Somewhere in my parent's basement in Connecticut I still have a pile of binders but there is one hockey card that really stuck with me. It's the 91-92 Upper Deck of Cujo making a ridiculous save. Look at it at the top of the page. Let it sink in.
(It took me 35 minutes on Google to find this card so when I finally found a picture of it I freaked out like one of those dopes that find out that the wings they are enjoying at a restaurant is actually made by Pizza Hut. "This isn't a restauant at all, motherfuckers! Woooo!")
A few thoughts on:
- Upper Deck had the shiniest, sharpest colored trading cards on the planet. Before 91-92 cards were brown pulpy shit. Upper Deck looked like they invented HD.
- Those St. Louis sweaters were TITS. Great (1,000) breazers. I might look for an old pair on eBay. The Wings may have the best pants in the league right now but older school, Capitals, North Stars and Flames are right up there. Some kid on our men's league teams wears green Devils breazers. I think I've written about that fact 60 times on this blog. I also really like the Tampa pants with the bolt on the side. I also had a trading card of Jeff Lazaro that showed that he had Zs shaved into the side of his head. Okay.
- Look at the save. What a picture! I always tried to figure out what angle the shot came from and how Cujo got to it. I think that Roenick tried to go low blocker and Cujo kicked this shit into the rafters. I want to think that any butterfly style netminder would have been to slow to get down on this puck but young Cujo was able to ninja kick his right leg out and get a stick on the shot.
- I love the way his glove hand flares out for balance. I think he ended up in a full split at the end of the play.
- Standup goalies were the shit. Positional goalies ruined hockey cards forever. To have a good goalie shot you need to kick out a leg and flash some glove.
- Check out the kid from A Christmas Story studying the save from the front row. How cool would it be if it turns out that that kid is actually a young Patty Berglund?
- Can we go back to the time when goalies had scuffed up pads? And how cool are those Heaton pads? That is why I love the Joey MacDonald pads because they looked like throwback pads from the 1990's. Andy Moog and Billy Ranford and all the Vaughn guys had pads in the same style.
BTW Don't get me started on this Bill Ranford picture. I could be here all day.
- I brought up the fact that I liked the Joey Mac pads to him when we shot the backup goalie show for the Isles. He choose the pads because he loves the classic look. He's the man.
- Nemmy
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I agree - stand up goalies made for much better player cards. Flashing the pads, those kick-outs that if caught just right in the photo look ridiculous like that Ranford card. Kirk McLean, Sean Burke, Richter, Vanbiesbrouck, Ranford, Moog, Fuhr, Hextall, those guys were the end of an era. Brodeur is still considered a throwback by some - he's not a butterfly goalie by an means. I like goalies that react to the puck instead of those who simply block it. And there is a difference.
I once saw Cujo having dinner with ex-teammate Kelly Chase at the Mall in Hartford after a Whaler-Blues game. Chase tapped me on the shoulder and asked me to pass the pepper. My shoulder hasn't healed
since.
I still have a Vanbiesbrouck poster on my wall in my parents house. Its sweet and yes he's rocking Vaughn pads. And that awesome Panthers helmet. Another thing you dont see much now is the two pad stack. You see those less than penalty shots.
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