Twenty out of 50

It's always nice when an NHL player signs more than one autograph. Last week, with the Minnesota Wild in Hockey Bay, we encountered quite a few players willing to sign more than one items, be they pucks, photos or, in this particular instance, cards.

All told, we accumulated 50 cards for the collection, with these players significantly adding to the inch-high stack:

Goalie Niklas Backstrom, top, who fears no nineboards, and Andrew Brunette, owner of one of the NHL's most distinctive autographs, had no trouble signing four cards;

Defenseman Brent Burns, top, and goalie Josh Harding, each inked four cards; and

a quartet from defenseman Kim Johnsson.