1969-70 O-Pee-Chee 158 Poul Popiel Hockey Card (Front)
1969-70 O-Pee-Chee 158 Poul Popiel Hockey Card (Back)
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Card Notes
Poul is starting his second year with the Red Wings after trying out with Boston in 1965-66 and Los Angeles in 1967-68. Poul was CPHL rookie of the year in 1963-64.
En Français
Poul commence sa deuxième année avec les Red Wings après avoir assayé avec Boston en 1965-66 et Los Angeles en 1967-68. Poul fut recrue de l’année dans la CPHL en 1963-64.
Details
Poul Popiel was the seventh player taken by the Los Angeles Kings at the 1967 NHL Expansion Draft, taken from the Boston Bruins organization. He came to L.A. with three games of NHL experience, all with the Bruins in 1965-66.
With the Kings, Popiel played just a single regular season game, spending the rest of the year in the AHL with the Springfield Kings. Los Angeles brought him up to play three games in the Stanley Cup playoffs, the only NHL playoff games he would appear in.
It was in the quarter-finals that year against the Minnesota North Stars that Popiel would score his first NHL goal. In a game 7 9-4 loss at the L.A. Forum, Poul scored on Minnesota goalie Cesare Maniago at 16:45 of the second period, assisted by Bill White and Mike Corbett. Poul would never play for the Kings again.
On November 1, 1968, he was traded to the Detroit Red Wings for Ron Anderson and enjoyed one of his best seasons in the NHL. He scored his first two regular season goals, both game winners while playing 62 games for the Red Wings. He stayed with the Wings for one more season before being claimed in another expansion draft, this time by the Vancouver Canucks.
Between 1965-66 and 1979-80, Poul Popiel played 224 regular season and four playoff games in the National Hockey League with the Boston Bruins, Los Angeles Kings, Detroit Red Wings, Vancouver Canucks and Edmonton Oilers. In the WHA, he appeared in 467 regular season and 71 playoff games between 1972-73 and 1977-78, all with the Houston Aeros, winning two Avco World Trophy titles with that club.