Seventy-Nine Blue Line Autograph Project: Colorado Avalanche

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October 28, 2021

August 4, 2018

DARCY TUCKER

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Retro
Private Signing 8/4/18

July 12, 2017

SHJON PODEIN

Custom Card
IP 7/11/17 at Minnesota NHL Alumni Golf Classic

May 10, 2017

May 15, 2013

BRETT CLARK

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Update Retro
TTM 5/15/13 (62 days)

May 24, 2011

ANDREW BRUNETTE

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Retro
TTM 5/24/11 (123 days)

April 8, 2011

CODY McLEOD

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Retro
TTM 4/8/11 (66 days)

February 26, 2011

JORDAN LEOPOLD

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Retro
TTM 2/26/11 (71 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.