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1953-54 Parkhurst Al Arbour Error Card

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1953-54 Parkhurst #37 – Al Arbour rookie card with Bill Dineen on the front.

Parkhurst had a problem with mistaken identity in their 1953-54 hockey card set. Al Arbour and Bill Dineen were rookies with the Detroit Red Wings and appearing on cardboard for the first time. Arbour’s rookie card was number 37 and Dineen’s was number 38. The only problem is, it was Dineen’s mug on the number 37 card and Arbour’s on 38. Parkhurst wasn’t done. The card of the Montreal Canadien’s Dickie Moore, number 28, featured a shot of Jean Beliveau on the front of the card.

Just the facts:

  • Al Arbour’s rookie card had Bill Dineen’s picture on the front in error.
  • Arbour’s 1953-54 Parkhurst rookie card is valued at $100.
  • Arbour was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1996.
  • Al coached the New York Islanders to four consecutive Stanley Cup championships, starting in 1979-80.
  • Al Arbour won the Jack Adams Award as NHL coach of the year for 1978-79.

The Al Arbour rookie card is valued at $100 by Beckett Hockey Monthly, while the Bill Dineen card comes close at $80. The 1953-54 Parkhurst set consisted of 100 hockey cards. The complete set is valued at $4,500 and a common card goes for $20.

Arbour played 626 regular season games in the National Hockey League from 1953-54 to 1970-71. Al played for the Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks, Toronto Maple Leafs and St. Louis Blues over his career. In three of his final four years in the NHL, he played for the St. Louis Blues in the Stanley Cup finals. The Scotty Bowman coached teams were unsuccessful in each of the three attempts.

He was no stranger to the minor leagues during his playing days. In 1964-65, he won the Eddie Shore Award as the American Hockey League’s best defenseman as a member of the Rochester Americans. He found himself on two Calder Cup winning teams in the AHL.

It is as a National Hockey League head coach that Arbour is most remembered as. He began with the St. Louis Blues, replacing Scotty Bowman in 1970-71. For the 1973-74 season, he left St. Louis for Long Island to become head coach of the New York Islanders. His Islanders teams of the early 1980’s are legendary. The team won four consecutive Stanley Cup championships from 1979-80 to 1982-83. The year before the run of four began, 1978-79, Arbour was honoured with the Jack Adams Award as NHL coach of the year.

In 1996, along with Borje Salming, Bobby Bauer and Bob Cole, Al was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in the builders category.

Season Team Lge GP G A Pts PIM
1949-50 Detroit Hettche IHL 33 14 8 22 10
1951-52 Windsor Spitfires OHA 52 7 12 19 0
1952-53 Edmonton Flyers WHL 8 0 1 1 2
1952-53 Windsor Spitfires OHA 56 5 7 12 0
1952-53 Washington Lions EHL 4 0 2 2 0
1953-54 Sherbrooke Saints QHL 19 1 3 4 24
1953-54 Detroit Red Wings NHL 36 0 1 1 18
1954-55 Edmonton Flyers WHL 41 3 9 12 39
1954-55 Quebec Aces QHL 20 4 5 9 55
1955-56 Edmonton Flyers WHL 70 5 14 19 109
1955-56 Detroit Red Wings NHL
1956-57 Edmonton Flyers WHL 24 2 3 5 24
1956-57 Detroit Red Wings NHL 44 1 6 7 38
1957-58 Detroit Red Wings NHL 69 1 6 7 104
1958-59 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 70 2 10 12 86
1959-60 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 57 1 5 6 66
1960-61 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 53 3 2 5 40
1961-62 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 52 1 5 6 68
1962-63 Rochester Americans AHL 63 6 21 27 97
1962-63 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 4 1 0 1 4
1963-64 Rochester Americans AHL 60 3 19 22 62
1963-64 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 6 0 1 1 0
1964-65 Rochester Americans AHL 71 1 16 17 88
1964-65 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL
1965-66 Rochester Americans AHL 59 2 11 13 86
1965-66 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 4 0 1 1 2
1966-67 Rochester Americans AHL 71 3 19 22 48
1967-68 St. Louis Blues NHL 74 1 10 11 50
1968-69 St. Louis Blues NHL 67 1 6 7 50
1969-70 St. Louis Blues NHL 68 0 3 3 85
1970-71 St. Louis Blues NHL 22 0 2 2 6
NHL Totals 626 12 58 70 617

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