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Getting a birthday trip to Toronto to see the Montreal Canadiens play the Toronto Maple Leafs is one thing. But this Habs fan got much more than that.

It's summer, which means it's time for more Awful Hockey Card Art: Enter Chico Resch as a Flyer, Dave Barr as a Whaler.

A sponsored review of Puck Attax, a head-to-head hockey card game produced by The Topps Company, Inc.

The 1986-87 O-Pee-Chee hockey card set contained many wonderfully bad paint jobs like these on Warren Young, Cam Neely and Chico Resch.

Exploring awful paint jobs in hockey card history, such as when Topps/OPC painted a velvet drapery on Red Wing Marc Habscheid.

Continuing the Awful Hockey Card Art series: Pat Verbeek's painted on Whalers uniform from his 1989-90 Topps card.

Awful Hockey Card Art: Exploring the hilarious world of hockey card touch-ups, starting with one-time Winnipeg Jet Randy Cunneyworth's 1989-90 Topps card.

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