Hockey Cards - Part III

[Rock Paper Sissons]

Question,

We are over halfway through hockey season and I still can’t find a single Stamkos card in a Preds jersey. Why?!
Did they quit making hockey cards all of a sudden? I figured they would be on this right off the hop….
Anyone able to offer some insight?

 

[Golden_Jet]

Question,

We are over halfway through hockey season and I still can’t find a single Stamkos card in a Preds jersey. Why?!
Did they quit making hockey cards all of a sudden? I figured they would be on this right off the hop….
Anyone able to offer some insight?

No they still make cards, I just think the print run is beforehand, and will have him in a TB jersey.

 

[Nogatco Rd]

No they still make cards, I just think the print run is beforehand, and will have him in a TB jersey.

I remember the old days when they would just color over a player’s old uniform with the worlds shittiest airbrushing

 

[BostonBob]

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Thankfully OPC never did that with hockey cards. Oh - wait a minute.......

This one is the worst - they don't even hide the fact that Orr is sitting beside Phil Esposito in a Bruins jersey.

Some of these look like they were done by a 3rd grade art class:

 

[SniperOnTheWing]

Question,

We are over halfway through hockey season and I still can’t find a single Stamkos card in a Preds jersey. Why?!
Did they quit making hockey cards all of a sudden? I figured they would be on this right off the hop….
Anyone able to offer some insight?

Not sure if there is a forum for this but it would be a great idea I think.

Question,

We are over halfway through hockey season and I still can’t find a single Stamkos card in a Preds jersey. Why?!
Did they quit making hockey cards all of a sudden? I figured they would be on this right off the hop….
Anyone able to offer some insight?

There’s 6-8 months of lead time to design, print, and pack out new products. Not to mention they have to wait to get and process the game-worn jerseys before they even start the process of designing and manufacturing Nashville jersey cards.

Probably won’t see any Nashville Stamkos until 2025-26 products.

 

[Nogatco Rd]

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Thankfully OPC never did that with hockey cards. Oh - wait a minute.......

This one is the worst - they don't even hide the fact that Orr is sitting beside Phil Esposito in a Bruins jersey.

Some of these look like they were done by a 3rd grade art class:

Yeah those are next level.. Reminds me of a book about Soviet photography and censorship in the Stalin era, ‘The Commissar Vanishes.’ As Party officials fell out of favor and were imprisoned or executed, they would be airbrushed out of old photographs with Stalin. On the cover you can see the same pic that had to be edited 3 different times over the years as each member of his entourage ended up falling victim to a different purge.

In the same vein, there is a famous photo of Soviet soldiers raising the red banner over I think the Reichstag building when Berlin fell at the end of WWII. The original had to be retouched because you could see the soldiers were wearing multiple wristwatches — evidence of rampant looting.