Hockey cards, collectibles and culture
One of my favorite things to do while watching hockey is to open packs of cards. I opened 3 boxes of 2010-11 Score Hockey while watching the Blackhawks-Thrashers Game on Saturday night.
Results for Box #2 Continue reading “2010-11 Score Hockey box break #2”
During the sports card boom of the late 1980s and early 1990s, unlicensed cards ran rampant in the hobby. Although not worth more than $1 each today, some of them are still amusing two decades later. An example of such a card would be this one of former football and baseball player Bo Jackson, suited up as a hockey player. Continue reading “Card of the Week: Bo Knows Hockey”
I recently bought 5 boxes of 2010-11 Score Hockey cards. Each box contains 36 packs, and each pack has 7 cards.
I’ll get up a full review once I have the cards sorted into a set. Until then, I’ll post what I get in each box.
Results for Box #1: Continue reading “2010-11 Score Hockey box break #1”
Normally, I don’t purchase boxes of cards in the $100 range. But I had to make an exception. 2010-11 Certified is Panini’s first hockey release since getting the license earlier this year. How would it stack up to a similar Upper Deck product like Artifacts?
A box of 10 packs costs anywhere from $80 to $100, depending on where you bought it. You get 5 cards per pack. I purchased this box from my local card shop for $95. Here is what I got: Continue reading “2010-11 Certified Hockey box break”
Here is a video I put together about the first set of the 2010-11 season, Upper Deck Victory.
With the 2010 baseball season winding down this week, it seemed appropriate to show this card of former pitcher Tom Glavine, donning hockey skates and shooting a puck. Continue reading “Play Ball!”
Not much is known about these two hockey cards. The backs are blank, and there is no copyright date on them. The cards measure 4″ x 6″ and feature former NHL superstars Mark Messier and Pat Lafontaine. Each is in an All-Star Game uniform, and at the bottom it reads “Louisville” – the manufacturer of the hockey sticks that Messier and Lafontaine are using in the pictures. Continue reading “Review: 1991 Louisville Hockey Stick Cards”
Founded in 2009, the World Hockey Association Hall of Fame is a non-profit organization that honors and remembers the defunct league and its players. In July 2010, the WHA HOF released a 10-card set commemorating 12 of the league’s former players and one trophy. Continue reading “Review: 2010 WHA Hall of Fame”
Everyone who collected hockey cards during the early 1990s knows of the Stanley Cup Hologram released by Pro Set during the 1990-91 season. But many don’t know about his little brother – the NHL 75th Anniversary Hologram, produced a year later. To commemorate the NHL’s diamond anniversary, Pro Set made 10,000 copies of this card and randomly inserted them into foil packs of 1991-92 Pro Set Series 2 hockey cards. Continue reading “Historic Hologram”
“Art imitates life,” or so the saying goes. Sometimes, cards imitate life too. Such is the case with this card of former NHL player Pat Elynuik. On his 1992-93 Topps Stadium Club trading card, Elynuik poses with a bunch of Topps, Bowman and O-Pee-Chee cards from the previous year.
It is a worthless hockey card that shows a bunch of equally worthless hockey cards. Continue reading “Card Imitates Life”
