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Well, I have lost any shred of respect I had left for Bryan Trottier.

A few years ago, I sent to him via the Islanders. Took over a year, he kept my cards, sent back a crappy pre-print, and did it on my dime.

So I saw recently that he was signing again via his home address.

Same crappy pre-print, using my return postage, and he kept one of my two cards-- which also happens to be for a set I'm doing.

Whatever. Bossy, Smith, and Potvin were the real reason for those four Cups wins anyway.

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FEBRUARY 6
Denny Walling, c/o home, 6/6, 19 days

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FEBRUARY 8
Kris King, c/o NHL Toronto offices, 6/6, about 3 weeks

FEBRUARY 9
Joe Kocur, c/o home, 6/6... wait for it... keep waiting... wait a little more... wait almost as long as I did because this one took... TWO AND A HALF YEARS!

[TheGrapher]

All awesome returns. I regret to inform you though that Don Zimmer's wife does the signing for him.

For Hatcher, did you use this?

567 Chew Landing Rd.
Haddonfield, NJ 08033
USA

Thank You.

[GoWarrior]

I regret to inform you though that Don Zimmer's wife does the signing for him.

Is this true? I was about to send him an 8x10.

[TheGrapher]

Unless something changed, I cannot tell you how many times I have read Zimmer's wife signs for him.

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Zimmer sometimes is real, sometimes his wife's. But if you compare certified ones to the ones I got, and also to ones that are definitely his wife's, I'm relatively certain the ones I got are real.

And that is indeed the Hatcher address I used.

FEBRUARY 11
Tyler Kennedy, 2/2, c/o Pittsburgh Penguins, 2 and a half months

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FEBRUARY 21 (My grandmother would have been 79 today)

Lyle Blackwood, c/o home. 3/4, 5 days

Beats my previous record of 6 days held by Ken Hodge, Steve Everitt, Joe Pignatano (may have been 5 as I was out of town when it came back), Bill Barber, Ron Cey, John Wooden, and Peter Stastny.

Unfortunately, he didn't sign my 2004 Topps All-Time Fan Favorites set card, but he did at least return it. I also put in a card of his brother Glenn (same set) asking if he sees him often if he could get it signed too or get me info on where I could get it signed, but no luck there.

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FEBRUARY 24
Dave Foley, c/o home, 4/4, 8 days
Steve Grogan, c/o home, 3/3, 8 days

FEBRUARY 25
Al Rosen, 3/3, c/o home, 9 days
Ed Kranepool, 2/2, c/o home, 9 days
Dick Anderson, 2/2, c/o home, 9 days, personalized both
Emerson Boozer, 2/2, c/o home, 9 days, wrote short note back

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FEBRUARY 27
Jim Schoenfeld, c/o home, 3/3, 11 days
Bobby Doerr, c/o home, 3/4, 11 days