@Leonhard Romkey ....Johnny Bucyk was not an Indian ( native Canadian) be was born in Canada from Ukrainian decent. His nickname was “ The Chief”. Get your facts straight before posting.As for O’ Ree he is going into the hall as an person who broke the color barrier in the NHL, not for his hockey play.Just to be specific. Do some homework before posting crap online you racist clown.
Great video as usual, Chris! Your closing remarks gave me a thought for story time videos - it would be great if you could do some videos covering some of the great discoveries in the hobby. Ex. Al Rosen’s ‘52 Topps discovery, the Black Swamp find, and more recently, Uncle Jimmy’s Collection.
Ah yes, "Mr. Mint" - great dude... Back in the day I actually had some commons from his iconic 1952 Topps find which I personally purchased from him. Al was a really cool guy and I bought a bunch of cards from him at shows over the years.. I remember he would fill tons of 5,000 count box lids with mountains of literally random raw (not even sleeved) vintage cards - I mean there was anything vintage you could possibly imagine in those box lids - T206, Goudey, Play Ball, Bowman, Topps etc.. Al would sell them for a buck a piece - and it was nuts because some of the cards were in pretty good shape - not only that but, there were tons of stars and HOF'ers in the box lids as well. I mean I remember buying a G-VG Nolan Ryan Rookie, a VG Bench and an Ex Reggie Rookie from him for $20 bucks combined. Without a doubt "Mr. Mint" certainly lived up to the name "Mr. Mint" because it appeared if a card wasn't up to his standards he would sell it dirt cheap. But hey the guy did have 100's of 52 Topps #311 so beat up Ryan, Bench and Jackson Rookies were probably like commons to him, lol... I mean I remember going to a show in the mid-90's, I had no idea "Mr. Mint" was going to be there - but of course there he was the second you walked into the show - he was the first table you saw, dead ahead in front of you and I spent every penny I planned on spending at his tables, lol - not only that but I went home and got more money and spent that at his table, and that is the only time I have gone to a card show and had zero desire to check out the other tables because none of them could match what Mr. Rosen was selling, lol - at least not to me - and this wasn't a very big show at all, it was perhaps a 40 table show.. Oh and he brought some of the iconic cards from some of his finds and he would show them to anyone that asked... He had a couple of 52 Topps packs, among several other vintage packs he was showing off as well as a sealed pack of cigarettes with a tobacco card which looked almost brand new. It was almost like a baseball card museum, lol - it was just fantastic. And luckly I got to shop at his tables on several occasions during the 90's and he always had vintage cards for pennies on the dollar and of course plenty of vintage memorabilia which you would probably never seen in your life if it wasn't for him, lol.... The only thing is that I wish I would have known his show schedule in advance because I would have saved for months had I known he was going to be in my area at some of these shows I attended but the guy really popped up out of nowhere... I mean the guy was pretty humble factoring his status in the hobby considering he would do 40 table shows with no advertisement or anything - I mean if there was a "celebrity" in the hobby it was without question Al "Mr. Mint" Rosen, but unfortunately I read a few years back that he passed away, so the hobby world really lost a gem and a pioneer in the hobby...
Thank you for the list Chris. As a Boston guy I always wanted a nice Topps Bourque RC. I might start looking for a great-8 version while it's still reasonable.
I have a few of each Topps & OPC which I won via eBay for less than $25 bucks a pop on average. The lowest I paid for a Bourque Rookie was $4 bucks and some change for a scratched Topps, but outside of it being scratched it's a razor sharp card, probably the nicest I have.. Too bad being scratched despite it being otherwise flawless only makes it a PSA 5 card. I mean it's pack fresh and displays really well. It's essentially not worth much because it's scratched, but when I won it there was still some of that black "scratch-off" nonsense left on the card so I went ahead and carefully scratched the rest off so now it displays like an OPC and could easily pass for one from the front, obviously the backs are quite different tho... I'll say this much, I picked a really good time to get back into the hobby, and I picked a really good time to go on an 80's hockey "shopping spree"... A few years back I dropped like 2.5K on nothing but 80's hockey because it's the era I grew up in and I just had to have all of the rookies, lol.. Well I have all of the sets too but with this spike in value it's nice to see that I didn't flush my money down the toilet... I mean I didn't really buy for investment reasons but I'm not complaining, lol..
@@collectorinvestordealer Sure if you're looking for particular singles but you can still find a lot of these cards in hockey lots on eBay on the cheap - certainly for far less than what the card would cost you as a single... The thing is that some eBay sellers just title their listing as "Vintage Hockey Card Lot" or "Old Topps Hockey Cards" or with similar vague titles/descriptions, then you click the auction and it's a gold mine, lol..... But I have also had plenty of luck finding rookie singles with really cheap "BIN" prices just by clicking "newly listed"... I mean one time I found a NM-MT Topps Yzerman Rookie for $1.49 "Buy It Now" and 1 dollar shipping just checking out the newly listed auctions - and I was actually looking for a reasonably priced Yzerman Rookie for my 84/85 set so that was a fantastic find. The only problem with the card is that it's off-centered left to right 80/20, but other than that it's a really sharp card and there was absolutely no way at all that card would have lasted any longer had I not found it, lol.. for $2.49 shipped to my door? that's almost like some sort of magic, lol.
Great info Chris..While people were going nuts in 87-91 for the McGwires, Cansecos, Griffey etc...I was buying hockey, football and basketball..Unfortunately I owned a store and sold most of them..Still have a handful of vintage hockey and some sets ...A NOTE...The 1988 OPC Hull, Nieuwendyk, Shanahan were counterfeited along with Turgeon from the 1988 OPC set in the early 90's..P. S. The reason for the Sakic Topps being worth more its the price of the wax boxes..Topps cost 2x as much as OPC..
@Chicago Lady not yet but I'm planning to have some of them graded/authenticated. My husband and I only have a small PC of our favorite players. Mine is Bobby Clarke.
Great vid Chris. Brought back lots of memories. I was a card dealer in the early 90's (90-94) and luckily have many of the cards you showed. Most not graded though but in great condition. Happy to see my favorite player mentioned...Ron Francis! Now I do have several of his rookie card graded in PSA 9. My goal is to get it in PSA 10. Keep up the great work!
@@collectorinvestordealer Best years was buying packs of Upper Deck as soon as school finished.The cool dealer was giving us 20$ on the spot for our Bure-Roenick-Fedorov hahaha And the day i saw him make an undiscoled offer to someone who brought he most beautiful collection i ever saw it was those pre 60s i think maybe Cigarettes hockey cards before Topps i was 16 and drooling over these.Good vid as always!
great video lot of great value I have the joe Sakic and the messier both are about a psa 1 lol nice to see how my child hood hockey cards are supposed to look. Thanks for the great content.
Awesome video and information of the Hockey Star RC'S.. Although I did not buy box's of Hockey back then I did manage to obtain quite a bit through buying pack's and when buying large groups of card's/ collection's.. Well done Chris.. Stay safe homie..👍💕🔥⚾😷
One thing to worth mention on the Peter Stastny card that his 1981 O-Pee-Chee PSA 10 is selling 10x more than his 1981 Topps in PSA 10 and both of the cards are looking the same...strange
I would presume that's probably due to quantity of submissions, tho perhaps the OPC has a "continuous flaw"... I have noticed that both the Topps & OPC have centering issues, because it is somewhat difficult to find centered examples of both. It kinds reminds me of the 71-72 Topps & OPC where 90% of the cards are O/C... Then again it is 2021 and the increase in value for cards in general just seem to be random, lol..
@@Swoop187OG187 lets talk about centering issues aaaaarrrrgggggg lol Sold my Mario Lemieux rookie back in 95 for 50$ and i was lucky it was probably a grade 1 or 2 lol completly misscut like the edge of the card was where the picture started and the bottom must have miss 1 centimeter but still it was my only Mario rookie card.I still hold on to my OPC sets 81-82 82-83 83-84 84-85 Stastny-Coffey-Kurri-Fuhr-Francis-Yzerman-Lafontaine-Savard-Anderson and many more!
the OPC's, particularly this year, are notoriously prone to damage and bad centring, in all years there are significantly more topps than OPC on the market but this year is particularly brutal for that: for whatever reason there is a tremendous amount of 1981-82 topps hockey on the market. even more deflating for their market value is that most of the cards actually came out looking pretty good! centring and condition for the topps this year is all quite top notch, so it's quite easy to find high grades at low values (1972 topps hockey incidentally has the same issue - lots of cheap PSA 10s available). if you just care about the aesthetics of the card in relation to the price than it's certainly smarter to buy the topps (I do myself) but there is no doubt the OPC are rarer, more desirable and a better 'investment'
I had that Patrick Roy card and an older kid at my school tricked me into giving it to him. He traded me for a 'Wayne Gretzky rookie card', which I later learned was an 'anniversary series' replica, worth basically nothing.
A lot of hockey cards are found in KSA holders. Inconsistent graders, but sometimes they get it right. The trick is to identify the times they got it right, buy for the discount, crack and re-grade. Got a 10 Hull pre rookie UMD college card (my undergrad alma mater) that way. Great vid!
Love my Hockey cards.....!!! I have many of these rookies in various grades & they are the 1st cards I ever owned as a Kid !!! Thanks for the video..... Been hoping you'd do some hockey vids ..
All the walks to the store with pockets full of change to get 4 packs and chewing the gum till the jaw couldnt anymore hahaha they are all i found in my old toy boxes back in 1990.OPC 81-82 to 84-85 in strangely good conditions considering the moving these boxes went through.
@@mikescorpio13 lol.... same here..! Whats really killing me is I know I had a few Gretzky rookies as a kid. I distinctly remember the card & always thinking it was a boring looking card for such a great player. Where they are or what happened to them is lost down the memory hole
@@michaelcalland801 My dad was a collector of hockey cards and stamps.There was a drawer full of doubles us kids could play with but those shoe box with rubber band in his wardrobe !!! Never ever touch this.When he died mom threw them all away it was in 1984 when we moved.Mixed in my cards were some 68 69 and 71 OPC but nothing from 72 to 80.Howe and Orr + Orr trophies from 68 and randoms Marcel Dionne rookie.I learned later that his favorite player was Bobby Orr and it was strange since we lived north of Quebec did my dad knew his hockey like i do haha.Considering he must have started to collect maybe in the late 50s i wonder what was in those shoe boxes full sets or 200 Bobby Orr and Gordie Howe what a mystery.My older brother have the stamps collection but those cards must have been pristine mint since he was an adult collector unlike us kids.
Hey Chris, thanks for this list, like you I've been buying Yzerman rookie cards. I've got complete sets of most of these years. No Mario yet but I've been buying up his 2nd year and inserts. Hope to get lucky 🍀 on some of those. Have a good day buddy, cheers stay safe.
Can you please list all of them in the descriptions, you have some of the best videos on TH-cam. I have hundreds of millions of views on the "adult" tubes and truly appreciate what you do. I am also a DC/Baltimore native and love hearing your stories
Great video with very usable content. Hockey is sneaky in the US and probably overlooked by some collectors. There so many HOF RC cards that are cheap. I collected in the 80's and 90's as a kid. Over the past 2 years I have started picking up the guys I liked in the 80's/90s and for the most part there not expensive. There out there for the taking if you want upside cards. Curious did you or do you watch Hockey? I watched a lot of those great Edmonton Oilers teams as kid. Now I watch the Playoffs almost every year.
Thanks for the review of Hockey cards. They are my personal favorite as I'm a huge hockey fan being from Minnesota. The card I'm really looking forward to this year is Kirill Kaprizov of the Minnesota Wild rookie card. Think I'm going to be acquiring as many of those as possible. Been watching his play this year and, in my opinion, has the potential to become the next Crosby, McDavid, or Ovechkin. He's that good and so far this hockey season is leading all rookie point scorers.
Great job, Chris. All I know is anything LA Kings as I’m a longtime fan and of course Wayne Gretzky. My knowledge of hockey is very limited as I’m sure a lot of people are as well. The retail market has gotten so bad now, people are so desperate they grab the leftover hockey packs 😂
Awesome, You missed a couple and I would have loved to see some honorable mentions like you do on the other vids, but as you say you're not a Hockey guy so I can cut you some slack. Keep up the good work.
I don’t think the print runs are much different .i think the main reason is that opc was made in Canada and topps the USA..USA great players in hockey also don’t see as high of value .one of the biggest eye catchers is Patrick Kane ..the guys numbers ,rings and trophies stack up with Crosby and the difference in rookie cards is insane
I don’t think the print runs are much different .i think the main reason is that opc was made in Canada and topps the USA..USA great players in hockey also don’t see as high of value .one of the biggest eye catchers is Patrick Kane ..the guys numbers ,rings and trophies stack up with Crosby and the difference in rookie cards is insane
There are certain Topps cards from the 1980’s that were double printed according to Beckett price guides. O-Pee-Chee was also much more condition sensitive with rougher edges and off centering.
First off OPC had larger sets - but also when you factor population there are more hockey card collectors in the United States than Canada, and both US and Canadian collectors prefer OPC for different reasons. As stated OPC had larger sets, also US collectors prefer OPC because it's rarer in the states and Canadians prefer OPC for a couple of reasons, for one they're very nationalistic and prefer Canadian products and second OPC is printed in French Canadian and believe it or not Quebec and eastern Canada in general has a large population that can't speak, hence read English, so they prefer cards they can read - and as stated OPC has larger sets.... I mean yea, OPC cards are a little rarer but the demand is a lot higher... Also, you have to remember that before our present internet OPC were pretty rare in the states because there was no networking and most card shops only carried Topps, but now that's moot because hockey collectors in the US have the same access to OPC as Canadians, but the perception that OPC are "rarer" or "better/more interesting/exotic" still persists .. Me personally as a hockey collector I like both and I collect both, I mean I have both complete Topps and OPC sets from 1969-70 to 1989-90 and I'm presently working the 60's right now. However If I could choose I would pick OPC - just because the sets are bigger and OPC were the first to issue rookie cards if Topps didn't release them the same year, so a lot of OPC sets have rookies that Topps didn't have until the following year if not later. Of course that's why if you can remember you would see **FTC** next to a players name in Beckett which stood for "First Topps Card", and sometimes it wasn't close - some players had to wait a decade before Topps issued their card while they were a staple in OPC sets over that period of time.... Also, the OPC cards that Topps didn't issue in their sets were very cool - there were All-Star cards, trophy winners, team cards and obviously the rookies and players that weren't issued in Topps, not to mention OPC had inserts in certain years to boot... I mean, for example in 1989-90 Joe Sakic has 3 Rookie Cards - the one everyone is familiar with #113 but Sakic also has a team leader card and a team card where he's clearly pictured to represent the Nords. Now I don't know if the latter is considered a "rookie"or has any more value than any other team card in the set but Sakic is clearly the subject on 3 cards.. But yea, those are just a few reasons why OPC is more desired, hence valued higher.
@@Swoop187OG187 I’m wondering about the identical card photos used by OPC and Topps. Were the photographers independently selling to the companies? I’m curious about how they shared the copyrights? Not sure when they started using computers to scan and colour correct back in the day.
I just seen a 1990-91 O-Pee-Chee Premier Jaromir Jagr RC on Ebay that was labelled a "pink box" error with the errors having a little square light near his right skate. I didn't even know it was a thing but i checked my jagrs and i have one. Was this a common error, was it even an error, is it a fake?
Wow really curious about that Sakic. I don’t do graded, but for ungraded I would say the opc is more desired. Wonder if the topps is harder to find in a high grade for some reason?
Cool video. I am not a big collector but I have Mario Lemieuxs RC (PSA 6 but whatever) I just wanted that one card because he was my fave player as a kid. I would rather have that card than Gretzkys.
Wow these cards have really sky rocketed over the last 6 months. I have several of all of them, except for the Gretzky of course, I just have one Topps and one OPC, and the Topps would grade perhaps a PSA 2 or 3 and the OPC would grade "Authentic", lol - but the rest I have at least 5 each with all of the graded ones being PSA 8 or higher... I really haven't looked back on the values of 80's rookies in a while and the last time I checked a lot of cards just weren't worth the grading fees to have them professionally graded, and several still aren't but that's OK... I have "bricks" of the Kurri, Savard, LaFontaine, Sakic and Leetch Rookies, I actually just broke an 89-90 OPC vending case I just couldn't pass up for $150 bucks, adding to the bricks of 89-90 I already have, but I can't pass up a vending case for $150 bucks. But yea, I would actually give the aforementioned rookies away to customers that spent more than $50 bucks with me, that and they were good as "toss ins" when I was late getting a package out - I would just grab a couple of them, pop them in a top loader and toss them in the package and the buyer forgets the package is a couple of days late when they get Kurri and Sakic rookies for free , lol... And I didn't pay much for any of them - I mean I think I got a brick of Kurri rookies for like $30 bucks, so .30 cents each and the rest were $20 or less for a brick...... The 80's were certainly a fun decade for hockey, and the sport did escape the junk wax craze of the mid to late 80's experienced in other sports, mostly in baseball and football - of course that changed in the early 90's when numerous brands came out of nowhere and started mass-producing cards.
@@collectorinvestordealer Well, a few years back when I was buying tons of 80's hockey there were a bunch of IDK, dealers I would presume??? selling bricks for cheap advertising/listing them as "fresh from vending case", so I would assume they were breaking vending cases and pulling the nicer cards they planned to have graded and selling the ones in bricks that didn't pass their eye test... The thing is if you're just a collector you generally don't want a brick, you know? you only want a couple and you're not going to drop $30 bucks on a brick for a card you can buy for $2.00 - I mean what's a collector going to do with a brick? lol.. Obviously me being a dealer it was well worth it. Like I said they're excellent "toss-ins" to balance out a trade or if you're late shipping and obviously just selling as singles for a few bucks when you only paid .30 cents for the card.. Trust me, you'll get some fantastic eBay feedback if you toss in Kurri & Sakic Rookies as a bonus if you're late a couple of days shipping, lol.. Not only that but I have quite a few bricks of quite a few rookies and HOF'ers. One of which is a brick of 81-82 Topps Gretzky as well, so I was selling both the Kurri Rookie and Gretzky 3rd year as a lot of (2) for $6.99 "BIN", I suppose I could get more for it now eh? lol. I just "maxed out" on my eBay quantity and didn't relist the lot..I just felt compelled to hold onto them, because $6.99 is pretty cheap when you factor it's a Kurri Rookie and a Gretzky 3rd year or $3 bucks a card and $40 book between the two. Yea, I don't know why Gretzky's 1981-82 Topps #16 is so undervalued, believe it or not but the card is his second least valued of the 80's right behind the 89-90 Topps/OPC, but it's a 3rd year card of "The Great One" lol... I mean it makes no sense and with the spike in prices/value I would expect that card to sky rocket at some point - after all it's a 3rd year card, it's a vintage card and it's a totally undervalued card and it's not like it's a DP or something. So if you plan on doing a video on "undervalued cards" that card is a really good candidate for "buy low, sell high".... But yea, like I pointed out - bricks are a really good buy right now because collectors have no interest in 100 x the same card, unless they PC the player or something - generally only dealers would have an interest just due to the price and quantity, so they can be had for pretty cheap, and I will usually buy anything if I can sell it and get my investment back in a reasonable amount of time. I mean bricks are certainly a long-term investment.. Like the Kurri for example, I paid .30 cents each and sold them for $1.99 each + shipping, and I think they book for $15 or $20 bucks each - so that's a fair price and I only had to sell 15 of them to make my initial investment back on each brick so after the 15 I'm making $170 profit at $2 bucks each for the other 85 in each brick, so it's well worth it for a $30 dollar investment - but like I said, and you probably know - it's a long-term investment, but it's all profit after you sell 15 cards.. As you probably know - t's pretty simple, the more you buy, the cheaper the unit price, and of course the more quantity the more expensive and the less interest/demand.. I mean buying a brick is one thing but buying a "Platinum Brick" (1,000 cards) is an entirely different discussion, lol... And yes indeed I do have several "Platinum Bricks" and to be honest I don't believe I will ever sell them all, tho I'm way into profit territory with all of them - but it's hard to sell 1,000 of a particular card - it's like you never run out, every time you look at the box it's like you haven't sold any, lol.. So yea, I've gone beyond just bricks, lol.
In 89-90 OPC were DP's and Topps were SP's, in laymen's terms Topps printed less than they usually did and OPC printed more than they usually did... Well, they're not technically SP's or DP's but you get the idea.... Either way the Sakic is a difficult card to find in a PSA 10 because of the "continuous centering flaws" - the majority - like 90% - of both Topps and OPC Sakic Rookies are OC usually left to right ...
Chris , could or anyone else tell me what a 70 opc Bobby orr art ross trophy card bvg 9. A 71 opc 9.5 bvg John Beliveau retirement card . And a 71 opc 9 bvg gordie howe retirement card are worth. It would be most appreciated.
When I was young my buddy had 2 Gretzky rookie cards. I would line out 4-5 great cards that included Yzerman, Lafontaine, Hawerchuk rookies, plus a couple other good cards. He would reject the trade and said the only card he'd take was Lemieux rookie. Soooooo.......my brother and I made a deal with a guy down the street that had two Lemieux rookies. We traded Lafontaine and Yzerman rookie for it. A few days later one of HIS buddies asked me to go trading one afternoon. He was a bit an asshole bully and basically stole our Patrick Roy and Mario Lemieux rookie cards. In the end we ended up getting back the Yzerman and Lafontaine rookies but the Roy was still missing. So we had the Lemieux card for 2-3 days and never ever got the chance to make the Gretzky trade. It still stings to this day.
Can someone help me out with where to sell cards I buyout Storage units in auctions and literally have 3 boxes full. 13,000 cards. 80s 90s Gretsky , roy and everyone else
@@kokanee2010a He is still the leading point getter all time in NHL playoff history for a left winger. Also a point a game in over 1000 games, career. Look up his career stats. He should be in the Hall of Fame.
I was a hockey fan in the 70s, but lost interest thereafter. I'm currently seeing a lot of activity with Parkhurst cards from the 50s, featuring some of the iconic stars of the sports. They seem affordable, as compared to iconic baseball cards of the same era. Let me know what you think when you have a chance to review this issue.
Who is your source on these prices as they are way higher than the beckett guide and even the highest ebay price. I have all those rookie cards in gem mint condition and some are on sale on scruffybear.ca. Mario Lemeiux in gem mint condition for $2000 and you are saying it should be $8000+. Wow I should be upgrading my prices. lol
I use vintagecardprices.com, which takes the average of all recent sales of the card on a bunch of platforms, including ebay, Goldin Auctions, Heritage Auctions, and a bunch of others.
you really gotta get rid of the Beckett Terry, it's 2021. Beckett is a very poor standard for understanding card values these days (if it was ever particularly accurate)
Makar,the Hughes brothers ,olofosson ,Fox ,kakko,farobee the last four years in hockey has had some great players arrive .almost like the early 90’s players ..2015-2021 great rookie cards to hunt
I had all those in complete sets from OPC (raw cards) and sold them for $200 canadian in 2018. Held them for over 30 years and should've held for two more, I guess. :) Don't think any of them would grade a 9 though. The first two sets were rife with printing flaws and poor centring.
I still have them but during hard days i went as far as packing them all in the trunk and went to a buyer....150$ offer for all i would not have accept 150$ for that 2nd year Orr not grade but pretty af.But like you said many cards are so badly cuts the value is taking a blow.We used to place hockey cards in our bike wheels to make noise hahaha so many many cards died along the way.
sometimes it depends on the availability of the cards and how many were made . dont forget nhl played politics with gretzky playing a few games in the old rival WHA
CORRECTION: I overlooked two players:
1. Paul Coffey (1981)
2. Kevin Lowe (1981)
I was heated when Coffey was snubbed lol
Guy Carboneeau (1983-84)
For a guy not big into hockey, kudos on your pronouciations.
@Leonhard Romkey ....Johnny Bucyk was not an Indian ( native Canadian) be was born in Canada from Ukrainian decent.
His nickname was “ The Chief”.
Get your facts straight before posting.As for O’ Ree he is going into the hall as an person who broke the color barrier in the NHL, not for his hockey play.Just to be specific.
Do some homework before posting crap online you racist clown.
no biggie. what, more cups than a guy can count on one hand.....Gotta redo the video.
You crammed this all into a 5 min video when most people would've dragged this out for 20 min.
Thank you! Lol, and great video man.
Thank you for doing a hockey video! It's ALWAYS exciting to check for the cards you mention and find them in your collection.
Great job. Thanks for giving Hockey some attention.
Thanks for posting my favorite sport chris , always put out great content. Nice to see my cards finnaly make the leap
Hockey is my sport but I love watching ALL of your videos. Thanks for taking the time and sharing this information!
Great work as always
I'd love to see more hockey videos. Some modern stuff is getting super expensive as well. Thanks for this!
nostalgic former collector (that never got rid of a single card) and first time commenter here - really enjoy your vids, keep some hockey stuff coming
Appreciate that, thank you!
@@collectorinvestordealer I've got a small bulk batch o' hockey cards in at PSA since mid/late summer, good thing I'm patient!
Great video as usual, Chris! Your closing remarks gave me a thought for story time videos - it would be great if you could do some videos covering some of the great discoveries in the hobby. Ex. Al Rosen’s ‘52 Topps discovery, the Black Swamp find, and more recently, Uncle Jimmy’s Collection.
That is a good idea! Ill conisder it for a future video.
Ah yes, "Mr. Mint" - great dude... Back in the day I actually had some commons from his iconic 1952 Topps find which I personally purchased from him. Al was a really cool guy and I bought a bunch of cards from him at shows over the years.. I remember he would fill tons of 5,000 count box lids with mountains of literally random raw (not even sleeved) vintage cards - I mean there was anything vintage you could possibly imagine in those box lids - T206, Goudey, Play Ball, Bowman, Topps etc.. Al would sell them for a buck a piece - and it was nuts because some of the cards were in pretty good shape - not only that but, there were tons of stars and HOF'ers in the box lids as well. I mean I remember buying a G-VG Nolan Ryan Rookie, a VG Bench and an Ex Reggie Rookie from him for $20 bucks combined. Without a doubt "Mr. Mint" certainly lived up to the name "Mr. Mint" because it appeared if a card wasn't up to his standards he would sell it dirt cheap. But hey the guy did have 100's of 52 Topps #311 so beat up Ryan, Bench and Jackson Rookies were probably like commons to him, lol... I mean I remember going to a show in the mid-90's, I had no idea "Mr. Mint" was going to be there - but of course there he was the second you walked into the show - he was the first table you saw, dead ahead in front of you and I spent every penny I planned on spending at his tables, lol - not only that but I went home and got more money and spent that at his table, and that is the only time I have gone to a card show and had zero desire to check out the other tables because none of them could match what Mr. Rosen was selling, lol - at least not to me - and this wasn't a very big show at all, it was perhaps a 40 table show.. Oh and he brought some of the iconic cards from some of his finds and he would show them to anyone that asked... He had a couple of 52 Topps packs, among several other vintage packs he was showing off as well as a sealed pack of cigarettes with a tobacco card which looked almost brand new. It was almost like a baseball card museum, lol - it was just fantastic. And luckly I got to shop at his tables on several occasions during the 90's and he always had vintage cards for pennies on the dollar and of course plenty of vintage memorabilia which you would probably never seen in your life if it wasn't for him, lol.... The only thing is that I wish I would have known his show schedule in advance because I would have saved for months had I known he was going to be in my area at some of these shows I attended but the guy really popped up out of nowhere... I mean the guy was pretty humble factoring his status in the hobby considering he would do 40 table shows with no advertisement or anything - I mean if there was a "celebrity" in the hobby it was without question Al "Mr. Mint" Rosen, but unfortunately I read a few years back that he passed away, so the hobby world really lost a gem and a pioneer in the hobby...
Thanks for this Chris, hockey seems to get lost in hobby content. Great opportunity for you to do more here. 👍
Fantastic. Trying to collect PSA 10 Hall of Famers. This helps when looking at value!
Thank you for the list Chris. As a Boston guy I always wanted a nice Topps Bourque RC. I might start looking for a great-8 version while it's still reasonable.
At this rate nothing will be reasonable soon!
I have a few of each Topps & OPC which I won via eBay for less than $25 bucks a pop on average. The lowest I paid for a Bourque Rookie was $4 bucks and some change for a scratched Topps, but outside of it being scratched it's a razor sharp card, probably the nicest I have.. Too bad being scratched despite it being otherwise flawless only makes it a PSA 5 card. I mean it's pack fresh and displays really well. It's essentially not worth much because it's scratched, but when I won it there was still some of that black "scratch-off" nonsense left on the card so I went ahead and carefully scratched the rest off so now it displays like an OPC and could easily pass for one from the front, obviously the backs are quite different tho...
I'll say this much, I picked a really good time to get back into the hobby, and I picked a really good time to go on an 80's hockey "shopping spree"... A few years back I dropped like 2.5K on nothing but 80's hockey because it's the era I grew up in and I just had to have all of the rookies, lol.. Well I have all of the sets too but with this spike in value it's nice to see that I didn't flush my money down the toilet... I mean I didn't really buy for investment reasons but I'm not complaining, lol..
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Sure if you're looking for particular singles but you can still find a lot of these cards in hockey lots on eBay on the cheap - certainly for far less than what the card would cost you as a single... The thing is that some eBay sellers just title their listing as "Vintage Hockey Card Lot" or "Old Topps Hockey Cards" or with similar vague titles/descriptions, then you click the auction and it's a gold mine, lol..... But I have also had plenty of luck finding rookie singles with really cheap "BIN" prices just by clicking "newly listed"... I mean one time I found a NM-MT Topps Yzerman Rookie for $1.49 "Buy It Now" and 1 dollar shipping just checking out the newly listed auctions - and I was actually looking for a reasonably priced Yzerman Rookie for my 84/85 set so that was a fantastic find. The only problem with the card is that it's off-centered left to right 80/20, but other than that it's a really sharp card and there was absolutely no way at all that card would have lasted any longer had I not found it, lol.. for $2.49 shipped to my door? that's almost like some sort of magic, lol.
Great info Chris..While people were going nuts in 87-91 for the McGwires, Cansecos, Griffey etc...I was buying hockey, football and basketball..Unfortunately I owned a store and sold most of them..Still have a handful of vintage hockey and some sets ...A NOTE...The 1988 OPC Hull, Nieuwendyk, Shanahan were counterfeited along with Turgeon from the 1988 OPC set in the early 90's..P. S. The reason for the Sakic Topps being worth more its the price of the wax boxes..Topps cost 2x as much as OPC..
Thank you Chicago Lady. I also collected some very sweet hockey cards during that period.
@Edward Stevenette Its the best thing to do nowadays..Buy authenticated cards ..especially costly ones..Raw cards are still okay if cost is ninimal..
@@rhondasimms554 Wow..glad to hear another lady appreciated hockey cards..Did you get them graded? or keeping for PC?
@Chicago Lady not yet but I'm planning to have some of them graded/authenticated. My husband and I only have a small PC of our favorite players. Mine is Bobby Clarke.
@@rhondasimms554 Mine is Bobby Orr..
Great vid Chris. Brought back lots of memories. I was a card dealer in the early 90's (90-94) and luckily have many of the cards you showed. Most not graded though but in great condition. Happy to see my favorite player mentioned...Ron Francis! Now I do have several of his rookie card graded in PSA 9. My goal is to get it in PSA 10. Keep up the great work!
Very cool! Must have been fun to be a dealer in the early 90s!
@@collectorinvestordealer Best years was buying packs of Upper Deck as soon as school finished.The cool dealer was giving us 20$ on the spot for our Bure-Roenick-Fedorov hahaha And the day i saw him make an undiscoled offer to someone who brought he most beautiful collection i ever saw it was those pre 60s i think maybe Cigarettes hockey cards before Topps i was 16 and drooling over these.Good vid as always!
great video lot of great value I have the joe Sakic and the messier both are about a psa 1 lol nice to see how my child hood hockey cards are supposed to look. Thanks for the great content.
Your videos are awesome! Great content every time. Thanks for sharing
Awesome video and information of the Hockey Star RC'S.. Although I did not buy box's of Hockey back then I did manage to obtain quite a bit through buying pack's and when buying large groups of card's/ collection's.. Well done Chris.. Stay safe homie..👍💕🔥⚾😷
One thing to worth mention on the Peter Stastny card that his 1981 O-Pee-Chee PSA 10 is selling 10x more than his 1981 Topps in PSA 10 and both of the cards are looking the same...strange
Honestly I don’t think it’s the print run.one is made in Canada and one is made usa
I would presume that's probably due to quantity of submissions, tho perhaps the OPC has a "continuous flaw"... I have noticed that both the Topps & OPC have centering issues, because it is somewhat difficult to find centered examples of both. It kinds reminds me of the 71-72 Topps & OPC where 90% of the cards are O/C... Then again it is 2021 and the increase in value for cards in general just seem to be random, lol..
LoL whats to mention its been that that for years guy!!!
@@Swoop187OG187 lets talk about centering issues aaaaarrrrgggggg lol Sold my Mario Lemieux rookie back in 95 for 50$ and i was lucky it was probably a grade 1 or 2 lol completly misscut like the edge of the card was where the picture started and the bottom must have miss 1 centimeter but still it was my only Mario rookie card.I still hold on to my OPC sets 81-82 82-83 83-84 84-85 Stastny-Coffey-Kurri-Fuhr-Francis-Yzerman-Lafontaine-Savard-Anderson and many more!
the OPC's, particularly this year, are notoriously prone to damage and bad centring, in all years there are significantly more topps than OPC on the market but this year is particularly brutal for that: for whatever reason there is a tremendous amount of 1981-82 topps hockey on the market. even more deflating for their market value is that most of the cards actually came out looking pretty good! centring and condition for the topps this year is all quite top notch, so it's quite easy to find high grades at low values (1972 topps hockey incidentally has the same issue - lots of cheap PSA 10s available). if you just care about the aesthetics of the card in relation to the price than it's certainly smarter to buy the topps (I do myself) but there is no doubt the OPC are rarer, more desirable and a better 'investment'
love this upload, thanks for showing hockey some love. looking forward to more.
Great video, would love to see more hockey covered in the future!
I had that Patrick Roy card and an older kid at my school tricked me into giving it to him. He traded me for a 'Wayne Gretzky rookie card', which I later learned was an 'anniversary series' replica, worth basically nothing.
Great job! Missed Coffey but nicely done!
This is comfort food for my eyes, thanks for giving hockey the spotlight
Nice video, i didn't know prices had gone up that much. I have the Yzerman and Mario Lemieux OPC RCs among others.
A lot of hockey cards are found in KSA holders. Inconsistent graders, but sometimes they get it right. The trick is to identify the times they got it right, buy for the discount, crack and re-grade. Got a 10 Hull pre rookie UMD college card (my undergrad alma mater) that way. Great vid!
Good call on KSA... hadnt conisdered that
Love my Hockey cards.....!!!
I have many of these rookies in various grades & they are the 1st cards I ever owned as a Kid !!! Thanks for the video.....
Been hoping you'd do some hockey vids ..
All the walks to the store with pockets full of change to get 4 packs and chewing the gum till the jaw couldnt anymore hahaha they are all i found in my old toy boxes back in 1990.OPC 81-82 to 84-85 in strangely good conditions considering the moving these boxes went through.
@@mikescorpio13 lol.... same here..! Whats really killing me is I know I had a few Gretzky rookies as a kid. I distinctly remember the card & always thinking it was a boring looking card for such a great player. Where they are or what happened to them is lost down the memory hole
@@michaelcalland801 My dad was a collector of hockey cards and stamps.There was a drawer full of doubles us kids could play with but those shoe box with rubber band in his wardrobe !!! Never ever touch this.When he died mom threw them all away it was in 1984 when we moved.Mixed in my cards were some 68 69 and 71 OPC but nothing from 72 to 80.Howe and Orr + Orr trophies from 68 and randoms Marcel Dionne rookie.I learned later that his favorite player was Bobby Orr and it was strange since we lived north of Quebec did my dad knew his hockey like i do haha.Considering he must have started to collect maybe in the late 50s i wonder what was in those shoe boxes full sets or 200 Bobby Orr and Gordie Howe what a mystery.My older brother have the stamps collection but those cards must have been pristine mint since he was an adult collector unlike us kids.
Hey Chris, thanks for this list, like you I've been buying Yzerman rookie cards. I've got complete sets of most of these years. No Mario yet but I've been buying up his 2nd year and inserts. Hope to get lucky 🍀 on some of those.
Have a good day buddy, cheers stay safe.
You and I think alike! I was also picking up 2nd and 3rd year Lemiuex cards.
Thanks for differentiating between topps and opc pricing
Can you please list all of them in the descriptions, you have some of the best videos on TH-cam. I have hundreds of millions of views on the "adult" tubes and truly appreciate what you do. I am also a DC/Baltimore native and love hearing your stories
love the hockey card video… hope to see more hockey or your top sold cards videos :)
hockey is most of what i buy because its what i know...born and raised in edmonton...love it
Need to do 1970s hockey HOF.
Great video with very usable content. Hockey is sneaky in the US and probably overlooked by some collectors. There so many HOF RC cards that are cheap. I collected in the 80's and 90's as a kid. Over the past 2 years I have started picking up the guys I liked in the 80's/90s and for the most part there not expensive. There out there for the taking if you want upside cards. Curious did you or do you watch Hockey? I watched a lot of those great Edmonton Oilers teams as kid. Now I watch the Playoffs almost every year.
Had to go through my box of cards since this TH-cam suggested this video. Shocked to find i have seven. Fun.
Very cool!
I thought Mike Vernon and Claude Lemieux were HOFers in that 1987 set. Nice video!
Showing love to hockey! Thank you!
Good to know thank you. Time to dig out my cards. I have 3 shoe boxes filled and is was the time I was collecting.
Whats crazy is at least 11 of those player played for the Stl Blues.
Thanks for the review of Hockey cards. They are my personal favorite as I'm a huge hockey fan being from Minnesota. The card I'm really looking forward to this year is Kirill Kaprizov of the Minnesota Wild rookie card. Think I'm going to be acquiring as many of those as possible. Been watching his play this year and, in my opinion, has the potential to become the next Crosby, McDavid, or Ovechkin. He's that good and so far this hockey season is leading all rookie point scorers.
He was not on my radar, but appreciate the info. Ill keep a watch on him.
@@collectorinvestordealer Not a problem. His rookie card comes out with Upper Deck Series Two in about two weeks or so.
Great looking cards 85 Lemieux i like that card..wish i saved mine i had 1 it left my hands in the Jordan i traded for ...great video buddy ..
Great job, Chris. All I know is anything LA Kings as I’m a longtime fan and of course Wayne Gretzky. My knowledge of hockey is very limited as I’m sure a lot of people are as well. The retail market has gotten so bad now, people are so desperate they grab the leftover hockey packs 😂
Hey.. you forgot Hall Of Famer Guy Carbonneau of the Montreal Canadiens. He’s from the 1983-84 O-Pee-Chee set (card #185).
finally got in on some hockey picking up some ray bourque
Awesome, You missed a couple and I would have loved to see some honorable mentions like you do on the other vids, but as you say you're not a Hockey guy so I can cut you some slack. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for doing the hockey video
Any idea of what this collection of Raw OPC cards plus Coffey, Kevin lowe, and Guy carboneeau are worth??
More hockey! Love this! I have most of those rookies :)
Finally! I believe that the main reasons why OPC sells higher is because of print runs.
I don’t think the print runs are much different .i think the main reason is that opc was made in Canada and topps the USA..USA great players in hockey also don’t see as high of value .one of the biggest eye catchers is Patrick Kane ..the guys numbers ,rings and trophies stack up with Crosby and the difference in rookie cards is insane
I don’t think the print runs are much different .i think the main reason is that opc was made in Canada and topps the USA..USA great players in hockey also don’t see as high of value .one of the biggest eye catchers is Patrick Kane ..the guys numbers ,rings and trophies stack up with Crosby and the difference in rookie cards is insane
There are certain Topps cards from the 1980’s that were double printed according to Beckett price guides. O-Pee-Chee was also much more condition sensitive with rougher edges and off centering.
First off OPC had larger sets - but also when you factor population there are more hockey card collectors in the United States than Canada, and both US and Canadian collectors prefer OPC for different reasons. As stated OPC had larger sets, also US collectors prefer OPC because it's rarer in the states and Canadians prefer OPC for a couple of reasons, for one they're very nationalistic and prefer Canadian products and second OPC is printed in French Canadian and believe it or not Quebec and eastern Canada in general has a large population that can't speak, hence read English, so they prefer cards they can read - and as stated OPC has larger sets.... I mean yea, OPC cards are a little rarer but the demand is a lot higher... Also, you have to remember that before our present internet OPC were pretty rare in the states because there was no networking and most card shops only carried Topps, but now that's moot because hockey collectors in the US have the same access to OPC as Canadians, but the perception that OPC are "rarer" or "better/more interesting/exotic" still persists .. Me personally as a hockey collector I like both and I collect both, I mean I have both complete Topps and OPC sets from 1969-70 to 1989-90 and I'm presently working the 60's right now. However If I could choose I would pick OPC - just because the sets are bigger and OPC were the first to issue rookie cards if Topps didn't release them the same year, so a lot of OPC sets have rookies that Topps didn't have until the following year if not later. Of course that's why if you can remember you would see **FTC** next to a players name in Beckett which stood for "First Topps Card", and sometimes it wasn't close - some players had to wait a decade before Topps issued their card while they were a staple in OPC sets over that period of time.... Also, the OPC cards that Topps didn't issue in their sets were very cool - there were All-Star cards, trophy winners, team cards and obviously the rookies and players that weren't issued in Topps, not to mention OPC had inserts in certain years to boot... I mean, for example in 1989-90 Joe Sakic has 3 Rookie Cards - the one everyone is familiar with #113 but Sakic also has a team leader card and a team card where he's clearly pictured to represent the Nords. Now I don't know if the latter is considered a "rookie"or has any more value than any other team card in the set but Sakic is clearly the subject on 3 cards..
But yea, those are just a few reasons why OPC is more desired, hence valued higher.
@@Swoop187OG187 I’m wondering about the identical card photos used by OPC and Topps. Were the photographers independently selling to the companies? I’m curious about how they shared the copyrights? Not sure when they started using computers to scan and colour correct back in the day.
Yeah that jagr and lindros RC really did make a fool out us kids back then
I just seen a 1990-91 O-Pee-Chee Premier Jaromir Jagr RC on Ebay that was labelled a "pink box" error with the errors having a little square light near his right skate. I didn't even know it was a thing but i checked my jagrs and i have one. Was this a common error, was it even an error, is it a fake?
I am not familiar with that error...
Wow really curious about that Sakic. I don’t do graded, but for ungraded I would say the opc is more desired. Wonder if the topps is harder to find in a high grade for some reason?
81 Paul Coffey is around $700
Damn...scruffybear.ca has it only at $500 to $600. Hmmmm
Cool video. I am not a big collector but I have Mario Lemieuxs RC (PSA 6 but whatever) I just wanted that one card because he was my fave player as a kid. I would rather have that card than Gretzkys.
Wow these cards have really sky rocketed over the last 6 months. I have several of all of them, except for the Gretzky of course, I just have one Topps and one OPC, and the Topps would grade perhaps a PSA 2 or 3 and the OPC would grade "Authentic", lol - but the rest I have at least 5 each with all of the graded ones being PSA 8 or higher... I really haven't looked back on the values of 80's rookies in a while and the last time I checked a lot of cards just weren't worth the grading fees to have them professionally graded, and several still aren't but that's OK... I have "bricks" of the Kurri, Savard, LaFontaine, Sakic and Leetch Rookies, I actually just broke an 89-90 OPC vending case I just couldn't pass up for $150 bucks, adding to the bricks of 89-90 I already have, but I can't pass up a vending case for $150 bucks. But yea, I would actually give the aforementioned rookies away to customers that spent more than $50 bucks with me, that and they were good as "toss ins" when I was late getting a package out - I would just grab a couple of them, pop them in a top loader and toss them in the package and the buyer forgets the package is a couple of days late when they get Kurri and Sakic rookies for free , lol... And I didn't pay much for any of them - I mean I think I got a brick of Kurri rookies for like $30 bucks, so .30 cents each and the rest were $20 or less for a brick......
The 80's were certainly a fun decade for hockey, and the sport did escape the junk wax craze of the mid to late 80's experienced in other sports, mostly in baseball and football - of course that changed in the early 90's when numerous brands came out of nowhere and started mass-producing cards.
Nice pickup on some of the brick RCs! Those days where those are available are probably gone for good.
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Well, a few years back when I was buying tons of 80's hockey there were a bunch of IDK, dealers I would presume??? selling bricks for cheap advertising/listing them as "fresh from vending case", so I would assume they were breaking vending cases and pulling the nicer cards they planned to have graded and selling the ones in bricks that didn't pass their eye test... The thing is if you're just a collector you generally don't want a brick, you know? you only want a couple and you're not going to drop $30 bucks on a brick for a card you can buy for $2.00 - I mean what's a collector going to do with a brick? lol.. Obviously me being a dealer it was well worth it. Like I said they're excellent "toss-ins" to balance out a trade or if you're late shipping and obviously just selling as singles for a few bucks when you only paid .30 cents for the card.. Trust me, you'll get some fantastic eBay feedback if you toss in Kurri & Sakic Rookies as a bonus if you're late a couple of days shipping, lol.. Not only that but I have quite a few bricks of quite a few rookies and HOF'ers. One of which is a brick of 81-82 Topps Gretzky as well, so I was selling both the Kurri Rookie and Gretzky 3rd year as a lot of (2) for $6.99 "BIN", I suppose I could get more for it now eh? lol. I just "maxed out" on my eBay quantity and didn't relist the lot..I just felt compelled to hold onto them, because $6.99 is pretty cheap when you factor it's a Kurri Rookie and a Gretzky 3rd year or $3 bucks a card and $40 book between the two. Yea, I don't know why Gretzky's 1981-82 Topps #16 is so undervalued, believe it or not but the card is his second least valued of the 80's right behind the 89-90 Topps/OPC, but it's a 3rd year card of "The Great One" lol... I mean it makes no sense and with the spike in prices/value I would expect that card to sky rocket at some point - after all it's a 3rd year card, it's a vintage card and it's a totally undervalued card and it's not like it's a DP or something. So if you plan on doing a video on "undervalued cards" that card is a really good candidate for "buy low, sell high"....
But yea, like I pointed out - bricks are a really good buy right now because collectors have no interest in 100 x the same card, unless they PC the player or something - generally only dealers would have an interest just due to the price and quantity, so they can be had for pretty cheap, and I will usually buy anything if I can sell it and get my investment back in a reasonable amount of time. I mean bricks are certainly a long-term investment.. Like the Kurri for example, I paid .30 cents each and sold them for $1.99 each + shipping, and I think they book for $15 or $20 bucks each - so that's a fair price and I only had to sell 15 of them to make my initial investment back on each brick so after the 15 I'm making $170 profit at $2 bucks each for the other 85 in each brick, so it's well worth it for a $30 dollar investment - but like I said, and you probably know - it's a long-term investment, but it's all profit after you sell 15 cards..
As you probably know - t's pretty simple, the more you buy, the cheaper the unit price, and of course the more quantity the more expensive and the less interest/demand.. I mean buying a brick is one thing but buying a "Platinum Brick" (1,000 cards) is an entirely different discussion, lol... And yes indeed I do have several "Platinum Bricks" and to be honest I don't believe I will ever sell them all, tho I'm way into profit territory with all of them - but it's hard to sell 1,000 of a particular card - it's like you never run out, every time you look at the box it's like you haven't sold any, lol.. So yea, I've gone beyond just bricks, lol.
great video thank you
Hockey is my sport thanks for the video
Nice! I haven't looked up my Francis rookie card in years. $229ish is a lot better than the $25 i believe it was worth a few years back.
Why is the topps Sakic worth more?
It's because OPC had a much higher print run, as compared to the more rare Topps (for that year only).
@@robdemare8250 interesting, thanks!
In 89-90 OPC were DP's and Topps were SP's, in laymen's terms Topps printed less than they usually did and OPC printed more than they usually did... Well, they're not technically SP's or DP's but you get the idea.... Either way the Sakic is a difficult card to find in a PSA 10 because of the "continuous centering flaws" - the majority - like 90% - of both Topps and OPC Sakic Rookies are OC usually left to right ...
Chris , could or anyone else tell me what a 70 opc Bobby orr art ross trophy card bvg 9. A 71 opc 9.5 bvg John Beliveau retirement card . And a 71 opc 9 bvg gordie howe retirement card are worth. It would be most appreciated.
What about a signed Joe Sakic O Pee Chee?
me: "when grow up, I will be able to afford a Gretzky and Lemieux rookie"
grown up me: nope
Could you do the 90's?
I'd love to see a 90s version of this list!
That is coming this Saturday!
Great Inaugural Vid on Hockey Honorable Mention To The Pelle Lindbergh 1983-84 #268
Top of my head I have 20 of them all opc, Mario, Roy and Hawerchuk are all pretty minty cards.
Why does the Joe Sakic have topps being more than operchee
When I was young my buddy had 2 Gretzky rookie cards. I would line out 4-5 great cards that included Yzerman, Lafontaine, Hawerchuk rookies, plus a couple other good cards. He would reject the trade and said the only card he'd take was Lemieux rookie. Soooooo.......my brother and I made a deal with a guy down the street that had two Lemieux rookies. We traded Lafontaine and Yzerman rookie for it. A few days later one of HIS buddies asked me to go trading one afternoon. He was a bit an asshole bully and basically stole our Patrick Roy and Mario Lemieux rookie cards. In the end we ended up getting back the Yzerman and Lafontaine rookies but the Roy was still missing. So we had the Lemieux card for 2-3 days and never ever got the chance to make the Gretzky trade. It still stings to this day.
Can someone help me out with where to sell cards
I buyout Storage units in auctions and literally have 3 boxes full. 13,000 cards. 80s 90s
Gretsky , roy and everyone else
Well that was different and pretty darn good!
What is the value of the Jagr UD Rookie Class card?
Ungraded, the 1990 Upper Deck Jagr sells for s few dollars
I have the Hull OP, but will maybe wait to sell it... Bobby Clark too.
Hockey Hockey Hockey! Let’s get ready to RUMBLE!!
Thanks for some 🏒.
Brian Propp should be in the Hall of Fame !!!
tim kerr and dave poulin helped out that former brandon wheat king on his lines in philly . he was only a first liner for a very short time .
@@kokanee2010a He is still the leading point getter all time in NHL playoff history for a left winger. Also a point a game in over 1000 games, career. Look up his career stats. He should be in the Hall of Fame.
How did you miss 1981 Paul Coffey rookie?
And the Kevin Lowe from same set. Also hall of fame player. Although not nearly as valuable as the Coffey
Missed some players on the list, for 1981 Paul Coffey and Kevin lowe are hall of famers
Hockey thanks man!
In Indiana there was no way to buy NHL cards in the 80s that I knew of...at least not at retail.
Glad hockey is on the rise. Late 80 early 90 sets worth pulling out the stars or just leave em boxed up?
You could go either way, I generally tend to prefer to leave things sealed.
@@collectorinvestordealer appreciate the insight and video
Thank you!!!!
Why is Joe Sakic's Topps card more expensive than his OPC card?
Absolutely love the hockey love.
I was a hockey fan in the 70s, but lost interest thereafter. I'm currently seeing a lot of activity with Parkhurst cards from the 50s, featuring some of the iconic stars of the sports. They seem affordable, as compared to iconic baseball cards of the same era. Let me know what you think when you have a chance to review this issue.
Agreed. I think vintage hockey has a lot of room to grow, including the Parkhursts.
Penguins had another Mario too *Mario Faubert*
Yeah I didn't even know who he was 🤣
Who is your source on these prices as they are way higher than the beckett guide and even the highest ebay price. I have all those rookie cards in gem mint condition and some are on sale on scruffybear.ca. Mario Lemeiux in gem mint condition for $2000 and you are saying it should be $8000+. Wow I should be upgrading my prices. lol
I use vintagecardprices.com, which takes the average of all recent sales of the card on a bunch of platforms, including ebay, Goldin Auctions, Heritage Auctions, and a bunch of others.
you really gotta get rid of the Beckett Terry, it's 2021. Beckett is a very poor standard for understanding card values these days (if it was ever particularly accurate)
What about 59/60 Eddie shack,king Clancy,cyclone Taylor,Glenn hall,more yes I’ve kept them mint since new
I need Messier, Bourque and Mario. I have everything else, even Wayne. (79)
I have messier, wanna buy?
i have all theas card and they are i would think almost perfect would lobe to sell all
Jesus...how many bucks went into the spokes of my bike??
Can anyone name some modern hockey players to hold or look for that might be in the 2020 sets?
Makar,the Hughes brothers ,olofosson ,Fox ,kakko,farobee the last four years in hockey has had some great players arrive .almost like the early 90’s players ..2015-2021 great rookie cards to hunt
@@charlesmurphy1840 thanks. And hockey names are more fun to say!
I believe the Brett hull topps is worth more than the opeechee
Great video though
No it's not
if you buy a hull rookie card in a blues uniform you have been taken .
Lol the whole time i kept saying why is he saying “OPG??” Lmao I’m tired..
Guy Carbonneau also
3 Cups, 3 Selke
BTW, i've got all of them in OPC and Topss
I had all those in complete sets from OPC (raw cards) and sold them for $200 canadian in 2018. Held them for over 30 years and should've held for two more, I guess. :) Don't think any of them would grade a 9 though. The first two sets were rife with printing flaws and poor centring.
I still have them but during hard days i went as far as packing them all in the trunk and went to a buyer....150$ offer for all i would not have accept 150$ for that 2nd year Orr not grade but pretty af.But like you said many cards are so badly cuts the value is taking a blow.We used to place hockey cards in our bike wheels to make noise hahaha so many many cards died along the way.
You missed Allan Bester, the greatest goalie of all time.
That was a 101 for me.
how is lemieux 8k when gretzky is a million makes no sense
sometimes it depends on the availability of the cards and how many were made . dont forget nhl played politics with gretzky playing a few games in the old rival WHA
Hulls rookie season should have been in flames colors . sorry this is just a overlooked fact.
The one commodity in this World that seems highly undervalued. Shouldn't these cards be worth more after 40 Years.