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Who wins? Maybe this has been already discussed but can't find anything now.
I will offer Steve Patrick as the answer. 250 NHL games and he only got into one Quebec Nordiques team issued set.
Can anybody raise this?

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edit. Meant to put this under "Hobby Talk". Could sb please move this there?
 
OK Currie, that is very good!
However, I managed to find this guy:


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Mark Reeds has 365 NHL Games and no NHL cards.
This ProCards AHL card is his only one as a player. He has other minor league cards as a coach.
Is there somebody with more? :-)
 
mv23 said:
OK Currie, that is very good!
However, I managed to find this guy:


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Mark Reeds has 365 NHL Games and no NHL cards.
This ProCards AHL card is his only one as a player. He has other minor league cards as a coach.
Is there somebody with more? :-)
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Damn... miss Reeds... that was such a ridiculously tragic story... well on his way to becoming an NHL coach after leading my former 'hometown' Attack to an OHL Championship. Good to see his name come up though!

Cory
 
Okay... I had to play... admitting though this may be cheating... I give you:

Pete Horeck
1944 to 1952 with the Blackhawks, Red Wings and Bruins.
426 NHL Games... no accredited cards (according to hockeydb.com)... but mind you, there weren't many options those years.

Cory
 
Oh... how about Glen Harmon? Played his last game in 1951 for the Canadiens after 452 in the NHL... didn't get a card until the Habs Centennial set in 2008. If that counts as an official licensed card, that means he got his rookie card 66 years after his debut in 1942.

Cory
 
ok cool findings! I have only ever looked into players from the modern era, but was thinking that there could be players from the Original Six times without cards.
 
will-411 said:
Damn... miss Reeds... that was such a ridiculously tragic story... well on his way to becoming an NHL coach after leading my former 'hometown' Attack to an OHL Championship. Good to see his name come up though!

Cory
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And then, through poor goaltending decisions, costing them a shot at the memorial cup!
 
Sometime in the Gary Shuchuk era, I decided to have a PC of players who played in the NHL or WHA and had names ending in "chuk." This turned out to be a lot harder than I anticipated. Ken Yaremchuk is pretty high on this list at 235 games.

Here's a list of the missing:

*WHA mentioned only if they didn't play an NHL game

Gene Achtymichuk 32 NHL games 1950s
Randy Andreachuk 2 WHA games 74-75
Ed Diachuk 12 NHL games 60-61
Bill Oleschuk 55 NHL games 75-80 (also missing from my Colorado Rockies PC)
Brandy Semchuk 1 NHL game 92-93 (have ProCard)
Gene Sobchuk 1 NHL game 73-74
Dale Yakiwchuk 4 WHA games 78-79 (have Milwaukee Admirals team issue)
Gary Yaremchuk 34 NHL games 81-85 (there are Toronto team issue postcards)
Ken Yaremchuk 235 NHL games 83-89 (have ProCard)
 
Sean Mckenna played 414 games in the 80's and never had any licensed cards during his career. I believe he finally got a card in the ITG franchises set in 2004, 14 years after his retirement.

My best,

Ken
 
I can only add this... I keep track of NJ Devils rookie cards, including a list of players who appeared with the team but don't have one. The most games played on this list is 243 by Timo Blomqvist. The Beckett database lists 15 cards, 13 European singles and 2 team sets (one Devils and one Capitals).

If there is someone who has more than Harmon, McKenna, etc... it's not someone who has appeared for New Jersey.
 
Some more names to add to the mix here. These are some great ideas for a future legends based set if UD is reading. Adding names like this to an old time themed base set is 10x better than someone who has thousands of them.
Joe Carveth was a 500 games NHL player who got his only card in 2012/13 ITG Motown Madness.
Pat Egan is a 500+ NHL gamer with no cards.
For recent players, on top of the already mentioned, Paul Boutilier is someone who should have at least one card but doesn't. Played nearly 300 games in the 1980s for 5 different NHL clubs.
Hannu Virta was a decent d-man with the Sabres in the 1980s and never got an NHL card.
Joe Paterson played nearly 300 NHL games during the 1980s with 4 different NHL clubs.
 
What is the definition of official licensed NHL cards. Even if you count Tobacco and Food cards there were plenty of players in the early NHL that had long careers but were never on a card.
 
Looked up a bunch of guys but all seem to have snuck into beehives at one point or another. Guessing the 40's will be a hotbed for the cardless.

One thing I learned through all this - everyone has had a beehive at one point.
 
TADontAsk said:
I can only add this... I keep track of NJ Devils rookie cards, including a list of players who appeared with the team but don't have one. The most games played on this list is 243 by Timo Blomqvist. The Beckett database lists 15 cards, 13 European singles and 2 team sets (one Devils and one Capitals).

If there is someone who has more than Harmon, McKenna, etc... it's not someone who has appeared for New Jersey.
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I have a similar list for players who played for the Caps, such as Blomqvist. Glen Currie who I mentioned above leads the pack. There were multiple in the 200+ games played range, though, which surprised me.

Also surprising? The number of guys who played on the mid-late 70's Caps teams who only had 1 or 2 games for the team. A 74-75 team which was literally the worst expansion team in history. How awful were those players to only get into a few games with such a bad team? :laugh:
 
Thanks for the reminder about the Franchises set, still few cards in there I need to get.
Fleer Throwbacks and that ITG Set have a few RCs of 80s players (and older)
For example Gary Rissling, 200+ games who has only one team issue from his playing days and then that Fleer Throwback.
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And then Glen Cochrane who played in 411 games but had to wait until that Fleer Throwbacks set to get his RC.


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Well as you can see he has a Post Cereal (there are incidentally quite a few players making their only appearances in that set) and also Kraft Hockey Drawings cards from 1987-88, but as somebody said should food issues count? ;-) And what about those Beehives?
I guess I am trying to say that my guy Mark Reeds is still doing well in this race as he has that one AHL card only :-)


Apart from Glen Harmon that got mentioned, there are at least few other interesting very late RCs.
And I am sure I have missed a lot, so names are always welcome.
I can think of Connie Madigan who in 1972-73 debuted as the oldest rookie (still a record) to play in the NHL at 38 yrs of age and got into this card
about 40 yrs later.
Still his only card (well there are parallels of that card)
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Only 20 NHL games in the end but an interesting story and also I believe a Slapshot connection as with fellow stragglers Dave Hanson and Jack Carlson who also
got their first official cards sometime in the 2000s?




And plenty more, plenty more...
But Mark Reeds, still the top-ranking from modern era without any sort of late RCs etc? :-)
Thanks for all the comments, interesting to read!
 

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