New NHL Players added in November 2018

Another huge month of new NHL additions, with 42 new people added...almost all of which arrived from Shoebox Legends. With these new people (And as always, I mean hockey players, not specifically NHL players) it brings my total up to 2881 different people, now only 34 behind the NBA for the lead in number of different people in my collection! That's pretty amazing when you think about it, because I've been collecting the NBA avidly for most of my life...I've been collecting the NHL avidly for less than 2 years. I'll have more on that topic pretty soon...at the rate I'm adding cards and people to my collection the NHL will take the top spot in January, if not sooner, and I will make a post about it when it happens. (as I write this, on December 8th, the NBA lead is back up to 43 as I took in a bunch of rookies in trade in the past two days. I also took in some new hockey to keep the lead from getting much larger- I brought in 21 new NBA players in two days!)

For now, here is a gallery of all the people I added to my collection in November, with minimal commentary.

2015-16 Ice Rookie Relic Jumbos #RRJ-NG

2012-13 Score #201

2012-13 Score First Goal #FG15

Documenting the history of the sport sometimes means including people you are not particularly fond of.

2012-13 Score #363

2012-13 Score Gold Rush #260

2012-13 Score #455

I was sure Kassian was already present in my collection. But I was wrong. He is now.

1990-91 Score American #417

1990-91 Score American #384

The above cards all came from a repack I purchased at my local Target on November 2nd. The remaining cards in the set came from Shane of Shoebox Legends, from 3 separate mailings! (One from 2017 that I've held for my Card of the Day project, one in September of this year and one that showed up in November)

2007-08 ITG O Canada #18

 Please tell me he has a brother named Rico.

2007-08 ITG O Canada #22

2007-08 ITG O Canada #34

2007-08 ITG O Canada #41

 Lady hockey players very much count for the project

2008-09 ITG O Canada #43

2007-18 ITG Between the Pipes #19

2007-08 ITG Between the Pipes #31

2007-08 ITG Between the Pipes #33

2007-08 ITG Between the Pipes #36

2007-08 ITG Between the Pipes #46

2007-08 ITG Between The Pipes #52

2007-08 ITG Between the Pipes #55

I really love how well covered hockey is. Even minor leagues get cards! (and by minor I mean non-NHL)

2008--09 O-Pee-Chee Gold #105

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Gold #229

2009-10 Victory #338

2006-07 Victory #326

2006-07 O-Pee-Chee #44

2006-07 O-Pee-Chee #49

2006-07 O-Pee-Chee #228

2006-07 Fleer #169

1993-94 Parkhurst #536

1991-92 Pro Set French #81

2014-15 O-Pee-Chee #424

All the rest of the month came from the mailing from Shane that showed up on November 19th.

2007-08 Upper Deck #266

2007-08 Upper Deck #325

2007-08 Upper Deck #403

2007-08 Upper Deck #406

2007-08 Upper Deck #438

2012-13 O-Pee-Chee Retro #187

2012-13 O-Pee-Chee Retro #552

2006-07 Upper Deck #260

 A little hard to read, this is Niko Kapanen.

2010-11 Upper Deck #46

1991-92 Score Bilingual #350

And that brings me up to 2883 hockey players in my collection. (I discovered that I missed adding several people to my Excel chart during December) NBA sits at 2915 at the conclusion of November...the NHL is inching ever closer to taking the lead. Both sports saw moderately large increases in December, and there's still 12 days left of the year as I type this...so both numbers could still grow. I'll be very curious to see how the numbers look at the end of the year! Now that the hard work of putting together the Cardboard History Gallery is over, I should be able to get the new people of December scanned at a much more prompt pace- I didn't finish the November people until December 19th! I got the other sport and non-sport people ready in the same scan so expect to see that post tomorrow.