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    Hab fans don't pay up for Russian players, just look at Galchenyuk.

    Ok I wasn't sure if you were trolling or had no clue what you were talking about, it was 50/50, now it's confirmed you're trolling :)

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    All of the points above are the reason why I am not a player collector.

    My main collecting objective is rookie cards, and rookie cards only. I am generally not affected if a player gets traded. If the player is a key player, I want his rookie card.

    Due to my limited budget and limited inventory of cards, I have to negotiate the best deal possible, but this has not stopped me from building a decent collection over the years.

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    As a couple folks have noted, when a guy gets traded there’s usually a purge/acquisition phase and then things tend to settle back to the rookies.

    Going way back, when Latendresse and Pouliot were swapped I did straight across deals with people card for card. Glad I did because Lats flopped mightily in the wake of that. And I even managed to dump Pouliot after he left too.

    The Weber-P.K. trade also led to me downsizing that PC a fair bit. I was at around 175 Cards and it’s now half that. Lots of those I’ll keep but as time passes more and more will become trade bait. It does get harder to move the non-rookies. Weber I pick up his RC and selected cards from the Preds days that I like. Habs stuff does get first level of interest though. It’s gotta be something nice if it’s from Nashville.
    @jackpot don’t put too much stock into that person’s postings. LOL I’ve never seen such a myopic post or the idea that because he got a steal on a card that was the actual trend at the time. The record speaks otherwise.


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    All of the points above are the reason why I am not a player collector.

    My main collecting objective is rookie cards, and rookie cards only. I am generally not affected if a player gets traded. If the player is a key player, I want his rookie card.

    Due to my limited budget and limited inventory of cards, I have to negotiate the best deal possible, but this has not stopped me from building a decent collection over the years.

    Same here.

    I collect Habs and Nordiques. But when it comes to RC, I don't mind in wich team the player is pictured. Not one bit.

    But about the original question, my experience tell me that when a player is traded, 9,5 times out of 10, his stock will drop.

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    I find that with the exception of a few players, I only collect the rookies from my team (The Flyers)... They could do a blockbuster deal next season for a superstar caliber player (control your laughter), and if the guy isn't in a Flyers uniform on the card, I don't have much interest.

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    I paid $11.50 usd for mine when he was on Montreal.
    There's no way he sold for $40 usd consistently.

    Hab fans don't pay up for Russian players, just look at Galchenyuk.

    The argument for the sake of an argument guy is back. As usual he doesn't have his facts straight, as Galchenyuk is in fact a US citizen.
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    I paid $11.50 usd for mine when he was on Montreal.
    There's no way he sold for $40 usd consistently.

    Hab fans don't pay up for Russian players, just look at Galchenyuk.

    Pretty sure he's from Wisconsin. I'm sure some days Wisconsin gets as cold as Mother Russia, but he's most definitely US born.

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    When Radulov was with the Habs I was able to sell one of his Young Guns for a decent price. Totally forgot I had that one, too. So it can happen, it short bursts or purges like Richard mentioned earlier, especially if they are having a heck of a season in a good market, but things do eventually settle in majority of cases.
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