues	G	286	0	7	7	48
7	Jim McInally	1948	Los Angeles Kings	D
8	Lew Morrison	1948	Philadelphia Flyers	F	564	39	52	91	107	-60
9	John Marks	1948	Chicago Black Hawks	F	657	112	163	275	330	38
10	Brad Selwood	1948	Toronto Maple Leafs	D	162	7	40	47	153	-11
11	Steve Andrascik	1948	Detroit Red Wings	F
12	Danny Schock	1948	Boston Bruins	F	20	1	2	3	0	0

Round 2

No.	Name	Born	Team	Pos	GP	G	A	P	PIM	+/-
13	Doug Smith	1948	Oakland Seals	F
14	Ron Snell	1948	Pittsburgh Penguins	F	7	3	2	5	6	2
15	Marc Rioux	1948	Minnesota North Stars	F
16	Curt Bennett	1948	St. Louis Blues	F	580	152	182	334	347	-71
17	Herb Boxer	1947	Detroit Red Wings	F
18	Fraser Rice	1947	Boston Bruins	F
19	Barry Buchanan	1948	New York Rangers	D

Round 3

No.	Name	Born	Team	Pos
20	Jim Trewin	1948	Oakland Seals	D
21	Dave Simpson	1948	Pittsburgh Penguins	D
22	Glen Lindsay	1948	Minnesota North Stars	G
23	Don Grierson	1947	Montreal Canadiens	F
24	Brian St. John	1948	Boston Bruins	F

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