steveottfan
Verified Trader,
Big autograph came in the mail today for my All-Time NHL player autograph project and wanted to share.
After years and years of searching, today I added the very last 1990s NHL player autograph to complete the decade of NHL debuts. A European autograph collector had one to trade (thanks Facebook) so all it took was a couple extra autographs I had laying around. Over a 25 year period from 1989 to 2014 a grand total of 3,299 people made their NHL debuts and with Vyazmikin finally added, I'm at 3,299/3,299 for 100% over that period.
I got my first autograph when I was about 12 but it wasn't until the end of high school that I had transitioned away from Steve Ott cards and completely to this autograph project. I'm 29 now so its taken well over a decade of consistent autograph collecting to get to this point.
You can see every autograph, organized by year of debut then alphabetical, here.
Vyazmikin died young over a decade ago. He only spent a short time in North America and then bounced around Europe for a few years. He never had any major card released and since he was a relatively unremarkable player, really flew under the radar. Have only seen a couple other copies of his signature and those are tucked away in other autograph collections.
For the all time NHL player collection starting with the 1917-18 debuts, I'm at approximately 6,874 / 7,746 for 89% overall. My 2021 goal is to reach 90% but its getting harder and harder to find those on my wantlist now.
:beer:
Jay
After years and years of searching, today I added the very last 1990s NHL player autograph to complete the decade of NHL debuts. A European autograph collector had one to trade (thanks Facebook) so all it took was a couple extra autographs I had laying around. Over a 25 year period from 1989 to 2014 a grand total of 3,299 people made their NHL debuts and with Vyazmikin finally added, I'm at 3,299/3,299 for 100% over that period.
I got my first autograph when I was about 12 but it wasn't until the end of high school that I had transitioned away from Steve Ott cards and completely to this autograph project. I'm 29 now so its taken well over a decade of consistent autograph collecting to get to this point.
You can see every autograph, organized by year of debut then alphabetical, here.
Vyazmikin died young over a decade ago. He only spent a short time in North America and then bounced around Europe for a few years. He never had any major card released and since he was a relatively unremarkable player, really flew under the radar. Have only seen a couple other copies of his signature and those are tucked away in other autograph collections.
For the all time NHL player collection starting with the 1917-18 debuts, I'm at approximately 6,874 / 7,746 for 89% overall. My 2021 goal is to reach 90% but its getting harder and harder to find those on my wantlist now.
:beer:
Jay
