Andy's Hockey Cards
This page will act as a summary page for my collection, and for the other pages which contain details on my collecting pursuits. I started collecting in 1998 at the age of 13.
Read Snakebit! -- my article which appeared in Beckett Hockey Collector.

Quick Links and Contact Information

What I Have Available

Link to my major-issue Tradelist.

Above is a link to my entire tradelist from major-issue sets. My trading policies for these cards are discussed on that page. I am usually happy to sell cards as well.

In terms of minor league sets, I have a large collection of Detroit Vipers IHL team set cards available. I have a decent selection from many of the Vipers sets, and complete checklists for all of the sets can be found here: The Internet Hockey Database. Feel free to email me if you've got any questions about the Detroit Vipers cards.

On ebay, I am mainly a seller of numbered parallel cards, with the hope that player, team, or set collectors will need them.

What I'm Looking For

Link to my major-issue Wantlist.

Above is a link to my lengthy wantlist from major-issue sets. I've got a few different projects I am working on in my collections, and I'll try to summarize them here, in order of importance.

Player Collections: I collect cards of former Detroit Vipers players. I made a website for my player collections, which can be found here. For the ease of viewing, I have listed all of the players that I collect at the bottom of this page. My largest collection is my Sergei Samsonov collection, which contains over 800 different cards. It is important to note that there are a number of minor-league, team-issue, European, and oddball cards that I need for my player collections. These cards are not listed on the wantlist that I linked above. Please let me know if you have any of these items featuring the players I collect. Finally, I have a collection of game-used memorabilia from former Vipers players. These items can be seen at this page.

The Best-RC Collection: This is my theoretical attempt to own the best rookie card of every player. I use "every" in a very loose sense, as obviously it's an unreachable goal. In reality, for my project, I'll go after the best rookie cards of most players from the early 80's through 99-00. Although the project also extends through the 02-03 season, I tapered it off gradually up until that point. For cards after 02-03, the project has been limited to include only Tampa Bay Lightning players and Detroit Vipers alumni. There are a lot of best rookie cards that I, frankly, don't have the means to acquire, which is the basis for the project's gradual discontinuance. I have also set up websites to track the progress of the Detroit Vipers Best-RCs Project and the Tampa Bay Lightning Best-RCs Project.

The Yearly Binder Project: This is a much more reachable goal - to complete one 9-card display sheet (in binders sorted by years) for every major-issue product to be released from the 79-80 season through the present. I am only looking for common cards, so absolutely anything from the sets I need cards from would be useful to me. For full details, see my Yearly Binder Project webpage.

Sets: I have assembled a number of sets for my collection, and I am pursuing a few more as well. For full details on my sets completed and my set wantlist, see my sets webpage.

Complete list of players I collect:

Sergei Samsonov Kevin Weekes Zac Bierk Tim Thomas
Dieter Kochan Evgeny Konstantinov Rich Parent Stan Drulia
Dan Kesa Steve Martins Eric Perrin* Travis Brigley
Nils Ekman Ben Clymer Kyle Kos Mario Larocque
Gordie Dwyer Marek Posmyk Matt Elich Dale Rominski
Kyle Freadrich Kaspars Astashenko Keith Aldridge Dimitri Afanasenkov
Thomas Ziegler Martin Cibak Scott Nichol
Kristian Kudroc Sheldon Keefe
Jeff Shevalier Jason Podollan Samuel St. Pierre Ryan Hoople
Peter Ciavaglia Bobby Jay Brad Shaw Jeff Reese
Ian Herbers Andy Bezeau Darren Banks John Gruden
Steve Walker Bobby Reynolds Trevor Koenig Shawn Maltby
Mike Kiesman Kenton Smith Mikko Kuparinen Mike Jones
Note: Eric Perrin is an exception to the rule; he's the only player I collect who was never on the Detroit Vipers.


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