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I have spent quite some time talking about cool hockey collectibles including my favorite autograph and my favorite hockey card, but I haven’t yet talked about one of my most favorite items that graced the walls of my childhood bedroom…the hockey posters!
If you have a “hockey shrine” in your house like I do, then you will certainly have some decorative hockey photographs or posters. If you don’t, I suggest checking out the NHL Posters at All Posters.com
to find a huge selection of reasonably priced posters.
Framed Hockey Prints
They have a huge selection of regular photos and poster prints, but I was most impressed with the selection and style of the Framed NHL Prints available.
Here is one of my favorite examples of the framed NHL memorabilia available.
Buy The 1980 U.S. Champion Framed Hockey Print HereNHL Player Posters
Every hockey player, at least when they were young, had posters of their favorite players over their bed - I know I did. All Posters also has a vast selection of current NHL Player posters in various sizes, like this cool one of Sidney Crosby.
Buy This Sidney Crosby Poster
If you would like to search a poster of your favorite player, just type the name in the search box below to see samples of the posters available - it’s that easy!
There you have it hockey fans! I hope that you find that perfect poster you were looking for to complete your own hockey shrine!
It’s getting close to hockey season again and I was just cruising around Ebay looking for some great deals on pretty much anything to do with hockey and, since I can’t buy everything on the list, I thought I would share!
For those Chicago Blackhawk fans with deep pockets out there, here is an absolute one- of- a- kind deal…Starting at just $1000.00!
An original Blackhawks drawing of Stan Mikita, Bobby Hull, and Glenn Hall
This unique drawing has a fascinating story behind it. The concept of the sculpture was first proposed to Bill Wirtz, the owner of the Blackhawks. The statue was supposed to be stationed opposite the famous Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls “Spirit” statue in front of the United Center. However, the concept was rejected.
This is a unique original framed drawing of a dream that never came true — a monumental bronze statue celebrating three Chicago Blackhawks legends — Stan Mikita, Bobby Hull and Glenn Hall envisioned by world renowned sculptor Omri Amrany:
- Pencil drawing on archival paper
- Framed dimensions 34 × 46 inches
- Drawing 26 × 30 inches
- Signed in pencil LR
- Dated 1999 LR
- Handsome and very complimentary framing treatment
If that is a little out of your price range, there were a few more reasonable deals on other hockey collectibles on Ebay.
A few days ago I wrote the story of my favorite hockey card. I thought it only fitting to follow that up with the story of how I received my first and favorite autograph.
It was about 4:30 PM and I remember it like yesterday; the wind was chilling me to the bone. I was standing outside the players entrance to the Winnipeg Arena waiting for the Montreal Canadiens’ bus to arrive.
I had waited for this day for months This was the day I would finally get my favorite player’s autograph. I can remember how excited I was, a seven year old boy, with his dad standing behind him as the bus pulled up.
There were a bunch of other autograph hounds around me, but I couldn’t hear them or see them. In my mind, I could only see one thing…my first autograph!
As the bus pulled closer I could smell the familiar Diesel fuel exhaust as it floated through the frigid Manitoba air. I was starting to get nervous; I had never asked for an autograph before. What should I say? I know they have probably heard it a thousand times before, but today was my first.
As the bus pulled to a stop I could feel my heart starting to race and a lump growing in my throat as I tried to swallow.
It was time.
The players filed off the bus one by one and I watched, looking for my chance as they passed by. There they were, Larry Robinson, Patrick Roy, Bob Gainey, Stephane Richer, Chris Chelios, Guy Carbonneau, Bobby Smith, Claude Lemieux and I waited quietly as they made ther way past the autograph seekers and into the arena.
I finally saw my target and, with a small shove from Dad, moved forward to greet him. I said “excuse me sir…Mr. Naslund, may I please have your autograph?”
I don’t remember him saying anything, he just reached out and grabbed my notepad and pen. As he signed, I stood there like a statue as if I had been literally frozen in that moment. I couldn’t muster any more than a “thank-you” as he passed the pen and paper back to me, but there it was…the autograph.
I still have the autograph in my box of Montreal collectibles today and it is still my favorite one.
Do you have a favorite autograph?
Image courtesy: Canadiens.com
I haven’t seriously collected hockey cards since 1991, but I will occasionally pick up a few when something catches my eye.
It is during these “dog days of summer” when I long for that elusive “hockey fix” that I find myself rummaging through the boxes under my stairs looking for a long-forgotten collectible.
I dug out my favorite hockey card today and, while admiring it for a while, I thought that I would share it with NHL Digest readers before I pack it away for another year or two.
I distinctly remember that August day when I received a box of old hockey cards from my cousin who was cleaning out his room at my aunt’s house before leaving for his first year of University.
Scott dropped off a big cardboard box full of old hockey cards from the early 1980’s and said “I thought you might like these, I’ve got no more use for them”. I couldn’t believe my luck. All of these old cards that he had haphazardly thrown in a box without any regard for their value…all for me. Indeed, I did like them and I still have every last one of them to this day.
I spent the remainder of my summer vacation sorting and logging each card in that box. There were days when I would spend hours in the basement with that box of cards, putting each one in particular order by year and card number.
I must have read that Beckett magazine a thousand times over to make sure that the most valuable cards received a protective plastic cover. I needed to defend my new found treasures from the evils of creases and moisture!
There were more than one thousand hockey cards in that box, but one in particular always stood out as my favorite.
It was O-Pee-Chee card #289 from the 1980-1981 season.
Mark Messier’s Rookie Card!
Man how I loved that card. The picture that graced the front of that card was forever etched in my mind…the now familiar stance of “The Moose” hunched over to take a face-off with his stick resting across his thighs.
If you would like your own Mark Messier Rookie Card, I found a couple for sale on ebay that really are not that expensive.