I remember when
O-Pee-Chee Premier was a top card brand;
Jaromir Jagr's rookie card![](https://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=hellsvalua-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B004B8JZBC)
, that first year, was worth $25 - and I had 10 of them! Then the market crashed, and I lost most of my cards in a flood stemming from the 1998 ice storm anyway.
But the brand was revived by
Upper Deck a few years ago, I'm not entirely sure why, and they incorporated their bad card ideas into it, like manufacturing patches vaguely representing something having to do with a player, then making a card that seemingly has something the player may have worn, used, or at least known existed. In 2007-08,
they made one for Jason Spezza, commemorating his being drafted second overall in 2001.
Two years later, exact same design, nothing changed, as this
Vincent Lecavalier![](https://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=hellsvalua-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B00413IZVI)
card can attest to, from the
2009-10 O-Pee-Chee Premier set,
Premier Stitchings sub set (card #PS-VL). My guess is that people liked it the first time; my question is whether any of the players who made it in the first time are also part of it this time around - I hope not, seeing as the patch's design is exactly the same.
Personally, I think Lecavalier deserves better. We're talking about the youngest captain of all time before
Sidney Crosby![](https://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=hellsvalua-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B001ASQ9O2)
beat him - except Crosby was named in May, after a season and way before the next, for the sole purpose of being the record-holder, while the
Tampa Bay Lightning waited for the season to be about to start to name Vinny. Lecavalier is also a Stanley Cup winner, a World Cup winner, a Rocket Richard Trophy (most goals in a season) winner, a King Clancy winner for leadership and serving his community, a World Cup MVP, a perennial All Star, his team's record holder in most categories - and still a team captain.
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