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Collector's World 0201
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SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE AT HOCKEY EXPO ’91
Dimension Design and Promotions Group are pleased to announce that they will be staging “Hockey Expo ’91” from Nov. 1 to 3, 1991 at the Metro East Trade Centre conveniently located just minutes east of Metro Toronto at Highway 401 and Brock Rd., in Pickering. Featuring free parking, the three-day extravaganza promises to be a hockey feast for attending fans, players and parents who will meet to celebrate all aspects of the world’s fastest game. There will be more than 150 corporate and card dealer exhibitors participating in this year’s show. Hockey Expo ’91 show features include free skate sharpening courtesy of Cag-One with each admission. Simply leave your skates with the sharpening attendant and pick them up when you leave the show. Your daily pass will also entitle you to numerous…
LICENSED COMPANIES LOSE OUT ON DRAFT PICKS
Major card companies entered a high-stakes competition to sign draft choices only to discover that agent Don Meehan held all the cards. The Toronto-based Meehan and his partner, Patrick Morris, brokered one of the more innovative deals in collecting history when he brought together most top draft picks—with Eric Lindros as the most important exception—and sold them as one package to card companies. The deal had mixed consequences for card collectors who concentrate on rookies. * The good news is four nonlicensed companies—Smokey’s of Las Vegas, Arena Holograms from Orange, Calif., Michigan-based Star Pics and Classic Cards of Cherry Hill, N.J.—will print what is expected to be high-quality rookie sets. * The bad news is collectors can expect few rookies in the their wax (and poly and foil) packs from licensed companies—Bowman, O-Pee-Chee, Pro…
AMONTE
The kid with the slightly spiked hair leaned against a concrete wall in the basement of the Glens Falls Civic Center and talked as if he’s just another rookie trying to make the team. Yeah, right. Tony Amonte is that way. He said he hasn’t spoken with New York Rangers’ coach Roger Neilson. He said he’ll play anywhere to make it to the NHL. But Rangers’ GM Neil Smith, you can be sure, didn’t open his wallet and lure Amonte from an Olympic dream last spring to have the talented left/right winger not make his team. Amonte, at the age of 21, is in the Rangers’ immediate plans. And we don’t mean Binghamton’s. Over the early parts of the summer, in fact, Neilson speculated that one interesting line might be Amonte, Bernie Nicholls and…
IRBE
On Sept. 6, the day the Soviet Union’s new government officially recognized independence of the three Baltic republics, Latvian goaltender Artur Irbe skated in his first NHL practice with the San Jose Sharks. That the culmination of a five-decade struggle by Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania for freedom from Soviet control coincided with Irbe’s arrival in the NHL was a double dream come true for him. The 24-year-old native of Latvia’s capital city, Riga, had been very outspoken in support of Latvia’s independence drive. He took part in antiSoviet demonstrations during the January invasion of Latvia by Kremlin-run forces, after which he refused to rejoin the Soviet national team. Had the August coup attempt been successful, Irbe’s dream of an NHL career might very well have been stilled. “You have to recognize that this is…
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