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A Fun Way to Collect Junk Wax Rookie Cards
Nov 12th
By Richard Mock aka Paintball
The fun in collecting rookie cards is of course to predict who the future hall of famers will be and to collect the rookie cards of these future stars before they become out of reach in price. In today’s market, this is becoming very hard to do because the rookie cards of those players that everyone thinks have future hall of fame potential start off with very high price tags. I have discovered another fun thing to do with the rookie cards of players who now have a lock into the hall of fame. I have More >
Can the Habs Save Their Season?
Nov 9th
by RGM81 aka Richard McAdam
There was so much optimism going into this year. Carey Price was coming off a career year. P.K. Subban was going to improve on his rookie campaign in which he tied a Habs’ team record for goals by a freshman blueliner. Max Pacioretty would be back stronger than ever. Scott Gomez couldn’t possibly be as bad as he was in 2010-11. Andrei Markov would finally return to quarterback the power play and stabilize a defence corps that had over a dozen guys play the point for the Habs in ’10-’11. And of course, the greatest false More >
NHL Predictions: Western Conference
Nov 1st
By Sean McCafferty aka 30ranfordfan
NHL Predictions: Western Conference
We’re a few weeks into the NHL season, and everyone has played at least seven games now. This does provide a little bit of insight as to how we should expect teams to perform, but with a such a small sample it can also be very misleading. Fact is, nothing that has happened thus far has really changed my opinion of any team in the league. These early games have only served to reaffirm what I already thought, or seem to me as either a hot (or cold) start that won’t be sustained.
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Flipper…and I’m not Talking About the Dolphin
Oct 15th
By Stephen Duell aka spuds1961
Okay today’s article has me concerned with the direction in which our hobby is going. I’ll start off slow and try to illustrate what I’m talking about.
Alright fellow collectors; do you buy a box to get personal collection cards or do you buy a box searching for that big hit you can turn around for cash? My problem with the hobby lately is it seems that there are less true collectors and set builders than there are money hungry one hit wonder Flippers.I guess I don’t really have a problem with it, but part of me More >
Teen Card Collecting Struggles
Oct 11th
By Matthew Ferreira aka Ferrari5515
Card collecting is hard. Well for me. Because I feel it’s harder to be a card collector when you’re my age. By my age I mean I’m 15. I feel like I’m a small fish in a big pool of sharks. Whenever I feel like I know what I’m doing in card collecting, or if I think I’m starting to grow a bigger collection, someone proves me wrong by showing me up. I also notice that there aren’t a lot of kids out there like me…People that are my age and try to collect cards that More >
The Time For Product Adjustment Has Arrived
Oct 5th
By RGM81 aka Richard McAdam
I have been advocating for some time now the need for the NHL Players Association to tell Upper Deck and Panini that it is time to scale back the number of licensed products on the market. This is not simply the lament of a player collector that is overwhelmed by the constant influx of new cards—though that statement certainly applies—but rather the growing concern of a hobbyist that the market is on the road to collapsing underneath its own weight. There is simply too much of everything, and only the NHLPA can do something about it.
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