The Hockey Card Thread...show your recent pick-ups.

@erba said:
I was fortunate to meet this legend yesterday and get his French rookie signed.

Awesome card. Where did you meet him?

@80sOPC said:
How were those Roy’s issued?

They were pack issued in 02/03 Topps and feature reprints of all Topps issued base cards from 86/87-01/02. There are 14 total in the set, and all are supposed to be hand numbered to 33. Some of them are not for whatever reason, I haven't figured that one out yet. This one does not any hand numbering, and only about half the copies I have are numbered.

Thank you sir, that bat ear bottom right corner sometimes gets downgraded, other times they consider it rough cut IME.

The Lemieux, been buying those for years and can’t find one I love. Most of the 9s I’ve seen are skewed. Here is a crappy phone pic of my 8, looks better in hand.

Wow thats a banger! What is the pop on dual 10s?

Suspect it will, thats a card where the pop will be controlled.

Got this a few weeks ago.

Curious if anyone knows anything about these Beckett Hockey cover cards. I have 2 different kinds but can't find much about them other than a few ebay listings. Does anyone know if the print run is public? Any "checklists" out there (in quotes because they aren't numbered, but maybe a list of subjects)?

These are metal - obviously handed out during the 2018 Spring Toronto Expo. I have a Gretzky, Howe, and this guy:

These are paper. All have blue borders and I have 10 - Malkin, Gretzky, Sakic, Crosby, Kane, Forsberg, McDavid, Ovie, Price, and this guy again:

Beckett seems to do cover cards annually (or close to it), but it looks like it's mostly a scavenger hunt of their primary magazine crossing all sports at the National - wasn't able to find much info
about the hockey magazine versions. Thanks for any help.

Thanks! This one isn’t perfect but buying anything from the US now is a non starter with tariffs and this card was well priced and in Canada.

@gameusedhoop said:
Nice pants!

Yes. A legendary day as another photo from that day lived on a record number of times. I did a count a while ago in another thread about multiple use photos in sets. I did another snap count of about 17 times in just the Topps sets from 71-72 through 74-75. This includes league leader, team leader, trophy, all-star and base. Other than the 72-73 base, I believe OPC was identical. I haven't checked OPC all-star, leader or trophy cards for 70-71 or 71-72.

Edit: I took a look at the additional Phil Esposito cards in the 70-71 and 71-72 OPC sets and they did not use the "straight-on, rockin' the slacks" photo mentioned above.

@LOTSOS said:
Cool item. I believe that is also Rob Rays first card as well.

Thanks. Actually, as it turns out Rob Ray's first card is the 1988-89 Procards Rochester Americans Junior League card. And keeping on Sabres' favorites from that era, Brad May's first card is in the tougher to find 1988-89 Niagara Falls Thunder set which also has the first card of Keith Primeau. HOF'er Pierre Turgeon has his first cards in the 1987 Hostess/Wonder Bread Sabres Perforated Set as well as a 1987 Sabres Blue Shield Post Card (not pictured). HOF'er Dave Andreychuk had his first card way back in the 1980 Oshawa Generals Junior league set. Although not in the above set, HOF'er Dale Hawerchuk has his first card in the 1981-82 Winnepeg Jets Post Card set (although to me they are small enough to be just called cards). Not pictured because i am too lazy to dig them out is Phil Housleys first cards are in different colors from the side panels of 1982-83 local Buffalo dairy companies' and grocery stores' milk cartons (the right reason to be pictured on the side of a milk carton, lol!), These players bring back some great AUD memories!

Finally added a signed Stevens rookie to my collection. I have wanted to add one for some time so nice to cross this off the

On the rarer niche stuff, when selling on ebay you gotta start rediculously high BIN and work your way down. These 2 listings are extremely high starting points. However, I do see the sellers' vision why these are 2 monster cards. I like the detailed info provided in the listing on the Red Rooster Long Hair Gretzky. And the other listing I found is Hasek's first "card":

1981 Red Rooster Long Hair "Headman" PSA 9 (1/1 none higher):

https://www.ebay.com/itm/226905239090?_trkparms=amclksrc=ITM&aid=777008&algo=PERSONAL.TOPIC&ao=1&asc=20250417133222&meid=74bb3d23a6424adf90845de345ab7fb2&pid=102727&rk=1&rkt=1&mehot=none&itm=226905239090&pmt=0&noa=1&pg=4375194&algv=WatchlistVariantWithMLR_BP&_trksid=p4375194.c102727.m162921

1989 Semic World Championships Dominik Hasek PSA 8 (1/5 none higher, 27 total population):

https://www.ebay.com/itm/389099284191?_skw=1989+hasek&itmmeta=01K7SSBFATEVSTPM7Q8AQYS01T&hash=item5a981fe6df:g:~OcAAeSwmENo76ko&itmprp=enc:AQAKAAAA0FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1dwem3guL05vYp29j/AHCzC2eLirnmkPhVZNuThP5bMbF9PrPe/DnBn3VEZvNZnt71MlxfdITAB1ORWcOTV+pe2S1VRrG7NU8d8JK/GQS0Hz43TW9gKuHRvERO9zUjfJyYV+hjQo9tqb7YHsycKyP--nvmesM4IkPx61Lj3nzCa3p/yHEAH+m7bXuEqBc7/Um+DiF41mgVSmfjM+8D0lIzVRgJFj4VquVHk9s3tuoNhFKqMB6LZY3jcRrFCNkhPmrg=|tkp:Bk9SR-71rbm-Zg

For full disclosure, these listings are not mine, but I do own a 1981 Red Rooster Long Hair "Positions" PSA 9 and a 1989 Semic World Championships Dominik Hasek PSA 8 & PSA 6 so they come up in my eBay saved searches.

@dtmodel said:
I do agree with you that those cards are both modern rarities but hard to get past those laughable starting prices... hard to seriously consider these cards as nothing more than a museum post rather than an offer to sell. But I guess, who knows...

All of this seller's prices are laughable. Starting high is smart. Starting outrageously high to the point where you won't even get offers is not.

I like Elmo but I'm more of a 'the Count' guy.