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The Hockey Card Report
This month’s feature is of a player who
By Bennett Harty
exemplifies what teams really need to get this
done. Anton Lundell is a veteran Panther’s
winger who has just come off a 45 point season
where he played all but three games. Maybe his
contribution isn’t always evident in his point
totals? Not surprising to anyone in the Panthers
room, Lundell has 12 points in seventeen games
this run, and is an impressive +12, to lead all
y the time you read this, we’ll either be playoff performers. Certainly, a guy Maurice can
Bgearing up for a game 7 re-match of the count on in the tough situations. The card featured
Oiler’s and Panther’s or one of these two teams is an Upper Deck Ultimate Introductions Rookie
will be drinking out of the Cup. As teams finish Auto, numbered to fifty, with this example being
their season short of the ultimate goal, the #42. An ungraded example recently sold for just Photo Submitted
stories of injury and hardship start to come to shy of $40 in May on the open market. Lundell
light after players and teams keep those details isn’t a super popular player when it comes to
on the down-low for obvious reasons. A great cards, and despite that his Young Guns still
example of the respect and admiration amongst fetches a consistent $5 bill with a PSA 10 graded
the players would be the reaction toward Mark bringing in $50 all day long.
Scheifele after his huge effort on the heels of
his father’s sudden passing, the night before the Our second featured card this month is likely
Jet’s elimination. my top pick from my personal collection, a
Connor McDavid
base card from the
Upper Deck Ice 2018-
2019 set. McDavid
has asserted himself
during these playoffs,
showing that he is a
gear above the rest. So Photo Submitted
far in sixteen games
this playoff season, #97
has put 26 points on the
board to lead teammate
Leon Draisaitl by one.
What makes this card so
special is that I actually
mailed it to Connor
via the Edmonton
Oilers, during the
first summer of Covid 19. To my be worth hundreds if not thousands,
surprise, several months later a depending on authentication and on
package arrived from the Oiler’s grading. Obviously, to me the value
with three signed cards, all of of this card is priceless.
Photo by Robert Lefebvre, icelevel photography
McDavid. My brother and I were There are still plenty of spaces
shocked, to say the least! With his available on the Oilers bandwagon,
signature being clean, and the card so jump on and help will the Cup to
not being addressed to me, it would Edmonton! Let’s GO Oilers!
