Colin was working through his skating drills earlier today when an older man walked up to me: "There's a lot of people wearing skates out there, but your son's the only one skating."
All I could do was smile.
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Not-so-random thoughts and chiseled commentary about life, hockey and collecting autographs for the pure fun of it, certainly not for profit, during the 2010-11 season.
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2010 offseason acquisitions
- 2010 Summer of Baseball: 369
- TBL training camp team sheets: 42
- Cards: 31
- TBL Young Guns team sheet: 29
- Pucks: 25
- TBL Young Guns mini stick: 22
- TBL Young Guns team card: 15
- TBL 09-10 yearbook: 6
- Threads: 5
- TBL Big Three 8x10: 3
- 8x10s: 2
- TBL promo cards: 2
- Books: 1
- Sticks: 1
- TBL Young Guns Camp ticket: 1
- Total: 554, as of Sept. 19
Roll call 2009-10
- Cards: 838
- Team sheets: 444 on 25 sheets
- Pucks: 222
- Photos: 31
- Threads: 30
- Cheap skate cards: 28
- Mighty Ducks jersey: 22
- Pirates practice jersey: 12
- TBL 2009-10 yearbook: 11
- TBL promo cards: 9 on 6 cards
- Monarchs practice jersey: 7
- Sticks: 5
- Team Canada jersey: 5
- 2009-10 MVP Quad: 4 on 1 card
- UNH jersey: 4
- Manchester Monarchs mini-stick: 3
- 2008 NHL Draft program: 2
- Colorado Avalanche mini pennant: 2
- 2008-09 O-Pee-Chee jumbo: 1
- 2008-09 Victory jumbo: 1
- 2007 Rookie Class jumbo: 1
- 2006-07 Bee Hive jumbo: 1
- 2003-04 Bee Hive dual-swatch jumbo: 1
- Atlanta Thrashers mini pennant: 1
- Bruins Vintage Hockey jersey: 1
- Bruins Winter Classic jersey: 1
- Card tins: 1
- Colorado Avalanche jersey: 1
- Hot Wheels car: 1
- McFarlane bases: 1
- Panthers Stephen Weiss jersey: 1
- Right-handed goalie glove: 1
- TBL Mattias Ohlund jersey: 1
- TBL ticket stub: 1
- TBL Vinny Lecavalier jersey: 1
- USA team jersey: 1
- Total: 1,697, as of 04.29.10
- Best day: (tie) 80 (79/1) on 11.30.09
- Best day: 80 (79/1) on 11.14.09
Hounding reports
- 2010-11 team reports
- TBL's Vinny Lecavalier IV
- Dallas' Brad Richards and TBL's Marty St. Louis
- Tampa Bay Rays' Rocco Baldelli
- TBL's Steve Yzerman II
- TBL's Steve Yzerman I
- TBL Young Guns development camp
- TBL's Brett Connolly
- TBL Young Guns team sheet
- TBL's Pat Verbeek
- TBL's Guy Boucher
- TBL's Chris Dingman
- Winnipeg Jets' Norm Beaudin
- Hall of Famer Phil Esposito II
- TBL's Ryan Malone
- Tampa Bay Lightning VI
- Moody's Atlanta vacation
- TBL's Victor Hedman II
- TBL red carpet
- Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay
- Florida Panthers IV
- Panthers team sheet II
- Florida's Stephen Weiss IV
- Randy Sexton and Don Waddell
- ECHL Spring Break
- Ottawa Senators II
- Senators team sheet
- Ottawa's Daniel Alfredsson II
- Ottawa's Jason Spezza and Nick Foligno
- Hall of Famer Phil Esposito
- TBL's Vinny Lecavalier III
- Carolina Hurricanes III
- Carolina's Eric Staal III
- Carolina's Manny Legace
- Carolina's Ray Whitney
- New York Rangers II
- NYR team sheet II
- NYR's Henrik Lundqvist
- NYR's Olli Jokinen
- TML in Toronto III
- Toronto Marlies
- Carolina Hurricanes II
- Carolina's Eric Staal II
- Carolina's Rod Brind'Amour and Jussi Jokinen
- Buffalo Sabres II
- Buffalo's Ryan Miller
- Buffalo's Drew Stafford
- Buffalo's Rip Simonick
- Phoenix Coyotes
- Phoenix's Shane Doan
- Phoenix's Robert Lang
- Phoenix's Keith Yandle
- Atlanta Thrashers III
- Thrashers team sheet II
- Atlanta's Maxim Afinogenov and Bryan Little
- Atlanta's Evander Kane II
- Hall of Famer Guy Lafleur
- Philadelphia Flyers II
- Philly's Joe Mullen
- Philly's Darroll Powe
- Windsor Spitfires' Taylor Hall
- London Knights' Nazam Kadri
- TML in Toronto II
- Boston Bruins II
- Bruins team sheet
- Bruins legend Gerry Cheevers
- Boston's Patrice Bergeron II
- Boston's Zdeno Chara
- Boston's Marco Sturm
- Boston's Mark Recchi
- TBL's Victor Hedman
- Vancouver Canucks
- Vancouver's Roberto Luongo
- Vancouver's Sedin twins
- Vancouver's Ryan Kesler
- Vancouver's Kyle Wellwood
- Calgary Flames
- Flames team sheet
- New York Islanders
- NYI's John Tavares
- NYI's Doug Weight
- NYI's Matt Moulson
- Toronto's Jean-Sebastien Giguere
- Anaheim Ducks
- Ducks team sheet
- Mighty Ducks jersey
- Anaheim's Ryan Getzlaf, Corey Perry, Bobby Ryan and Steve Eminger
- Anaheim's Scott Niedermayer, Saku Koivu and Nick Boynton
- Anaheim's Teemu Selanne
- Anaheim's Jonas Hiller
- Anaheim's George Parros
- Anaheim's Dan Sexton
- Montreal Canadiens II
- Montreal's Mike Cammalleri
- Toronto Maple Leafs II
- Maple Leafs team sheet
- Leafs 8x10s
- Toronto's Jason Blake
- Toronto's Francois Beauchemin
- Tampa Bay Lightning V
- Florida Panthers III
- Panthers team sheet
- Florida Stephen Weiss III
- Florida's Nathan Horton and Cory Stillman
- TBL's Zenon Konopka II
- Washington Capitals
- Washington's Arturs Irbe
- Washington's Jose Theodore
- TBL's James Wright II
- Montreal Canadiens
- Canadiens team sheet
- Montreal's Carey Price
- Tampa Bay Lightning IV
- TBL's Alex Tanguay
- Boston Bruins
- Bruins team sheet
- Boston's Patrice Bergeron
- Bruins Winter Classic pucks
- Boston's Marc Savard
- Atlanta Thrashers II
- Thrashers team sheet
- Atlanta's Ilya Kovalchuk
- Atlanta's Pavel Kubina and Eric Boulton
- Philadelphia Flyers
- Flyers team sheet
- Philly's Jeff Carter and James van Riemsdyk
- Philly's Simon Gagne
- Philly's Chris Pronger
- TML in Toronto
- OHL prospects Cam Fowler, Taylor Hall, Calvin de Hann and Boone Jenner
- Edmonton Oilers
- Oilers team sheet
- Edmonton's Sam Gagner
- TBL's James Wright
- TBL's V4, MSL26
- Washington Capitals
- Colorado Avalanche
- Avalanche team sheet
- Colorado's Adam Foote
- TBL's Adam Oates
- New York Rangers
- NYR's Henrik Lundqvist
- NYR's Marian Gaborik
- TBL's Zenon Konopka
- Toronto Maple Leafs
- Toronto's Joey MacDonald
- Toronto's Luke Schenn
- Toronto's Francois Allaire
- Blackhawks legend Tony Esposito
- L.A. Kings
- Kings team sheets
- L.A.'s Anze Kopitar
- L.A.'s Drew Doughty
- L.A.'s Ryan Smyth
- L.A.'s Dustin Brown and Alexander Frolov
- L.A.'s Dustin Brown, Alexander Frolov and Jack Johnson
- L.A.'s Dustin Brown and Jack Johnson
- L.A.'s Erik Ersberg and Jonathan Quick
- L.A.'s Drew Doughty, Erik Ersberg, Jack Johnson, Teddy Purcell, Wayne Simmonds and Jarret Stoll
- Minnesota Wild
- Minnesota's Niklas Backstrom, Andrew Brunette, Brent Burns, Josh Harding and Kim Johnsson
- Minnesota's Cal Clutterbuck, Josh Harding, Martin Havlat and Owen Nolan
- Minnesota's Greg Zanon
- Backstage pass
- Leafs legend Johhny Bower
- New Jersey Devils II
- New Jersey's Martin Brodeur
- New Jersey's Zach Parise
- New Jersey's Andy Greene
- Ottawa Senators
- Ottawa's Alex Kovalev
- Ottawa's Daniel Alfredsson
- Ottawa's Jason Spezza
- Ottawa's Nick Foligno
- Ottawa's Jonathan Cheechoo
- Buffalo Sabres
- Sabres team sheet
- Buffalo's Tyler Myers
- Buffalo's Thomas Vanek
- Buffalo's Mike Grier
- San Jose Sharks
- Sharks team sheet
- San Jose's Dany Heatley
- San Jose's Rob Blake, Patrick Marleau and Joe Thornton
- San Jose's Evgeni Nabokov
- Florida Panthers II
- Florida's Stephen Weiss II
- Florida's Tomas Vokoun
- Florida's Dmitry Kulikov
- Carolina Hurricanes
- Hurricanes team sheet
- Carolina's Rod Brind'Amour
- Carolina's Eric Staal, Cam Ward
- New Jersey Devils
- Devils team sheet
- New Jersey's Jacques Lemaire
- New Jersey's Brian Rolston
- New Jersey's Travis Zajac
- TBL Unplugged No. 1
- TBL's Mattias Ohlund III
- Dave Andreychuk
- Kane vs. Hedman
- Atlanta Thrashers
- Atlanta's Evander Kane
- Atlanta's Ondrej Pavelec
- TBL training camp
- Former NHLer Adam Oates
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- TBL's Vinny Lecavalier
- TBL's Mike Smith
- Toronto Maple Leafs
- TBL's Steven Stamkos II
- TBL's Mattias Ohlund II
- TBL's Antero Niittymaki II
- TBL's Adam Hall
- TBL's Antero Niittymaki
- TBL's Mattias Ohlund
- TBL's Steven Stamkos
- TBL's Andrej Meszaros
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Tickets stubs
- 09.18.09: Bolts 2, Thrashers 1 (OT)
- 10.08.09: Devils 4, Bolts 3 (SO)
- 11.14.09: Kings 2, Bolts 1 (SO)
- 11.30.09: Avalanche 3, Bolts 0
- 12.28.09: Bolts 2, Bruins 1
- 01.21.10: Bolts 3, Loafs 2 (OT)
- 01.29.10: Ducks 2, Bolts 1 (SO)
- 02.09.10: Bolts 3, Canucks 1
- 02.11.10: Bruins 5, Bolts 4
- 04.08.10: Bolts 4, Senators 3 (SO)
- 04.10.10: Bolts 4, Panthers 3 (SO)
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I detest the Toronto Maple Leafs. Curtis Joseph, too.
The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution stands guard over this site's content.
The writings on this blog are the intellectual property of its author.
However, all photos depicting anything other than autographed items belong to the rights holder and are not being used for any commercial gain. If there's a problem, let me know.
I detest the Toronto Maple Leafs. Curtis Joseph, too.
I love how a simple comment like that can resonate.
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