the same effect the last 20 years of the Habs' power grab of Quebec talent would have meant:
Mario Lemieux, Ray Bourque, Luc Robitaille would have automatically gone to Montreal
Rattelle and Gilbert broke the hammerlock, Dave Keon somehow wound up in Toronto
and when they took away the privileges the Habs traded all their old-timers to garbage expansion teams to shore up the team of the 70s.