CoolHandLuke - Montreal Canadiens Team Collection

[RGM81]

Ladies and gentlemen, this is a very special presentation. The person that we are going to honour in this thread has been a fan of the Montreal Canadiens since most of us were even born. He's been there for the dynasties, he's seen the greatest, and he's built up his collection accordingly.

SCF members, put your digital hands together for CoolHandLuke!

* Submited by: CoolHandLuke
* Submited on: 2013-10-15 12:44:29
* Sport of the player collected: Hockey
* Name of the player collected: Montreal Canadiens
* Total Unique cards owned of this player 4623
* Total Unique True Rookie cards: 340
* Total Unique cards with Auto: 211
* Total Unique cards with GU: 363
* Total Unique base cards: 0
* Total Unique Inserts: 0
* Total 1/1: 4
* Total Oddball/unlisted: 20
* Total Misc./memorabilia: 13

List of cards/memorabilia: See my SCF inventory for a full list of the 4,623 cards
http://opg.sportscardforum.com/scf/i...pc/1/sort/name

Now I also have ton of article on Montreal
6 X McFarlane statue
4 NHL Montreal Canadien Car/truck in their box
6 dollars with centennial habs history logo
25 Pins Like those for retired jersey or from the Centenial
60 magazines (most are the Habs official mag from the 1970's up to now)
15 frame signed images
3 Habs Calanders
27 Habs year game schedule from the 1970's up to now
2 Patrick Roy Retired Game gift given to spectator (include a Mask, pamphlet, game ticket and jersey banner)
12 books on Montreal history (collector book)
134 empty Sport card boxes (the ones we buy with cards in them) that display a Montreal player on them
One full size image of Komisarek (6 feet high)
1 pack of Habs napkins
1 Mcdonalds Carey Price Mask promo
1 Habs playing card set (54 cards including the 2 joker)
I centennial Habs reebok jersey signed by Jean Beliveau and 4 other Habs
1 Habs flag with logo and all the 24 years the Stanley Cup was won 3 X 6 feet
35 various Habs player posters
42 carey Price posters (all the same poster LOL)
11 hockey puck some are from the puck sold on the game they retired the jersey of Roy and Dryden. They were puck used to play on these night sold in the store.
8 Habs coffe mug
4 Habs glasses
1 Habs plate
I box of pencil, pencil sharpener, eraser, ruler kit
1 general habs small box
1 Habs Kleenex box
3 Habs log key holder
1 4 X 6 feet Carey Price linen art
6 DVD on the Habs history
various hats and towels with the logo on them
24 Stanley Cup Banners
15 Retired jersey banner
Habs Man cave (make sure to scroll down to see all images)
http://www.lucseguin.com/images/habs_room/view.php


Pictures, link or site to your collection: http://opg.sportscardforum.com/scf/i...pc/1/sort/name

If you have more then one link please add one link per line here: http://www.lucseguin.com/images/habs_room/view.php


Why you think you are a supercollector: I have been collecting for 45 + years the Montreal Canadian. Never sold back any of my PC and been gathering cards in all those years to grow my PC. Now in the SCF inventory, we have 24,169 listing since I work hard to identify the cards from Montreal. I know we are missing some but Beckett list 25,679 cards so we are not far from them. I think that with 4,623 cards I should qualify as a team super collector.

while your requirement stop at 18,000 and require 25% of all cards, I believe Montreal is a team with such history and so many big name that it's really hard over more then 100 years to gather enough cards to fit your requirements. Now if you look at how many team super collector Hockey has (zero) it's speak about how high your requirement are high. Basketball have much lower requirement and does have entries. Now it has to be hard but after collecting for more then 45 years, it a life time achievement.
So many cards book so high that many can't be reach like in certain player collection. Also many get the title with 200 and some cards. For instance I collect Carey Price cards and never could go much over 20% because his cards are so costly and there keep making ton of card just from him. When you add in the mix player like Maurice Richard, Jean beliveau, Jacques plante, Guy Lafleur, Ken Dryden, some cards and more so for lower print run don't go for cheap. For instance in the basketball requirement they ask for $5000 BV or more. You can view their requirement here:
https://www.sportscardforum.com/threa...rmation-Thread

Now I have $45,068.60 in BV for the 4,623 single cards only. I do have over 15,000 cards if I count the doubles. I do have a high percentage of rookies.

Here my stats from my SCF inventory

Montreal Canadiens's statistics from your inventory

Type - Have/Total - Percentage - Total Book Value

All cards: 4623/24169 19.1% $45,068.60
Rookie: 340/834 40.8% $5,337.00
Autograph: 211/2880 7.3% $16,513.00
Memorabilia: 363/4279 8.5% $16,444.00
Serial: 503/9836 5.1% $24,650.35


Print Run broken down
Description - Print Run - Have/Total - Percentage
Print run of: 1 4/1807 0.2%
Print run of: 2 0/35 0.0%
Print run of: 3 1/77 1.3%
Print run of: 4 0/13 0.0%
Print run of: 5 5/408 1.2%
Print run of: 6 2/31 6.5%
Print run of: 7 0/18 0.0%
Print run of: 8 0/23 0.0%
Print run of: 9 9/37 24.3%
Print run of: 10 9/1055 0.9%
Print run of: 11 0/8 0.0%
Print run of: 12 0/17 0.0%
Print run of: 14 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 15 4/230 1.7%
Print run of: 17 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 18 0/4 0.0%
Print run of: 19 3/16 18.8%
Print run of: 20 2/88 2.3%
Print run of: 21 0/10 0.0%
Print run of: 22 0/4 0.0%
Print run of: 23 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 24 1/22 4.5%
Print run of: 25 38/1141 3.3%
Print run of: 26 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 28 0/3 0.0%
Print run of: 29 1/1 100.0%
Print run of: 30 6/112 5.4%
Print run of: 31 2/9 22.2%
Print run of: 33 0/12 0.0%
Print run of: 35 7/115 6.1%
Print run of: 36 0/13 0.0%
Print run of: 37 0/4 0.0%
Print run of: 38 0/8 0.0%
Print run of: 40 3/84 3.6%
Print run of: 41 1/1 100.0%
Print run of: 42 0/4 0.0%
Print run of: 44 0/3 0.0%
Print run of: 45 1/35 2.9%
Print run of: 46 0/11 0.0%
Print run of: 47 0/2 0.0%
Print run of: 48 0/4 0.0%
Print run of: 49 2/71 2.8%
Print run of: 50 28/703 4.0%
Print run of: 51 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 54 0/7 0.0%
Print run of: 55 0/3 0.0%
Print run of: 56 0/9 0.0%
Print run of: 57 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 59 0/4 0.0%
Print run of: 60 1/58 1.7%
Print run of: 61 0/4 0.0%
Print run of: 62 0/8 0.0%
Print run of: 63 0/6 0.0%
Print run of: 65 1/15 6.7%
Print run of: 66 0/2 0.0%
Print run of: 67 0/20 0.0%
Print run of: 68 0/10 0.0%
Print run of: 69 1/4 25.0%
Print run of: 70 1/18 5.6%
Print run of: 71 0/5 0.0%
Print run of: 72 1/13 7.7%
Print run of: 73 0/6 0.0%
Print run of: 74 0/19 0.0%
Print run of: 75 6/169 3.6%
Print run of: 76 0/2 0.0%
Print run of: 79 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 80 1/23 4.3%
Print run of: 81 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 82 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 83 0/3 0.0%
Print run of: 84 0/2 0.0%
Print run of: 85 3/52 5.8%
Print run of: 86 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 87 0/2 0.0%
Print run of: 88 0/4 0.0%
Print run of: 89 0/4 0.0%
Print run of: 90 3/51 5.9%
Print run of: 91 0/5 0.0%
Print run of: 92 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 93 1/2 50.0%
Print run of: 94 0/5 0.0%
Print run of: 95 2/5 40.0%
Print run of: 96 1/1 100.0%
Print run of: 99 23/334 6.9%
Print run of: 100 78/1298 6.0%
Print run of: 102 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 103 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 105 0/5 0.0%
Print run of: 106 0/2 0.0%
Print run of: 108 0/2 0.0%
Print run of: 111 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 115 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 116 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 120 4/14 28.6%
Print run of: 123 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 125 2/44 4.5%
Print run of: 130 7/21 33.3%
Print run of: 135 2/5 40.0%
Print run of: 138 1/1 100.0%
Print run of: 140 1/2 50.0%
Print run of: 149 0/13 0.0%
Print run of: 150 7/109 6.4%
Print run of: 155 0/2 0.0%
Print run of: 160 0/2 0.0%
Print run of: 165 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 170 0/3 0.0%
Print run of: 172 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 175 1/7 14.3%
Print run of: 185 0/3 0.0%
Print run of: 199 16/147 10.9%
Print run of: 200 2/72 2.8%
Print run of: 202 0/4 0.0%
Print run of: 225 0/13 0.0%
Print run of: 230 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 239 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 240 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 245 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 246 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 247 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 249 6/53 11.3%
Print run of: 250 13/115 11.3%
Print run of: 252 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 260 0/2 0.0%
Print run of: 275 0/9 0.0%
Print run of: 290 0/2 0.0%
Print run of: 299 13/108 12.0%
Print run of: 300 1/19 5.3%
Print run of: 325 0/8 0.0%
Print run of: 333 0/2 0.0%
Print run of: 340 2/2 100.0%
Print run of: 349 0/3 0.0%
Print run of: 350 2/21 9.5%
Print run of: 375 0/12 0.0%
Print run of: 390 0/3 0.0%
Print run of: 399 5/37 13.5%
Print run of: 400 0/14 0.0%
Print run of: 414 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 425 0/3 0.0%
Print run of: 450 0/7 0.0%
Print run of: 480 0/3 0.0%
Print run of: 499 11/54 20.4%
Print run of: 500 4/72 5.6%
Print run of: 513 1/1 100.0%
Print run of: 520 1/2 50.0%
Print run of: 525 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 555 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 558 0/2 0.0%
Print run of: 565 0/3 0.0%
Print run of: 575 0/6 0.0%
Print run of: 599 9/24 37.5%
Print run of: 600 1/2 50.0%
Print run of: 650 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 667 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 699 7/19 36.8%
Print run of: 700 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 750 2/30 6.7%
Print run of: 758 1/1 100.0%
Print run of: 775 0/3 0.0%
Print run of: 780 0/3 0.0%
Print run of: 799 5/12 41.7%
Print run of: 800 2/10 20.0%
Print run of: 825 2/2 100.0%
Print run of: 850 2/8 25.0%
Print run of: 875 0/3 0.0%
Print run of: 899 3/11 27.3%
Print run of: 900 1/8 12.5%
Print run of: 925 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 935 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 950 0/3 0.0%
Print run of: 999 72/188 38.3%
Print run of: 1000 4/44 9.1%
Print run of: 1010 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 1015 1/1 100.0%
Print run of: 1020 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 1125 0/2 0.0%
Print run of: 1150 1/2 50.0%
Print run of: 1185 0/2 0.0%
Print run of: 1199 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 1200 1/3 33.3%
Print run of: 1250 0/9 0.0%
Print run of: 1285 1/1 100.0%
Print run of: 1299 1/2 50.0%
Print run of: 1300 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 1400 0/4 0.0%
Print run of: 1475 0/2 0.0%
Print run of: 1499 3/6 50.0%
Print run of: 1500 2/32 6.3%
Print run of: 1550 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 1650 1/2 50.0%
Print run of: 1750 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 1836 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 1997 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 1999 14/24 58.3%
Print run of: 2000 0/23 0.0%
Print run of: 2002 0/2 0.0%
Print run of: 2003 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 2299 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 2400 2/4 50.0%
Print run of: 2500 2/7 28.6%
Print run of: 2599 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 2999 5/6 83.3%
Print run of: 3000 0/5 0.0%
Print run of: 3099 1/3 33.3%
Print run of: 3475 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 3500 0/3 0.0%
Print run of: 3999 0/2 0.0%
Print run of: 4000 1/1 100.0%
Print run of: 4299 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 4750 1/3 33.3%
Print run of: 5000 0/10 0.0%
Print run of: 6000 0/7 0.0%
Print run of: 6199 0/3 0.0%
Print run of: 6500 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 6950 0/1 0.0%
Print run of: 9500 0/3 0.0%
Print run of: 10000 1/4 25.0%
Print run of: 20000 1/1 100.0%
Print run of: 21000 0/2 0.0%
Print run of: 45000 0/1 0.0%


Some individual player stats:

Alex Galchenyuk 17/161
Brendan Gallagher 3/80
Carey Price 546/2530
Chris Higgins 50/421
Guy Carbonneau 56/479
Guy Lafleur 73/2046
Jacques Plante 34/919
Jaroslav Halak 61/813
Jean Beliveau 57/1535
Jose Theodore 113/2272
Ken Dryden 64/175
Larry Robinson 65/1218
Louis Leblanc 21/308
P.K. Subban 69/869
Patrick Roy 485/7824
Robert Mayer 15/109
Rogie Vachon 32/667
Saku Koivu 198/3274
Steve Shutt 32/727

Why did you start collecting this player: Just been a fan since I can remember.

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Collection stats provided in the application, but here are the percentages again.

All cards: 4623/24169 19.1% $45,068.60
Rookie: 340/834 40.8% $5,337.00
Autograph: 211/2880 7.3% $16,513.00
Memorabilia: 363/4279 8.5% $16,444.00
Serial: 503/9836 5.1% $24,650.35

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You'll note that at the time of the application, Luc's collection was sitting at just over 4,600 cards. Due to a tremendous level of determination and a hard push, his collection has now surpassed the 5,000 card plateau! This is an amazing achievement, the fruits of a lifelong labour of love.

Without any further ado, let's turn it over to our new Super Collector!

To start, I will show my latest hit that I pulled this week-end in the Montreal Fall Expo opening a ITG Decades the 1990s box. My first auto from Patrick Roy pack pulled, could not ask for a better card with a print run of 2 cards.

2013-14 ITG Decades 1990s Trophy Winners Jerseys Autographs Silver #TWJAPR Patrick Roy Att: AU, Mem, S# /2




Then I have to show this first ever ITG cut auto from Ken Dryden. Auto from Ken Dryden are rare because he refuse to sign for card company. The only time he did sign was for 1991-92 Future Trends Canada '72 LTD Autograph #85 Ken Dryden but so many fake and a rare card to find. The next card was issued in 2007 as the first big manufacturer pulled 1/1 auto. Thank to the member who accepted to sell this card to me.

2007-08 ITG Superlative Enshrined Autographs #EKD Ken Dryden Att: AU, S# /1



2007-08 The Cup Gold Rainbow Autographed Rookie Patches #189 Carey Price Att: AU, Mem, S# /31



My oldest notable Habs card:

1933-34 V357 Ice Kings #3 Aurel Joliat



A PSA 8 of the OPC Dryden RC not easy to find and not cheap.
1971-72 O-Pee-Chee #45 Ken Dryden Att: RC



One of the most beautiful patch cards from Montreal, note that these are from the vintage Habs jersey worn in the 2008 Centennial season by Montreal and explain the green in one patch. Again these patches are rare one.

2010-11 Dominion Peerless Patches Quads #4 Andrei Markov / Carey Price / Max Pacioretty / Michael Cammalleri Att: Mem, S# /10



My first huge patch redemption I got from the rookie season of Carey Price

2007-08 The Cup Limited Logos #LLCY Carey Price Att: Mem, S# /50



My best memorabilia card from Ken Dryden, got this in a group break from SCF.

2008-09 Itg Bleu Blanc Et Rouge Gardiens De But #2 Ken Dryden Att: Mem, S# /9



Oldest goaltender memorabilia card I own:

2004-05 ITG Ultimate Memorabilia Day In History Gold #33 Doug Harvey/ Bill Durnan Att: Mem, S# /5



This is the only memorabilia card from Ken Dryden from a licence manufacturer. It was said that this card was not authorised and that Upper Deck had to call back boxes to remove these cards and repackage the rest. Not sure about this but I know this card is really rare and great to have in my PC.

1999-00 Upper Deck Retro Memento #RM5 Ken Dryden Att: Mem



And to finish, my oldest pulled habs cards that I still have today, I was only 7 years of age when I pulled this card. The oldest pack pulled was in 1967 when I started to collect. The card survived but with a bit of damage. I suspect it was place on the bicycle spoke to make noise, this was popular back in the 60's with kids.

1969-70 O-Pee-Chee #219 Ted Harris AS




Thank you to all members that help me in building this collection of Montreal Canadian. When I got back into collection in 2008 I started to collect Carey price but soon realize that with all the cards I have it was a better idea to open it up to all Habs cards.


I also wish to thank Mike Silvia, SCF owner to have believed in me for coding the SCF Inventory.

I have over 5600 traders (insert, rookie, serial, memorabilia and auto) and close to 100,000 cards. In my SCF inventory, I am up to 31,537 unique cards with a $90,103.84 in BV for the unique cards. With doubles I am now with 67,277 cards entered in the SCF Inventory. Without this tool It would have been hard to keep track of a want list for Habs. This spring I work hard to identify all Habs cards in the card database and flag the team attribute. This then let me create a want list that is always up to date of all Habs cards I don't have. Currently my want list contain 19,375 cards. So the inventory provide me with a live want list:

http://opg.sportscardforum.com/scf/w...cardlist/26925

I also have a images album of my collection provided by the SCF inventory, just a bit of stats on the images, I have 5,712 images scanned from my traders section and in the PC section I have 5,231 cards with images so close to 11,000 images. Here some of the best cards of my collection. Note that I tend to get higher end cards from goaltender.

http://opg.sportscardforum.com/scf/t...m/26925/26/0/3

Thanks for all these trades!

Luc

[NYDevilsFan]

Congrats on the very well deserved honor! I can't imagine what all the cards look like together.

[CoolHandLuke]

Congrats on the very well deserved honor! I can't imagine what all the cards look like together.

Basically fill up a room and I don't really show much as the collection is in 10 3200 count box and all cards in top loader. I have a show horizontal display case and one vertical display case and the rest on the wall, for what is left are mainly the autograph pictures and some various object. I would need a second room really to display the best cards.

[hossa18sens]

Congrats on the new badge Luc. It is just an amazing collection

Thanks for the show of the cave again.

[87sluggo]

Congrats Luc! You've got a huge pile there and it's ORGANIZED, I envy you sir. Some truly amazing pieces in that room of yours :)

[CoolHandLuke]

really took many years to get them all in alphabetic order but when you have 100,000 cards and 65,000 cards in the inventory, if they were not sorted I would never find the cards. This is also why now I can pull so many trade. Took me 2 hours the other day to pull 222 cards and only could not find one of the cards. That does help to make deals and free you up for more deal. In three days this week-end I was able to pull 13 trades. Thanks to all these years I spent organizing then cards and entering them into the inventory.

Also the tools I added (pre-trade tool), this is making my inventory so much more accurate and easier to trade as you can keep a list for trade in the work and keep playing with it adding and removing cards until you are ready to use this tool to create the trade and then use it to add incoming cards and remove outgoing cards. Before I coded this new tool I kept forgetting adding or removing cards. The lead me to trade for cards I already had or cards I did not have to send away. So it does pay off as now I even move base cards. The 222 cards deal more then half were all base cards and total deal was over 300 BV. I get 41 cards in return. So I could not land these type of deals before. That is where it finally pay off and help other collectors to fill in whole in their team or player collection.

[andrewconnors9]

Congrats Luc, well deserved buddy!

[CoolHandLuke]

Just realize I have added many cards since I submitted my application. I said in my application I had 4,623 cards and now I am at 5,254. This mean I added 631 cards since. I had set a new goal to reach $50,000 in BV and I guess this will come sooner then I tought, only need 441.80$ in BV to reach it,


Montreal Canadiens's statistics from your inventory

Type	Have/Total	Percentage	Total Book Value
All cards:	5254/24699	21.3%	$49,558.20
Rookie:	390/848	46.0%	$6,112.15
Autograph:	244/2972	8.2%	$17,591.00
Memorabilia:	416/4389	9.5%	$18,336.00
Serial:	604/10045	6.0%	$27,002.35

Montreal Canadiens images automated album

Start your Montreal Canadiens automated images album!

In the best addition this is the number one.
2013-14 ITG Decades 1990s Trophy Winners Jerseys Autographs Silver #TWJAPR Patrick Roy
Attributes: AU, Mem, S# /2


But got plenty of other nice cards but this one is a card I pulled.

[Goose97]

Hey Luc! This is "Habulous"! Haha!

I'm happy to help you out a bit in your Canadiens collecting quest, and you keep up the good work on the Inventory Manager!

[Price is right31]

WOW! This is one of a kind! Has a Habs fan, I'm really jealous! Really nice room and congrats for having all these beautiful Montrel Canadians cards! Go Habs Go! ;)