Career
He also played for the Minnesota North Stars and Saint Louis Blues. He currently owns two hockey stores in Florida. The following year saw him claimed in the waiver draft by the Detroit Red Wings organization, where he spent the next four seasons, mostly with their Pittsburgh Hornets and Memphis Wings farm teams.
In 1967, he was claimed by the Blues in the expansion draft, and made his National Hockey League debut in that season, while spending most of the season with the Blues" Kansas City affiliate.
He was loaned to the American Hockey League Buffalo Bisons in 1968, and subsequently played the next three seasons for the Cleveland Barons of the AHL. In that time, his rights were traded to the North Stars, for whom he played 12 games in the 1971 season. Beaudin was the first player signed by the Jets, and played on a line with superstar Bobby Hull and centre Christian Bordeleau in the Jets" inaugural season.
He led the WHA playoffs in scoring that year with a sparkling 13 goals and 15 assists as the Jets lost to the New England Whalers in the league finals, highlighted by a seven-point game against the Minnesota Fighting Saints. Beaudin"s production dropped sharply the next season, and in 1974 he and Bordeleau were replaced as Hull"s linemates by Swedish stars Anders Hedberg and Ulf Nilsson.