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| 1963 NHL DRAFT PICK |
 | Orest
Romashyna
Selected in first round
No.
3 overall by Boston Bruins
Born October 27,
1946
 | Position:
Left Wing
Height: 5-10 Weight: 170
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| BEFORE THE DRAFT |
Last Team:
New Hamburg (OHA Jr. C)
Birthplace:
Rheine, West Germany
Hometown: New Hamburg, Ontario |
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| PRE-DRAFT
STATISTICS | | Year |
Team | League |
GP | G |
A | TP | PIM |
| 1962-63 |
New Hamburg | Jr. C | -- |
-- | -- | -- |
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PRE-DRAFT AWARDS AND HONORS
OHA Junior C Championship: 1963 (New Hamburg)
OMHA Midget C
Championship: 1961, 1962 (New Hamburg)
OMHA Bantam C Championship:
1960 (New Hamburg)
Miscellaneous: Grew up idolizing the Boston
Bruins' "Uke Line" of Johnny Bucyk, Vic Stasiuk and Bronco Horvath, who like
Romashyna were descended from Ukrainian ancestry. ... Earned tryout with
Boston because his New Hamburg general manager, Walter "Punch" Scherer, knew
Boston general manager Milt Schmidt, and Schmidt agreed to look at some players in Niagara Falls, where the Bruins had their major-junior
affiliate. Romashyna impressed the Bruins enough to earn a tryout with the
major-junior team. Boston then drafted him to play for the Niagara Falls team.
He was paid $300 for being drafted on top of the $2,000 that was paid to his
New Hamburg junior team. |
| NHL CAREER |
| Never played in NHL. |
| NON-NHL CAREER |
Post-Draft Teams: Niagara Falls (OHA); New
Hamburg (Jr. C); Waterloo (OUAA)
NON-NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
OHA Junior C Championship: 1967 (New
Hamburg)
Education: Attended Stamford Collegiate in Niagara Falls for Grade 12
before returning to New Hamburg to finish high school. ... Attended University of Waterloo and Stratford
Teacher's College.
Miscellaneous:
Played on line with Bud Debrody and Bill Bannerman for Niagara Falls (OHA) in
1963-64. ... Quit Niagara Falls during 1963-64 season so he could return to
New Hamburg and finish high school there. ... Attended Niagara Falls' training
camp in 1964 and did not make team, but earned tryout to play for Oshawa. He
declined the invitation, instead remaining in New Hamburg to play another
season with local Junior C team. ... Returned to Junior C team after his first
year of university hockey ended and helped team in run to OHA finals. ...
Became a schoolteacher after completing his university hockey career, and went
to work for Waterloo Board of education for the next 29 years, including 12
years as the vice principal of a middle school.
Personal: The child of Ukrainian parents, Romashyna moved to
Canada with his mother in 1949 so that they could join his father, who was
working on a farm. The family later relocated to New Hamburg, Ontario, where
Romashyna's father worked in a factory. ... Was still a West German citizen at
the time he was drafted, making him the first European citizen and the first
European immigrant ever drafted by an NHL team. Did not attain Canadian
citizenship until he entered university so that he could travel over the
border into the United States.
Note:
Special thanks to HDC reader Wayne Lapierre for contacting Orest Romashyna
directly to make the details in this profile possible. |
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SNAPSHOT '63 | | Total Selected: |
21 | | Forwards: |
13 | | Defense: |
6 | | Goaltenders: |
0 | | Position n/a: |
2 | | Major Junior: |
4 |
| College Players: |
0 |
| Canadian: |
21 |
| American: |
0 |
| European: |
0 |
| Reached NHL: |
5 |
| Won Stanley Cup: |
1 | | Hall of Fame: |
0 |
| All-Star Game: |
2
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| Year-end All-Star: |
0
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| Olympians: |
0
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| Picks Traded: |
0 |
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