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Top 90 of the ’90s
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IN THE CARDS
DUE TO THE OVERWHELMING demand for Connor Bedard rookie cards, the market for hockey cards hasn’t been this hot in more than three decades. Seemingly everyone is scooping up this year’s products in hopes of finding a rookie card of the young Chicago Blackhawks star. Fortunately, for those who don’t want to rip endless packs in search of Bedard cards, they can get one in the new 2023-24 Upper Deck Star Rookies Box Set. Each set has 25 of this season’s top freshmen. Besides Bedard, other rookies found in this set include Brock Faber (Minnesota), Adam Fantilli (Columbus), Leo Carlsson (Anaheim) and Logan Cooley (Arizona). Each set also includes a bonus parallel card that is either Blue, Gold (numbered out of 349), Red (numbered out of 99), Green (numbered out…
TOP 90 OF THE ‘90S: 52. TREVOR LINDEN
C | VAN, NYI, MTL 1990s STATS: 706 GP | 237 G | 316 A | 553 P | 560 PIM IF YOU WERE TO boil Trevor Linden’s 19-year NHL career down to one iconic night, it would have to be Game 7 of the 1994 Stanley Cup final. Thirty years later, Linden reflected on his mindset going into the contest as captain of an underdog Vancouver Canucks team that battled back from a 3-1 series deficit against the mighty New York Rangers. “You’ve got 60 minutes,” Linden said. “You’ve got one game, and you could be carrying the Stanley Cup around Madison Square Garden.” Linden scored his team’s only two goals in the Cup-deciding game, but it wasn’t enough. The Rangers prevailed 3-2. “I love the playoffs,” Linden said. “It was always when…
JERSEY HOUND
SINCE THIS ISSUE HAS a 1990s bent, it felt like a good time to shout out the Anaheim Ducks for their 30th-anniversary throwback sweater, released this season. The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim were very ’90s when they entered the NHL in 1993, rocking eggplant and jade as their uniform base and adhering to “extreme” color palettes of the era. This design honors that scheme while also giving what had been a shoulder logo prime real estate on the chest. The front-facing mascot is cool, plus the circular framing works well. While the Ducks are now black and orange, it’s still fun to bust out the eggplant and jade.…
WORTH ITS WAIT IN GOALS
THE OFFSIDE THAT WIPED out a Zach Hyman goal in a January contest between the Edmonton Oilers and Chicago Blackhawks wasn’t a matter of a foot but the smallest fraction of an inch. From where Connor McDavid was sitting, the entire situation – the review, the time it took to rule on the offside, and the resulting no-goal call – felt farcical. “If it takes you 15 minutes to determine if it’s offside or not, it probably doesn’t matter,” McDavid said. “I talked to the linesman after. Ultimately, it’s not their call, I guess. Obviously, they said it came down from the league. You zoom in, you zoom in, you keep zooming in until you can’t zoom in anymore, and I guess it’s offside.” If McDavid is displeased with the almost Zapruder-esque…
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