Show & Tell Contest 8.0 - Week 18! (Leg 2 - Quest for The Cup!)

**sedinfan** · 04-13-2016, 01:38 AM

Absolutely love the autograph set - challenging with 285 cards to chase, but doable with around ~35 copies apiece. Each player featured in the set signed copies for each year they won the Cup, from some one-hit wonders all the way to Cournoyer, Beliveau, and Henri Richard (with 10, 10 and 11 cups respectively). All hard signed, no redemptions, and lots of veteran content with some really sharp looking signatures (Frank Mahovlich is my personal fav).

Modern Hawks

Bad News Bears

Penguins

Ducks

Canes

Bolts

Devils

Stars

Avalanche

Blueshirts

Flames

Modern Wings

Penguins

Modern Habs

Oilers

Islanders

Broadstreet Bullies

**sedinfan** · 04-13-2016, 01:38 AM

Vintage Hawks

Vintage Bruins

Vintage Wings

Vintage Leafs

Vintage Habs

**sedinfan** · 04-13-2016, 01:39 AM

Now for the silver Memorabilia cards - there are 359 cards in the main memorabilia set... all the non SP'ed stuff was relatively easy to put together, but the vintage stuff x/9 or x/10 was a fun challenge. The 1975 Cup Rivals Sixes was the final piece that completed the puzzle.

Cup Record - a pretty easy subset except the two SP's (Roy wins and Middleton - the latter took me forever to find).

Mug Shot - love how the background is adjusted to the right height for each player!

Hoisting the Cup - I love hockey art, and what's better than the pure joy of players winning the Cup! Maurice Richard is the tough SP of this set.

Cup Winning Goal - The modern cards are alright, but a bit unfortunate there's quite a few without pics... but who cares about those when we have some incredible vintage pieces amongst the vets!

Cup Rivals - Especially like the vintage duals, couldn't believe the deal I got on the Howe / Richard, the sock piece on the Shore / Joliat is amazing!

**sedinfan** · 04-13-2016, 01:41 AM

Cup Holders - Love the mostly helmetless vintage pics on the older cards. Only a handful of players without pics, but I can't complain when we're getting Orr and Gretzky game worn swatches.

Back To Back Cups - featuring players who won, well, back-2-back Cups. Not the most exciting subset but can't go wrong with Barilko, Joliat, Morenz, and Nighbor.

Ring Leaders - A nice garish design just like Stanley Cup rings themselves!

Conn Smythe Trophy Winner - One of the coollest subsets ever made in my opinion, what other company could give you game-worn memorabilia of not just some, but every Conn Smythe trophy winner from the innaugral win by Beliveau all the way to (ugh) Tim Thomas in 2011 (oh the humanity).

**sedinfan** · 04-13-2016, 01:42 AM

Cup Winning Tandems - Probably the only Red Light Racicot in my collection, love the Plante/McNeil card!

Legendary Cup Moments - One of the nicest designs I think ITG has done for a subset, who needs a license when you can make cards like this?!

Henri Richard Tribute - An auto, rival, and teammate tribute card for each of the record 11 cups the Pocket Rocket won. A real fitting tribute to one of the Habs' greats!

Decades - One of the most comprehensive Expo-exclusive sets ITG made, at first I wasn't planning to tackle it as I wanted to focus on pack-inserted cards only, but seeing some of the beautiful vintage pieces, and the so many singles still widely available on the 'bay months after release, I decided to take the plunge, and glad that I did!

Decades Vintage

Decades 50's

Decades 60's

Decades 70's

Decades 80's

Decades 90's

Decades 2000's

**Drunken Monkey** · 04-13-2016, 11:59 AM

Ok, I'll bite the bullet and be the poor schmuck who follows sedinfan's AMAZING post. Here's my 2012-13 The Cup Brilliance autograph set.

If you want to see the full set (including the updates released in the 2013-14 The Cup and 2014-2015 The Cup and proofs of unmade cards and an error card), check out my show and tell thread: https://www.sportscardforum.com/threa...99-99-complete

**creasecollector** · 04-13-2016, 10:28 PM

@sedinfan wins :)

Annnnnnd might as well throw my old 2006-07 dusty hat into the ring this week. My first & only set completion:

06-07 Fleer Netminders (25/25)

Here's a clearer shot of the complete 25-card set!

I've always loved the B&W photography layered with the bold mask photos. Good stuff! Maybe I can aquire some sticker autos of these guys and turn it into an auto's set ;)

Great submissions everyone for this week!