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TTM Success: Doug Jarvis
Doug Jarvis holds the record for the NHL's longest consecutive game streak. He never missed a regular season game in his career. He played in every game from October 9, 1975 to October 10th, 1987....
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Suspicious eBay Listing
I was always a bit concerned that my 88-89 OPC Tribute would be copied and reproduced. I thought people might print them off for themselves. In the end, I decided "whatever". As long as they...
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The Lost Rookies: Garth Butcher
It took Garth Butcher 6 seasons and 383 NHL games before OPC would give Garth a rookie card in the 1988-89 set. All it took was Garth leading the Canucks in PIM for four straight seasons. Although...
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TTM Success: Rich Pilon
Rich Pilon was a key member of the 1993 New York Islanders play-off run. He's best remembered for the Kevin Stevens incident in the first period of game 7 of the Patrick Division final. Stevens has...
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TTM Success: Brent Gilchrist
Brent Gilchrist played 792 games during 15 seasons in the NHL. Gilchrist was drafted by the Montreal Canadiens and was traded away to the Edmonton Oilers just before the 1992-93 season, as part of...
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TTM Success: Ron Ellis
Ron Ellis played 16 NHL seasons, all with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Ellis was part of the 1967 Stnaley Cup winning team. Another career highlight was being a member of Team Canada in the 1972 Summit...
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TTM Success: Ken Morrow
In 1980, Ken Morrow was the first ever player to win an Olympic Gold medal and a Stanley Cup in the same season. With the addition of professional players in 1998, it a feat that was bound to be...
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TTM Success: R.J Umberger
R.J. Umberger has been an all-star in terms of responding to ttms, and now with Rick Nash out of Columbus, the Blue Jackets hope he can be an All-Star for them. Umberger has been second on team in...
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The 90's Goalie Project
A new project I am going to be working on is getting the rookie year card of every goalie who played in the 1990s. To be technical, from the 1989-90 season to the 1999-2000 season. There are 195...
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TTM Success: Jean Beliveau
It took 405 days to get this return back, but I am extremely happy with it. Jean Beliveau is one of hockey's greatest players. He won 10 Stanley Cups as a player and another 7 as an executive with...
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The Lost Rookies: Mike Moffat
Can you name the goalie who backstopped Team Canada to it's first ever World Junior Hockey Championship (WJC) Gold medal? If you said Mike Moffat, you are either know your hockey, or you guessed...
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TTM Success: Peter Stastny
I have covered Peter Stastny a few times before on this blog. First time I posted his legends card from the 88-89 OPC tribute set, briefly covered his defection to Canada, and the second time was my...
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TTM Success: Garth Butcher
Garth Butcher played 897 career NHL games in 14 seasons. A tough, stay at home defenceman, Butcher accumulated 2302 PIM in his career, good for 31st all-time. Garth was selected 10th overall by the...
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TTM Success: Bernie Federko
Bernie Federko was a star center with the St. Louis Blues from 1976 to 1989, before finishing his career with a final season as a Detroit Red Wing. He is also generally known as the whiping boy for...
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Let's Trade Some Junk... err... I mean good stuff
We all have a bunch of base cards laying around. Cards that will likely never see the light of day. Holed up in a cardboard box below the bottom shelf, just gathering dust. I am proposing a trade....
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TTM Success: Sean Burke
Sean Burke played 820 NHL over 18 NHL seasons. He also played in two Olympics,earning a Silver medal in 1992. Burke bursted onto the scene in 1988. After helping Team Canada win a Silver medal at...
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TTM Success: Chris Nilan
Chris "Knuckles" Nilan was only the second NHL player to reach 3000 PIM. He retired with 3043 PIM, which is currently good for 9th spot all-time. Nilan is best remembered as a Montreal Canadien, a...
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Sportlots Oddball Buys
I love using Sportlots for my base card needs. Whether for set building, TTM needs, or for finidng cards needed in various projects. One of the drawbacks cited for this website is that shipping is...
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The Lost Rookies: Perry Berezan
Perry Berezan played 242 games through 6 seasons before getting a rookie card. When Berezan made it into the league, OPC had just went from a 396 card set to a 264 cards, making the set line-up...
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2012-13 Panini Classics Box Break
There are times when the buyer remorse sets in immediately after you click that Buy It Now button, and this was one of those times. I was really drawn in by the base cards. An odd assortment of...
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