Cards On Ice

When I started posting about noteworthy performances, I promised I wouldn’t pick Alexander Ovechkin every night.  this could easily be an Ovechkin post, as he notched two goals and added an assist in the Capitals 4-3 win over the Thrashers, but I went with a different first overall pick.  Steven Stamkos of the Tampa Bay [...]

Courtesy of Upper Deck’s Facebook:
The 2009/10 NHL Artifacts checklist on rookie exchange cards is always deeper and includes a player on each team. As such, we usually are not able to finalize that checklist until late December/early January as we need a player on each team and Wild Card players as well. There are times [...]

Courtesy of Upper Deck’s Facebook page:
2009/10 NHL UD Black Autographed Rookie Letterman Exchange Cards
73 John Tavares
74 Matt Duchene
75 Victor Hedman
76 Evander Kane
77 James Van Riemsdyk
78 Jonas Gustavsson
79 Logan Couture
80 Brad Marchand
81 Tyler Myers
82 Jamie Benn
83 Colin Wilson
84 Michael Del Zotto
85 Viktor Stalberg
86 Michael Grabner
87 Tyler Bozak
88 Erik Karlsson
89 Matt Gilroy
90 Ryan O’Reilly
91 Dmitry Kulikov
92 Sergei Shirokov
93 Cody Franson
Upper Deck expects these cards to be completed and out to collectors in February, 2010 – depending on when [...]

Courtesy of Upper Deck’s Facebook Discussions section.
2009/10 NHL Ultra Rookies Exchange Cards
201 John Tavares
202 Matt Duchene
203 Victor Hedman
204 Evander Kane
205 James Van Riemsdyk
206 Jonas Gustavsson
207 Jamie Benn
208 Erik Karlsson
209 Tyler Myers
210 Ryan O’Reilly
211 Matt Gilroy
212 Michael Del Zotto
213 Viktor Stalberg
214 Tyler Bozak
215 Sergei Shirokov
216 Colin Wilson
217 Benn Ferriero
218 Michael Grabner
219 Dmitry Kulikov
220 Cody Franson
Upper Deck expects a completion date of February 2010 for these cards.
Its a really solid list, and it plays out as one [...]

It was just a matter of time before Sidney Crosby forced his way onto this list.  As I write this post, Crosby has already notched a hat trick against the Montreal Canadiens.  Crosby always seems to step it up against the Habs, they were his favorite team when he was growing up, and it is [...]

When I was outlining my collection habits a few days ago, I missed a couple.  Today’s mail reminded me.
Champs Minis. Some people hated the animal cards – I loved ‘em.

Champs Mini Threads. I like baby sized cards, what can I say?

If you have a minute (and a fairly strong stomach) check out this interview with former NHL linesman Pat Dapuzzo.  Dapuzzo suffered a career ending injury when he was accidentally kicked in the face during a game.  The impact severed his nose, gave him a concussion, fractured 10 bones in his face, knocked out all [...]

Today’s (or rather yesterday’s) noteworthy performance post is a little bit late, because I finally had to get over my shock as I finally had a legitimate Maple Leafs noteworthy performance to post about.  Tomas Kaberle set a new career high last night with 1 goal, and 4 assists.  All 5 points were on the [...]

OK, maybe I took that title a little bit too far.  Maybe not, though – I’ve never been to one of those rookie photoshoot type events.
Every so often, the old debate rears its head.  Usually, after a spirited debate about the cons of sticker autographs (always cons, never pros), the subject of photoshoot jerseys comes [...]