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• -i. r- - ^ JC*** ^h * cSmyth, who scored four goals and 25 assists, accumulated 252 .penalty minutes.Philadelphia used its next sec* ond round pick (27th overall from Chicago for Behn 'Wilson) to choose 6-1.195‘pound right winger Scott Mellanby. Mellanby, who turns IS tomorrow, played! 39 games for Toronto's Henry Carr High School scoring 37 goals and 37 assists for 74 points.Using its own second round pick, and 37th overall, the Fiyers picked 18-year-old Jeff Chychrun of the Kingston Canadians, a 6-4, 190-pound defenseman who scored 14 points with 137 penalty minutes. David McLay, a 5-11. 175-pound 18-year-old Jert wing was selected 43rd after a 34 goal, 34 assist per-formance for the Ottawa 67s and John Stevens, a 6-1, l85*pound defense nan who had 11 points for the Oshawa Generals was the 47th pick,The Fiyers picked Dave Hanson of Grand Forks (N,D.) High School in the fourth round (79th overall) and Brian Dobbin of the Lonrirm Knights in the fifth Monthry i—11 'u ^' i nuea uverlt;tii going in to the draft, but I was really skeptical of that considering all the things teams consider/* said Smyth, whose hometown is Oakville. Ont. Washington was seriously taking to me. but that was really the omy team that I was sort of expecting to draft me. But I was also told by my coach that Philadelphia was interested in me.“I’ve seen them a lot, especially when I was younger. “Back in 1977, when I was living in Toronto, I used to watch them on television. Hopefully this year Til give it my best shot in training camp and make the team, but if not I'D go hack to London and keep working. 3 want to make the NHL and will keep working until I do.”Mellanby is slated to attend the University of Wisconsin this fall on a scholarship, but is keeping an open mind to the professional game.“I’m a physical player, that’s the type of game I like to play/' said Mellanby, whose father Ralph is the producer of Hockey Nieht in Canada.
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Doylestown Intelligencer
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, US
Sun, Jun 10, 1984
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