Seventy-Nine Blue Line Autograph Project: Chicago Blackhawks

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February 5, 2021

December 10, 2018

November 9, 2017

DOUG HICKS

1979-80 O-Pee-Chee
TTM 11/9/17 (61 days)

March 20, 2017

January 30, 2017

January 7, 2017

December 2, 2016

TERRY RUSKOWSKI

1979-80 O-Pee-Chee
TTM 12/2/16 (10 days)

August 1, 2016

May 6, 2016

March 21, 2016

JORDAN HENDRY

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Retro
TTM 3/21/16 (12 days)

February 21, 2016

CLIFF KOROLL

1979-80 O-Pee-Chee
IP 2/21/16 at Stadium Series VIP Pre-Game Party

REG KERR

1979-80 Topps
IP 2/21/16 at Stadium Series VIP Pre-Game Party

January 27, 2016

March 2, 2015

October 9, 2014

January 24, 2014

NIKLAS HJALMARSSON

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Retro
TTM 1/24/14 (42 days)

December 30, 2013

April 27, 2011

ADAM BURISH

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Retro
Paid Consignment 4/27/11

April 16, 2011

ANDREW LADD

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Retro
TTM 4/16/11 (144 days)

March 24, 2011

BRIAN CAMPBELL

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Update Retro
TTM 3/24/11 (41 days)

About This Blog

My all-time favorite sports card set is the 1979-80 O-Pee-Chee/Topps hockey set. It is most famous for featuring Wayne Gretzky's rookie card. For me, it's just as big for including Bobby Smith's rookie. But beyond that, I always loved the design, with the deep and oh-so-'70s light blue border.

Upper Deck resurrected the design for the "Retro" parallel inserts in its 2008-09 O-Pee-Chee set. When I fell back into the autograph collecting hobby a couple of years after that, I made a point to try collecting as many autographed cards as I could from both the original 1979-80 set and the 2008-09 retro set.

A few years after that, after learning some basic Photoshop skills, I began making custom cards with this design for players who didn't have a card in either of the other sets.