Cards On Ice

Beckett’s Blog has posted an interesting coda to the news that Panini has received an NHL/NHLPA license to produce hockey cards.  Any existing exclusive autograph deals with manufacturers are null and void heading into the 2010-2011 hockey card season.  The big guys with exclusive Upper Deck autograph deals are Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin.  This [...]

Today was a great mailday for my Colleen Sostorics collection.  She doesn’t have too many cards out there, but I have a copy of pretty much every single one, save for a couple of show-stamped 1/1s that ITG issued (I have one of those, too!).
ITG’s O Canada set was a great boon to my Sostorics [...]

I was cleaning off my desk (no small feat) and I came across this card on my desk.  Its a one-off custom card that I made to commemorate two of the highest draft picks in a single draft for the Regina Pats.  I was planning to send it off twice to get both players to [...]

Toronto Maple Leafs rookie goaltender Jonas ‘The Monster’ Gustavsson is really starting to put things together, with last night’s OT win against the New York Rangers extending his season high winning streak to 7 games.
Gustavsson has struggled at times earlier this season, but lately he has shown signs of becoming a legitimate NHL starter, something [...]

I will have a few more things to say about this set when I have some more time, but right now here is a quick look at the ‘hits’ I got out of a single box that I picked up at my local card shop.  I did a pretty solid job at beating the odds.  [...]

Here’s the basics, with a bit of a spoiler.  With regards to the contest – I ended up with 10 hits, so it looks like the first guess was the best guess, and Captain Canuck takes home the Hiller.  If you didn’t win, don’t worry – a bunch of these cards will be given away [...]

I’m going to break this section out from my normal review.  I found when I added the base cards into the review itself, they got perilously long for a blog post.  I still like doing a bit on the base cards, though – so here it is.
ITG’s 2009-10 Between the Pipes base set follows a [...]

I have finished breaking a box of 09-10 ITG Between the Pipes that was sent to me for review.  I am working on getting all the scanning done and doing all the writing, but in the meantime – here’s a bit of a teaser and a contest.
Here is one of the coolest non-memorabilia inserts around:

Maybe [...]

Confirmation seems to be leaking out that the NHL and NHLPA have made their decisions for licensed hockey card manufacturers for the next little while.  Upper Deck has had their license renewed, and Panini is in there as well.
Lots of collectors have been shouting for change for the last five years, and now they have [...]