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2008-09 Heroes and Prospects Game Used Jersey

2008-09 Heroes and Prospects

2008-09 Be a Player Double Signatures

2008-09 Upper Deck SPX Winning Combos

2008-09 Upper Deck SP Authentic
Futures Watch

2006-07 In the Game
Be a Player

2007-08 Upper Deck Game Jersey

2005-06 Upper Deck Rookie Threads

2005-06 Fleer Ultra

1990-1991 Team Canada World Junior Gold Medal Team 2X

This all began yesterday when I was reading a local online news article about the World Juniors. They said that the 1990-1991 Team would be at World Fest at 4:30 on New Years Eve. We planned on going in to watch the game there so this was just an excuse to get there early. Now, you have to understand, when I say the 1990-1991 Gold Medal Team, that's just the western Canada players, no one from eastern Canada showed, ie Lindros, Ricci, Potvin. As per Hockey Canada they were an hour and a half late from the program starting. We were there for the long haul so no matter to us but HC has been doing this all week. They introduced the players, NHL experience and any World Junior tidbits they could add. The players appeared to be excited to be with the guys again and most are from around here and they were shuttled off to the CAN/US game across the street after. They had an autograph session with posters for fans to get signed. I have cards of most of the guys but hey, you know me, I had jerseys and pucks galore. And yes, I did get that look from players. Most of the jerseys I had lying around so more so than anything, just putting them to good use. I played against Pat Falloon so I chatted with him for a bit about the old days. I had the Islander puck for Sillinger but did not want to come off greedy so when I went up again, I asked him if he could personalize it to my wife, avoiding the obvious assumption. They were scurried off and we watched the CAN/US game with 2000 of our best friends. Na, there were too many people for my liking. Friends who went to the game, came over to bring in the New Year with us. The 50/50 was $200,000 last night too, I have been to Flames games with 25,000 people and it was only $60,000. I am not a drinker so the alarm went off early today, bringing more tired eyes than anything else. We headed down to the brunch with the same players in -40 weather, rushed inside and had a nice meal with some new friends. Some players were a little late for the brunch, must have had a little too much fun I guess. There was a small program and then an autograph session again. I had only two logo pucks left, plus 4 blank pucks so I thought I'd get them filled. Hey at $75 a plate, I was walking out with some autographs. I chatted with Falloon again, got a picture with him. We laughed about something 'back in the day'. Most of the players were walking around so I managed to score some pics with Sillinger again, Needham and Chyzowski. I got my pucks signed and asked Sillinger about some of the games in Regina. He said he was not really worried about the Canada games, only 1 Oiler (Eberle) but Finland had 3 players drafted so he watched them pretty close. Dykhuis was bugging Sillinger about him being traded so many times. He said "She had a 1 in 9 chance to get one of your teams Mike!" The odds were not correct but funny anyway. I got to Kidd and kept a full puck for him, said I was a die hard Flames fan and got a picture with him. Cool guy...

Karl Dykuis and Scott Thorton

Regina's Mike Sillinger

Trevor Kidd

Top L-R Dave Chyzowski, Chris Snell and Dick Todd, Mike Sillinger, Mike Needham

Bottom L-R Trevor Kidd, Scott Thorton and Karl Dykhuis, Mike Needham and Steven Rice

Top L-R Mike Needham, Dave Chyzowski and Scott Thorton

Stewart Malgunas and Mike Sillinger

Some new Jersey Cards today.....

Take a look in Cardville, some new jersey cards and 1 BAP Signed Card. 1 20 year old autograph too!

Be A Player Upper Deck Autographs-08-09

I tried another pack of BAP cards at my favorite hobby shop yesterday. :( First pull was Bryan Allen of the Florida Panthers, second pack was Manny Malhotra of the Columbus Blue Jackets. My first pull two weeks ago was a Luke Schenn. hmmm...Hey never dis an authentic autograph!

More Jarret Stoll Autographs-IP

Ok, this one was a bonus. Two years ago at the Jarret Stoll golf event my wife went through the line getting my Team Canada jersey signed and I had these numbers, colors or numbers meant nothing. The guys were happy to sign them but I had no idea what to do with them. Each Oiler gave out 5x-9 cards signed too. Look not too bad inthe frame.
Players who signed the numbers:
Mark Hartigan #13
Jarret Stoll #16
Dennis Polonich
Scott Hartnell #17
Sheldon Brookbank#6
Brad Maer #34
Raffi Torres #13
Joffrey Lupul #15
Wade Brookbank #17

Raffi Torres

This one is from AJ SPORTS from NHL.com auction. Raffi is a nice guy. I got him on a couple of jerseys 2 years ago at the Stoll Golf thing. He is a big guy but is really cool.