Hockey cards, collectibles and culture
This week, I picked up a bunch of Upper Deck Young Guns rookie cards from various years. I *finally* got a Patrick Kane Young Guns card! I hope to get another one for my collection soon. I hate paying more than $10 for a “new” card, but I had to have this one (I paid … Continue reading “A ton of Young Guns”
I went to a card shop on Sunday, and purchased–among other things–a box of 2006-07 Power Play hockey cards. In retrospect, I paid more than I should have for the box–I now see that they don’t sell for much on eBay…damn. But at the time, the price that I paid seemed like a good deal–the … Continue reading “2006-07 Power Play box break”
Box number four in my OPC box breaks… – 183 base cards– 18 Marquee Rookies– 4 Base Parallels– 3 Team Checklists– 2 Season Highlights– 2 In-Action– 1 Stat Leaders– 1 Record Breakers– 1 Marquee Rookies parallel – 1 OPC Buyback (1989-90 OPC Vezina Trophy: Patrick Roy–again!!!) Why did I want two of these? Not only … Continue reading “2007-08 OPC wax box break #4”
Overlooked set has many good rookie cards Like the previous year, this season’s O-Pee-Chee set contained 264 cards. The first 198 cards were identical to the 1987-88 Topps Hockey set – both Topps and O-Pee-Chee use the same photographs. Cards of players traded in the off-season differ slightly in this set. Players who got traded … Continue reading “Review: 1987-88 O-Pee-Chee Hockey”
Robitaille and Oates stand out in this sleeper set. During the 1986-87 season, Topps increased its hockey set from 165 cards to 198 cards. This year continued the trend of 198 cards, as that seemed to be a comfortable number of cards for Topps to handle. Hockey cards were not popular in the United States … Continue reading “Review: 1987-88 Topps Hockey”
1990-91 Upper Deck Mario Gosselin – card #91 Action speaks louder than words. Upper Deck took that meaning to heart when they started making hockey cards in 1990. This card you see here, of Los Angeles Kings backup goaltender Mario Gosselin, was one of many cards that demonstrated that Upper Deck was serious about becoming … Continue reading “Card of the Week: Great Save, Great Shot”