height_ft played_for wha_draft_year shoots weight_lb birth_place career_start draft_year career_end position draft_team height_in birth_date wha_draft article_title draft name wha_draft_team
6 '' nhl '' ' new york islanders edmonton oilers pittsburgh penguins ` quebec nordiques new york rangers minnesota north stars '' ` wha ahl '' ' rochester americans fredericton express '' ' vancouver blazers '' ` 1974 left 195 nelson , bc , can 1974 1975 1988 defence new york islanders 2 24 march 1955 1st overall pat price -lrb- ice hockey -rrb-
 11th overall pat price vancouver blazers
pat price -lrb- ice hockey -rrb-

shaun patrick price -lrb- born march 24 , 1955 in nelson , british columbia -rrb- is a canadian retired former professional ice hockey player who played in the world hockey association -lrb- wha -rrb- for the vancouver blazers and the national hockey league -lrb- nhl -rrb- for the new york islanders , edmonton oilers , pittsburgh penguins , quebec nordiques , new york rangers and minnesota north stars .
price was a highly touted junior star with the saskatoon blades and was drafted number one overall by the vancouver blazers of the world hockey association .
he signed as an untested rookie for $ 1.3 million , but struggled in vancouver , scoring only five goals in the 1974 -- 75 wha season .
he jumped to the nhl in 1975 -- 76 but spent most of the year in the minor leagues as he struggled to adapt to the professional game .
price finally became an nhl regular in 1976 , and played three seasons on long island before he was claimed by the oilers in the 1979 nhl expansion draft .
he played 726 total nhl games , scoring 43 goals and 218 assists before retiring in 1988 .
