Voici le quatrième paquet hors de cette boîte, et vous la croire ? C'est une édition en français ! Je ne peux pas parler français du tout ! Je ne pourrais pas même parvenir à commander un certain poutine quand j'étais des vacances à Montréal. Cet échec me hantera pour le reste de ma vie, je le savent juste. Quoi qu'il en soit, puisque j'ai obtenu un paquet français de 91-92 pro hockey d'ensemble je vais employer Babelfish pour traduire le poteau en français mutilé. Appréciez !


99 Bob Kudelski
199 Joe Sakic
214 Paul Cavallini
267 Phil Housley
100 Marty McSorley
85 John Cullen
51 Dirk Graham
315 Joe Sakic All Star
87 Brad Shaw
40 Jeremy Roenick
7 Garry Galley
6 Bob Sweeney
331 Jeff Hackett
340 Bill Barilko
190 Paul Coffey

WOUAH ! C'est un grand paquet même si il est en français. Début de deux Joe Sakics lui au loin, une base et une toute la carte d'étoile. Il y a un groupe de bons défenseurs dedans là comme Phil Housely, office de Gary et Paul Cavallini. Vous devez aimer les joueurs de Whaler de Hartford et John Cullen et Brad Shaw fournissent des exemples des chandails à la maison et partis impressionnants. Le Blackhawks était l'une de mes équipes quand j'ai joué NHL '94 d'EA, et j'ai marqué de nombreux buts avec Graham et Roenick. Le gardien de but Jeff Hackett semble être un draft pick d'expansion des requins tous neufs de San Jose. Il y a une vieille carte fraîche de timey de Bill Barilko, mais je ne peux pas lire le dos ainsi je ne sais pas ce qui continue là. Il ressemble à quelqu'un sur les feuilles juste marquées. Le meilleur est sauvé pour le bout. Paul Coffey est mon joueur préféré absolu dont les initiales ne sont pas des CC. Cette carte le montre jouant pour les pingouins de Pittsburgh de champion tout en portant certaine d'une garde de visage étrange. Autre que cette carte de cerise de Don, ce sont certaines des meilleures cartes hors de la boîte ! Apportez sur des cartes plus françaises !

Dirk a une moustache d'âne de coup-de-pied!

The Rangers swept the Lightning in Prague (good for my Thrashers) and Ottawa and Pittsburgh split in Sweden. I said Norway in the last post. My bad. The real season kicks off on Thursday (I think) but I have plenty of hockey wax to rip before then. Here's the second pack from my plastic hockey rookie+packs thingy: 1990 Pro Set. This colorful set, like everything else in the early '90s, was overproduced to hell and as a result we can rip it to our hearts content. We'll be ripping this stuff long after the oil has run dry, the banks have all failed and the governments have all collapsed. Won't that be a wonderful day! Just us and our cases of '90 Pro Set, ripping happily as Western Civilization burns all around us. Let's open.



126 Luc Robitaille
334 Teppo Numminen
154 Craig Ludwig
8 Craig Janney
247 Mike Hough
197 Ron Greschner
261 Gino Cavallini
173 Janne Ojanen
195 Jan Erixon
136 Ulf Dahlen (bent. how does a card get bent in the middle of a pack?)
244 Lucien DeBlois
268 Sergio Momesso
364 Phil Housley All Star
221 Gordon Murphy
31 Pierre Turgeon
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Other than the extra 10 cent coupon, this was a pretty lackluster pack. Robitaille's a damn good player, and so are Turgeon and Janney, but overall kinda blah. Not even a goalie in here. Since it's late on a Sunday night, I'm going to make things easy on myself and show off the awesome defunct team logos out of the pack instead. I'll start off with two from teams currently in the NHL:


Much much better than the slug. My guess is the team will one day move to Helena, Montana and rename themselves the Buffaloes.


Anybody remember the old red and green sweaters? Looks more like Santa than Satan. They won all their cups after changing to red & black which goes to show that evil always wins.

Ex-NHL teams, AKA why in the world should there be hockey teams actually playing in Canada? Stupid NHL.


Ok, not technically in Canada, but close enough. The North Stars ditched the north and moved to Dallas while Minnesota watered down the NHL even further with a new team named after the most wretched animated film ever. The logo is nifty and scientific, as the N points to what is presumably Polaris.

Seriously, what the hell is a Nordique? Northerners? Really? Pretty much every person in Canada is a Northerner to everyone except polar bears. I have never been able to explain the symbolism in this logo, and I've got an English degree, so I'm practically a professional bullshitter. Well, there's an N, I think, and a hockey stick and somehow a puck balanced perfectly on the edge and it's supposed to look like... um, half a Zamboni.. or maybe a fat guy with no head or arms playing hockey... er, oh hell, I don't know. This logo was definitely made in the '70s and you know what kind of stuff they smoked back then.


Now this is a kick ass logo! Lotsa kinetic energy, and a hockey stick and a little jet going WHOOSH! There's a great history of jets in Winnipeg including a famous mishap, so it's a topical name too. I still can't believe they took this team away from people who could appreciate it and moved them to the desert. Weak. Move a team back up there, NHL! You can have the Thrashers if you want, no one'll miss em.

Since you read this far, you get 10cents off your next imaginary purchase from Pro Set. Don't spend that money all in one place!

I'm feeling ready for some football, so we're going to reach back to the debut offering from Pro Set.

The design and photography are both great. This set takes a cue from 1986 Topps by incorporating the look of a football field into the borders, although I don't know of any team that plays on an orange field (although they do have that blue one in Boise).

Let's tear in.

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Super Bowl XII

249 Doug Flutie
216 Lorenzo Hampton
284 Erik Howard
403 Kelly Stouffer (Apparently the world's happiest QB.)

205 Tom Newberry
10 Mike Gann (Great hand shadow on the leg. Kind of looks like a ghost copping a feel.)

40 Dennis Gentry
160 Pat Beach
68 Erik Thomas
308 Al Toon
209 Mike Wilcher
139 Lindy Infante
379 Ronnie Lott
167 Lloyd Burruss

Grade: C
Ronnie Lott is the only true star in this pack. Wisconsin is well-represented, with Al Toon (former Badger), Newberry (UW-La Crosse), and, of course, Infante, the Packer coach who was once voted the best Packers coach of all time, beating out this other guy named Vince Lombardi. And this is after a year in which the Packers missed the playoffs after the final Monday Night Football game of the season went the wrong way for them. I also like the Super Bowl XII card because of the way it reminds me of Super Bowl XXXI, also played in New Orleans. That purple, green, and yellow color scheme will forever remind me of a young Brett Favre charging down the field, helmet in hand, after the first touchdown throw to Andre Rison.