Total Collection

      Here it is folks: My entire collection of hockey cards.

Every single hockey card I possess is either in one of the binders you see, on the wall in behind, in one of the two boxes, or just strewn about the image.

So there it is. Mount Sportscard. I have two zippered binders, four non-zippered, two boxes, and 23 cards on a wall. I have one binder and one box of soccer cards, plus one on the wall. And there is also a duotang with 8 quidditch cards. Yes, quidditch cards. Starting from the top of the tower, here are the names of the binders/duotangs/boxes.

Special Soccer Cards

Special Hockey Cards (Box 1)

Special Hockey Cards (Box 2)

Quidditch Cards

Soccer Cards

International and Other Leagues

American Teams 3

American Teams 2

American Teams 1

Canadian Teams

Vancouver Canucks

And here's my Wall of Fame, as I like to call it. Pardon the bad panorama setting. (The three remaining Wall of Fame cards are actually on stands.)

So there you have it. My entire collection.

Pack (kind of) update # 2

     It's time for possibly my biggest pack update yet, and possibly my biggest ever!    
     Yesterday, a close friend of mine gave me his collection of hockey cards, after I let him go through the pages and pick out the few he wanted to keep. The rest of them passed on to me. The many cards mostly featured 91-92 Pro Set, 08-09 Upper Deck Ovation, and 09-10 Upper Deck Victory. Most of the Pro Set cards I already owned, as I previously got a large box of Pro Set duplicates at the same friend's garage sale. However, highlights of the 1400 (give or take 100) cards were many of the 91-92 Pro Set HHOF series, with the sepia pictures. I got Georges Vezina, The Punch Line (Maurice Richard, Elmer Lach, and Toe Blake), Jacques Plante, Terry Sawchuk, Joe Malone, the Kid Line (Charlie Conacher, Busher Jackson, and Joe Primeau), and Gordie Howe. There were also the non-exciting ones of Before the Zamboni: Sweepers and Scrapers, Arena Designs: Separate and Not Equal, and The Modern Arena: Built for Comfort. It also featured Ace Bailey Benefit Game:First All-Star Game and Bill Barilko: The End of the Innocence.

Name of card, left to right, top to bottom:

 Jacques Plante: The Innovator, The Punch Line: Knockout Artists, Georges Vezina: The First Ironman, Joe Malone: The NHL's First Scoring Leader, The Kid Line: Toronto's Terrific Trio, Gordie Howe: "Mr. Hockey", Howie Morenz: The "Stratford Streak", Ace Bailey Benefit Game: The First All-Star Game, Bill Barilko: The End of the Innocence, The Modern Arena: Built for Comfort, Before the Zamboni: Sweepers and Scrapers, and Arena Designs: Separate and Not Equal. 

       The 08-09 Upper Deck Ovation cards featured many first-season cards, most notable of Carey Price and Jonathan Toews, and also Tobias Enstrom and Bryan Little. The RCs from the Ovation had players like Derick Brassard, Shawn Matthias, Kyle Turris and, best of all, Claude Giroux.

                                  RCs                                                    1st seasons

         
           One 09-10 Upper Deck Victory card that caught my eye was a first season Max Pacioretty, but also a first season Blake Wheeler, which I got two of.

           The one and only Pro Set card that interested me was an All-Star Guy Lafleur, from his final season in the NHL. It says on the back that he bowed out with style, but I'm not sure that 12 goals and 16 assists is stylish, and not quite All-Star worthy, even if he is Guy Lafleur.

            One more card that was somewhat of appeal was a 91-92 Upper Deck советские звезды (Soviet Stars) Sergei Federov. This is my second of that card, but I'd thought I would share this find with you.

Ah, binder organizing...

How to organize...by team? By name? By favourite? What a good thing to spend your time doing.