Seventy-Nine Blue Line Autograph Project: Los Angeles Kings

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October 18, 2021

KYLE QUINCEY

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Retro

TTM 10/18/21 (16 days)

October 2, 2020

August 1, 2020

October 5, 2019

ROB BLAKE

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Retro
TTM 10/4/19 (14 days)

May 5, 2018

September 3, 2016

STEVE JENSEN

1979-80 O-Pee-Chee
IP 9/2/16 at North Stars Preservation Society private signing

June 18, 2014

MICHAL HANDZUS

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Retro
TTM 6/18/14 (273 days)

February 21, 2012

RICK HAMPTON

1979-80 O-Pee-Chee
TTM 2/21/12 (20 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.