Gordie Roberts • Gordon Roberts

Height: 5-11
Weight: 185
Shoot: L
Born: 2 Oct 1957, Detroit MI

Regular Season & Playoff Scoring Record (key)

year	team	gp	g	a	pts	pim		gp	g	a	pts	pim
1975-76	New England	77	3	19	22	102		17	2	9	11	36
1976-77	New England	77	13	33	46	169		5	2	2	4	6
1977-78	New England	78	15	46	61	118		14	0	5	5	29
1978-79	New England	79	11	46	57	113		10	0	4	4	10
	Totals:	311	42	144	186	502		46	4	20	24	81

• Brother of Doug Roberts

Excerpts from Pro Hockey, WHA 1976-77 (by Dan Proudfoot) Plenty of rookies enter the major leagues with fanfare, but the background to Gord Roberts' arrival as a 17-year-old was practically gunfire. The signing of the youngster, directly against league policy, cost Whalers a $100,000 fine and their first choice in the 1976 amateur draft. Whalers committed the faux pas of turning Roberts professional without acquiring him in a draft. And coach Harry Neale thinks it was worth it. "He may be the best young player in the league. He's so young it makes you shudder, because his October, 1976, birthday only makes him 19 and he already has incredible poise. Of course Gordie had his rough spots in his first year, but what I liked about him is that when his junior hockey tricks stopped working, he didn't. He has a good attitude."

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