Can my second box be as good as my first? Let’s find out… Continue reading “2011-12 Upper Deck Series 2 – Box Break #2”
Month: March 2012
2011-12 Upper Deck Series 2 – Box Break #1
AWWWWWW, YEAH! Upper Deck Series Two was released earlier this week. I picked up 3 boxes. Here are the results of my first box break: Continue reading “2011-12 Upper Deck Series 2 – Box Break #1”
Card of the Week: U-S-Ray!
1992-93 Score American #486: Ray Leblanc
Goaltender Ray LeBlanc is not your typical One Game Wonder. Sure, he played exactly 1 game in the NHL, but he was the focus of national attention during the 1992 Winter Olympics, when he lead an unlikely U.S. squad into the medal round. Continue reading “Card of the Week: U-S-Ray!”
Hockey Photo Purchases
Last week, I bought 30 different of 8″ x 10″ hockey photographs from AU Sports, one of my favorite card shops.
Many of these photos were taken at old Chicago Stadium, and most of them are from the 1980s and early 1990s, so these rate pretty high in the nostalgia factor for me.
Mike Liut (Hartford Whalers) – Taken at Chicago Stadium
Sylvain Turgeon (Hartford Whalers) – I used to watch quite a few Whalers games on TV back in the early 1990s, as SportsChannel would show Hartford games quite regularly.
Mike Bossy (New York Islanders) – Bossy retired by the time I got into hockey.
Denis Potvin (New York Islanders) – Potvin had retired and was a studio analyst for SportsChannel when I started watching hockey. I remember him infamously guessing that the Chicago Blackhawks would get eliminated in the first round of the 1989 playoffs, when in fact they made it all the way to the Conference Finals.
Billy Smith (New York Islanders) – The first game I ever went to was the Blackhawks against the Islanders.
Billy Smith (again) – I’m not sure when either of these photos of Smith were taken. I can tell that these are from old Chicago Stadium, as it was one of the last arenas to put advertisements on the boards.
Martin Brodeur – Wow! What a great overhead photograph–making the save just in time. I’m not sure where or when this was taken
Marcel Dionne (New York Rangers) – A nice close-up of the Hall of Fame player at the end of his career.
Bob Brooke (New York Rangers) – Brooke played for the 1984 U.S. Olympic Team.
Rick Vaive (Toronto Maple Leafs) – Taken at Chicago Stadium, and most likely during the 1984-85 season. Vaive was infamously stripped of the “C” when he missed a practice during the 1985-86 season.
Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins) – Wearing the “conceited swan” logo, this is probably from 1996-97.