The NHL’s First 5 to Score 50
It’s now been done 189 times, but the National Hockey League went the first 27 years of existence before it was done for the first… Read More »The NHL’s First 5 to Score 50
It’s now been done 189 times, but the National Hockey League went the first 27 years of existence before it was done for the first… Read More »The NHL’s First 5 to Score 50
Athletes and ‘tell-all’ books seem to make good bed partners when careers are over and money is short. When I first saw ‘Crossing the Line’,… Read More »Derek Sanderson: Crossing the Line
Bridging the gap in the hockey card world between the Bobby Orr era and that of Wayne Gretzky is the 1978-79 O-Pee-Chee #300 card commemorating… Read More »O-Pee-Chee’s Farewell to Bobby Orr
1967-68 was the first year of the expansion era in the National Hockey League, marking the end of the ‘Original 6’ and the start of… Read More »Bad Boys of the 1967-68 NHL
He’s not in the Hockey Hall of Fame and his 1957-58 Topps rookie card doesn’t fetch hundreds of dollars. In the NHL world, outside of… Read More »Andy Hebenton: Complete Collection of a True Ironman
Back in the early, stick-swinging, ref-punching days of the National Hockey League, long before television and even radio broadcasts, there was a player with the… Read More »Lionel Hitchman: An Often Overlooked Major Player in Sports History
Like many in 1933-34, Dit Clapper had already been in the NHL for several years but was put on cardboard for the first time. Like… Read More »Dit Clapper: An Early Boston Bruins Great
1966-67 Topps is best known for its inclusion of one of the most important hockey cards in the history of the hobby, the Bobby Orr… Read More »Harry Sinden: 2nd to Bobby Orr in 1966-67