Monday, 15 July 2024

A Ranger Roundup

Back to my COMC to-be-posted box, and cards representing, either directly or indirectly, players who have spent time with the Kitchener Rangers.

Back-to-back doggie posts! Sort of. Landeskog does seem like an odd choice for inclusion in a set in 23-24, since he missed all of this season and the previous one. He does plan to appear in 24-25, so the potential to pule on more cards featuring him returns.
Despite having a pile of team awards over his career (Memorial Cup, Calder Cup, Stanley Cup, Olympic gold) I didn't have any cards directly saluting Mike Richards' time with the Rangers.
Eminger was Richards' teammate on their Memorial Cup winning team, returning to junior after a short stint in Washington. He didn't have quite the championship career that Richards managed to, but still managed almost 500 NHL games over it. He also spent 200+ games in the AHL, and here's evidence he was rather happy during one of them in Portland.
The only numbered card - Jeff Skinner on /100 colour-matching red parallel out of 13-14 Totally Certified. 
And the only hit. Ingham did get a card in an Extended release after serving as back-up for some time with the Kings, but has yet to get into an official game. He's still doing the AHL thing with the Ontario Reign.
And a bunch of "cheap because of e-packs" additions. I've never really entered anything into TCDB outside of the hits, but I'm fairly certain that Gibson would probably lead the way if I counted them up. Mainly because he's been in pretty much every set non-stop since 2013.

There you have it!



1 comment:

  1. Nice color match Skinner! I had that whole 2004-05 ITG H & P set completed - until they released an extension :/

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