1975–76 NHL transactions

The following is a list of all team-to-team transactions that have occurred in the National Hockey League during the 1975–76 NHL season. It lists what team each player has been traded to, signed by, or claimed by, and for which player(s) or draft pick(s), if applicable.

Trades between teams

June

June 1, 1975 To California Golden Seals
Jim Pappin
3rd-rd pick - 1977 Amateur Draft
(CLE - # 42 - Guy Lash)1
To Chicago Black Hawks
Joey Johnston
June 3, 1975 To Washington Capitals
Bill Clement
Don McLean
1st-rd pick - 1975 Amateur Draft
(# 18 - Alex Forsyth)
To Philadelphia Flyers
1st-rd pick - 1975 Amateur Draft
(# 1 - Mel Bridgman)
June 3, 1975 To Toronto Maple Leafs
3rd-rd pick - 1976 Amateur Draft
(# 52 - Gary McFayden)
To Boston Bruins
4th-rd pick - 1975 Amateur Draft
(# 60 - Rick Adduono)
June 3, 1975 To Toronto Maple Leafs
10th-rd pick - 1975 Amateur Draft
(# 166 - Paul Crowley)
To Chicago Black Hawks
cash
June 3, 1975 To Detroit Red Wings
11th-rd pick - 1975 Amateur Draft
(# 176 - Dave Hanson)
To Washington Capitals
cash
June 3, 1975 To Toronto Maple Leafs
11th-rd pick - 1975 Amateur Draft
(# 180 - Jack Laine)
To Chicago Black Hawks
cash
June 3, 1975 To Toronto Maple Leafs
12th-rd pick - 1975 Amateur Draft
(# 188 - Ken Holland)
To Washington Capitals
cash
June 3, 1975 To Toronto Maple Leafs
12th-rd pick - 1975 Amateur Draft
(# 189 - Bob Barnes)
To Kansas City Scouts
cash
June 3, 1975 To Toronto Maple Leafs
12th-rd pick - 1975 Amateur Draft
(# 193 - Jim Montgomery)
To St. Louis Blues
cash
June 3, 1975 To St. Louis Blues
cash
To New York Rangers
13th-rd pick - 1975 Amateur Draft
(# 200 - Steve Roberts)
June 5, 1975 To Atlanta Flames
Dave Kryskow
To Detroit Red Wings
Bryan Hextall Jr.
June 17, 1975 To Toronto Maple Leafs
Wayne Thomas
To Montreal Canadiens
1st-rd pick - 1976 Amateur Draft
(# 12 - Peter Lee)
June 18, 1975 To Kansas City Scouts
Denis Dupere
Craig Patrick
cash
To St. Louis Blues
Lynn Powis
2nd-rd pick - 1976 Amateur Draft
(# 20 - Brian Sutter)
June 18, 1975 To St. Louis Blues
Jerry Butler
Ted Irvine
Bert Wilson
To New York Rangers
Bill collins
John Davidson
June 20, 1975 To Toronto Maple Leafs
Stan Weir
To California Golden Seals
Gary Sabourin
June 23, 1975 To Los Angeles Kings
Bart Crashley
Marcel Dionne
To Detroit Red Wings
Terry Harper
Dan Maloney
2nd-rd pick - 1976 Amateur Draft
(MIN - # 31 - Jim Roberts)1
June 26, 1975 To Toronto Maple Leafs
Greg Hubick
To Montreal Canadiens
Doug Jarvis
  1. The Golden Seals relocated to become the Cleveland Barons for the 1976–77 NHL season.
  2. Detroit's second-round pick went to Minnesota as the result of a trade on February 27, 1976 that sent Dennis Hextall to Detroit in exchange for Bill Hogaboam and this pick.

July

July 3, 1975 To Buffalo Sabres
cash
To St. Louis Blues
rights to Gilles Gratton
July 9, 1975 To Montreal Canadiens
3rd-rd pick - 1977 Amateur Draft
(# 43 - Alain Cote)
cash
To Minnesota North Stars
Glen Sather

August

August 15, 1975 To Minnesota North Stars
Tim Young
To Los Angeles Kings
2nd-rd pick - 1976 Amateur Draft
(# 21 - Steve Clippingdale)
August 22, 1975 To Kansas City Scouts
Gary Bergman
Bill McKenzie
To Detroit Red Wings
Glen Burdon
Peter McDuffe

September

September, 1975
exact date unknown
To Toronto Maple Leafs
Tom Cassidy
To Los Angeles Kings
cash
September 9, 1975 To Atlanta Flames
Curt Ridley
To New York Rangers
Jerry Byers
September 20, 1975 To St. Louis Blues
Bob MacMillan
To New York Rangers
Larry Sacharuk
September 23, 1975 To California Golden Seals
cash
To Atlanta Flames
Claude St. Sauveur

October

October 1, 1975 To Buffalo Sabres
cash
To Kansas City Scouts
Rocky Farr
October 1, 1975 To Buffalo Sabres
Jacques Richard
To Atlanta Flames
Larry Carriere
1st-rd pick - 1976 Amateur Draft
(WSH - # 15 - Greg Carroll)1
cash
October 13, 1975 To Kansas City Scouts
Buster Harvey
To Atlanta Flames
Richard Lemieux
2nd-rd pick - 1977 Amateur Draft
(# 20 - Miles Zaharko)
October 22, 1975 To California Golden Seals
cash
To St. Louis Blues
Rick Smith
October 28, 1975 To Chicago Black Hawks
Gilles Villemure
To New York Rangers
Doug Jarrett
October 30, 1975 To St. Louis Blues
Derek Sanderson
To New York Rangers
1st-rd pick - 1977 Amateur Draft
(# 8 - Lucien DeBlois)
  1. Buffalo's first-round pick went to Washington as the result of a trade on January 22, 1976 that sent Bill Clement to Atlanta in exchange for Jean Lemieux, Gerry Meehan and this pick.

November

November, 1975
exact dte unknown
To Kansas City Scouts
Frank Bathe
To Detroit Red Wings
Hank Lehvonen
November 7, 1975 To Boston Bruins
Brad Park
Jean Ratelle
Joe Zanussi
To New York Rangers
Phil Esposito
Carol Vadnais
November 14, 1975 To Boston Bruins
cash
To New York Rangers
Al Simmons
November 20, 1975 To Detroit Red Wings
rights to Jean-Paul LeBlanc
To Chicago Black Hawks
2nd-rd pick - 1977 Amateur Draft
(# 19 - Jean Savard)
November 21, 1975 To Minnesota North Stars
Bryan Hextall Jr.
To Detroit Red Wings
Rick Chinnick
November 24, 1975 To California Golden Seals
Wayne Merrick
To St. Louis Blues
Larry Patey
3rd-rd pick - 1977 Amateur Draft
(CLE - # 41 - Reg Kerr)1
November 25, 1975 To Minnesota North Stars
Pierre Jarry
To Detroit Red Wings
Don Martineau
November 26, 1975 To Washington Capitals
Bob Paradise
To Pittsburgh Penguins
2nd-rd pick - 1976 Amateur Draft
(# 19 - Greg Malone)
  1. Cleveland's third-round pick was re-acquired as the result of a trade on March 9, 1976 that sent Dave Hrechkosy to St. Louis in exchange for a fifth-round pick in 1976 and this pick. The Golden Seals relocated to become the Cleveland Barons for the 1976–77 NHL season.

December

December 9, 1975 To Kansas City Scouts
rights to Henry Boucha
To Minnesota North Stars
2nd-rd pick - 1978 Amateur Draft
(# 24 - Steve Christoff)
December 15, 1975 To Washington Capitals
Bob Sirois
To Philadelphia Flyers
future considerations1
(John Paddock)
December 16, 1975 To Washington Capitals
Harvey Bennett Jr.
To Pittsburgh Penguins
Stan Gilbertson
  1. Trade completed on September 1, 1976.

January

January 9, 1976 To Kansas City Scouts
Chuck Arnason
Steve Durbano
1st-rd pick - 1976 Amateur Draft
(# 11 - Paul Gardner)
To Pittsburgh Penguins
Ed Gilbert
Simon Nolet
1st-rd pick - 1976 Amateur Draft
(# 2 - Blair Chapman)
January 14, 1976 To Kansas City Scouts
Phil Roberto
To Detroit Red Wings
Buster Harvey
January 14, 1976 To Los Angeles Kings
Ab DeMarco Jr.
To Vancouver Canucks
2nd-rd pick - 1977 Amateur Draft
(ATL - # 31 - Brian Hill)1
January 20, 1976 To Vancouver Canucks
Curt Ridley
To Atlanta Flames
1st-rd pick - 1976 Amateur Draft
(# 8 - David Shand)
January 22, 1976 To Atlanta Flames
Bill Clement
To Washington Capitals
Jean Lemieux
Gerry Meehan
1st-rd pick - 1976 Amateur Draft
(# 15 - Greg Carroll)
  1. Vancouver's second-round pick went to Atlanta as the result of a trade on December 2, 1976 that sent Larry Carriere and Hilliard Graves to Vancouver in exchange for John Gould and this pick.

February

February 27, 1976 To Minnesota North Stars
Bill Hogaboam
2nd-rd pick - 1976 Amateur Draft
(# 31 - Jim Roberts)
To Detroit Red Wings
Dennis Hextall

March

March 6, 1976 To Los Angeles Kings
Bert Wilson
rights to Curt Brackenbury
To St. Louis Blues
cash
March 8, 1976 To Pittsburgh Penguins
Bobby Taylor
Ed Van Impe
To Philadelphia Flyers
Gary Inness
future considerations1
(8th-rd pick 1977 Amateur Draft -
# 135 - Pete Peeters)
(9th-rd pick 1977 Amateur Draft -
# 150 - Tom Bauer)
(10th-rd pick 1977 Amateur Draft -
# 128 - Rob Nicholson)
(11th-rd pick 1977 Amateur Draft -
# 165 - Jim Trainor)
(12th-rd pick 1977 Amateur Draft -
# 172 - Mike Laycock)
March 9, 1976 To St. Louis Blues
Doug Grant
To Detroit Red Wings
future considerations2
(Rick Wilson)
March 9, 1976 To California Golden Seals
5th-rd pick 1976 Amateur Draft
(# 79 - Cal Sandbeck)
3rd-rd pick 1977 Amateur Draft
(CLE - # 41 - Reg Kerr)3
To St. Louis Blues
Dave Hrechkosy
  1. Trade completed on June 14, 1977 at the 1977 NHL Amateur Draft.
  2. Trade completed on June 16, 1976.
  3. The Golden Seals relocated to become the Cleveland Barons for the 1976–77 NHL season.

Additional sources

  • hockeydb.com - search for player and select "show trades"
  • "NHL trades for 1975-1976". NHL Trade Tracker. Retrieved July 22, 2021.