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Carey Price provides a birthday surprise for Halifax Habs fan
Last Thursday, Richard McAdam was returning home from a night out with the boys, when his wife Tasha met him at the door. "Say goodbye to the cat, and grab your bag. We're off to Toronto." Before he knew it, Richard and his wife were on a flight to Toronto to see the Montreal Canadiens take on the...
Awful Hockey Card Art: Defacing Chico, Disgracing the Whale
Note: Awful Hockey Card Art is a periodic and not-so-Islanders-related summer series that commemorates the time before Photoshop, when hockey card designers got a little too carried away and we kids had to deal with the sorry results. This is Glenn "Chico" Resch, the Stanley Cup-winning former...
Silver Seven sells out: Topps Puck Attax card game (plus a contest!)
A few weeks ago, I was contacted by someone The Topps Company, Inc., whom you may remember from the trading cards of your youth. They offered me some samples of their new head-to-head gaming card product, Puck Attax, if I'd just talk about it on the blog, so here goes. Puck Attax is sort of like...
Awful Hockey Card Art: Warren Young and the running Penguin
In the last two episodes of Awful Hockey Card Art, I mentioned how even the most expertly drawn crest can still look blindingly awful when it's slapped on a horribly painted "uniform." You know what else can mess up a half-way decent logo rendition? If you over compensate for a player's faceoff...
Awful Hockey Card Art: 1989-90 Marc Habscheid, Andrew McBain
In introducing this Awful Hockey Card Art series, we featured the distinguished 1989-90 Topps card of one Randy Cunneyworth, whose Winnipeg Jets "uniform" was carefully painted on after his off-season trade by the Penguins. I mentioned how difficult to draw that arched, funky-fonted "WINNIPEG" was...
Awful Hockey Card Art: Pat Verbeek, 89-90 Whalers
First, let's get this out of the way: I hated Pat Verbeek. "Little Ball of Hate" is a cute nickname if you're a guard dog at Wal-Mart, maybe. Some kind of yappy chihuahua a spoiled celebrity carries in her purse. But for a hockey player? Kind of pathetic. Just sounds like a cheapshot tool with a...
Awful Hockey Card Art: Randy Cunneyworth, 89-90 Jets
Before there was Photoshop, there was ... something else. I don't know what it was, exactly. But it was something awful. It got better as time went on, but depending on what era you collected hockey cards (if you are indeed from an era when a pack of cards was cheaper than a gallon of gas), then...
Monday Caps Clips: Alex Ovechkin Goes Top Shelf, err, Upper Deck
Your savory breakfast links: First off, be sure to check back today and every day this week around lunch time for an exciting series we've got planned. Alex Ovechkin "will sign autographs exclusively for Upper Deck at the start of the 2009-10 season and also appear on packaging." That must've been...
Islanders of Yesteryear: Clark Gillies
Editors' Note: I started these as FanPosts, but I think to include video and archive them in a proper section, I will need to duplicate them as main-thread stories. Please pardon the inconvenience (and replication) during construction... This edition was originally posted (minus video) just before...
Kolzig, Hardee's And Hot Dogs
My buddy Dave of the very funny Quiet Library sent me an Olie Kolzig hockey card from back in 1990 (the card is from 1990 - Dave sent it this week), andI had to share it. As Dave said, "Olie looks like a line-cook at Hardee's in the pic on the back." Indeed, though now that he's got me thinking...
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