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Recently I have been going through and doing an audit of my collection, basically verifying what cards I have and then arranging them into pages with gaps for cards I don't have. I made an error a couple years ago when I blew out the majority of my hockey card collection, with the exception of Coyotes and Zhamnov cards. I had though that I had held onto the Jets cards but it turns out no so. So the Jets portion of my collection is down maybe 40% of what it once was.

This project consists of Winnipeg Jets (WHA, NHL but not WHL) from 1972 to 1996, Phoenix Coyotes from 1996 to 2013/4 and Arizona Coyotes from 2014 to now. Who knows maybe they will move/rename again some day! I make this clarification because I do not collect throwback cards for the old players in new card releases.

In this thread I will be posting scans of completed pages. It starts off quite late at 1989 since I do not have any complete pages before that. It will be a bit of time before I get to the actual Coyotes, but that part of the history of the team is why I collect these cards.

Here are the completed pages between 1972/73 and 1990/91.






I have an auto of the Scott Arniel on this page in my Sabres binder


I have an auto of the Greg Paslawski on this page in my Sabres binder







I have audited my collection up until 1992-93, currently half-way done with 1993-94. Hopefully I will have some more completed scans but things get harder as time goes on with so many parallels.
 
1991-92, the boring usual suspects. Despite being the peak of the junk era, there are still cards missing SOMEHOW.









Petri Skriko auto





And the fun stuff. English Upper Deck has 2 hologram types on the back. Have almost all of them, I think I'm missing just a couple.




That is all of the complete pages for now. 1992/93 and 1993/94 are done, I'll see if there are any to post tomorrow.
 
Russ Romaniuk was doing autos at a local show I went to on Saturday. I'm not an auto hound at all, said hello to him, wished him well, and kept walking. :)
 
1992-93 is really the start of parallel mania, so the scans per year are going to get fewer and fewer. I wanted to point out that the "gaps" for cards I do not have are not for all sets. Only for sets I already have cards for. Cards from sets I don't have any of yet will be appended at the end of the book.



As I'm going along (now) I am removing cards like this Dean Kennedy on a horse. The cards I want to collect should show them on the correct team or have the team name on there somewhere. Casual or "Street Clothes" cards have never interested me, and I am kind of surprised they seem so popular in the modern Upper Deck sets. Also, I am using TCDB's checklist to determine what cards are included. Since their policy is to assign a team that is in text instead of photo, there will be some Jets/Coyotes cards that I won't keep just because it is annoying to manually key track of them. I've already spent way too many hours over the years coming up with complicated collecting methods, anything I can do to make things simpler is going to make me happy.



Upper Deck did another year of multiple holograms


 
nhlderek said:
This is so cool! I can’t wait to see more. Never have seen this type of project before.
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Scottsdale7711 did something similar with the Sharks a long time ago, but all of the pictures are gone. :(
http://hobbyinsider.net/forum/showthread.php?t=258384

I had wrestled over the years how exactly I was going to collect the Jets/Coyotes. I went through many different iterations but it only really got streamlined when I put my collection onto tcdb which is publicly viewable, for example:
https://www.tcdb.com/CollectionBrow...amnov?Member=tpxcards&CollectionID=1&Filter=G

Which I am thinking I will arrange similarly to these team books after I get done with that. And I may also put my Sabres book into here at some point in the future as well.

But for today there is a break from scanning and I have some pictures I have taken recently but didn't post anywhere.

This is my trade box where everything on my trade inventory is. Everything is in a sleeve and/or a toploader and the first section is just hockey with other stuff at the end (right) side. It is just sorted by year, not arranged in any way within the year section.


Above that is a shelf that has been there for many years. I never know what to put on there so I just put some random stuff on it. Some hockey pucks I've gotten over the years. 2 Nikolai Khabibulin Starting Lineup figures. Two die-cast trucks for the Detroit Tigers and Texas Rangers: these originally came with an exclusive Upper Deck baseball card. I think the Tigers one was Ivan Rodriguez but I don't remember what came with the Rangers truck. An autographed picture of "Uncle Dave" Andreychuk. Some Ted Williams fishing line, a Buffalo Bisons ornament. Some limited edition (hand numbered out of 500) Winnipeg Jets goalie mask, and some empty tins.


And the other shelf I just have some empty card boxes on. These are all fairly old. I don't tend to get to keep the boxes for cards I buy because I open them at the LCS. I guess these were all ones that I opened at home. I didn't know where to put these boxes and didn't want to really throw them out, so they went on this shelf for now.
 
1993-94 was the start of me paying attention to the Jets. I had known of their existence prior to them, solely from cards and the fact that the Jets and the Coyotes shared a lot of players. I didn't really start following hockey until 1990, the year the Sabres traded Phil Housley for Dale Hawerchuk. Another crossover happened in 1992-93 when Alexander Mogilny scores 76 goals and tied with Teemu Selanne.

Speaking of Sabres connections, card 7 here is a two-sided card (with Teemu Selanne on the back) and on the front is Joe Juneau who would eventually end up on the Sabres for a short time.





In some weird twist, I have all of the Canadian Pinnacle cards but not the US versions.




Now to the reason for even collecting this team. I've often considered *not* collecting prior to this year simply because I have no real memory of the team in any way. The only reason I bothered was due to the fact that from this point on (there was a couple of gaps) I was collecting the entire team. So I have nostalgia for collecting the team after I started following them, if that makes any sense.

But what we have here is Topps Premier and there are two important cards to me in the middle row: The Super Rookies for Alexei Zhamnov and Teemu Selanne. Back then I was doing my own kind of fantasy hockey system (my friend did his own also) in which I would make a schedule, play games using dice and record stats and standings down. Of course back at this time I only like the Sabres but for whatever reason, the Jets were the best in the 3 or so years I did my own leagues. And every year Zhamnov was the leading scorer. That is the reason I ended up collecting him, and in turn the team itself because he was on there.



I think this Zhamnov in the middle here was the first auto I got for him in any sort of legitimacy. I never met him in person, but I would (still do) get IP autos like this for base cards if I can. You've seen some of them already.


 
Things are getting slim. Going through the 1994-95 section only yielded 1 complete page. :\



And I just finished doing 1995-96 and that only has TWO complete pages!




Looks like it is onto the Coyotes stuff and hopefully that can come out a little better!
 
Lookin' good! I've taking a similar approach for my Flames collection, base and parallels, but not all products. I have the OPC sets every year since Atlanta joined in 1972-73, Upper Deck Series I/II/II since inception, the first few years of ProSet & Parkhurst, etc.

One of these year's I'll start scanning them and show everything off.

Good luck with your project!
 
Three pages were completed with this update. Of course I added more than I am showing but it will have to do.

1992-93 Topps Gold


1993-94 Parkhurst, Emerald Ice


1993-94 Stadium Club Members Only, Topps Premier


Work on 1996-97 to 1998-99 starts this week, and that is the start of the Phoenix Coyotes proper.
 
Only 4 complete pages of 38 for 1996-97. It may be a trend going forward, as I can already expect in 1997-98 to not have many complete pages simply due to the amount of Pacific parallel sets. Some of these were a surprise to me, but not this first one of Collector's Choice.



Here is one surprise, if not for the Game Film, it wouldn't be a complete one.


Got all the Upper Deck base set. I am again surprised that I do not have all of the base set for everything done yet.


And this will be the last appearance of Alexei Zhamnov cards in these Coyotes pages unless I update a previous page for the Jets. And of course before I go through the separate Zhamnov cards at a later time.
 
1997-98, 4 complete pages out of 57.

After going to Glendale a couple years ago, I can actually feel that photo on the Keith Tkachuk card.


I loved buying packs of Pinnacle Be a Player in the 90s.


This NHL Icons I think is the regular one. I read there is an embossed one also.


IP autos vs pack-issued autos. It doesn't matter to me.
 
I should have more updates than this, but I don't do the scanning at home and I ran out of pages. So for now here is just a page of 1983-84 O-Pee-Chee.

 
Here's the rest of the updates.




An instance of needing 1 card to complete a page, the Pinnacle French in the first spot.


Another was the Troy Murray. It still annoys me that I used to have that card and others before I did my card purge.




Autos for Zhamnov and Tkachuk
 
An absolutely ginormous update. I think I missed a page (I have no idea which one it is) since I had two duplicate scans in my folder.



Dave Ellett and Mario Marois autos


Stickers!









Danton Cole auto




Mark Osborne auto




Rick Tabaracci auto, also has the same picture as the Stadium Club card.




Mike Eagles auto






 

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