I really think that card companies should try to get more retired players to sign, there are so many nice player who never got any card while players like Ranford, R.Brodeur, T.Linden, W.Clark etc is brutally overpresented (sorry!)...
Those players may be more willing to siging than many other but there many great player especially goalies during 80's and 90's which never got any nice cards despite theirs superior stats and some of those was actually stars/fan-favorites during its time but yet no hobby-love in nowadays.
Some players may be controversial like John Vanbiesbrouck because of his racical slur against a player for long time ago...but seriously he deserves a better fate, he's winnigest USA-born goalie ever (and among winnigest non canadian-born goalies ever), Vezina-vinner, very solid stats and big star during his time with the Panters....
Mike Richter...? He was huge in NYR and won the cup in 1994 plus a pure one-club-player, won World Cup in 1996 (playes as starting goalie for USA at many occasions) and named as MVP and famous for his stunning saves (especially aganist Bure in many occasion) etc...but mininal hobby-love in nowadays...
Maybe UD is unwilling to deal with retired non-canadian players?
There are so many nice USA-born players but those players has so much less then canada-born ones....
I'm unsure that many are collecting Richard Brodeur...I'm quite sure that many will get more exicted to pulling a nice card with players like Richter, Vanbiesbrouck, JR, Patty LaFontaine (Bure!? he may not be a american but he doesn't have so many nice cards after he retired despite to his stats/merits) etc they don't get any (or very few cards from UD-brands) but Joe Mullen got some really nice cards...? Strange....
I wasn't comparing Kirk McLean with Ranford at my first post, I was actually comparing Richard Brodeur with Kirk McLean, Captain Kirk got a superior stats and led in wins with a very impressive 39 wins during a season while R.Brodeur never got over +21 wins in a season!!!
Ok there are so many factors which we doesn't know when card companies selects players into their products....I'm quite stunned that my main PC-player doesn't get so much cards but from BTP-series with some execptions despite his merits (I'm FULL aware that he is considered as a jerk and has a repution as a no teamplayer but hey Hextall and Belfour are also thugs at ice and off-ice, maybe not Hexy but Eddie do! Patrick Roy is well known for his arrogance, cockiness and sometimes unfriendly like when he abused his wife but yet unlimited hobby-love but he's a french-canadian goalie so excuses everything, Felix Potvin is a bit overrated also, only got some great seasons at start of his career but also unlimited hobby-love, quebec-base goalies has tendency to be extremely overvalued, no ill intention of me, I really like Roy but he's too much sometimes)
It would be very nice if someone released a non ITG-branded series with only retired players, filled of autos/memorabilias/unlikely pairings etc....and not only focus at a very few retired players who may be very willing to signing cards....I know that's a impossilbe task but....
Sorry for my long post with bad english....and filled of nonsense.
