Well firstly I started collecting Capitals that I like because my dad use to take me to games as a kid, and being a black kid hockey was not really the sports most kids in my neighborhood knew about, let alone watch or play. But once I went to the game at the Cap center in Landover, I was a fan. My favorite Caps player of all time is Peter Bondra (Bonzai as Craig Laughlin so aptly called him) but I got started too late to really get a lot of his stuff, so I began collecting my favorite Caps of today (Ovie, Backstrom, Orlov, Kuzy, etc.) I try to grab what I like of them and if I can find some older players like Bondra, Kolzig, Oates, or the Secretary of Defense Rod Langway I try to snatch them up.
Then as far as Wayne Simmonds and Seth Jones goes, being that black players aren't as prevalent in the NHL, and being black myself. I decided I would collect one of them. I loved Iggy but again I was late to the show and some of his earlier stuff was long gone or entrenched in someone's PC already. I saw a Kings game and Wayne Simmonds tenacity caught my attention, and I started following Simmonds. His play style reminded me a bit of Iggy (speaking of this if anyone has or has seen the 10-11 Simmonds/Iggy SOTT let me know), so I jumped head first into collecting everything I could. I've amassed one of the better Simmonds PC's I believe. I began collecting Seth Jones because he had the potential to be the #1 pick in his draft and be the highest black American player ever drafted in the NHL, so now I currently am closing in on 200 different cards of his. And soon whenever Madison Bowey debuts with my Caps I will be chasing everything of his as well.
