I bought these at the last card show I went to. I was looking for a theme here but I can't find one. So here they are, just vintage hockey cards.
I don't know why I buy cards of Phil Esposito as a Ranger, I really don't. I guess I'm just a glutton for punishment.
I loved Vic Hadfield as a player. I liked him so much that I pulled out this card from a dealer's box of quarter cards and bought it. Today I found out I already had it, and had posted it here previously. But it's already been uploaded into this post so it stays where it is. My buddies and I called him 'Two Sticks' because that's what Ranger TV play-by-play guy Win Elliot would call him when his mind froze and he forgot player names, which was often.
Arnie Brown, the Ranger fan's resident punching bag. We blamed him if the reception on WPIX was off. We blamed Arnie for late buses. We blamed Arnie for everything.
Ken Hodge was obnoxious. I have no idea why I bought this card.
The story always went around that Roger Crozier would spend most of the pre-game puking his guts out. If I had to face Bobby Hull's slapshot with the crappy goalie equipment they wore back then, and no mask, I'd be puking, too.
I love the French-English backs of OPC cards. Crozier played for Buffalo almost as long as he played for the Wings but I always associate him with Detroit.
I always find it interesting that Ranger fans were unhappy with Brown and Seiling, but for the Leafs, those two were definitely "the ones that got away" through the late 60s and early 70s. The Leafs had no transition plan from the Stanleys and Pronovosts as they aged because they'd sent those two to New York.
ReplyDeleteI always mean to stop in at Vic Hadfield's golf place and see whether he's actually there. Andy Bathgate has one nearby as well.
Ken Hodge, I can see why Ranger fans would dislike. That trade was terrible.
Rangers fans are unhappy by nature. Seiling and Brown were guilty of not being Harry Howell. I saw a puck that Eddies Giacomin deflected over the top of the net bounce back off the glass and hit Seiling in the chest and go in over Giacomin's shoulder. I thought people were going to go over the glass behind the bench to give Seiling the business.
DeleteI do wonder how Espo would have fared in New York if they hadn't sent Park away in the deal to get him. He needed that offensive D to get him the puck.
ReplyDeleteVadnais had his merits, but he wasn't Park.
There's the rub, we LOVED Brad Park.
DeleteBad sis wasn't bad, Bruins had some pretty solid defense men . Of course Orr but they had Dallas Smith , Don Awrey, rick Smith, teddy Green, gary Doak.
DeleteSupposed to say " Vadnais wasn't that bad".
Deletegreat cards. I don't remember Espo wearing #12...
ReplyDeleteMe neither now that you mention it. It might of been because I tried not to see him at all.
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