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Sports Card Forum - A Sports Card Community - Blogs - OscarsCards https://www.sportscardforum.com/blogs/95587-OscarsCards SportsCardForum is your source for everything related to sports cards for collectors and non-collectors alike! en Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:58:05 GMT vBulletin 60 https://www.sportscardforum.com/images/misc/rss.jpg Sports Card Forum - A Sports Card Community - Blogs - OscarsCards https://www.sportscardforum.com/blogs/95587-OscarsCards My personal hockey trading card collection improvements, July 2018 https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2476-My-personal-hockey-trading-card-collection-improvements-July-2018 Thu, 16 Aug 2018 10:57:33 GMT Uggghhh, it seems that I've been away for some time and I would say that it's been for too long since the last time I've logged into SCF.
But I haven't been away from hockey card trading I just redirected myself from North America to Russia and it's been really busy months.

In these past few months I have optimized my personal hockey trading card collection for a few times and I have removed more cards than I have acquired some new ones. For the start I'll tell you what's new in my collection and basically there's two cards.

I acquired my first personal collection card only in May and it is big and beautiful 1 of 1 2017-18 Leaf Ultimate One Timer Memorabilia #OT76 Sandis Ozolinsh. This is a game used patch from a 2002-03 NHL All-Star game which took place in Sunrise, Florida. Sandis Ozolinsh for the first and only time played in NHL All-Star starting line-up and it was Eastern Conference team.

And the latest addition is this big and not so beautiful 2017-18 Leaf Masked Men Jumbo Patches #JP202 Arturs Irbe /6. In the card is a game used patch from 1994 NHL All-Star jersey's logo, this game took place in Madison Square Garden in New York City in January 22, 1994. This game was first of two Arturs Irbe NHL All-Star games in his career and first for Sandis Ozolinsh of seven, both played in San Jose Sharks.

As I'm in the middle of moving to live in another city I had to make a room, get rid and to get something back so I've sent a lot of my cards to COMC including some of my former personal collection cards. As I sent another batch of cards few days ago I'll inform you when it'll be up for grabs.

If you're looking for some exotic Sereal KHL and other hockey trading cards you can visit my COMC profile and I'll be here if you need anything. ]]> OscarsCards https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2476-My-personal-hockey-trading-card-collection-improvements-July-2018 My personal hockey trading card collection improvements, November 2017 https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2440-My-personal-hockey-trading-card-collection-improvements-November-2017 Tue, 05 Dec 2017 15:05:45 GMT Due to Zemgus Girgensons is rocking bottom in Buffalo Sabres for the last three seasons including this one and there isn't any new Latvian NHL debutants at the moment, the trading card card product checklists are terrible and are my wish list and personal trading card collection isn't growing. But this makes an opportunity to collect some more SeReal product KHL trading cards.

As I'm working hard to improve my website I chose to postpone publishing the newest trading card pictures. I will notice when My Personal Collection category will be replenished.
NHL trading cards:

2017-18 O-Pee-Chee Rainbow Black #404 Zemgus Girgensons /100;
2003-04 BAP Memorabilia All-Star Staring Lineup #3 Sandis Ozolinsh /60, with two color jersey which will replace similar trading card with only one color jersey.

KHL trading cards:

2016-17 SeReal season 9 Autographed Goaltender Mask #MAS-A-25 Edgars Masalskis /30;
2016-17 SeReal season 9 Goaltender Gold #GOA-003 Janis Kalnins /20;
2016-17 SeReal season 9 Goaltender Silver #GOA-003 Janis Kalnins /40;
2013-14 SeReal season 5 #LOK-017 Mikelis Redlihs Gold Parallel card /100, which I got from 2013-14 SeReal season 5 product box breaks, read more about box breaks.

Wish List improvements:

2017 Leaf Superlative Shields Set #SS-SO Sandis Ozolinsh /1.

Yes, I'm aware that this card is available on eBay.

For trade available card list improvements:
Few Upper Deck e-Pack additions:

2017-18 Upper Deck Team Canada Juniors Premium Material Autographs #43 Isaac Ratcliffe /199 NEW in December!;
2017-18 Upper Deck MVP Printing Plates Yellow #221 Eric Staal /1 (Wild) NEW in December!;
2016-17 Upper Deck AHL Future Stars Achievement #FS2 Jon Gillies (Stockton Heat) NEW in December!.

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]]> OscarsCards https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2440-My-personal-hockey-trading-card-collection-improvements-November-2017 My personal hockey trading card collection improvements, September 2017 https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2434-My-personal-hockey-trading-card-collection-improvements-September-2017 Sat, 07 Oct 2017 10:27:35 GMT I congraddulate all the fans and traders with the start of the 2017-18 NHL season and I wish you all great box breaks with some big hits and let's hope for great chechlists.
It's been four long months since my last personal collection improvement in April. These four months has been very busy in Russian forum and SeReal KHL product card trading.
The September improvement trading card lineup isn't that impressive, but I'm very happy to get these three cards:

2006-07 O-Pee-Chee Rainbow #566 Janis Sprukts /100;
2016-17 SeReal KHL 9th Season Collection #FST-003 Janis Kalnins /30;
2013-14 SeReal KHL Golden Collection Part of The game Stick #STI-015 Arvids Rekis /50.

I got another two 2005-06 SP Authentic Limited #165 Raitis Ivanans /100 and one of these I'm keeping in my personal collection and replacing previously owned 42/100:

2005-06 SP Authentic Limited #165 Raitis Ivanans 49/100;
2005-06 SP Authentic Limited #165 Raitis Ivanans 36/100 - for trade or for sale available card;
2005-06 SP Authentic Limited #165 Raitis Ivanans 42/100 - for trade or for sale available card.

I did my second transfer from Upper Deck ePack and this time the whole transferring process was much better than before, everything went smooth:

2016-17 Upper Deck MVP Super Script #123 Zemgus Girgensons /25;
2016-17 Upper Deck Compendium Gold #38 Zemgus Girgensons;
2016-17 Upper Deck Compendium Gold #794 Kristers Gudlevskis.

I'm not a fan of the Upper Deck Compendium but I have something like a desire, something I'm looking forward to fulfill - to get some of my basic trading cards signed by player in person, which would add more value and real memories with the card.

2005-06 SP Authentic Limited #165 Raitis Ivanans 49/100

2006-07 O-Pee-Chee Rainbow #566 Janis Sprukts /100

2016-17 SeReal KHL 9th Season Collection #FST-003 Janis Kalnins /30

See more pictures here - My personal hockey trading card collection improvements, September 2017

A few weeks back I started selling cards on COMC ]]> OscarsCards https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2434-My-personal-hockey-trading-card-collection-improvements-September-2017 My personal hockey trading card collection improvements, April 2017 https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2408-My-personal-hockey-trading-card-collection-improvements-April-2017 Mon, 08 May 2017 19:56:09 GMT The five year long waiting for the big whale to come up has ended and I'm very happy to get a one of ten made 2008-09 Be A Player Player's Club Rookie #255 Martins Karsums, in my personal collection. You wouldn't believe how pleased I am about having this card, because there was so much doubt and disbelief that these cards even exist, these cards were a redemption cards and there was none pictures or information about these cards. These 109 cards are only Martins Karsums NHL cards made:

2008-09 Be A Player Player's Club Rookie #255 Martins Karsums /10
2008-09 Be A Player Rookie #255 Martins Karsums /99

Second addition to my personal collection is 2016 Leaf Genesis Hockey Epic Materials Patch Martins Dzierkals EMP-47 /2, with an awesome patch from Latvian future hockey star (as we hope so) Martins Dzierkals from QMJHL Rouyn-Noranda Huskies.

2008-09 Be A Player Player's Club Rookie #255 Martins Karsums /10

2016 Leaf Genesis Hockey Epic Materials Patch Martins Dzierkals EMP-47 /2

Sellout

It's been a month since I've decided to trim my personal collection moving some cards into for trade available card bucket and sellout all my trade assets, and every spare cards I have, here's how you can buy the cards, contact me and see what do I really have in full available trading card checklist.

Trading cards which are recently thrown into for trade or sale available bucket:

2000-01 Titanium Draft Day Edition Patches #51 Sergei Zholtok /103
1998-99 Be A Player Autographs #110 Peter Skudra

]]> OscarsCards https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2408-My-personal-hockey-trading-card-collection-improvements-April-2017 <![CDATA[My personal hockey trading card collection improvements, January & February 2017]]> https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2407-My-personal-hockey-trading-card-collection-improvements-January-amp-February-2017 Mon, 06 Mar 2017 11:25:49 GMT Last few weeks has been very, very busy for me and I can't even keep up updating information. As I mentioned in December improvement post I wanted to go back in russian laststicker.ru to start trading cards and in two weeks time I organized 4 decent trades to start with and I'll update available KHL trading card list as soon as I can.
The most valuable trading card acquired in past month was Ronalds Kenins Future Watch 1/1 printing plate with an on card autograph and as I don't want to keep this trading card in my personal collection I'm marking this card as for trade or sale available. Two 2016 Leaf In the Game Used Super Swatch Patch SSP-34 Sandis Ozolinsh Silver /5 trading cards are first from the 2016 Leaf Super Swatch patch series which I'm intended to keep as I want manage to collect the whole 2016 Leaf Super Swatch patch series from Arturs Irbe and Sandis Ozolinsh.
I have many new 2015-15 Dinamo Riga set autographs available for trade or sell:

2015-15 Dinamo Riga #DRG-AUT-AD Andris Dzerins /50;
2015-15 Dinamo Riga #DRG-AUT-RL Roberts Locans /100;
2015-15 Dinamo Riga #DRG-AUT-TS Tim Sestito /100;
2015-15 Dinamo Riga #DRG-AUT-JS Jakub Sedlacek /100;
2015-15 Dinamo Riga #DRG-AUT-NS Normunds Sejejs /100.

The most recent trading cards marked for trade or sale available cards:

2009-10 Between The Pipes Mega Stars Silver #MS11 Arturs Irbe /9;
2002-03 BAP Memorabilia All-Star Jerseys #ASJ21 Arturs Irbe /90;
2001-02 UD Top Shelf Sticks #SSO Sandis Ozolinsh.

2016 Leaf In the Game Used Super Swatch Patch SSP-34 Sandis Ozolinsh Silver /5

2015-16 The Cup Printing Plates SP Authentic Yellow #SPA244 Ronalds Kenins 1/1 ]]> OscarsCards https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2407-My-personal-hockey-trading-card-collection-improvements-January-amp-February-2017 My personal hockey trading card collection improvements, December 2016 https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2404-My-personal-hockey-trading-card-collection-improvements-December-2016 Sun, 01 Jan 2017 10:29:18 GMT

Thank you all for this great year and I wish you all the best in the 2017.

I won't talk too much this time. In my opinion the December was the best month in the year 2016 by receiving these three beauties:

2001-02 BAP Memorabilia All-Star Numbers #ASN19 Sandis Ozolinsh /10

2000-01 Titanium Game Gear Patches #102 Sergei Zholtok /200

2016 Leaf In the Game Used Super Swatch Patch SSP-03 Arturs Irbe Blue Spectrum /2 ]]> OscarsCards https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2404-My-personal-hockey-trading-card-collection-improvements-December-2016 My personal hockey trading card collection improvements, October 2016 https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2401-My-personal-hockey-trading-card-collection-improvements-October-2016 Sun, 20 Nov 2016 11:03:18 GMT Image: https://44844073-666320964217006157.preview.editmysite.com/uploads/4/4/8/4/44844073/1611201616112016-201834-cci_2.jpg The 2016-17 NHL season already looks sad Zemgus Girgensons and...

The 2016-17 NHL season already looks sad Zemgus Girgensons and Sabres is playing just awful and the fact that he could be the only Latvian player in NHL this season that makes me more depressing and upcoming the trading card sets doesn't look promising either. So, in October I've receive only one personal trading card collection item - Ronalds Kenins Young Guns printing plate which is the first for me of four available out there and I have supplemented my available trading card list with these cards:

1994-95 Fleer Netminders #4 Arturs Irbe
2010-11 Upper Deck Victory #202 Arturs Kulda
2015-16 Upper Deck #225 Ronalds Kenins
2015-16 Artifacts #178 Ronalds Kenins
2015-16 Artifacts Ruby #178 Ronalds Kenins
2015-16 Upper Deck Full Force Goooal #GRK Ronalds Kenins
2015-16 O-Pee-Chee Platinum Retro Rainbow #R96 Ronalds Kenins
2015-16 O-Pee-Chee Platinum Rainbow #177 Ronalds Kenins
2015-16 SP Game Used All-Star Skills Triple Fabrics #AS37 Zemgus Girgensons / Patrik Elias / Bobby Ryan

]]> OscarsCards https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2401-My-personal-hockey-trading-card-collection-improvements-October-2016 My personal hockey trading card collection improvements, September 2016 https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2397-My-personal-hockey-trading-card-collection-improvements-September-2016 Tue, 11 Oct 2016 17:19:18 GMT Last two months has been very busy and eventful especially September where I have managed to achieve all time high in one month by creating three trades in SCF and in October 1st I completed the UD... Last two months has been very busy and eventful especially September where I have managed to achieve all time high in one month by creating three trades in SCF and in October 1st I completed the UD ePack 2015-16 Fusion RC Achievement Black set.

2015-16 UD Black Pride of a Nation #PNAI Arturs Irbe /99

2015-16 SP Authentic Global Chirography #LATAI Arturs Irbe

2002-03 Between the Pipes All-Star Stick and Jersey #15 Arturs Irbe /40

2006-07 O-Pee-Chee Rainbow #135 Karlis Skrastins /100
2000-01 Titanium Draft Day Edition Patches #51 Sergei Zholtok /103
2016-17 Upper Deck MVP Super Script #123 Zemgus Girgensons /25

2002-03 Between the Pipes All-Star Stick and Jersey #15 Arturs Irbe /40 is the latest Artūrs Irbe trading card in my personal collectionand I have decided to move 2002-03 BAP Memorabilia All-Star Jerseys #ASJ21 Arturs Irbe /90 to the for trade available cards. The fantastic 2015-16 UD Black Pride of a Nation #PNAI Arturs Irbe /99 with manufactured patch and on card autograph, 2015-16 SP Authentic Global Chirography #LATAI Arturs Irbe with on card autograph arrived from one of the three trades in SCF and are thrown in a for trade available card "buket".
I was very happy to receive 2006-07 O-Pee-Chee Rainbow #135 Karlis Skrastins /100 which is second Kārlis Skrastiņš O-Pee-Chee serial numbered rainbow cards in my personal collection, the first one I got in June and this tendency seems to bee good.

2000-01 Titanium Draft Day Edition Patches #51 Sergei Zholtok /103

I received 2000-01 Titanium Draft Day Edition Patches #51 Sergei Zholtok /103 just two weeks ago and I was so happy to get one of my most wanted trading cards list that I didn't notice the huge damage the card has until I was ready to test my newly obtained scanner. Of course I was speechless because I purchase this cards in COMC.com and when I purchased it there wasn't any damage at all of course. The card arrived in solid packaging in a toploader and card couldn't get damage on the way to me. The COMC doesn't know either how this could happen and the total refund won't heal my sorrow ever.
There are totally 441 made Sergei Zholtok (Sergejs Žoltoks) Patch cards made from three sets:

2000-01 Titanium Draft Day Edition Patches #51 Sergei Zholtok /103
2000-01 Titanium Game Gear Patches #102 Sergei Zholtok /200
2001-02 Atomic Patches #30 Sergei Zholtok /138

The card I received has the best design of these three and Patch it self was good looking what makes this a huge loss for all of the fans and trading card collectors.

Since 2015-16 Upper Deck Fusion came out in July 6th on UD ePack I thought to give it a try. From the start till the end I was trading for the Fusion base cards and I set my goal to collect Fusion base Gold set which is a 1000 base cards total and Fusion base Black set seemed something unattainable. After I collected one Fusion base Gold set I took a little break to think what to do next. Well if I could manage to trade for so many cards why I shouldn't try to manage second set and it ended with 1000 Fusion base Gold cards (5000 Fusion base cards) and combined it to 2015-16 Upper Deck Fusion RC Achievement Black set. I just loved trading for Fusion base cards so much that I can't wait for the 2016-17 Fusion.

The excitement of combining 2015-16 Upper Deck Fusion RC Achievement Black set has overshadowed the fact that I have new card in my trading card personal collection and it's 2016-17 Upper Deck MVP Super Script #123 Zemgus Girgensons /25 which will stay there till I'll have some more to transfer ]]> OscarsCards https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2397-My-personal-hockey-trading-card-collection-improvements-September-2016 My personal hockey trading card collection improvements, July 2016 https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2376-My-personal-hockey-trading-card-collection-improvements-July-2016 Fri, 29 Jul 2016 09:24:14 GMT Image: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cn5Ziv3XYAAYiIP.jpg:large This month I have received my first Upper Deck ePack transferred cards which fulfills my little achievement of collecting full set...

This month I have received my first Upper Deck ePack transferred cards which fulfills my little achievement of collecting full set of Ronalds Kenins Young Guns cards. Nevertheless this card set isn't fully completed, I'm missing all 4 color printing plates. Well, I'm really not a fan of printing plates which in my opinion I don't recognize as a trading cards. This will be a long road for completion.
The trading card transfer process from Upper Deck ePack into my hands was smoother than expected. I transferred my three cards on July 1st and after less than two weeks I got them into my hands and all those cards were sent into a toploaders for which I was worried so 5 stars for service.

The "other" card which I received was one of five made Ronalds Kenins Artifacts with 4 color Patch and NHL logo tag, the card is awesome by itself of course but it has one big issue, there isn't an autograph on it so this card could be a trade asset in the near future. I'll just wait what will show up in The Cup release.

My trading card wish list and for trade available card lists are up to date so you can check them out or visit my SCF trader thread - here.
Upper Deck ePack - I'm trading for Fussion base cards right now (1:1 (equal value)) and I'm trading away Fussion F/X parallel cards for (1:10) Fussion base cards, search for OscarsCards and let me know if you're interested. ]]> OscarsCards https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2376-My-personal-hockey-trading-card-collection-improvements-July-2016 My personal hockey trading card collection improvements, June 2016 https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2351-My-personal-hockey-trading-card-collection-improvements-June-2016 Tue, 21 Jun 2016 16:42:36 GMT If it seems that I have slept for some months because I haven't posted any improvements of my hockey trading card improvements then you're mistaking. I'm trading a lot in Upper Deck e-Pack and last weeks in SportsCardForum also has been good. So here are newest additions to my personal hockey trading cards are:

2015-16 Upper Deck Young Guns Acetate #225 Ronalds Kenins

2010-11 O-Pee-Chee Retro Black Rainbow #354 Karlis Skrastins /100

2015-15 Dinamo Riga #DRG-AUT-EK Edgars Kulda /100

As I was trading cards back and forth without a specific intent I noted that I have a lot of Ronalds Kenins Young Guns cards and after I trader for 2015-16 Upper Deck Exclusives Spectrum #225 Ronalds Kenins /10 in Upper Deck e-Pack I decided, why not to collect all of Ronalds Kenins Young Guns cards and at this moment I have 6 of 10 cards, missing out only all four 1 of 1 printing plates.
I have a question for Upper Deck ePack users who have transferred cards to home - how's the feedback on that service? The quality at the start was pretty low with cards received without any protection. How's now?

P.S. I have seen some threads where traders write how much they want to trade and will trade anything for feedback. I'm sorry, if you can't answer any of sent mail or forum posts you wouldn't get much of feedback or trades.

Good luck to you all
Regards ]]> OscarsCards https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2351-My-personal-hockey-trading-card-collection-improvements-June-2016 My personal trading card collection improvements, March 2016 https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2272-My-personal-trading-card-collection-improvements-March-2016 Thu, 07 Apr 2016 15:44:12 GMT For more than a month I'm really into the SeReal created 2015-16 Dinamo Riga trading card collecting, I just love to to hunt the autograph cards. For now I have collected 7 of 37 and I love this set simplicity and design while autograph stickers quality isn't so good. If we are used to receive autograph cards where autographs are signed with sharpie then I have seen really thick and terrible autograph cards.
I also have collected the entire base card set which consists of two subsets Home and Away. I'm not a set collector but this is nice to have them. All of the base set cards and autographs are for trade available if you are interested, I have a checklist too.

2015-15 Dinamo Riga #DRG-AUT-JS Jakub Sedlacek /100

2015-15 Dinamo Riga #DRG-AUT-JE Joacim Eriksson /100

2015-15 Dinamo Riga #DRG-AUT-RB Roberts Bukarts /50

Upper Deck e-Pack

In March 21st, 2016 Upper Deck e-Pack launched trading function and since then it has been really great. Well, trading is interesting if you have something to trade so I bought a box of 2015-16 Upper Deck Series 1 two weeks earlier to challenge my luck and I wasn't disappointed, my big hit was 2015-16 Upper Deck Day With The Cup #DC3 Jonathan Toews with Beckett value $60. And at the moment when card trading was launched my first thought was what could I get from this card. I created a wish list and while I was perusing it I saw that there was 2015-16 Upper Deck Young Guns Exclusives Spectrum #225 Ronalds Kenins /10 available I created trade without hesitation. After few hours and long thinking from trade partner the trade was accepted. I think that this trade was a steal for me, because cheapest 2015-16 Upper Deck Young Guns Exclusives Spectrum #225 Ronalds Kenins /10 cards in internet card stores was $90 so I'm very happy with this deal. I would like to call this story an Upper Deck e-Pack success story.

2015-16 Upper Deck Day With The Cup #DC3 Jonathan Toews

2015-16 Upper Deck Young Guns Exclusives Spectrum #225 Ronalds Kenins /10

Upper Deck sure is fun but I would like to throw a huge stone into the e-Pack's garden. The biggest issue with e-Pack is that the user can't choose whether to add or don't add the toploader for cards you would like to ship for yourself. On twitter I asked if this still is an issue, they answered - that toploaders are added for higher end cards. Well sure series one have many "higher end" cards and I asked which are these "higher end" cards and answer from Upper Deck was - some Young Guns, Exclusives all High Gloss and certain jersey cards. Well good job Upper Deck, good job.

P.S. I also have some improvements in my homepage.
If you are regular visitor then maybe you have noticed recent My cards section improvements, if not take a look
what's new:

My Cards - more user friendly interface. You won't have to press back to go forward again, now just press the preferred button and you will get where you wanted;
For Trade & for Sale available cards - with the same interface concept as My Cards for easier page browsing. Here you can find lists with all for trade and for sale available trading cards;
I have added added an icon which indicates that trading card is available for trade or for sale. This icon is placed in upper left corner of scanned trading card picture. These cards you can find in my personal trading card collection or in available cards.

]]> OscarsCards https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2272-My-personal-trading-card-collection-improvements-March-2016 My personal hockey trading card collection improovements, December 2015 https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2188-My-personal-hockey-trading-card-collection-improovements-December-2015 Mon, 21 Dec 2015 20:57:30 GMT In previous two months I had a few great additions for my hockey trading card collection. As I decided to collect more "quality" cards than push on quantity or just because I could get it, I have decided to throw many Latvian player cards into trader. Contact me if you are interested in something.

2001-02 BAP Memorabilia All-Star Numbers #ASN19 Sandis Ozolinsh /10

2001-02 BAP Memorabilia All-Star Starting Lineup #S3 Sandis Ozolinsh /70

2015-16 Upper Deck Exclusives #225 Ronalds Kenins /100 - I have a duplicate for trade

2003-04 Upper Deck MVP Gold Script #211 Sergei Zholtok /25

The newest addition into my "The Most Wanted card list":

2015-16 Artifacts Jerseys Patch Black #178 Ronalds Kenins /5
2015-16 Upper Deck Full Force Goooal Autographs #GRK Ronalds Kenins

]]> OscarsCards https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2188-My-personal-hockey-trading-card-collection-improovements-December-2015 My First hockey trading card https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2166-My-First-hockey-trading-card Mon, 26 Oct 2015 15:32:25 GMT Image: http://44844073-666320964217006157.preview.editmysite.com/uploads/4/4/8/4/44844073/793297.jpg Everyone has his first. As I recall, I got my first hockey trading card in summer of...

Everyone has his first. As I recall, I got my first hockey trading card in summer of 2010. It was autographed 2008-09 Dinamo Riga Team Issue #15 Mārtiņš Cipulis. Of course I knew that such thing as sports trading cards exist before, but I've never had any interest in them before maybe because I've never had any. There have been Latvian team issued cards before, but as a hobby it's not that popular as it could be. Fortunately, the KHL league appeared in 2008 and thereby hockey trading cards became more popular. It started from Dinamo Riga issued cards and became as SeReal KHL official trading cards, which were produced in Riga, Latvia. But knowing the economic situation in Russia the 2014-15 season cards never came out.
But the fun fact about my first trading card is that my mother gave it to me and the story why this card is so special is that Mārtiņš Cipulis almost lives just around the corner. By Google maps it's 650 m or 8 min walking between our houses. For a 19.28 km²(7.44 sq mi) city with a little more than 18 000 peoples with no skating rink Mārtiņš Cipulis was a superstar, at least for me. Here's some statistics:

Mārtiņš Cipulis is fifth in all time statistics for National team of Latvia - 179 GP, 103 P (53+50), fourth best goal scorer, sixth best in assists;
14 games played in Olympic games, 4 P (2 G + 2 A). Participated in three Olympic games - 2006 in Torino, 2010 in Vancouver, 2014 in Sochi;
64 games played in World Championship, 34 P (15 G + 19 A), second best in WC TOP division, ;
9 games played in in Olympic game qualification, 4 P (2 G + 2 A);
302 games played in KHL, 82 P (41 G + 41 A) eleventh best from Latvian players, 28 games played in playoffs 2 P (2 G + 0 A).

So, after I got my first card, I began to take interest in this whole hockey card thing. First it was some base cards, then autograph, a little bit later - jersey and patch cards. And now there is no stopping and it keeps going further and further.

What's your story about your first trading card? ]]> OscarsCards https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/2166-My-First-hockey-trading-card