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.

New NHL Players added to my collection in October 2018

With all the crazy stuff that happened with my computers in the past month, I didn't get to do a lot of scanning in October. Add that to playing catchup with what needed to be done, I have not had the time to put the effort into this post. Finally...finally...on November 20th, I'm writing this post. Thanks to Shane of Shoebox Legends it's a plentiful amount of people, too!

2017-18 Upper Deck #394

2017-18 Upper Deck UD Canvas #C233

1997-98 Score New York Rangers #13

1997-98 Score New York Rangers #18

The first two came from the last packs of the hobby box of UD Series 2 I bought in June. The two promo Rangers came from the complete set a local dealer gave to me for my birthday, as I recounted in my Card of the Day post.
The next three Young Guns all came from a purchase I made.

2017-18 Upper Deck #205

2017-18 Upper Deck #236

2017-18 Upper Deck #225

The next cards I got for my birthday on the 18th.

1972-73 O-Pee-Chee #194

1979-80 Topps #240

1972-73 O-Pee-Chee #110

1971-72 O-Pee-Chee #9

2018-19 MVP #238

The next two cards came to me via trade on the Trading Card Database. With them and others, I now have every veteran player card from 17-18 UD Series 1!

2017-18 Upper Deck #261

2017-18 Upper Deck #33

When I went to thank the dealer for the birthday present, I picked up three vintage cards and he gave me an Islanders team set, which yielded me 4 new players. The player from 1959-60 actually was already present in my collection.

1964-65 Topps #49

1962-63 Topps #64

1995-96 Score #305

1995-96 Score #309

Everyone else in this post...and there's a lot of them...came to me from Shane of Shoebox Legends. He's happy to get rid of stuff, I'm happy to add stuff, it works out well! Most of the November post will be from him, too.

2007-08 MVP #48

2007-08 MVP #296

2007-08 MVP #314

2007-08 MVP #324

2007-08 MVP #345

2007-08 MVP #349

2012-13 In the Game Heroes and Prospects #110

Non-NHL players count. I guess I should call it "New Hockey players" rather than new NHL players, but I think you know what I mean.

1991-92 Score Canadian Bilingual #249

2005-06 Ultra Gold Medallion #228

 Name is hard to read, this is Chris Campoli.

2012-13 In the Game Heroes and Prospects #34

2012-13 In the Game Heroes and Prospects #90

2012-13 In the Game Heroes and Prospects #98

2011-12 SP Authentic Rookie Update #R32

My first card of 11-12 SPA as well.

2011-12 Score #273

2011-12 Score #345

1989-90 7th Inning Sketch #78

1989-90 7th Inning Sketch #80

1989-90 7th Inning Sketch #101

1989-90 7th Inning Sketch #110

1989-90 7th Inning Sketch #114

1989-90 7th Inning Sketch #115

1989-90 7th Inning Sketch #117

1989-90 7th Inning Sketch #124

Many of these minor league players appear to be One Hit Wonders, as well. (Meaning the only card they ever got)

2012-13 Upper Deck #204

2013-14 Upper Deck #244

Pretty sure this is my first YG from one of these two sets. I listed them in my paper listing a while ago now and I don't remember which set, though!

2009-10 Victory #204

2009-19 Ultra #216

2009-10 O-Pee-Chee #47

2009-10 O-Pee-Chee #134

 In a bit of a sad coincidence, I added both Derek Boogard and Steve Montador on the same day. Both died as a direct result of concussions received during game play.

2009-10 O-Pee-Chee #381

 I had a hard time not posting this card as a single card post and title it "Shane gave me the Finger!"

2009-10 O-Pee-Chee #386

2009-10 O-Pee-Chee #394

And even when I thought I had everything scanned, I had to go back and find one in my "waiting to be scanned" boxes...but luckily, I found it and got it scanned and it appears in this post. (The Vic Hadfield card)

But that's exactly 50 new people added to my hockey collection, bringing the total up to 2839 total people, which is now, already, less than 100 away from more different people than in my NBA collection, currently in my 22nd year with that sport.

Come back tomorrow to see the post for everyone else in my collection that's not NBA, NHL or NASCAR.