Bill Butters • William Joseph Butters

Height: 5-10
Weight: 185
Shoot: R
Born: 10 Jan 1951, St Paul MN

Regular Season & Playoff Scoring Record (key)

year	team	gp	g	a	pts	pim		gp	g	a	pts	pim
1974-75	Minnesota	24	2	2	4	58		12	1	0	1	21
1975-76	Minnesota	59	0	15	15	120
	Houston	14	0	4	4	18		17	0	3	3	51
	Totals (2 teams)	73	0	19	19	138
1976-77	Minnesota	42	0	7	7	133
	Edmonton	7	0	2	2	17
	New England	26	1	8	9	65		5	0	3	3	15
	Totals (3 teams)	75	1	17	18	215
1977-78	New England	45	1	13	14	69
	Totals:	217	4	51	55	530		34	1	6	7	87

Excerpts from Pro Hockey, WHA 1976-77 (by Dan Proudfoot) Glen Sonmor was a delighted man when he was appointed general manager of the new Florida WHA entry just before the league's annual meetings at Toronto. He was so delighted, in fact, that within days he was swinging deals to bring players he knew to Florida. Sonmor, you see, has an extensive hockey background but it appeared as though it had come to an end when the team he assembled at St. Paul, the Minnesota Fighting Saints, suffered financial failure after 59 games of the 1975-76 schedule. (Despite the premature end, Saints still had more points for the year than did Edmonton Oilers and Toronto Toros, who played the complete schedule.) The Florida appointment allowed him to put his bottomless supply of energy back to work again. Thus, he was happy to give the Birmingham Bulls the rights to a certain Czech in exchange for the right to draft Bill Butters, a former Saint. And he was quick to pick up another old boy, Pat Westrum. He knew he needed defensemen. "Westrum played for me at the University of Minnesota before I went to work for the Saints," says Sonmor, "and so did Butters. They were both team captains, which speaks well for their leadership abilities. And Butters is one of the most competitive athletes with whom I've ever been associated."

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