Happy New Year, Puck Junk readers! The holidays were great for me – but they also kept me away from this blog quite a bit during the month of December. Hopefully, I will have more time in 2025 to write about hockey and hockey collecting.
Looking back at the past year, we published 40 articles on Puck Junk – in addition to releasing 34 episodes of the Puck Junk Podcast (more about that here) and sending out 52 issues of the Puck Junk Newsletter.
Not surprisingly, the most popular article on this website was about Connor Bedard – specifically, his Young Guns rookie card. In fact, four of the top five articles were about card values. Here’s a look at the five most-read articles published on Puck Junk in 2024.
1. The Decline in Value of the Connor Bedard Young Guns Card
Published March 21, 2024
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. After debuting at $1,200 on eBay the day it was released, the Connor Bedard Young Guns rookie card has steadily declined in value as the supply met the demand and the hype died down. (Read More)
2. Connor Bedard’s O-Pee-Chee Rookie Cards are Hot!
Published February 20, 2024
Upper Deck delayed the release of its 2023-24 O-Pee-Chee set to midseason so it could include a Marquee Rookies card of Connor Bedard. That made OPC a popular set among breakers for the first time in forever. (Read More)
3. Pro Women’s Hockey Cards Are Here
Published May 20, 2024
As the Professional Women’s Hockey League was winding down its inaugural season, Upper Deck released the first-ever physical trading cards for the PWHL. (Read More)
4. Connor Bedard Mania is Upon Us!
Published March 6, 2024
In my 35+ years of collecting hockey cards, I have never seen so much hype over one brand-new hockey card. No other hockey card has matched the anticipation, the hype, the fervor, of the Connor Bedard’s Young Guns rookie card. (Read More)
5. The Case of the Unpaid O-Pee-Chee Case
Published April 24, 2024
It is crazy that a whole case of 1979-80 O-Pee-Chee Hockey cards was put up for auction last year. But what is even crazier is the story of how the winning bidder did not pay for it and then tried to get someone else to buy it from him. (Read More)
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