Here's another card (#75, with a blue sharpie signature) is from
The Score Board's
1996-97 All Sport PPF set - for more about that set,
read this morning's entry on Josh Holden. This time, it's former
Boston Bruins![](https://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=hellsvalua-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B001TBJLEA)
first round pick
Johnathan Aitken (here wearing his WHL
Medicine Hat Tigers uniform and having his name mistakenly spelled ''Jonathan'', like a kid from my high school who went missing in 1993, and like a disgraced former British minister who was convicted of perjury).
Never really an offensive threat, Aitken has only managed to collect a single assist in 44 NHL games, split in two seasons 5 years apart, first with the Bruins, then with the
Chicago Blackhawks![](https://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=hellsvalua-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B002ZXZJLA)
in 2003-04. He has also played for 4 different AHL teams, in the ECHL, in the Czech League, and he played a season in the Austrian league in 2006-07 before retiring.
He had been chosen 8th overall in the 1996 NHL draft, a weak one, considering
Alexandre Volchkov,
Ric Jackman,
Boyd Devereaux, and
Erik Rasmussen were all chosen ahead of him, and other not-quite-big-name players such as
Lance Ward,
Dan Focht, Holden,
Mario Larocque,
Matt Higgins,
Matthieu Descoteaux,
Jeff Brown (not the one from the late 80s, obviously),
Craig Hillier,
Peter Ratchuk and
Jesse Wallin completed the first round.
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