Category: The Hobby
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Shield Your Eyes: This 1/1 Showcases a Unique Piece of European Hockey History
Every collector loves a shield card. However, today the shield I’m featuring today is something you’ve probably haven’t seen before, and includes some awesome pieces of hockey history, which I enjoy learning about. That’s the thing about cards that I enjoy the most: Bringing small pieces of sports history into our lives. Let’s get into…
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Another History Lesson = More Parkhurst Retros
Happy Canada Day to my fellow Canadian card collectors! I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday with family and friends. As for me, well, I wanted to write-up a little something for a recent pickup for the goalie collection. Upper Deck’s 2024-25 Parkhurst Champions included a clever homage to the iconic 1953-54 set…& more gum…
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Something New: Upper Deck to Encase All Rookie Patch Autographs in 2023-24 The Cup
Yesterday, it was announced across the hobby that for the first time ever, all of the Rookie Patch Autographed (RPA) true rookie cards in Upper Deck’s anticipated 2023-24 The Cup releasewill be encased & slabbed in plastic holders within the product. The reason for the encasing is to protect the patch cards integrity. For many years…
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My Pickups from the 2025 Spring Expo in Toronto!
Another Spring Expo in the books! I’ll be talking about my Expo experience on the podcast in more depth, but I had a blast once again. It’s always nice to run into collector friends to talk cards at the Expo. I also had the chance to catch up with Billy Celio from Upper Deck, who…
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Upper Deck Parkhurst Travels Back To 1952!
2023-24 Upper Deck Parkhurst Champions Hockey has been another hit with collectors, both young and old. The mini retro cards are back again this year – Taking on a new design from the 1950’s and incorporating it’s own modern twist. I picked up this Saros for my goalie collection. I have a few cards of…
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An Autographed Fair Play & Respekt Swedish Playing Card!
Fair Play & Respekt Swedish Playing Cards – Front and Back Images I was lucky enough to add this cool signed playing card into the Enroth collection to start the month. For those who aren’t aware, this newer Swedish playing card set was created as a follow-up set to the 2006 Fair Play & Respekt set.…
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The Story Behind the 2023-24 Örebro HK SHL Team Issued Cards
I little while ago, I was made aware of a special set of team issued Orebro HK (SHL) cards that I was previously unaware of. As of this month, I was fortunate enough to land one for my collection and I decided to do some digging to uncover the origin of these cards. During the…
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The Inspiration behind the 2022-23 Parkhurst “Wrapper Back” Parallel Cards
This article shares the inspiration behind the 2022-23 Upper Deck Parkhurst Champions “Wrapper Back” 51-52 Retro parallel card set.I just wanted to take a moment and highlight my most recent addition to my Martin Brodeur collection. After seeing the announcement for this new wrapper back parallel in 2022-23 Parkhurst Champions, I knew i had to…
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Upper Deck O-Pee-Cher Artist Proofs: Another Mystery To Solve…
Just wanted to update you all today with 3 new cards for the collection. All of them are Artist Proof cards from the 2009-10 Upper Deck O-Pee-Chee Premier product, released in 2010. I had seen old eBay listings for some of these cards over 10+ years ago, but never did I ever think more than one…
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