Hockey Trivia 80 – 1976-77 O-pee-chee Hockey Cards | Sportales

The 1976-77 O-Pee-Chee hockey card set consisted of 396 cards with a common card being currently valued at $1. The complete set is estimated to be valued at $300 and contains several important cards. Test and expand your knowledge of the 1976-77 O-Pee-Chee hockey card series with the following four trivia questions and answers.

Q. What is considered to be the highest valued card in the 1976-77 O-Pee-Chee hockey cards set?


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Hockey Trivia 80 – 1976-77 O-pee-chee Hockey Cards | Sportales

Brent Kelly Top Point Producer While Leading Langenthal to 2011-12 Championship

In each of his three years in Switzerland’s National B, Ontario Hockey League grad Brent Kelly has been in the top five among point-getters. In 2011-12, he tied for the lead with 68 points, the exact same total that placed him fourth the year before. In his first year, he scored 41 goals and totaled 92 points, placing him second in goals and third in points. His first year was spent with Olten and the past two have been with Langenthal.

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Brent Kelly Top Point Producer While Leading Langenthal to 2011-12 Championship

Himelfarb is 2nd Highest Point Producer in Sweden’s Allsvenskan

After just eleven points in 24 games in his first year with Rogle of Sweden’s Allsvenskan, Ontario Hockey League grad Eric Himelfarb found his touch around the net in 2011-12, finishing second in the league with 60 points in 52 games. Himelfarb led the team with 21 goals and 39 assists. He was six points behind Allsvenskan leader Broc Little and played all of the team’s 52 regular season games.

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Himelfarb is 2nd Highest Point Producer in Sweden’s Allsvenskan

Sorry O-Pee-Chee – Bobby Clarke Never Won the Art Ross Trophy

In 1974-75, O-Pee-Chee told the hockey card collecting world that it had been two years since Bobby Clarke had won the Art Ross Trophy. Unfortunately, Clarke never won the Art Ross Trophy in his entire National Hockey League career. What he did win in 1972-73 was the Hart Memorial Trophy as the NHL’s Most Valuable Player, the first of three during his career.

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Sorry O-Pee-Chee – Bobby Clarke Never Won the Art Ross Trophy

1974-75 O-Pee-Chee Lanny McDonald Rookie Card

His number is retired by the Calgary Flames. He is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. He was the fourth overall pick in the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft. He played in the Stanley Cup finals twice, winning once. His rookie hockey card was one of the highlights of the 1974-75 O-Pee-Chee set.

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1974-75 O-Pee-Chee Lanny McDonald Rookie Card

OHL Grad Rips Up The Scoring Race in Italy

Ontario Hockey League grad Peter Campbell is no stranger to a scoring race. No matter what team or country he plays in throughout the hockey world, Campbell nearly always finds himself amongst the top scorers. Peter has spent the past three years in Italy’s Lega Italiana Hockey su Ghiaccio Serie A2 with the HC Eppan Pirates. Twice he has led the league in points and twice he has led the league in goals. In 2011-12 he wasn’t the highest goal scorer but he ripped up the league in points.

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OHL Grad Rips Up The Scoring Race in Italy

Sudbury Wolves Grad Leads Germany’s DEL in Points for 2011-12

Former Sudbury Wolves star Norm Milley has finished Germany’s Deutsche Eishockey Liga regular season as the leader in the points department. Milley scored 14 goals and added 44 assists for 58 points in 52 games with Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg. Wolfsburg finished third in the 14 team league, just four points out of the overall lead.

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Sudbury Wolves Grad Leads Germany’s DEL in Points for 2011-12

Dave Keon: Gem of the 1961-62 Parkhurst Hockey Card Set

It only makes sense, coming off a Calder Memorial Trophy victory in 1960-61, that the Dave Keon rookie card would be the gem of the 1961-62 Parkhurst hockey card set. At a $250 value, Keon’s RC equals Gordie Howe’s card as the highest valued in the set. In 1961-62, Parkhurst put out 51 hockey cards. The complete set is valued at $1600 by Beckett Hockey Monthly and a common card is around $15.

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Dave Keon: Gem of the 1961-62 Parkhurst Hockey Card Set

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Noel Price: AHL Hall of Fame Defenseman

Sometimes the price guide doesn’t tell the whole story. Listed as a semi-star, the Noel Price rookie card appears as number 6 in the 1958-59 Parkhurst set. The hockey card is valued at $20 in a 50 card set that as a whole is worth $1800, according to Beckett Hockey Monthly. The top hockey cards in the set of Jacques Plante and Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadiens are each valued at $300. Yet, Price was a bit unsung in the history of the game.

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Noel Price: AHL Hall of Fame Defenseman

5 of 6 Multiple Eddie Shore Award Winners Started Out in the OHL

The Eddie Shore Award is the American Hockey League equivalent of the NHL’s Norris Trophy or the Ontario Hockey League’s Max Kaminsky Trophy. The Eddie Shore was introduced, and has been handed out year since, for the 1958-59 season to the league’s best defenseman. There have been six different players that have won the Eddie Shore Award on two or more occasions. What I found interesting is that five of these six players starting out in the OHL (OHA, OMJHL).

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5 of 6 Multiple Eddie Shore Award Winners Started Out in the OHL

$5,400 Gets You the Rookie Cards of the 6 Red Wings with Retired Numbers

Six jersey numbers hang from the rafters of the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, immortalizing six of the Detroit Red Wings greatest players. A complete collection of rookie hockey cards of all six players would be valued at $5,400. It’s just a matter of time before a seventh number joins them: the number 5 of Nicklas Lidstrom.

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$5,400 Gets You the Rookie Cards of the 6 Red Wings with Retired Numbers

What Would Your Choices Be For an OHL Hall of Fame?

The Hockey Hall of Fame was created in 1943. In 1997, the IIHF created their own Hockey Hall of Fame. The American Hockey League kicked their Hall of Fame into gear in 2006. Even the Central Hockey League started their own Hall in 2012. I think all Ontario Hockey League fans would agree that it’s high time that the greats from the OHL get honoured.

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What Would Your Choices Be For an OHL Hall of Fame?

Doug Risebrough: The Hockey Card World’s Man of Many Faces

Man, that picture of Doug Risebrough reminds me of someone…

Oh, wait. It’s not Doug. It’s rare through the history of hockey cards for the wrong player to be pictured on the front of hockey card. It is nearly impossible for one player to have his hockey cards screwed up in this manner twice.

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Doug Risebrough: The Hockey Card World’s Man of Many Faces

3 OHL Grads Among Central Hockey League’s Top 10

At pretty much the 50 game mark of the Central Hockey League’s 2011-12 season, three Ontario Hockey League grads are among the top 20 point getters in the league. The CHL is currently led by Todd Robinson of the Evansville Icemen. The grad of the WHL’s Portland Winterhawks is nearly 20 points ahead of the top OHLer. No stranger to the opponent’s net, Robinson surpassed 100 points twice with Portland and five times in the UHL/IHL.

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3 OHL Grads Among Central Hockey League’s Top 10

1971-72 O-Pee-Chee Error Cards

The 1971-72 O-Pee-Chee hockey card set features four cards that are considered to have uncorrected errors (UER). The errors are a bit finicky but, nonetheless, are considered by the experts to indeed be errors.
The highest profile of the four hockey cards is number 148, the Guy Lafleur rookie card. O-Pee-Chee was a company based in the very English city city of London, Ontario. This might explain the company’s difficulty with French names. The Guy Lafleur rookie card is considered an error card because the Hockey Hall of Fame legend’s last name is spelled La Fleur on the front and back. Beckett Hockey Monthly values this card at $200.

1971-72 O-Pee-Chee Error Cards

Plenty of OHL Goaltender of the Year Winners Still Active

The OHL Goaltender of the Year award has been handed out each season since 1987-88. The award is given to the top goaltender in the Ontario Hockey League, as voted on by the league’s coaches and general managers. Of the 24 Goaltender of the Year winners, as of the end of the 2010-11 OHL season, 13 are still actively playing hockey. This number includes last year’s winner, Mark Visentin, who is still in the OHL with the Niagara IceDogs. This number also counts Mike Murphy twice, as he is the only player to win the award twice. (see our resource page for complete list of winners).

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Plenty of OHL Goaltender of the Year Winners Still Active

Happy 6th Birthday, Bobby Sanguinetti!

We’re a couple days late, but a Happy sixth birthday wish goes out to Ontario Hockey League grad, Bob Sanguinetti. Sanguinetti was born on ‘Leap Year Day’ in 1988.

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Happy 6th Birthday, Bobby Sanguinetti!