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The Hockey Card Report

By Bennett Harty

lways an exciting time of year
Awith back to school and the dawn
of a new season on the ice. Despite
the Marner sweepstakes dominating
the hockey media, speculation is now
rampant around who the next couple
of teams to move up the ladder and
be competitive in the playoffs will
be? Most sources have the odds in
favour of Florida, Edmonton, and the
Avalanche duking it out for top spot
and a deep run, again, and I like the
Red Wings, Habs, and our local team,
the Ottawa Senators to be playoff
bound this season.

This month’s featured card is of
Tim Stutzle, a perennial PPG player
who brings excitement and promise priced in the $30 range. If the card was reauctioned some time after and for the Panthers in a Cap era where
to a young Sens lineup. The example was a Score or Pro-Set it would be fetched 2.52 million US the second it looked and seemed impossible, no
is Stutzle’s 2020-2021 Young Gun worth even less! Meanwhile a graded time around. matter how badly I would like to see
card by Upper Deck. When this (highly) Gretzky rookie from 79-80, With the Winter Olympics on the the Oilers win it. Sending out special
series 2 box was being ripped, you O-Pee-Chee card #18, is currently horizon and men’s hockey back in, lucky vibes to the U18 AA Lady
would have to pay up to $300 for the being bought and sold for thousands there will be a lot to get excited about Royals, especially #14, the Glengarry
card, which can now be purchased depending on condition. Remember as we head into this winter. Will this Brigade of the EOJHL and their
for around $50. You would think that these older cards are very hard to find be the year the Oilers make it over #4, and same goes for the Lakefield
he fizzled or wasn’t producing, but in any decent condition. the hump? My suspicion is that guys Chiefs of the PJHL! Over and out
it only took Tim a little better than Recently I came across the story taking “team deals” and the tax laws from the shores of the Otonabee
a season to settle into the PPG club of a Saskatchewan family that found in Florida, have a dynasty possible River!
with 297 in 314 NHL games over the a full case of unopened 1979-1980
last 4 seasons. With Claude back and O-Pee-Chee cards in their house’s
providing leadership by example, I attic. So, when we consider the Match Your Area Knowledge
think this will be a statement year for odds, the case is believed to, but not Play Thom’s Trivia
Stutzle and he’ll lead these Sens into guaranteed to, have 25-27 Wayne
the playoffs. Gretzky rookie cards within. The Q1 - What did these names (Haggerty, McMahon, Gillie,

Our second featured card this Family hired Heritage Auctions to Maundrell, Shaw, Proulx, and Gardner) have in common in
month is of the GOAT, pictured on a handle the sale, and the first attempt 1940?
card produced during what is known brought a bidding war between 2 Q2 - What former Cornwall Hockey Legend won the ‘C’
as the wax era, making it nearly collectors, 1 on each side of the class at the CGCC open Championship in September 1950?
worthless. Upper Deck card #435 border. The Canadian won at 3.72
from the 1992 set can be purchased for million US but eventually defaulted Q3 - What did Rosemary and John Phillips do in September
around $2, with a graded 8-9 example and couldn’t pay the bill. The case of 1960? Page 46 for Answers