1973-74 O-Pee-Chee 42 Craig Cameron Hockey Card (Front)
1973-74 O-Pee-Chee 42 Craig Cameron Hockey Card (Back)
1973-74 O-Pee-Chee NHL Checklist
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Card Notes
For most of his career, Craig was looked upon as a handyman type, a top defensive player and a strong penalty killer. Last year he also became a scorer, and was the Islanders’ second leading goal-getter.
Craig has been owned by 7 different NHL teams.
En Français
Pendant longtemps, on considérait Craig comme un homme à tout faire sur la glace comme joueur défensif et tueur de punitions. Toutefois, l’an dernier, il devint le deuxième meilleur compteur de buts des Islanders.
Craig a appartenu à 7 clubs de la LNH.
Details
Talk about a guy that was dissed by O-Pee-Chee and Topps. Craig Cameron saw regular action in the NHL with the St. Louis Blues in 1967-68, 1968-69 and 1970-71 and was also a regular with the Minnesota North Stars in 1971-72 but did not appear on the front of a hockey card until 1972-73.
Cameron indeed was the property of seven different NHL teams. However, he played for just four. His first game came in 1966-67 with the Detroit Red Wings, the only game he would appear in for that club.
Prior to the 1967-68 season, the Red Wings traded him to the Blues with Don Giesebrecht and Larry Hornung for John Brenneman. He was not part of the 1967 NHL Expansion Draft. If he had been, it would have been the first of three expansion draft that Cameron would have been involved in.
At the 1970 NHL Expansion Draft, the Buffalo Sabres selected Craig from the Los Angeles Kings. A day earlier, he had been picked up by the Kings from the Pittsburgh Penguins. He never played for any of those three teams. The Sabres traded him back to the Blues before the 1970-71 season started. A year earlier, Cameron was involved in a trade between St. Louis and Pittsburgh that saw Ron Schock also go to the Pens while Lou Angotti went to the Blues.
The New York Islanders selected Craig at the 1972 NHL Expansion Draft from the Minnesota North Stars. He was then traded back to the Stars in January, 1975 for Jude Drouin. Follow all that?
Between 1966-67 and 1975-76, Craig Cameron appeared in 552 regular season and 27 Stanley Cup playoff games in the National Hockey League with the Red Wings, Blues, North Stars and Islanders. Prior to going pro, Craig was part of the 1966 Memorial Cup winning Edmonton Oil Kings. Edmonton defeated the Bobby Orr led Oshawa Generals for the title.