The Price is Right

to celebrate the Canadiens actually doing something right and signing Carey Price to a long term, affordable deal, I went out and picked up a few new cards for my Price binder.

While some of you may think that means I picked some low serial numbered 8 colour patch autos, that only shows you don't know me that well.

Let's look at some good old fashioned plain cards, shall we?

from his rookie year, an insert card showing "The Future of Goaltending." Nice. And a good shot of Hamilton's uni's too.

 also a rookie, from SP Authentic, a nice and shiny insert. I already had the uber rare die cut version, which I scanned a long time ago but my computer is using it in our latest 'hide-and-seek' game that we play occasionally. And I'm waaaaay too lazy to go get the binder and re-scan it.

why not pick up the same card, but from the following year? Okay, I will. It scans a bit nicer.

 A Favourite Sons insert from '08/09 Upper Deck. Nice to see them spell favourite correctly. Although they show Carey coming from Williams Lake B.C. when we all know he hails from Anahim Lake B.C.

 A cool insert set from In The Game in '10/11. They showed a lot of the goalies from Toronto (poor bastards) and Montreal from over the years.

 Another die-cut! This one from '11/12 Crown Royal. This was a gift from a fellow collector at a recent trade night.

 Brand new SP Authentic. Same old boring design.

 and another new one... this one from Panini Contenders.

 another Contenders card...... wait a minute! That's not Carey! It's the greatest, most spectacular goalie of all time! (Just ask him)

This was a gift from one of the local card shop owners... and it should make my pal bamlinden jealous as it fits not one, but two of his collections.

Nice to know that barring a ridiculous trade (damn you Rejean Houle and Mario Tremblay!!!) I'll be able to add Carey cards to my binders for another 6 years.


and how about that Shea Weber deal??? Yikes.

What $17 and the last card show of the year brought me...

If you missed the first part of this post, stop, go HERE, and read THIS POST, then come back. I'll wait. Go ahead. For those of you who have already read the first part, you can go ahead and read on.

Obviously, since I spent $17, and only $2 was spent over on the other blog, the following cards set me back, um...... carry the 3.... $15. I was totally not like me and spent $5 on one card. We'll save that for the end. Please save your judgements until then as well.

First up, a dollar box. Not quite like dayf's quarter box, but around here, I'll take what I can get.

Five cards from the dollar box...

An '85/86 OPC Kirk Muller Rookie. Kirk is the assistant coach of the Montreal Canadiens right now. Hopefully the next head coach. And sooner than later please.

 '87/88 Stephane Richer Rookie. A multi 50 goal scorer, and one of my faves....

 '88/89 Sean Burke Rookie. A vastly under rated goalie. When he was on, he was dominating. A mainstay for Team Canada as well, he currently works for the Phoenix Coyotes as Goaltending Coach.

 '81/82 Andy Moog Rookie. I alwasy hated this little guy, but for a buck, why not. It's the only one of the four no mint. A wrinkle in the lower right makes him WORTHLESS! Well, worth a buck anyways.

 And a 2005 Rogie Vachon numbered /99 insert.

 Next table found a pile of about 25 cards marked 4 for a buck. Not quite a quarter box, but a quarter pile. I grabbed four cards.
Jimmy Howard insert

 Carey Price insert

 Miikka Kiprusoff insert

 and a PK Subban insert

 Same table had a dollar pile as well...

a Daniel Larsson of the Red Wings auto

 this is supposed to be James Reimer of the Leafs.... how I ended up with a scan of Jamie Tucker, only blogger knows....

 Joey Hishon, a 1st round pick of the Avalanche

 Tyler Toffoli of the Kings

 And now here's where we get to where I spent $5 on one card. Not a vintage card. A brand new card. The ink was still wet, it's so new. From the 2010/11 OPC set....

A Carey Price Retro Rainbow Black Bordered Parallel /100

I probably paid too much, but it was new and shiny and it's Christmas..... so why not?