Hockey cards, collectibles and culture
We enter week two of NHL games and my fantasy hockey team looks better than ever. My takes this week have some variety. From players with damaged reputations, extensions, and major business deals, these takes have it all. Happy Monday!
House of Secrets #114: Night Game Gr-r-r-r-reetings dear readers. Today, on this sssppooooooky Punk Junk blog post, we look at a darker piece of hockey nostalgia!
By Sal Barry, Tim Parish, Blake Isaacs, Jim Howard & Kyle Scully Before we turn our attention to the upcoming hockey season, we wanted to take a look back at the 2019-20 NHL season. And what a crazy season it was! A global pandemic halted the league for the first time in over 100 years. … Continue reading “The 11 Biggest Hockey Stories of 2019-20”
Hockey is right around the corner! The NHL will officially be back on August 1st. With that being said, the league has a lot of work to do before that. Just this week they announced most of their award finalists and have continued to test players for COVID-19. There was also some interesting news surrounding … Continue reading “Blake’s Takes: Two Weeks ‘Til Hockey”
Hockey card collecting was on a precipice during the 1989-90 season. It hadn’t yet taken the plunge into the abyss of overproduction, inflated prices and rookie cards of practically anyone who got within 10 feet of an NHL uniform — succinctly known as the “Junk Wax Era.” Hockey cards were rapidly becoming more and more … Continue reading “The 15 Best Hockey Cards from 1989-90”
Allure [uh-loor] – noun; the quality of being powerfully and mysteriously attractive or fascinating. How does Upper Deck’s latest offering stack up with the official definition? I bought a box so we could find out!
I’ve been playing recreational hockey — or beer league, as many call it — for about six years now, and I’ve seen my share of crazy stuff. I recall one game being cancelled because the Zamboni broke down in the middle of the ice. Another time, I remember a guy getting kicked out of the … Continue reading “The Time My Hockey Teammate Quit…in the Middle of a Game!”
Hello, hockey nerds! Today, I’m hopefully going to wow all of you, and maybe inspire some of you to go on a Hockey Road Trip. Over the summer, Tom Dundon, The Most Interesting Man in Hockey, reached an agreement with the Greenville (South Carolina) Swamp Rabbits to become the ECHL affiliates of the (North) Carolina … Continue reading “Hockey Road Trip Across the Carolinas”
The 1993-94 season was my favorite year to collect hockey cards. Everything about that season was just so right for me. I was living with my Grandmother and going to a local junior college, so my cost of living was low. I was working full-time at a card and comic book shop, so I could … Continue reading “Every 1993-94 Hockey Card Set Ranked”
Like 12.7 million other people this month, I downloaded FaceApp because it looked like a fun little phone app to play around with. For those who don’t know, FaceApp is a program for mobile phones that lets you take a picture and, using artificial intelligence, alters it by adding a smile, facial hair or glasses, among … Continue reading “I Used FaceApp on Some Hockey Cards”