A couple of new additions to announce today, one of which has a semi-interesting backstory. In their history, the Lightning have had two players named Stephane Richer suit up. Two Stephane J Richers to be exact. WHile the latter of the two was a fairly well known and successful NHLer the first one played onle 3 games in a Tampa uniform, in the inaugural 1992-93 season, before being traded to Boston. He would also play a handful of games with Florida.
Now I've been using hockeydb to find the majority of the cards and check to see if they even exist for some of the more obscure players. Hockeydb has a feature that automatically searches ebay for the cards of the player you're searching. However, the two Richers results are always intermingled. I had never found one of the more obscure Richer before stumbling upon a card from the German DEL while wading through the other Richer's various cards. Needless to say I am pretty happy to have added Stephane J.G. Richer to the collection. (This is how the Lightning's media guide makes the distinction between the two. The other one is Stephane J.J. Richer.) Add in the facts that the card features a photo of an ad-filled Adler Mannheim jersey and is in German and you have one of the more unique cards of the set so far and an instant favorite of mine. I will get a picture of this card up sometime next week when the scanner is unpacked.
Since the last update I've also added pugilist Ryan Tobler and Adrian Aucoin (Calgary Flames).
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