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I spend a fair amount of time looking around the blogs here on SCF to find good articles for the magazine and this morning, I came across an inspiring entry. In this entry one of our members was telling us how she got into collecting and as I really enjoyed her story, I thought I would share mine too...

The year was 1986, I was a very respectable 6 year old and we'd (me and my dad) had just finished watching the Cup final. A devoted Nordiques fan, he was far from being happy about ...

OMG I just checked the ITG website and how nice is the new Between the Pipes release?

http://www.itgtradingcards.com/produ...p_c_gumem.html

Scheduled to hit the market on the 26th March, this is a product I am impatiently awaiting!

Love the sound of the goaltending evolution set and of the draft day duo one...As this product is so appealing to me, I am actually considering trying to get 250 point for the made to order program...Of course ...

Alright, so as most of you probably know, I'm Canadian but I now live in England. One thing I really miss from Canada is the proper winters, snow and cold I absolutely love that. Yesterday after 6 and a half years of wishing for it, I got some snow in England! Yay! Until I realized that people really weren't kidding when they were saying England couldn,t cope with snow....

Eveything, and I mean everything came to a standstill! No buses, no tube, delays and cancellations on overground ...

Yes ITG's Superlative Bleu, Blanc et Rouge has truly arrived. It was released on Friday and without even trying, I have seen 10 breaks on the net so far. Yup, that's 1% of the product already busted.

Break range from awesome to a bit hard to swallow but overall it does look like a solid product. I just cannot wait to receive my book! However, Roy cards are being pulled left, right and centre...will there be any left for me?

Thankfully, Tony pulled the modern base and ...

...if I should get some SPGU boxes this year, so I thought i'd check UD's website to see if there was a sneak peak of somesort and look what I found:

http://sports.upperdeck.com/hockey/a....aspx?aid=5128

Yup, UD is launching a new line of inserts on SPGU, famous fightstrap. I nearly had a heart attack when I saw this one:



Sooooo...I guess ...