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The Thermochromic Puck: Hockey’s Latest and Greatest Achievement
The NHL made the announcement yesterday that for the first time, official game pucks to be used in this season’s NHL Winter Classic game will feature a new technology using a thermochromic coating....
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Box Break: 2018-19 Artifacts Hockey
When it comes to new hockey card releases, I am frequently a late bloomer when it comes breaking boxes. This year, 2018-19 Artifacts was no different. Released October 4, 2018, Artifacts is usually...
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Box Break: 2018-19 Upper Deck Trilogy
“Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count to two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five...
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The Voice of Hockey Calls it a Career
Legendary NHL Broadcaster “Doc” Emrick Retires Since 2005, when NBC acquired the rights to NHL broadcasting in the United States, there has been one consummate voice featured behind the microphone,...
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Tim’s Take: The 2023 National Sports Collectors Convention
My every-other year visit to the National Sports Card Collector’s Convention wrapped up Sunday afternoon and I wanted to join the cast of thousands that will take to social media to regale you in the...
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Tim’s Take: Is Fanatics a Monopoly?
The short answer is no. The long answer is also probably no, but it’s getting difficult to continue thinking it’s not their hobby endgame. With the impending takeover of three of the top four major...
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Tim’s Take: Fanatics Strikes Back
If you recall in my article where we first discussed the Panini vs. Fanatics lawsuit, we asked if Fanatics was a monopoly, as Panini accused them of being. In that article, we said the short answer was...
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Tim’s Take: Is Cleaning Cards a Dirty Business?
All we are is dust in the wind… Those words, made immortal by the poetic genius of Kansas, were true when they were written and are true today. It’s also true that I hate dust, who doesn’t? The only...
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Tim’s Take: Four Hobby Phrases That Should Be Retired Now!
You know the feeling you get when you hear the same phrases repeated over and over and over again? Whether it was your parents yelling things like “Don’t make me come back there,” or “Because I said...
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Tim’s Take: Shoresy, the Modern-Day Slap Shot
I’m admittedly late to the Letterkenny party as for quite a while; it wasn’t available on any of the services that I had. Once I was finally able to watch, I clearly saw what all the hype was about....
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Tim’s Take: COMC & e-Pack – The Race to the Bottom
In January 2016, Upper Deck launched an online platform that gave collectors a way to collect and trade digital trading cards. They called this platform e-Pack. As part of that experience, they added...
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Tim’s Take: Hobby Re-Packs in a Post-Pandemic Society
As Marvin Gaye once pined, “Life Is a Gamble.” If you know that obscure song (more of an ambiance piece) from the Trouble Man soundtrack, kudos to you and your good taste in music. But it’s true. Life...
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