In May of 2014 I purchased a 01-02 Goalie Gear Arturs Irbe card thinking that I was as close as I was going to get as far as the total set was concerned. There were three cards that were short printed to 20 in the set, the Roy which I owned and the Hasek and Cujo which I had not seen in years! Since the set was 12 years old at the time I assumed I would be as close as I would ever be. I posted here on the boards with the title "Probably as Close as I will get to Completing this BTP Subset" and left it at that. A few days passed and I received a message from a member of one of the board named Dan (tmlfan67). I had never dealt with him with regards to a trade let alone have him contact me. His message was that he had not only the Hasek in his posession but the Cujo was a PC card for him! He was willing to give both of them up to me to complete my set! I was quite excited and willing to make a deal immediately! For me it was one of the first times anyone had given up a PC item to complete my set! To this day I am still suprised I have completed this tuff set! Thanks again Dan!!!!!





Ok last week and here is my entry for this week with the story

Back in 2010-11 season of collecting I was able to help a fellow collector with a shipping issue he was having
He wanted to purchase a case or 09-10 UD Champs but the seller was not able to ship to him in Sweden.
he was looking for someone to help out and I was only to glad to help a collector with his collecting. I was able to purchase the case for him and he had me open it and he only wanted the cards he needed for his master set to be shipped to him and I was able to keep the rest of the cards, which was a lot of good stuff and it allowed me to build and finish my 09-10 UD champs threads set

I sent his package to him in Sweden and thanked him for the extra's I was allowed to keep and he was thankful for me in helping get the cards to him in Sweden, which he rec'd in about 3 weeks.

so time went on and about 2 months later I rec'd a package in the mail and it was from this collector. He was just sending me a thank you and wanted to show me show card love and sent me some penguins I collect, so inside the package was a malkin gu and a Crosby insert /100 which was cool but when I looked in the package closely there was a card in between the cards and out came this beauty



I was floored, and he said he knew who much I collected Crosby and wanted this card to go to a great home.
I still have it in my PC and its will always be with me.