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Collector's World 0102
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WHY YOU SHOULD BE COLLECTING OLDER CARDS
Investment, nostalgia, education and challenge. Those are four good reasons to collect vintage hockey memorabilia. And with an increase in the number of people purchasing newer issues of hockey cards, the demand for older material is on the horizon. What starts many collectors on vintage cards is nostalgia, being drawn to cards they recognize from their childhood. Baby Boomers and Yuppies are big on the 1950s and ‘60s cards. Vintage cards tend to be a safe long-term investment. The values of players from the earlier eras are stable because the careers of the players are over. Their importance in history seldom fluctuates. Remember, Bobby Orr is money in the bank; Eric Lindros might be. Perhaps the most important investment reason for collecting older cards is the law of supply and demand. “Vintage cards are a…
LaFONTAlNE
Timing has never been Pat LaFontaine’s forte. While he appears to be a master of precision on the ice—always in the right place at the right time with his quickness and anticipation—his career has been dogged by a series of missed connections. First, LaFontaine joined the United States Olympic team in 1984 to play for the club which had the unenviable task of following the Miracle On Ice at Lake Placid in 1980. Then he turned pro in March 1984, just in time to see the end of the New York Islanders’ streak of four consecutive Stanley Cups. To top off his string of bad timing, he signed a four-year contract in 1987 which keeps his salary at a relatively low amount while lesser players are benefitting from the escalating pay structure. He can…
RANDOM THOUGHTS
For a few moments he was 16 again. The greatest defenseman ever was moving around the Oshawa Generals’ dressing room telling stories of his former coach and playing major junior hockey for $10 a week. “It hasn’t gone up much since then,” came the words from across the room. Not that the best major junior player in North America needs the money. He’ll be a millionaire by this time next year. So there they were—Bobby Orr and Eric Lindros. The two most famous Oshawa Generals together in the dressing room at the Oshawa Civic Auditorium for a photo session arranged by THN Collectors World. On was animated as he went back and forth from the coach’s office—where Wren Blair used to sequester himself—to his old locker stall. His sweater—No. 2—has been retired, but not his…
ROENICK. BELFOUR TURN UP THE POWER
This month’s Power Play list of the most sought-after hockey cards features the debut of three exciting young Norris Division stars. Chicago’s Jeremy Roenick and Ed Belfour and Detroit’s Sergei Fedorov are going to be mainstays in the NHL and on the Collectors World Power Play if their strong early-season performances continue. Their cards are hot among collectors, perhaps in part because two of the three are hard to find. Fedorov is only in the 1990-91 O-Pee-Chee wax products while Belfour is available in the Bowman and Upper Deck sets. Both players will no doubt be prominent in Score, Pro Set, Upper Deck and O-Pee-Chee update and traded sets. The four hottest players remain the same as in our premier issue. Their positions have changed, however. The Great Gretzky tops the list with…
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