| Round | Overall |
| 6 | 78 |
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Left-hand shot
Pre-Draft Statistics
| Year | Team | League | GP | G | A | TP | PIM |
| 1968-69 | Estevan | WCHL | 34 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 29 |
| 1969-70 | Estevan | WCHL | 49 | 1 | 19 | 20 | 69 |
| 1970-71 | Estevan | WCHL | 66 | 7 | 25 | 32 | 116 |
Pre-Draft Notes
Played one game for Estevan (WCJHL) in 1967-68.
After the Draft
- Played on 1971-72 Charlotte team that won
EHL regular-season title.
- Won EHL Walker Trophy
with Charlotte in 1972.
- Signed first NHL
contract with Philadelphia on Aug. 15, 1972.
- Loaned by Richmond (AHL)
to Dallas (CHL, Chicago affiliate) for balance of 1972-73 season in
January 1973.
- Played on 1972-73 Dallas team that won CHL regular-season title.
- Played on 1973-74 Des Moines team that won IHL regular-season
title.
- Represented Des Moines and scored goal in IHL All-Star
Game on Jan. 22, 1974, at Columbus, Ohio.
- Set
Des Moines (IHL) record for goals in one season by a defenseman with
20 in 1973-74.
- Won IHL Turner Cup with Des Moines in
1974.
- IHL All-Star First Team with Des Moines in 1973-74
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Traded by Philadelphia to Washington in exchange for Capitals'
agreement not to take certain players in NHL Expansion Draft on June
12, 1974.
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Also played left wing for Dayton (IHL) in 1974-75.
- IHL All-Star Second-Team with Dayton in 1974-75.
- Made his WHA debut with Calgary Cowboys on Feb. 27, 1976, vs. Cleveland.
Miscellaneous
Nickname: "Tiny"
Post-Draft Teams: Richmond (AHL); Charlotte (EHL); Dallas (CHL); San Diego (WHL); Des Moines, Dayton (IHL); Calgary (WHA);
Kiruna (Sweden); Bad Nauheim, Freiburg (West Germany)
Career Beyond Hockey: Returned
to his native province of Alberta, living for many years in the small
town of Clyde (pop. 503), after his retirement.
Family: Older brother of
former minor-league player Bob Bilodeau.
The Medicine Hat Saga
Bilodeau was claimed by the new Medicine Hat Tigers from Estevan in the WCHL expansion draft on June 19, 1970. Initially, he said he was going to attend the medicine Hat training camp, but when camp opened in September 1970, Bilodeau would not report and began to imply to management that wanted to be traded back to Estevan. He did show up at camp for one day, but then returned to Estevan, where he worked out with his old team. The situation was finally resolved when Bilodeau was traded by Medicine Hat back to Estevan for the rights to a player to be named from one of Estevan's Tier II teams in Chilliwack and Weyburn (Boyd Anderson of Weyburn), one additional player from Estevan's reserve list (later modified to an Oct. 1, 1971, deal in which Estevan traded Craig Steele and Bob Bolicki to Medicine Hat for Bob Craig), and the waiver of Bilodeau's $500 expansion draft fee on Oct. 7, 1970.
| SNAPSHOT '71 | |
| Total Selected: | 117 |
| Forwards: | 63 |
| Defense: | 45 |
| Goaltenders: | 9 |
| Major Junior: | 84 |
| College Players: | 19 |
| Canadian: | 107 |
| Euro-Canadian: | 2 |
| American: | 8 |
| European: | 0 |
| Reached NHL: | 50 |
| Won Stanley Cup: | 5 |
| Hall of Fame: | 3 |
| All-Star Game: | 10 |
| Year-end All-Star: | 5 |
| Olympians: | 4 |
| Picks Traded: | 18 |
| 1971 PICKS BY TEAM | ||
| Boston | Buffalo | California |
| Chicago | Detroit | Los Angeles |
| Minnesota | Montreal | New York |
| Philadelphia | Pittsburgh | St. Louis |
| Toronto | Vancouver | |
OTHERS DRAFTED IN 1971