Seventy-Nine Blue Line Autograph Project: Montreal Canadiens

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May 4, 2021

March 17, 2020

November 26, 2018

October 15, 2018

TOMAS PLEKANEC

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Retro
TTM 10/15/18 (23 days)

April 21, 2018

February 2, 2018

September 26, 2017

March 23, 2017

March 22, 2012

GUILLAUME LATENDRESSE

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Retro
TTM 3/22/12 (161 days)

November 5, 2011

MARK STREIT

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Retro
TTM 11/5/11 (39 days)

August 19, 2011

May 5, 2011

January 19, 2011

SAKU KOIVU

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Retro
TTM 1/19/11 (20 days)

January 15, 2011

November 15, 2010

DOUG JARVIS

1979-80 Topps
TTM 11/15/10 (17 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.

May 4, 2021

SERGIO MOMESSO

March 17, 2020

GASTON GINGRAS

November 26, 2018

CHARLIE LINDGREN