I finally typed up the list of NHL sets missing from my collection. I had made notes when I was creating my paper listing a while back...I don't remember when I finished. Last summer maybe? I'm sure I wrote a post about it but I can't remember. I do know that nothing newer than 2016-17 was on the paper list. Ever since, though, I've been putting off typing up the list, for no real reason other than the (seemingly) million other things I'm always trying to do at the same time. Today, it was too cold and wet to work on models (actually snowing, on April 10th! Crazy year) and I decided I needed to make this a priority...so I did it, finally. And it wasn't as easy as just copying over what I wrote well over a year ago now. I had gotten some sets but forgot to cross them off, and I only started keeping notes with 1992-93 Bowman. NHL cards started being produced in the 1920s, so I had a bit of work ahead of me. I ended up with three windows open, cross checking off my typed list, with the Cardboard History Gallery, checking to see if the set had an album. If it did, that meant it was in my collection, and I removed it from the typed list and crossed it off the paper list. I also had a window open with the Database and was checking against my collection on there. I also used that to check the cards pre-1992-93. It's a good thing I did, too, because I missed one that I was sure I had, but I don't. By checking the albums to see what I had vs. what existed on the Database, I realized I was missing 1986-87 O-Pee-Chee from my collection.
Even though the NHL is now what most of my collecting is, there's still a massive amount of sets missing- 223 listed, although I did include two not released yet, and one that was released this week. I also included the three main sets issued before the NHL was founded. Although not technically NHL sets, they absolutely count towards the collection. Unfortunately for me, 50 of them are 1980s and older, and while it may not seem like 80s are hard to find, only one of the 80s is NOT a sticker set. the aforementioned 87-87 OPC set. Stickers are MUCH less common than cards, so they will be about as challenging as the vintage cards on the list- 37 of which are Original 6 era or older.
Honestly, I don't expect to ever have any cards from many of the earlier sets. They are just too costly; that's history I won't be able to document. However, there's still a bunch of modern sets to work on. And the work has already started, because if you remember the packs SumoMenkoMan sent me last summer, which I wrote about a few months ago, three of the missing sets were included! Not only will I be able to get these cards represented, I have an actual pack to open. I also have 3 of the sets waiting to ship from COMC, although I don't know when I will actually be able to do that with the virus situation going on. I've actually been holding off on opening the packs until I could type the chart up and double check it.
What I'm NOT going to do is go out and hunt down cards from each of these sets like I did when I made the NBA list several years ago. I nabbed almost all of them on COMC in one fell swoop, going in and just buying the cheapest card available just to have the set represented in my collection. It was a bit of a rush when I did it, but I find that it wasn't really all that fun, and now I don't have the enjoyment of getting a new set totally at random, other than newly issued sets. With the NHL cards, I'm going to take it as they come...and enjoy the thrill of the hunt. I still have some of the store-made repacks I have held since 2017 and boxes upon boxes of cards sent to me by other collectors...what treasures await me in them? Only time will tell.
The list, like my lists for NBA, NASCAR and some non-sport sets, is always available from the
Sets Missing from my Collection page in the top of every post, but I've also copy & pasted it below. As I get the missing sets, I will remove them, so by C&Ping it here, it will be a record of the sets that were missing from my collection at the time I created the chart.
Please note that this is only major sets. It doesn't include promos, team sets, lower levels, International, etc...all of which I collect and want to have. This is just mainstream sets. Underlined sets are simply year breaks, and the sets struck through are those that I have coming to me already- the three packs from Ryan, and the cards waiting with COMC.
1910-11 Imperial Tobacco
1911-12 Imperial Tobacco
1912-13 Imperial Tobacco (Although the three Imperial tobacco sets predate the NHL, they were for the league the NHL spun out of and I would count them just the same)
1923-24 William Paterson
1924-25 Champ's Cigarettes
1924-25 William Paterson
1925-26 Unknown producer
1926-27 Unknown producer
1933-34 Unknown producer (Labeled as Anonymous V129 by Burdick)
1933-34 Canadian Gum
1933-34 Hamilton Gum
1933-34 O-Pee-Chee
1933-34 World Wide Gum Ice Kings
1934-35 O-Pee-Che
1935-36 O-Pee-Chee
1936-37 O-Pee-Chee
1937-38 O-Pee-Chee
1937-38 World Wide Gum
1939-40 O-Pee-Chee
1940-41 O-Pee-Chee
1952-53 Parkhurst
1953-54 Parkhurst
1955-56 Parkhurst
1957-58 Parkhurst
1958-59 Parkhurst
1958-59 Topps
1959-60 Parkhurst
1960-61 Parkhurst
1961-62 Parkhurst
1961-62 Topps Pending
1962-63 Parkhurst
1963-64 Parkhurst
1965-66 Topps
1968-69 O-Pee-Chee
1974-75 O-Pee-Chee WHA
1975-76 O-Pee-Chee WHA
1976-77 O-Pee-Chee WHA
1981-82 O-Pee-Chee Stickers
1982-83 O-Pee-Chee Stickers
1983-84 O-Pee-Chee Stickers
1983-84 Topps Stickers
1984-85 O-Pee-Chee Stickers
1985-86 O-Pee-Chee Stickers
1986-87 O-Pee-Chee
1986-87 O-Pee-Chee Stickers
1987-88 O-Pee-Chee Stickers
1987-88 Panini Stickers
1988-89 O-Pee-Chee Stickers
1988-89 Panini Stickers
1989-90 O-Pee-Chee Stickers
1990-91 Panini Stickers
1991-92 Panini Stickers
1992-93 Bowman
1992-93 Panini Stickers
1994-95 Panini Stickers
1996-97 Donruss Canadian Ice
1996-97 Fleer Picks
1996-97 Panini Stickers
1997-98 Leaf International Stars
1997-98 Pacific Paramount Pending
1997-98 Pacific Revolution
1997-98 Panini Stickers
1997-98 Pinnacle Bee Hive
1997-98 SP Authentic
1997-98 SPx
1997-98 Upper Deck Diamond Vision
1998-99 Pacific Revolution
1998-99 Panini Stickers
1999-00 O-Pee-Chee
1999-00 Aurora
1999-00 Panini Stickers
1999-00 Revolution
1999-00 Ultimate Victory
1999-00 Victory
2000-01 O-Pee-Chee Pending
2000-01 Pacific Private Stock Draft Day
2000-01 Pacific Private Stock Titanium
2000-01 Panini Stickers
2000-01 SP Game Used
2000-01 Topps Gold Label
2001-02 Fleer Legacy
2001-02 Pacific Private Stock Titanium Draft Day
2001-02 SP Game Used
2001-02 NHL Legends
2001-02 UD Playmakers Limited Pending
2001-02 UD Premier
2001-02 Upper Deck Stanley Cup Champs
2001-02 Top Shelf
2002-03 Between the Pipes
2002-03 In the Game Used
2002-03 MVP
2002-03 SP Game Used
2002-03 Upper Deck Classic Portraits
2002-03 Premier Collection
2003-04 Be A Player Memorabilia
2003-04 Be A Player Ultimate Memorabilia
2003-04 In the Game Used Signature Series
2003-04 In the Game VIP
2003-04 Pacific Complete
2003-04 Invincible
2003-04 Private Stock Reserve
2003-04 Private Stock Reserve Titanium
2003-04 Panini Stickers
2003-04 Parkhurst Original Six Boston Bruins
2003-04 Parkhurst Original Six Chicago Blackhawks
2003-04 Parkhurst Original Six Montreal Canadiens
2003-04 Parkhurst Original Six Toronto Maple Leafs
2003-04 Parkhurst Rookie
2003-04 Topps Pristene
2003-04 Honor Roll
2003-04 Trilogy
2003-04 Premier
2004-05 In the Game Franchises Canadian
2004-05 In the Game Franchises US West
2004-05 In the Game Franchises Update
2004-05 UD Legendary Signatures
2004-05 Upper Deck
2004-05 Legends Classics
2004-05 Ultimate Collection
2005-06 Artifacts
2005-06 Be A Player
2005-06 Panini Stickers
2005-06 Upper Deck The Cup
2005-06 Ultimate Collection
2006-07 Artifacts
2006-07 Panini Stickers
2006-07 SP Game Used
2006-07 Upper Deck Mini Jersey
2006-07 Upper Deck Sweet Shot
2006-07 Upper Deck The Cup
2006-07 Ultimate Collection
2007-08 Hot Prospects
2007-08 O-Pee-Chee Premier
2007-08 Trilogy
2007-08 Upper Deck Mini Jersey
2007-08 Upper Deck Sweet Shot
2007-08 Upper Deck The Cup
2007-08 Ultimate Collection Pending
2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Premier
2008-09 Ovation
2008-09 Panini Stickers
2008-09 SP Game Used
2008-09 Trilogy
2008-09 UD Black
2008-09 Upper Deck The Cup
2008-09 Ultimate Collection
2009-10 Be A Player
2009-10 Ice
2009-10 O-Pee-Chee Premier
2009-10 Ovation
2009-10 Panini Stickers
2009-10 UD Black
2009-10 Upper Deck The Cup
2009-10 Ultimate Collection
2010-11 Adrenalyn XL
2010-11 Crown Royale
2010-11 Ice
2010-11 Panini Dominion
2010-11 Limited
2010-11 Upper Deck The Cup
2010-11 Ultimate Collection
2011-12 Ice
2011-12 Panini Dominion
2011-12 Panini Prime
2011-12 Panini Titanium
2011-12 Ultimate Collection
2012-13 Classics Signatures
2012-13 Panini Dominion
2012-13 SP Authentic
2012-13 SP Game Used
2012-13 Upper Deck The Cup
2013-14 Crown Royale
2013-14 Ice
2013-14 National Treasures
2013-14 Panini Dominion
2013-14 Playbook
2013-14 Panini Prime
2013-14 Panini Stickers
2013-14 Totally Certified
2013-14 SP Game Used
2013-14 Upper Deck The Cup
2014-15 Ice
2014-15 Panini Stickers
2014-15 SP Game Used
2014-15 SPx
2014-15 Trilogy
2014-15 UD Premier
2014-15 Upper Deck The Cup
2014-15 Ultimate Collection
2015-16 Black Diamond
2015-16 Panini Stickers
2015-16 UD Black
2015-16 UD Premier
2015-16 Upper Deck The Cup
2016-17 Black Diamond
2016-17 UD Premier
2016-17 Upper Deck The Cup
2016-17 Ultimate Collection
2017-18 Black Diamond
2017-18 SP Game Used
2017-18 UD Premier
2017-18 Ultimate Collection
2018-19 Black Diamond
2018-19 Chronology
2018-19 Clear Cut
2018-19 Compendium
2018-19 Engrained
2018-19 Ice
2018-19 SP Authentic
2018-19 UD Premier
2018-19 Upper Deck The Cup
2019-20 Black Diamond
2019-20 Chronology
2019-20 Credentials (pending release)
2019-20 Engrained
2019-20 Ice
2019-20 O-Pee-Chee Platinum
2019-20 Stature (pending release)
2019-20 Synergy
2019-20 Trilogy
2019-20 UD Premier
2019-20 Upper Deck Buybacks
2019-20 Ultimate Collection
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ReplyDeleteYes indeed!
DeleteI can definitely help with some of these, I'll go through my hockey cards next week in advance of my FSF post and set some aside for you.
ReplyDeleteThank you! That would be much appreciated.
DeleteI should also have a card from at least a couple of those years for you. Might take me a week or two to look through the list, but I'll keep you posted. Always good to see another hockey fan out there!
ReplyDeleteThank you, much appreciated!
DeleteI know a good handful of people who are type collectors....that doesn't do it for me. I have to complete sets to get satisfaction. You have whittled the list down pretty well it seems for colleting hockey for such a short period of time.
ReplyDeleteWell, I'd complete them all if I could, but that's not in the budget, unfortunately. I have you, Shane, Joe, Douglas Chris and others to thank for helping me get as far as I have.
DeleteVerry nice post
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