Peter Forsberg Jersey Card

Because injuries cut his Hall Of Fame career short yet he was still good enough to make the cut, many like to compare Peter Forsberg's statistics with those of the likes of Eric Lindros to make the case for less deserving players, except with Forsberg, the numbers - while great - don't tell the whole story.

We're talking about a two-time Stanley Cup champion, who was the third ever member to have enough championships to join the Triple Gold club twice, and his domination at the international level is unparalleled, from his record 31 points in 7 games at the World Juniors to World Championship gold at age 18 to his gold-winning shootout goal at the 1994 Olympics to his back-to-back MVP titles (of both the league-awarded and player-voted variety) in Sweden to Calder, Hart and Art Ross trophies in the NHL.

And then there's the top-5 marks in points-per-game and assists-per-game which ranks him with the likes of Mario Lemieux, Wayne Gretzky and Bobby Orr. He wasn't merely ''very good with a couple of dominant years'', whenever he had skates on, he was often the best player on the ice - and I say this as a guy whose favourite player was Joe Sakic. He was the Sergei Fedorov to Sakic's Steve Yzerman, where there was no way teams could shut both down, and if they were lucky, they could contain one of them - they just had to pick the lesser of two evils. But even that didn't work all the time, and both were tremendous two-way players anyway, so even on the rare occasions where they didn't make it onto the score sheet, they were useful on the ice, smart and crafty, positionally sound, and Foppa with the added physical element to his game.

This card (#FF-PF) is from Upper Deck's flagship 2003-04 Upper Deck set, the Franchise Fabrics sub-set, and shows him in the Colorado Avalanche's burgundy (then-away) uniform, with a blue game-worn jersey swatch:

The color scheme and font make this look a little too "retro" for my taste, but I do not find it displeasing to the eye.

Robert Mayer Autographed Card

I picked up mail from one of my old apartments tonight (where a friend still lives part-time) and was in for a treat, which I'll post in bits in the coming weeks interspersed with players appearing in worthwhile news items and/or whatever transpires in the Stanley Cup Final, but I'll start with one of my favourite signers, goaltender Robert Mayer.

I know it's overkill with four posts in two years (and at least another one coming eventually), but the guy's a really cool dude who goes out of his way to please his fans - and he's a pretty good goalie too. He's shown he was elite in the AHL with both good and awful teams, and he knew he wouldn't have a shot at cracking the Montréal Canadiens' roster with Carey Price manning the net, so the 25-year-old opted to go play in Switzerland in 2014-15 (and the following two seasons), for the sixth-place Genève-Servette Aigles (Eagles), winning the Spengler Cup in December in the process.

On the Aigles, he joined fellow former Habs properties Francis Bouillon, Matt D'Agostini and Tom Pyatt. They're already on their second consecutive Spengler Cup, it'd be nice if they could three-peat next winter.

Either way, I'll be watching.

So this card was in a small padded envelope, from the 2012-13 Hamilton Bulldogs team set (#29, his jersey number, in the collection) by Extreme Sports Cards, showing him in the team's white uniform:

It's signed in thin blue sharpie with his number tagged at the end, and shows him in his signature butterfly-ready base position. He keeps his glove hand high, but he's fast enough to get it down in time to grab the puck should it go lower. At the AHL level, he looked a lot like the 1989 version of Mike Vernon, eating up the puck with his left hand all the time. He's my favourite non-NHL active goalie, in case you couldn't tell from everything I've written about him in the past couple of years.

Patrick Lalime Autograph Card

It's often forgotten just how good Patrick Lalime was, probably because his Ottawa Senators would fall to the Toronto Maple Leafs every Spring. However, he finished in the top-10 for Vezina Trophy votes twice - and not even in his spectacular rookie season, where he went undefeated in his first 16 NHL starts, going 14-0-2 with the Pittsburgh Penguins after injuries befell Ken Wregget and Tom Barrasso - not unlike the situation Andrew Hammond faced with the Sens this year - and got an All-Rookie Team nod.

Upon leaving Ottawa, Lalime had somewhat underwhelming seasons with the St. Louis Blues and Chicago Blackhawks (due to injury in the latter case) before redeeming and reinventing himself as a reliable backup with the Buffalo Sabres for his final three seasons in the league.

He then turned to broadcasting, first as the colour commentator and analyst for Sens games on RDS, and this year for Montréal Canadiens games on TVA Sports. While he currently pales in comparison to his Habs counterpart on RDS broadcasts (Marc Denis), as his whole network does, hopefully he can improve enough over the 11 remaining seasons of his station's broadcast deal to make up for lost ground.

Like Jeff Glass before him and Robin Lehner nowadays, Lalime wore #40 with the Sens, as can be seen here in this beautiful silver foil card from In The Game's 2002-03 Be A Player Signature Series card (#035 in the set, signed on-card in thin black sharpie with his jersey number tagged at the end), showing him wearing the team's beautiful, original white (then-home) uniform:

He's exhibiting the perfect butterfly-style basic position, with his glove around the mid-body like I teach kids to do (except I prefer when it stands out straight, not downwards like here, because split-seconds matter more than ever before nowadays). His masks were cool and pretty much always featured Marvin The Martian from the Looney Tunes animations.

Chris Osgood Jersey Card

I'm reading a lot of nonsense online regarding this current Stanley Cup Final pitting the Tampa Bay Lightning's Ben Bishop against the Chicago Blackhawks' Corey Crawford, and how neither is ''elite'' and how it's a return to the days of the 1990s Detroit Red Wings winning the Cup with Chris Osgood in nets.

First things first: Bishop was nominated for a Vezina last year, and has three shutouts this postseason, two of them in Game Sevens. He beat fellow U.S. Olympian Jimmy Howard, outplayed likely Vezina winner and gold medalist Carey Price and matched the best goalie in the world, Vezina winner, gold medalist and Stanley Cup Finalist Henrik Lundqvist to get to the Final. Is he as stable and consistent as Hank? No, but no one save for perhaps Pekka Rinne is.

Regardless where you rank him, he's got to be in your top-10. He's likely in my top-5, where he only surpasses Crawford because the Hawks boast Duncan Keith and Brent Seabrook as their top two defensemen. The last time the Hawks won the Cup, Conn Smythe Trophy winner Patrick Kane famously said ''Crow'' deserved the nod - and he wasn't just saying that. Sure, he has his off games, and like many of this current generation, they come relatively more often than goalies in prior decades (every 8 to 10 games instead of every 12 to 15 like in the 1990s), many of them in groups of two or three bad outings, all of them highly-publicized. But in between those sequences are usually 8-game stretches where his save percentage hovers around the .950 mark, where he'll give up a single goal per game while facing upwards of 35 shots, sometimes over 40; he's not a ''pure stopper'', he won't get the shutout, but he'll be spectacular in letting just one in. He might lose focus and turn a 5-1 sure victory into a 5-3 nail-biter with less than 5 minutes remaining, but when the pressure's mounting and he needs to wake up, he pretty much always does. And that's what elite goalies do.

Granted, Osgood never had to do any of that. He finally learned to do a decent butterfly style ten years into his NHL career, whilst with the New York Islanders. He's mostly known for his postseason prowess yet ranks 10th of all time in regular-season wins (401); on the flipside, he played with the 1990s Wings - one of three teams that contended for Cups consistently for more than a decade (with the New Jersey Devils and Colorado Avalanche) and who kept purchasing the most expensive free agents of the Dead Puck Era.

And the Dead Puck Era is also why his career playoff GAA ranks better than Patrick Roy's, who won two Cups (and two Conn Smythe Trophies along with another Cup Final in 1989) before the Devils flipped The Trap into a Cup-winning formula.

He also scored a goal, which ranks him in the Ron Hextall and Martin Brodeur category, with José Theodore and seven others. But his save percentage was below the .900 mark five times in 17 seasons, and below .910 another four times, so while he may have scored once, he got scored on a whole lot more than that. But he has two Jennings Trophies and was a finalist for the Vezina once.

Arguing his case for the Hall is funny, because some folks are passionate about the subject - regardless of which side of the argument they fall on. Ultimately, he's a ''no'' (I mean come on, Rogatien Vachon's not even in it and he played on Team Canada teams at the Canada Cup and has NHL hardware) in my book, but it's a decent argument. For the record, I'd place Theodore as a ''maybe'' and Curtis Joseph as a ''no'' ahead of Osgood. Mike Vernon as well.

Here he is wearing the Wings' classic red (then-away) uniform, from Topps' 2000-01 Heritage set (card #OSJ-CO of the The Original Six Relics, Authentic Player-Worn Jersey insert sub-set), with a white swatch:

It's actually much darker to the naked eye, I guess when I scanned it over a year ago I forgot to play around with the settings.

Steve Christoff Autographed Card

I really started getting into card collecting in 1986-87, although I'd had a few packs of hockey and baseball cards here and there previously, but that was the year where my whole world of toys and collectibles was all about cards instead of G.I. Joe, Transformers, M.A.S.K. and Thundercats figurines; my parents were thrilled at first because they figured it'd be cheaper, but that 35-cent pack I'd get as a ''tip'' every time I'd ''volunteer'' to go get whatever we needed at the convenience store probably amounted to a lot more in the end.

That's when I got the bug, and one summer, I ''worked'' with my grandmother, helping her sell shoes and purses (I think) at a flea market, and the seller a few tables/stands over had a bunch of randomly-divided packs of 100 hockey cards from the late 1970s and early 1980s, and that's where I spent all of my allowance and whatever pay I got for the duration of July and August.

Later, as the 1990s came along and card stores started popping up everywhere, I traded a bunch of O-Pee-Chee cards for their Topps equivalent because it felt more exclusive to have the imported (American) brand than the local (Canadian) one, even though both were worth the same.

One such trade from a card I'd originally gotten at that flea market was this one, of Steve Christoff, which I got him to sign with a black eraser-board marker in the first half of the '90s, I'd say around 1993 in one of three trips my local team made to Minneapolis (we also had annual trips to Boston and New Jersey in the United States):

It's from Topps' 1981-82 Topps set (card #104, its O-Pee-Chee equivalent being #160), showing him as a member of the Minnesota North Stars, a team I didn't feel any emotion towards until I played for the NDG North Stars as a kid, at which point I started liking Neal Broten and Don Beaupre.

Christoff was one of the star forwards of the 1980 Olympics Team USA - you know, the Miracle On Ice team - along with Broten and Dave Christian. Prior to that, he'd been a star with the University of Minnesota Gophers, and like Broten and Phil Vercota, was a local boy who'd grown up and gone to school in Minnesota, played for Gophers then the national team based in Minneapolis, then was drafted by the North Stars in the second round in 1978 - the hometown hero route.

He had three decent seasons with the North Stars, starting off with 15 points in 20 games in 1979-80, 26 goals and 39 points in 56 games in 1980-81 and another 26 goals this time totaling 55 points in 69 games and another 16 points in 18 playoff games in 1981-82, losing in the Stanley Cup Final to the New York Islanders.

Unfortunately, he was traded to the Calgary Flames where he didn't quite fit in (17 points in 45 games in 1982-83), so they sent him and the draft pick that became Frantisek Musil to the Los Angeles Kings for Mike Eaves and Keith Hanson, and he only played 58 games with L.A., with 15 points and a -19 to show for it before calling it quits.

He's still a hero in Minnesota, and in every traditional hockey state; these days, he's an airplane pilot, which is fitting, considering he was among the fastest and strongest players of his era. He also had a heavy shot, if I remember correctly.

Bill Guerin Autograph Card

I thought I could start the month of June by checking #9 off my Oilers Numbers Project with this card of Bill Guerin's:

It's the signed insert version of card #53 from In The Game's 1998-99 Be A Player set, signed on-card in thin black sharpie with his number (9) tagged at the end, showing him in the Edmonton Oilers' white (then-home) mid-1990s uniform.

The fourth-overall pick of the 1989 NHL draft (by the New Jersey Devils), Guerin was a tough, no-nonsense, talented grinding goal scorer (in that order). Sure, he finished his career with a relatively even 429 goals and 427 assists (good for 856 points) in 1263 regular-season games and another 39 goals and 35 assists (74 points) in 140 playoff games, but he never really came close to the point-per-game mark, and yet had a 41-goal season (2001-02 with the Boston Bruins, the year he finished on the Second All-Star Team) and two other 30-goal seasons, and he once led the league with 10 game-winners (2003-04 with the Dallas Stars).

He also holds the NHL record of most teams with which an single player has had 20-goal seasons, with 7; only one other even has 5 (Eddie Shack).

Often a member of Team USA, he won the 1996 World Cup with Chris Chelios and Mike Richter, and has a silver medal (2002) in four Olympics. He played in four All-Star Games (2001, 2003, 2004 and 2007) and was named the MVP in his first appearance, scoring a hat trick (3 goals) with 2 assists playing on an All-American line with Tony Amonte and Doug Weight.

While he won Stanley Cups in New Jersey (1995) and with the Pittsburgh Penguins (2009), I don't really like those organizations, and I'm iffy about the merits of those championship teams (the 1994-95 Trap Devils' lock-out Cup in particular), and I'm a pretty big fan of the Oilers, so I choose to mostly remember him playing for Edmonton. I also felt that he deserved the New York Islanders' captaincy (2007-09), as did Weight who followed him, and I wish he'd stayed with the St. Louis Blues a bit longer. Seeing him (and Weight) in blue was always a natural fit.

Guerin is now the Pen's assistant general manager, after starting as their player development coach upon retiring. I particularly liked when he answered Sportsnet's Doug MacLean on the issue of the Pens' reputation as whiners by... admitting to it. You can bet if there's one thing in the team's culture he'd like to change, that'd be it, considering how straight-ahead and balls-out he played - hard and fair, never giving up. A true leader.

Tomas Sandstrom Autograph Card

Someone asked Daniel Brière recently how he'd feel about retiring at this point, just 27 games shy of #1000, and I loved his answer: ''With the two lock-outs, I would have reached that milestone already. Plus, with all the playoff games in which I was just as productive as in the regular season, we're way past 1000. And I played 973 more than some so-called experts had predicted considering my size (5'9'')''.

And that got me thinking about all the players who narrowly missed milestones, such as Martin Brodeur (9 wins short of 700, 3 losses short of 400), Rick Middleton (988 points), Brett Hull (1391 points), Luc Robitaille (1394 points), and Paul Coffey (396 goals).

And one player I've talked about a few years ago who finished with 857 points in 983 games, Tomas Sandstrom, seen here as a member of the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, sporting their white (home) late-1990s uniform:

It's the signed insert version of card #153 from In The Game's 1998-99 Be A Player set, featuring a thin black-sharpied autograph.

His playing style was similar to that of Esa Tikkanen, where he had good size for his era (6-foot, 200 pounds), good speed, good hands, a great accurate shot, and a mouth that never stopped yapping, with the bonus of never backing down from challenges and answering the bell when he ignited fires, although not so much with his fists as, say, perhaps with his stick or elbows.

Sandstrom's most memorable Stanley Cup run was when he posted 25 points in 24 games in 1992-93 with Wayne Gretzky's Los Angeles Kings, which he ultimately lost to Patrick Roy's Montréal Canadiens, but he did enjoy one that ended with a Cup win, in 1996-97, with the Detroit Red Wings, where he had 4 assists (and 24 penalty minutes) in 20 games for Scotty Bowman's team.

He played his final NHL season in Anaheim before closing out his career with three more in Sweden. Of note that while he was born in Finland, he is a Swede and played for the Tre Kronor internationally. Then again, the history between the two countries is reminiscent of that between Slovakia and the Czech Republic or Québec and Canada in that each one's largest minority consists of the other's peoples, more or less, and their respective rights are (mostly) protected in their constitutions. And, to some extent, wouldn't most of the world's problems be solved if dual-country overlapping borders and dual citizenship were a more common occurence?

Anyhow, World Peace - like the Anaheim Ducks' Stanley Cup aspirations - is not for this year.

Chris Chelios Swatch Card

Guess which team I'm rooting for tonight, as the Chicago Blackhawks take on the Anaheim Ducks in Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals for the right to face the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Stanley Cup Finals? (Yes, I'm rooting for the Hawks, but my head is telling me the Ducks will win).

The Hawks are an Original Six franchise, meaning they are one of six remaining teams - along with the Montréal Canadiens, Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, New York Rangers and Toronto Maple Leafs - from before the 1967 expansion, which added the California Seals, Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota North Stars, St. Louis Blues, Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers to the fold.

Two things folks should know about this: First, the Original Six are not the founding teams of the NHL. Only the Habs and Leafs (then known as the Arenas) date back to the NHL's inaugural season in 1917-18 (and the Habs were already 10 years old at the time) - the league also had the Ottawa Senators and Montreal Wanderers playing games, and the Québec Bulldogs were technically part of the league but not ready to play yet, so they started the following season, with their players dispersed throughout the league for the first year.

Secondly, what is now known as the current Philadelphia NHL team was pretty much always going to join the league, expansion or not. For many reasons - including the fact that they were the first expansion team to win a Stanley Cup - I consider them the Seventh Original Six franchise, because the team's owners had secured the ownership rights of the Montréal Maroons (active 1935-38), a Cup-winning franchise that shared an arena with the Habs as a sister/nemesis team, the Habs representing the French-speaking/underdog/defeated/colonized/workers side of the city, and the Maroons representing the English-speaking/England-friendly/invaders/conquerors/owners. The Maroons franchise had run into financial problems with World War II and the Great Depression, but was always welcome back into the fold if they could get their act together, so when a Philly group purchased the rights to the team, it became a matter of time before the NHL would once again operate in the City Of Brotherly Love (after the Philadelphia Quakers abandoned after one season in 1930-31).

As part of the Original Six (having joined the league in 1926, roughly a decade into the NHL's existence), the Hawks have a relatively rich history with five Stanley Cups (two of them coming in the past five years) and numerous Hall of Famers, but also a lot of years of futility. They were often at the bottom of the standings in the six-team era alongside the Rangers, as well as in the 1980s and 90s, despite having had the likes of Glenn Hall, Stan Mikita, Pierre Pilote, Tony Esposito, Bobby Hull, Denis Savard, Jack Stewart, Chris Chelios, Steve Larmer and Ed Belfour. Many of their current-day critics attribute their depth and talent to having ''tanked', (or, in my opinion, merely ''bombed'') to draft the likes of Jonathan Toews, Duncan Keith and Patrick Kane.

Which brings me to hometown hero Chelios, who captained the team for four seasons and won the Cup with two other Original Six teams (the Habs and Wings), but not in Chicago.

Originally a second-round (40th overall) pick of the Canadiens in 1981, Chelios won the Cup with the surprising and amazing 1986 team, which had a great mix of veteran Hall Of Famers (Bob Gainey, Larry Robinson), rookies who would become Hall Of Famers (Patrick Roy), young guys who should now be in the Hall (Guy Carbonneau, Claude Lemieux, some might even add Bobby Smith to that list though I'd be content with the first two), rookies who went on to have storied careers (Stéphane Richer, Mats Naslund), and great role players (Mario Tremblay, Mike McPhee, Chris Nilan, Gaston Gingras, Petr Svoboda, Sergio Momesso, Rick Green, Craig Ludwig, and enforcer John Kordic).

He won the Norris Trophy after the 1988-89 season, leading the Habs to the Presidents' trophy and the Stanley Cup Finals, but by the turn of the 1990s, team physicians were concerned about his recurring knee injuries first and foremost, and ''active lifestyle'' (lots of drinking, late-night partying, and fun time with the ladies) as well, and told GM Serge Savard that if he could find a decent deal for him, he should take it before his value goes down or he's forced to retire at a young age. Which Serge Savard did, for Hawks superstar and Montréal boy Denis Savard, and because Chelios went on to play until he was 48, it is generally seen as one of the 5 worst trades in Habs history, oftentimes as the single worst one; I'll go deeper in it in the next few days, but for now, let's just say I disagree with that statement, though I would have loved to get to witness the next, say, 15 years of Chelly's career in my city.

Because Chelios did continue to play. And play well. He won two more Norris Trophies (with three more finalist nods), two more Cups, played in 9 more All-Star Games (including one in Montréal in 1993 during which he and Hawks teammate Belfour were hilariously hungover) to add to the two as a Hab, four additional end-of-season First All-Star Team nods (to the one he got in 1988-89) and two Second All-Star Team nods, a World Cup championship with Team USA won at the then-Molson Centre, a silver medal at the 2002 Olympics, and captaining the American team four times - once in a stint that didn't end up going well off the ice (Nagano).

The man was a physical beast. He had the most arduous training habits seen thus far - way tougher than CrossFit, though in the same vein: he'd use his stationary bike for hours at top speed, in his sauna, among other training techniques. That's why he was able to play at a high level for so long and was the athlete that he was.

On the other hand, he acted like a Chicago mobster at times, threatening commissioner Gary Bettman's life during one lock-out, going against union heads at another, and while he may not have been as overly dirty as Mark Messier, Ulf Samuelsson, Bryan Marchment or Gary Suter, you did not want to get on his bad side because it was going to hurt.

So far, the hockey community has chosen to let his talent and achievements wash over his transgressions - in my opinion, deservedly so, but it's a debate I'm glad I did have in my own mind. I talked about how I viewed him in the top-5 or top-10 of all time about a month and a half ago, and that still stands and will until another suitor is actually worth reconsidering for, which may or may not happen in my lifetime.

So, in my first official Chelios post, here he is wearing the Hawks' classic red (then-away) uniform, from Panini's 2013-14 Totally Certified set, card #TC-CCH of the Red ''regular'' Jersey sub-set, with a white game-worn swatch inserted:

Chelios. In red. With the captain's ''C''. This whole card just fits.

Alex Killorn Autograph Card

Alex Killorn scored the opening goal of Game 7 earlier tonight, which was enough to carry the Tampa Bay Lightning to the Stanley Cup Finals, as Ben Bishop got his second Game 7 shutout of the postseason, eclipsing ''The King'' Henrik Lundqvist of the New York Rangers, who looked beat after the game.

Killorn has become an important part of Tampa's offense - clearly the best in the league - with 16 points in 20 games so far and getting better and more comfortable every game while Bishop has proven to not only be an elite goaltender but also able to beat those considered ahead of him in most people's rankings, and Tyler Johnson is the East's strongest candidate for the Conn Smythe Trophy at the moment.

I'm still rooting for the Chicago Blackhawks, but I do feel the Anaheim Ducks will win tomorrow, making for a match between skill, size and goaltending (Bolts) versus size, grit and speed (Ducks). Probably a good series in the making, and one in which Montrealer Killorn and linemate Steven Stamkos will have to continue their formidable work from Round 3.

In the meantime, here's a Killorn auto I pulled last summer, from Upper Deck's 2013-14 SP Authentic (card #284 of the Future Watch sub-set, the Autographed insert version), showing him in the Bolts' blue (home) jersey, signed in thin blue sharpie (and numbered 770/999):

SP Authentic is usually a clean, white-based design where the only effects are shadows and blending the picture within the background, but this insert incorporates darker colours matching the uniform, so it looks even better.

Ryan Kujawinski Autograph Card

Well, I do have some nice Memorial Cup autographs to share in the near future, but I thought I could remain in the CHL but send my eyes towards the OHL's Kingston Frontenacs and North Bay Batallion's Ryan Kujawinski, who signed an entry-level deal with the New Jersey Devils earlier today.

Kujawinski had been New Jersey's second pick (73rd overall, in the third round) at the 2013 draft, the Devils were probably hoping the 6'2'', 210-pound center would eventually develop into a hidden gem power-center - ideally a second-liner with grit, speed and play-making abilities in the same vein as Ryan Getzlaf but, obviously, not at the same level as the should-have-been-a-Hart-Trophy-nominee.

Except that in Juniors, he was never a point-per-game guy, not even this season as a 20-year-old playing against teenagers - and certainly not in the playoffs, where his totals spread over three seasons are 9 goals, 4 assists (13 points) in 26 games, with 15 penalty minutes. Still, speculation as to how he'd perform was very positive before the season started.

There have been games where he's looked unstoppable, but usually he's kept pretty quiet, considering the quality of opposition. In that respect, he reminds me a bit of the Montréal Canadiens' Lars Eller, who has the complete skill-set including size but somehow fails to find the consistency required to excel in the top-6 for a full season.

But bigger players usually take longer to develop, and Kujawinski might turn out to be a late bloomer. The Devils could certainly need the help offensively, though in my opinion he's easily a couple of years away from the NHL at the very least. Working in his favour is the fact that in the modern-day NHL, semi-stars and high-end grinders now have similar statistics in the 40-to-55-point range as most teams play a defense-first chess-like system that creates and limits chances (i.e. evens things out) no matter who is playing.

That being said, here's the reason why I know anything about him, from In The Game's 2012-13 Draft Prospect set (card #A-RK of the Autograph sub-set, the Silver Version variant), showing him in the Frontenacs' Boston Bruins-inspired (circa 1934-36) uniform:

It features an on-card autograph, signed in thin black sharpie with his jersey number (17) tagged at the end. Boxes of 12 cards sell for around $60, which is a bargain if you get a Nathan MacKinnon auto or Sergei Fedorov jersey card, but steep if you factor in the design that's similar to any of their usual Heroes And Prospects sets and the small amount of cardboard received in exchange for your hard-earned cash.

The card's nice, I'll give it a B+, but the set itself gets a C+ after factoring the cost.