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| 1975 NHL DRAFT PICK |
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Robin Sadler
Selected in first round
No.
9 overall by Montreal Canadiens
Born March 1, 1955
 | Position:
Defense
Height: 6-3 Weight: 180
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| BEFORE THE DRAFT |
Last Team:
Edmonton (WCHL)
Birthplace: Vancouver, B.C. (Canada)
Hometown:
North
Vancouver, British Columbia |
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| PRE-DRAFT
STATISTICS | | Year |
Team | League |
GP | G |
A | TP |
PIM | | 1973-74 |
Vancouver | BCJHL |
40 |
25 | 54 |
79 | 65 | | 1974-75 |
Edmonton | WCHL |
66 | 32 |
61 | 93 |
103 |
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PRE-DRAFT AWARDS AND HONORS
World Junior Championships: 1975 (silver) (unofficial tournament)
WCHL All-Star First Team: 1974-75 (Edmonton)
Miscellaneous: Played in second World Junior Championships in Winnipeg
and Brandon, Manitoba, an unofficial tournament that helped set stage for
first official World Juniors in 1977. |
| NHL CAREER |
| Never played in NHL. |
| NON-NHL CAREER |
Post-Draft Teams: Frolunda (Sweden); Nova
Scotia (AHL); Innsbruck (Austria); Heerenveen (Netherlands)
NON-NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
Dutch Championship: 1981, 1982, 1983 (Heerenveen)
WHA Draft Pick: 1975 (by Baltimore, No. 18 overall in Round 2)
Miscellaneous: Selected by
Baltimore (WHA) team that folded shortly after the 1975 WHA draft. ... Became
a real estate agent in North Vancouver after his retirement.
The Robin Sadler Saga:
For Robin Sadler, life in the NHL was less than ideal. Sadler
attended Montreal's 1975 training camp, but decided that he did not like the
experience after just one week and went home to North Vancouver. He said
there was too much pressure on him in pro hockey, and he didn't have any
interest in turning pro. He had already signed a three-year, $250,000
contract that included a big signing bonus, but he returned the money,
announcing his retirement for the first time in September 1975. Sadler then
spent the 1975-76 season playing amateur hockey in Vancouver while earning
$250 per week working for a delivery service. He came out of retirement in
1976 to play the 1976-77 season in Sweden, and would later take another shot
at North American
hockey. After talking to Edmonton coach Glen Sather, he signed a two-year contract with Edmonton
(WHA) on June 16, 1977. The deal was worth over $100,000. Sadler, however,
left Edmonton training camp in September 1977 after running into issues
similar to those he had dealt with two years
earlier. He had a 90-minute talk with Edmonton coach Glen Sather and co-owner
Nelson Skalbania before deciding to go home to Vancouver. Sather said
emotional stress was affecting Sadler's eating habits and he was sorry that
Sadler had chosen to leave. In February 1978, Sadler contacted Montreal to
express his
interest in playing for the Canadiens. He was assigned to Nova Scotia (AHL) in
early March 1978, and collected six points in nine games, but quit the team near the end of the season. He returned to
Europe for the 1978-79 season and never played North American pro hockey
again. In Europe, where he likely experienced a very different sort of atmosphere, he was a
top-notch hockey player. |
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SNAPSHOT '75 | | Total Selected: |
217 | | Forwards: |
126 | | Defense: |
65 | | Goaltenders: |
26 | | Major Junior: |
135 | | College Players: |
61 |
| Canadian: |
162 |
| Euro-Canadian: |
3 | | USA Citizens: |
46 | | U.S.-Born: |
45 |
| European: |
6 |
| Reached NHL: |
87 |
| Won Stanley Cup: |
8 | | Hall of Fame: |
0 |
| All-Star Game: |
6 |
| Year-end All-Star: |
3 |
| Olympians: |
11 |
| Picks Traded: |
21 |
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