Seventy-Nine Blue Line Autograph Project: Vancouver Canucks

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April 29, 2022

February 28, 2021

November 20, 2019

MASON RAYMOND

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Retro
TTM 11/20/19 (28 days)

May 10, 2018

April 13, 2015

TREVOR LINDEN

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Retro
TTM 4/13/15 (74 days)

March 4, 2013

September 17, 2011

PAVOL DEMITRA

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Update Retro
Purchased 9/17/11

March 10, 2011

WILLIE MITCHELL

2008-09 O-Pee-Chee Retro
TTM 3/10/11 (70 days)

December 8, 2010

HAROLD SNEPSTS

1979-80 O-Pee-Chee
TTM 12/8/10 (18 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.