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How did Mario Tremblay play then?

Do you mean 1969?

I'm not sure what happened with Tremblay. I'd have to look for that.

I got it wrong before the draft age until 1979 was 19...... In 1979 they moved it to 18 allowing two years of players to be drafted, and making the best draft ever.

From this article.

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=398437

"The 1979 draft class had another important advantage - it was a 19-year-old draft. The NHL was lowering the age of eligibility from 19 to 18 and the move saw two years worth of picks to go in the same year."

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From Wiki:

The first NHL Entry Draft (at that time known as the "NHL Amateur Draft") was held on June 5, 1963 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.[1] Any amateur player under the age of 20 was eligible to be drafted. In 1979, the rules were changed allowing players who had previously played professionally to be drafted. This rule change was made to facilitate the absorption of players from the defunct World Hockey Association. Consequently, the name of the draft was changed from "NHL Amateur Draft" to "NHL Entry Draft". Beginning in 1980, any player who is between the ages of 18 and 20 is eligible to be drafted. In addition, any non-North American player over the age of 20 can be selected. From 1987 through 1991, 18 and 19-year-old players could only be drafted in the first three rounds unless they met another criterion of experience which required them to have played in major junior, U.S. college and high school, or European hockey.

In other words, if you were an amateur under 20 you could play prior to 1979. That's why Bobby Orr played as well at 18. 1979 opened up players who had played professionally to enter the draft.

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From Wiki:

The first NHL Entry Draft (at that time known as the "NHL Amateur Draft") was held on June 5, 1963 at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec.[1] Any amateur player under the age of 20 was eligible to be drafted. In 1979, the rules were changed allowing players who had previously played professionally to be drafted. This rule change was made to facilitate the absorption of players from the defunct World Hockey Association. Consequently, the name of the draft was changed from "NHL Amateur Draft" to "NHL Entry Draft". Beginning in 1980, any player who is between the ages of 18 and 20 is eligible to be drafted. In addition, any non-North American player over the age of 20 can be selected. From 1987 through 1991, 18 and 19-year-old players could only be drafted in the first three rounds unless they met another criterion of experience which required them to have played in major junior, U.S. college and high school, or European hockey.

In other words, if you were an amateur under 20 you could play prior to 1979. That's why Bobby Orr played as well at 18. 1979 opened up players who had played professionally to enter the draft.

Bobby Orr was a totally different case, as he was signed to a C form contract when he was 12. He was never drafted.

While the 1979 was done to include WHAers thats not the whole story either.

I don't think the Wiki article tells everything here.

Why did Lafleur get drafted in 1971, right before his 20th birthday?

Same with Perreault... drafted at 19, and turned 20 in november of his first season.

Same with Denis Potvin in 1973.

Surely people knew these guys were good at 18, but they couldn't be drafted.

Also from Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_NHL_Entry_Draft

In addition, the minimum draft age was lowered from 19 to 18. The NHL had been considering lowering the draft age for some time (the WHA did not have a minimum age), and likely timed the decision to lower the draft age to coincide with the merger. The lowering of the draft age caused two years' worth of draft picks to go in the same draft, resulting in what is generally considered one of the best draft classes in NHL Entry Draft history, which included future hall-of-famers Ray Bourque, Mike Gartner and Michel Goulet in the first round alone. Hall-of-famers Mark Messier and Glenn Anderson would be drafted in later rounds. 12 of the 21 players selected in the first round would play in at least one All-Star game, 19 of the 21 would play at least 450 career NHL games, and all 21 had NHL careers of at least 235 games.

Furthermore, the draft did not include superstar Wayne Gretzky, who would normally have been eligible this year due to the lowering of the draft age. Gretzky had played for the Edmonton Oilers in the WHA's final season - as part of the merger agreement, the Oilers were allowed to keep Gretzky in exchange for being placed at the bottom of the draft order in the Entry Draft.

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Some answers...

In 1974... Tremblay's draft year... some underagers were allowed to be drafted in response to the WHA drafting underagers, but it was limited

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_NHL_Entry_Draft

This appears to be a two year only thing as the 1975 picks go back up to being 19 and 20 year olds with some limited 18 year olds sprinkled in, and then we get 1976 which is one of the worst drafts ever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_NHL_Entry_Draft

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