Hockey 2/14s

 Off to my COMC to-be-posted box, and today I'll work my way through the hockey portion.

Not long ago, I finally realized that the first NHL All-Star game took place on 2/14, and that said game was commemorated by a Pro Set card. I had the French version, and here's the English version. Events count, so these two cards are now in.

Looking at my current inventory, the 'events' portion is going to get really gory in the next shipment.

I'm heading overseas for this one, and double PC guy (Kitchener Rangers alum) with this Ryan MacInnis sticker. He's representing the Mannheim Eagles here. Not quite the Columbus Blue Jackets, but someone is still paying him to play hockey. He's currently on his third year with the team.

Another overseas card, this time it is Bogdan Kiselevich and the Severstal Cherepovets of the KHL. He'd spend time with the Florida Panthers, but would only get official cards in the e-pack Compendium release. This is my first card of his outside of that release.

I do have non-NHL cards of Norm Milley, but the Rochester Americans will never have a jersey as great as the Sudbury Wolves or a team name as great as the Wolfsburg Grizzly Adams. 

The rule for Boom Boom Geoffrion is that the cards can either not include his birthdate, or have it listed as 2/14. It seems that's the best way to take the conflicting information into consideration when building the binders.

The closest thing to a hit in this post is going to be that numbered Colby Barlow. "Prospectus Monentous"? This is from the third year of that insert set, and I have zero understanding how such a cheesy name wasn't one and done. Or even done before the presses ran.

As is the case seemingly all the time when I get COMC shipments, it is Nikolaj Ehlers that rules the numbers game in these posts. I'll always take advantage of e-pack bargains to add his cards to the collection.  Combining with my previous post, this one added 8 cards to the binders to move him up to 156. The especially loud one this time is a Mandelbrot Fractal, which makes the Orange Slice parallels on the bottom look particularly bland.

There you have it!