Black History Month Hockey Spotlight

 Time to look at how my collections of the spotlighted Black NHLers have grown since last year at this time! I knew exactly how many I had of each person for the first time and now I will truly know how my collection has grown for these players, something I have not thought to track for anyone else. 

First up is P.K. Subban, who last year at this time I had 47 cards of, with 39 scanned.

I am still at 47 cards of him but I'm to 41 cards scanned. That's not really much of an update. I knew with him being retired he would stop getting new cards but there's still a whole bunch of old ones I don't have yet. 

2021-22 MVP Blue

Jarome Iginla also stayed put at 44 cards. Last year I was at 26 cards scanned and I'm now up to 29, so that's a good improvement. 

2001-02 Victory

The next player I highlighted was Ryan Reaves, who had 11 cards. He now has 13, so finally an addition! I have 12 of his 13 cards in my collection scanned, which is a very high percentage for anyone with more than 10 cards. 

2023-24 O-Pee-Chee

Anthony Duclair has been on a few different teams since I wrote my profile of him and now plays for the Islanders, although with Optimum being jerks and pulling MSG Network I can't see any of the three local teams. He also had a two card addition, bringing him to 21. Of those, I have 18 scanned.

2023-24 O-Pee-Chee

K'Andre Miller of the Rangers, my favorite team, had 5 cards in my collection at this time last year, and currently has 6, with my most recent addition coming on the first day of this month when I got his Metal Universe base card at my local card show. (Go back three posts to see a photo of it)

I mentioned in last year's post that I had gotten a Topps Now card of him but hadn't scanned it yet. I now have. I have only 4 of his 6 cards scanned so it's possible the other one besides the one I just got is also Topps Now now that I think about it. 

I only wrote one new player bio last year and that was Quinton Byfield of the Kings. At the point last year I had 11 cards of him with 8 scanned. I am now up to 14 cards of him, and all 14 are scanned! Wow, 100%, which I didn't even realize until I just pulled up his folder to check! I'm not going to post all my new additions just in case I don't get any more new cards for next year, if it wasn't obvious I haven't been adding new cards at the rate I once did. 

2021-22 SPx Finite Rookies Gold

I picked this card up at the National, and it's a lot cooler in hand than it is in a scan. The large logo, the Kings logo, his number, the SN and parts of the borders are gold foil. His picture and his name are clear plastic sandwiched between the front and back halves of the card. 

I only have one more profile written and ready to post- if there's anyone you want to see all I have scans of, let me know in the comments and I will whip up a post.