Thanks Dale. Now, I would love your take on why so many players with such incredible longevity? Joe Thornton obviously is an outlier at 26 years or whatever it is, but it seems 20 is not all that unusual whereas it would be in other sports.

Peter, I wish I had the answers for you but I honestly don't think there any that are conclusive?

Some guys are china dolls compared to others and some guys like to hit and pound and other's want no part of that if they can help it.

Size, training, conditioning, shape all come into play as well, but I also think some get hurt more and have shorter careers because, like Lindros, they don't keep their heads up, or they get into those dirty/tough spots where other players won't.

If you've ever watched William Nylander, (Leaf's) he'll completely give up on the puck if he knows he is going to be hit. Others will do what they have to do or need to do despite knowing a hit is coming. It goes on and on. Some are fluke reasons why some of their careers are short and some are the results of their actions.

I think of Aaron Ekblad this year. He was having a career year and was looking forward to the playoffs but a fluke/freak accident ended all that in a heartbeat with a broken leg.
Will Aaron come back from that and be the player he was prior? Likely, but there's a chance he won't and might he be a little more gun shy now, a little slower, maybe? Will this eventually catch up to him, (the injury) as he gets older and possibly shorten his career?

It goes on and on Peter. Some are fluke career ending injuries and some never get injured, or get injured enough to ruin their careers.
https://www.thesportster.com/hockey/...vere-injuries/

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https://records.nhl.com/records/skat...s/most-seasons

99 players with 19 or more seasons.

And in my opinion that number will only increase going forward due to the nature of today's game.

The first 2 on your list made me chuckle. Gretzky was likely the most protected player ever during his career, and the other, well, not many fooled, or dared fooled with Gordie. :D

I think the overall explanation has to have something to do with the balance between skill level and physical decline, such that the great hockey players more often remain valuable to teams into their 40s because of their skill and experience, whereas that typically doesn't happen in the other sports?

Have officially entered the hockey world. Picked this one cause of being such a rabid Pittsburgh fan growing up.

An '85-'86 OPC NM set

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Congrats, that is a great set. So many great players in there, and its just classic '80s. Enjoy your new foray into hockey.

Thanks. It was more reasonable than I expected after finding the PSA Mario separately, and getting the 263/264 partial was an usually good bang for your buck w/ how loaded it is, as you said. Set has so many fairly valuable second and third tier cards.

But this hockey foray can't continue. The other sports are expensive enough as it is :rolleyes:

3 70s insert sets

Sorry. I posted in the wrong thread

That's nice stuff, Jim. Most of us who collected as kids in the era just threw away that stuff. Logos? Who wanted those?? And stickers? My friend Henry and his brother used to decorate their bedroom door with the Topps stickers. I stuck 'em on a filing cabinet I used to hold my cards. D'oh! Crazy thing is after I moved out my parents used the file cabinet to store nails and such in the garage, stickers and all.

1973 OPC "Funny Rings" set of 17 purchased this weekend at the National. Marked $125 and I think I paid $85 (or $5 each) Not much hockey at the show, and I heard the main guy Len was unable to cross the border from the Great White North. Maybe next year?
Larry

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Finally!!!
 

Its been many years, but I finally found my Bobby Orr card. This was my dads favorite player so it is extra special.

Troy

Wow! Very nice, Troy.

Congrats. :)

Bought raw and graded, 5/10

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Great stuff everyone! Here's a few cards I sent to SGC a few weeks ago and were returned to me yesterday. Lots of fine grades, super happy! Excited to add "rookie cards" of Stacy Peralta, Snake-Eyes, Storm Shadow, Megatron and Deadpool to my collection LOL! Last two photos are of a Jay Adams Memorial Service Booklet I picked up from ebay.

Puzzles
 

Recent acquisition of two 1970s puzzles both complete

updating my thread.

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Well it is most of a Mikita.

PInback button
 

Picked up this hard to find pin back button recently

Picked up this exciting lot of William Paterson cards. These were issued during the 1923/24 season and Jefferson Burdick gave them the catalog number of V145-1 (don't confuse them with V145-2, which are smaller in size and have different card numbers!) Anyhow, the big fish here is the Howie Morenz rookie, but some of the other key rookies are also in this lot, and that includes Frank Clancy, Aurèle Joliat and Jack Adams.

I can't believe the condition of those V145's

Pictures can be deceiving - LOL! They are lower grade, my friend.

updating my thread

Crosby #87
 

Born August 7th (8/7) 1987 (8/7/87) wearing number 87 and earning an average of 8.7M/year. No other set honours Crosby’s number like the honorable number set (complete set)

Very nice, Guy.
I'd be pretty happy just owning one of those!

just arrived 1951-52 Parkhurst hockey #79 Hugh Bolton and #97 Nick Mickoski. 105 card set these are my 62nd and 63rd different at 60% complete.

Larry

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Good luck the rest of the way, Larry. :)

Rookie year Park All Star.

Great player and top 100 of all time but still doesn't get the hobby love he deserves.
I picked up a graded RC of his a couple years ago and got it for a real great price, imo, but I have seen them, finally, start to creep up some.
I believe I also have an AS card like yours but I must not have scanned it?

Pretty card

Picked
 

Up tons of singles will posting soon

Will
 

Post more later bought 400 plus singles

More
 

Pics to come

My first hockey card purchase in quite a while.
Patrice Bergeron. A guaranteed first ballot HOF'r, imo. At 36 yrs young, he is still a powerhouse.

Dale, nice Bergeron. Believe it or not, these three Blackhawk rookies came out of a 3/$1.00 box today. Needless to say, I’m happy with my purchase.

Wow!

Now that's a score and a half!

Congrats.

Thought these were a nice buy ungraded.

Local card show purchase
 

Been looking for this Crosby for quite a while now , will look great with our Ovechkin

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Very nice!

1952 Parkhurst #15 John "Goose" McCormack leaves just three more cards to complete my set of course one of the cards I need is #58 Tim Horton RC which will cost me some $$$$$.
Larry


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I dont have a horton rookie but perhaps trading for one may be the way to go

I'm at the point now in my collecting, that a two dollar reprint will be fine lol.

Larry

Christmas present for me by me
2005 Black Diamond Sidney Crosby Quadruple Emerald rookie 2/25

A couple small recent modern purchases.

Matthews/Nylander canvas checklist and a OPC Jason Robertson serial numbered Yellow Traxx RC.

Picked these needed '70-'71 OPC Deckle Edge cards today at a show.
Larry

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Picked up this 1925 V31 Vezina which I’m pretty pleased with [emoji846] now I need to find a playing days Morenz.

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Very happy with these two that I picked up today with a number of other vintage hockey cards.

Rising prices and less offerings are the norm on our favorite on line shopping site. Then 5% ebay bucks showed up, with Battersbox listing several low grade 1951-52 Parkhurst cards, and I added a dozen hits to my set. Now at 73% complete with 77 different of the 105 in the set.
Larry

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