1973-74 O-Pee-Chee 63 Dave Dryden Hockey Card (Front)
1973-74 O-Pee-Chee 63 Dave Dryden Hockey Card (Back)
1973-74 O-Pee-Chee NHL Checklist
Card Notes
Older brother of Montreal’s Ken Dryden. When Dave and Ken faced each other in 1971, it was the first time in NHL history that goalie brothers had played against each other. Dave came up through the Chicago farm system.
En Français
Frère aîné de Ken. Quand Dave et Ken se firent face en 1971, c’était la première fois dans l’histoire de la LNH que deux frères gardiens jouaient l’un contre l’autre. Dave fut formé dans le réseau des filiales de Chicago.
Details
Dave Dryden did play against his brother Ken near the end of the 1970-71 season. Neither goalie started the game with both entering in relief of the starters. We go into that game in more detail in the card notes of the Ken Dryden 1971-72 O-Pee-Chee 45 rookie card.
The older Dryden did get his start in the Chicago Blackhawks organization but actually played his first NHL game for the New York Rangers during the 1961-62 NHL season while still a junior with the Toronto Marlboros.
Dave saw time with the Blackhawks between 1965-66 and 1968-69. He got into a respectable number of games as backup to Denis DeJordy in 1967-68 and 1968-69 after the legendary Glenn Hall was picked up by the expansion St. Louis Blues.
Roger Crozier and Joe Daley shared the bulk of duties with the brand new Buffalo Sabres in the team’s inaugural 1970-71 NHL season with Dryden seeing just ten games. However, his games played increased each year until he was Buffalo’s number one for the 1973-74 season, appearing in 53 games.
For 1974-75, Dryden jumped to the World Hockey Association and would play five years in the WHA with the Chicago Cougars and Edmonton Oilers. He had one last shot at the NHL in 1979-80, playing 14 games for the Oilers.