Tuesday 12 March 2024

3901. 3902. 3903.

 I'm going to continue my quest for 4000 cards in my 2/14 collection with a trio of new faces.

All three come from the hockey world. But in any portion of the collection, Enrico Scardocchio would be the most aggressively Italian name in the collection. He represents the long gone Saint Jean Lynx of the QMJHL. No, they didn't French-ify Saint John New Brunswick. They played out of Saint-Jean sur Richelieu, Quebec. And did so until they moved to Rimouski, where they remain the Oceanic.

Despite a very good effort with a last name like Paolucci, he didn't have a chance. His Hull Olympiques also don't exist any more, but that's because the city itself was renamed Gatineau. 

I could have also used a CHL card to end this to make it complete, but why would I forgo an opportunity to add another defunct team to the collection? I could use a Guelph Storm card from about a dozen years prior to this, but they're still around. The Greensboro Generals are not. Plus, that's the team he spent the most games with.

The inability to find his Alexandria Warthogs card on ebay - also a factor.

But there you have it!

2 comments:

  1. Just a quick technical correction, la ville de Hull wasn't renamed Gatineau but rather swallowed up by Gatineau in the late 1990s/early 2000s municipal merger mania.

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