Height: 6-1
Weight: 185
Shoot: R
Born: 18 Nov 1954, Toronto ON
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Regular Season & Playoff Scoring Record (key)
| year | team | |||||||||||
| 1973-74 | Cleveland | |||||||||||
| 1974-75 | Cleveland | |||||||||||
| 1975-76 | Cleveland | |||||||||||
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Excerpts from Pro Hockey, WHA 1975-76 (by Dan Proudfoot)
The National Hockey League was outraged, virtually stunned, when the WHA chose to ignore the standard practise of not signing junior players to professional contracts until the year of their 20th birthday. The decision of Dennis Sobchuk, Jacques Locas, Mark and Marty Howe, and others, to join the WHA as teen-agers, was big news in Canadian sports pages. "But we were the first to sign an 18-year-old," says Crusader manager Jack Vivian, "and that was Edur. We've never regretted it, because he showed us a lot in his rookie year. I think he suffered from sophomore-itis in 1974-75 but we expect a lot from him this season." Edur missed 17 games, complicating his second-year trials, because of a cracked bone in his hand. He performed well enough, however, to catch the eye of Boston Bruins of the NHL, who drafted him in 1974. A trade between the Bruins and the Crusaders was reported to be in the works, "but there was nothing to that story. Harry Sinden, who runs the Bruins, hasn't been anxious to talk to us too much, since we convinced Gerry Cheevers and Richie Leduc to move from his team to ours". |
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Excerpts from Zander Hollander Complete Hockey Handbook, 1976-77 (by Reyn Davis) Nicknamed "Bomber" by his teammates ... Partners with Paul Shmyr on defense ... Signed by Cleveland in 1974 as an underage junior ... Played junior hockey in Toronto with Mark and Marty Howe ... Studies by correspondence during the season and in offseason he attends the University of Toronto where he hopes to graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree ... Hobbies include canoeing and golf. |
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