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Post by Colorado Avalanche on Nov 15, 2021 14:19:05 GMT -5
Not sure who here collects hockey memorabilia but I've been interested in it for a while and made some large purchases recently. This thread can be used to show each other our collections and these are the items that I have recently purchased.  Signed Wayne Gretzky card on the Oilers  Signed Wayne Gretzky puck  Signed Wayne Gretzky jersey |
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Post by Colorado Avalanche on Nov 15, 2021 14:20:49 GMT -5
 Signed Wayne Gretzky card on the Kings  Signed Auston Matthews card  Signed Sidney Crosby card |
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Post by Colorado Avalanche on Nov 15, 2021 14:23:01 GMT -5
 Auston Matthews and Connor McDavid jersey relics card (a hockey card with a piece of a game worn jersey attached)  Signed Mats Sundin picture  Connor McDavid 2016-17 Platinum Profiles card (not worth a lot at the moments but I still love the card) |
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Post by Colorado Avalanche on Nov 15, 2021 14:32:29 GMT -5
 Winning card of a Sidney Crosby Jersey Relics card (this years version of the Matthews and McDavid cards above) I also have a signed Mitch Marner puck, a pre rookie Eric Lindros card and a rookie Sidney Crosby card (in terrible shape because my younger self is a douchebag). I just bought a signed puck from the HHOF as well but you get a random signature so I'll find out who I got when I get the puck. |
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Post by Toronto Maple Leafs on Nov 15, 2021 15:37:37 GMT -5
If you're in Ontario, I strongly suggest following this facebook page, it's of a bunch of guys in Western Ontario that are REALLY into this, and trade and buy/sell and show off their stuff on a regular basis, pretty fun little group. www.facebook.com/groups/333921575025240 |
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Post by Toronto Maple Leafs on Nov 15, 2021 15:37:59 GMT -5
Also, a lot of this stuff is really really cool. I'll share some of my own soon  |
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Post by Colorado Avalanche on Nov 15, 2021 15:53:05 GMT -5
If you're in Ontario, I strongly suggest following this facebook page, it's of a bunch of guys in Western Ontario that are REALLY into this, and trade and buy/sell and show off their stuff on a regular basis, pretty fun little group. www.facebook.com/groups/333921575025240I'll look into it, thanks! |
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Post by Colorado Avalanche on Nov 15, 2021 15:53:21 GMT -5
Also, a lot of this stuff is really really cool. I'll share some of my own soon Looking forward to seeing it! |
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Post by Colorado Avalanche on Nov 16, 2021 9:49:02 GMT -5
I bought this today, Gordie Howe signed card from the 1970-71 season.  |
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Post by Edmonton Oilers on Nov 16, 2021 10:43:00 GMT -5
Gordie Howe has such a classy signature. Got his autograph during a damned skate-a-thon fundraiser thing. We got to actually skate with Gordie Howe. It was unreal and one of my favourite hockey memories. I think Jean Beliveau's is the nicest/classiest in my collection. My Maurice Richard autograph is one of my favourites because i got him and his brother Henri to sign the same puck, but he signed right after Henri so he smudged the shit out of Henri's autograph. I pretend he did it on purpose, making it such a treasure for my collection |
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Post by Edmonton Oilers on Nov 16, 2021 10:59:49 GMT -5
After my first or second year of hockey, we "retired" my goalie stick (I outgrew it) and any time we had a chance to get a cool goalie to autograph it, we did. Here are the signatures, and their stories:
- David Dorosh - A Local Orillia Terriers goalie playing in Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League. I think this was the league the Barrie Colts were in before being promoted. I loved watching this guy play when I was a kid. He amounted to nothing, but I still value his sig. Also, he had to sign my stick twice, because the first time he signed in pen, on the paint, and it just rubbed right off like, 3 hours after he signed it. Went back to a practice and he was kind enough to sign again.
- Craig Billington - I went to his goalie school in Gravenhurst for a week in the summer. Got stick and a card signed.
- Ron Tugnutt (my aunt and uncle knew him for some reason. Met him at a rink, and he invited me to his cottage for a BBQ. I was young, shy, hated social gatherings, and had a baseball game, so I politely declined. One of the biggest regrets of my childhood in retrospect. Stupid child.
- Gump Worsley - he did an autograph signing at our local mall. No exciting story here.
- Johnny Bower - he did an autograph signing at our local mall. With Gump Worsley. You had to buy tickets for each guys autograph separately. I went to get both, they told me only Gump was there, so I only got Gump. Then when I got to the signature desk, one of the handlers said, "What, you don't want the legendary Johnny Bower on there as well?" And I was like, "Yeah, but they said he wasn't here". Guy points to a dude in a ball cap right in front of me and says "He's right there". I was embarrassed, because I knew what Bower looked like, but didn't recognize him with the cap on covering head and half his face. So I ran over and got another ticket and got both sigs on there.
Later on, I went to some Leafs scrimmage practice game thing I think in Barrie - I don't think it was quite a blue vs. white game, but it might have been? Anyways, took the stick just in case, but chickened out when it came down to "Do I want to try to bring this autographed stick into this arena" time. But if I did, I almost certainly could have added Curtis Joseph to it, as he there and stopped lots of times to sign autographs.
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Post by Colorado Avalanche on Nov 16, 2021 14:45:45 GMT -5
Gordie Howe has such a classy signature. Got his autograph during a damned skate-a-thon fundraiser thing. We got to actually skate with Gordie Howe. It was unreal and one of my favourite hockey memories. I think Jean Beliveau's is the nicest/classiest in my collection. My Maurice Richard autograph is one of my favourites because i got him and his brother Henri to sign the same puck, but he signed right after Henri so he smudged the shit out of Henri's autograph. I pretend he did it on purpose, making it such a treasure for my collection You gotta show these bad boys! |
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Post by Colorado Avalanche on Nov 16, 2021 14:46:50 GMT -5
After my first or second year of hockey, we "retired" my goalie stick (I outgrew it) and any time we had a chance to get a cool goalie to autograph it, we did. Here are the signatures, and their stories: - David Dorosh - A Local Orillia Terriers goalie playing in Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League. I think this was the league the Barrie Colts were in before being promoted. I loved watching this guy play when I was a kid. He amounted to nothing, but I still value his sig. Also, he had to sign my stick twice, because the first time he signed in pen, on the paint, and it just rubbed right off like, 3 hours after he signed it. Went back to a practice and he was kind enough to sign again. - Craig Billington - I went to his goalie school in Gravenhurst for a week in the summer. Got stick and a card signed. - Ron Tugnutt (my aunt and uncle knew him for some reason. Met him at a rink, and he invited me to his cottage for a BBQ. I was young, shy, hated social gatherings, and had a baseball game, so I politely declined. One of the biggest regrets of my childhood in retrospect. Stupid child. - Gump Worsley - he did an autograph signing at our local mall. No exciting story here. - Johnny Bower - he did an autograph signing at our local mall. With Gump Worsley. You had to buy tickets for each guys autograph separately. I went to get both, they told me only Gump was there, so I only got Gump. Then when I got to the signature desk, one of the handlers said, "What, you don't want the legendary Johnny Bower on there as well?" And I was like, "Yeah, but they said he wasn't here". Guy points to a dude in a ball cap right in front of me and says "He's right there". I was embarrassed, because I knew what Bower looked like, but didn't recognize him with the cap on covering head and half his face. So I ran over and got another ticket and got both sigs on there. Later on, I went to some Leafs scrimmage practice game thing I think in Barrie - I don't think it was quite a blue vs. white game, but it might have been? Anyways, took the stick just in case, but chickened out when it came down to "Do I want to try to bring this autographed stick into this arena" time. But if I did, I almost certainly could have added Curtis Joseph to it, as he there and stopped lots of times to sign autographs. That's pretty sick, love that you got a Johnny Bower signature, would have loved to meet him before he passed. |
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Post by Toronto Maple Leafs on Nov 16, 2021 15:36:26 GMT -5
I have an autographed picture dedicated to me from Randy Couture.
One dedicated to me from Bobby Hull.
And another one that's autographed and dedicated from the Tampa Bay Lightning cheerleaders lol
I also have an autographed Pavel Bure jersey. I just picked up an autographed Jason Spezza jersey.
I have an autographed Eric Lindros pre-NHL Team Canada plaque/portrait. Lindros is the only player in NHL history to play for Team Canada in World Cup before playing a single NHL game.
I also have an autographed Don Cherry hockey stick that has a cool little story. Hockey Canada wanted to make some sticks for their world junior team, but there was a misfire for getting them made and all the sticks came in made from Russia. Because of the error, they didn't want to use them for their world juniors, so they looked to get rid of them and Don Cherry scooped them up, signed them, and then donated them to minor league hockey across Canada to raffle off for their hockey programs. In Kirkland Lake, which is a pretty French community, they hated Don Cherry. This was for the 1995 World Juniors in Alberta. My dad was one of the higher ups for the Kirkland Lake Minor Hockey and applied for the stick. When it came in, the rest of the board refused it, told him they would never use it because they didn't respect Cherry, so they told him to "destroy it". Instead, we kept it.
I also have a portrait of Cherry doing an interview at the World Juniors in the 80s, so I'm going to put up his stick above the portrait and hang the Spezza jersey on one side and Bure jersey on the other.
Coincidentally, that year for the World Juniors Canada beat Russia in the Gold medal game, so it's kind of a neat little "meta" set up for those pieces.
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Post by Colorado Avalanche on Nov 16, 2021 15:59:34 GMT -5
I have an autographed picture dedicated to me from Randy Couture. One dedicated to me from Bobby Hull. And another one that's autographed and dedicated from the Tampa Bay Lightning cheerleaders lol I also have an autographed Pavel Bure jersey. I just picked up an autographed Jason Spezza jersey. I have an autographed Eric Lindros pre-NHL Team Canada plaque/portrait. Lindros is the only player in NHL history to play for Team Canada in World Cup before playing a single NHL game. I also have an autographed Don Cherry hockey stick that has a cool little story. Hockey Canada wanted to make some sticks for their world junior team, but there was a misfire for getting them made and all the sticks came in made from Russia. Because of the error, they didn't want to use them for their world juniors, so they looked to get rid of them and Don Cherry scooped them up, signed them, and then donated them to minor league hockey across Canada to raffle off for their hockey programs. In Kirkland Lake, which is a pretty French community, they hated Don Cherry. This was for the 1995 World Juniors in Alberta. My dad was one of the higher ups for the Kirkland Lake Minor Hockey and applied for the stick. When it came in, the rest of the board refused it, told him they would never use it because they didn't respect Cherry, so they told him to "destroy it". Instead, we kept it. I also have a portrait of Cherry doing an interview at the World Juniors in the 80s, so I'm going to put up his stick above the portrait and hang the Spezza jersey on one side and Bure jersey on the other. Coincidentally, that year for the World Juniors Canada beat Russia in the Gold medal game, so it's kind of a neat little "meta" set up for those pieces. All of those are sick but Spezza... Ottawa or Toronto? |
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