You can purchase these cards, or any of my Missing Link creations, for $10 each postpaid, or $7.95 each for 3 or more. Email me at: [email protected], volume discounts available on larger orders.
This will be another posting with just cards and reverse shown for main stream players or ones we have previously created in other years, getting farther behind on customs that have been created and have not made it on here yet. A group of mainly 1960-61 Parkie and Topps hockey for your perusal !! Earl Balfour Jim Bartlett Jack Bownass bounced around on no less than seven minor-league teams in Quebec and Seattle before getting the opportunity to play in the NHL at the age of 27. During the 1957-58 season he was signed as a free agent by the Montreal Canadiens. Although the Canadiens had no immediate plans to use him, the New York Rangers liked what they saw and claimed Bownass in the Inter-League draft in June, 1958. He played in 35 games with the Rangers that year, and followed that up with a 37-game effort in 1959-60. Spent the next 11 seasons in minors except fro another 4 games on Broadway in 1961-62 never earning a card for his troubles. Tom Cassidy was owned by five NHL teams, playing only for one of them, in his 7 season hockey career in the 1970s. California drafted him after an impressive career with Kitchener in the OHA, but he was sold to Los Angeles before ever wearing the Seals uniform. The Kings in turn sold him to Toronto, and his contract expired without him ever playing in the NHL yet. Boston signed him the contract expired, and finally Pittsburgh signed him and used him. Cassidy appeared in 26 games in 1977-78 with the Pens, scoring three times. He retired after spending 1978-79 in the minors without a hockey card (and not many pics !!). Brian Cullen Len Haley had a long and varied career in hockey, playing well into his 41st year. The journeyman winger from Edmonton played in no less than 13 different leagues in his 25-year career, logging ice time in 1,486 total games but only 30 of them were in an NHL sweater. His shot at the big time came with the 1959-60 Detroit Red Wings for whom he played 27 regular season and six playoff games. His handful of points was enough to bring him back for three games the following season, but he spent the majority of 1960-61 with the Edmonton Flyers of the WHL. The rest of his career was spent in the minors, and he finally hung up his skates in 1972 at the age of 41 without a hockey card issued. Ted Hampson John Hanna Bob Kabel spent parts of two seasons with the New York Rangers but was best known as a consistent performer for 16 years in the AHL and WHL. Kabel played his first full minor pro season with the Vancouver Canucks of the WHL in 1954-55. In 1959-60, he scored 16 points in 44 games for the New York Rangers and skated occasionally at right wing with Andy Bathgate and Dean Prentice. Eventually he was relegated to farmhand status in 1960-61. After his NHL dream died, Kabel went on to have nine excellent minor pro seasons, hitting the 20-goal mark three times and winning consecutive Calder Cups with the Springfield Indians in 1961 and 1962. Retired 3 games in to the 1969-70 WHL season without ever seeing his picture on a hockey card. Fleming Mackell Phil Maloney Lou Marcon played parts of three seasons with the Detroit Red Wings in the 50s and 60s. The Montreal Canadiens prospect bounced around the minors but was unable to break into the Habs' deep roster. He was claimed by the Detroit Red Wings at the Intra-League Draft in June, 1958 and then split two seasons between the NHL and the WHL's Edmonton Flyers. He played one last NHL game for Detroit in 1962-63 before spending the next seven years in the minors. Following the 1968-69 season he sat out two years then returned to coach the Thunder Bay Twins of the USHL in 1971-72. The next year he also played 22 games for the club before retiring permanently. His rookie card was issued in the 1959-60 Topps set. Billy McNeill Dick Meissner Mel Pearson started out as an outstanding junior player with the Flin Flon Bombers of the SJHL between 1955 and 1957. In his final campaign with the club, he led the league in goals scored and tallied a total of 108 points in only 56 games. In 1957, he turned pro with the Trois-Rivieres Lions of the QHL, the start of a lengthy journeyman's career that took him from coast to coast and earned him but a few appearances at the NHL level with the New York Rangers during the early 1960s plus a two-game stint with the fledgling Pittsburgh Penguins in 1967. In 1972-73, at the age of 34, Pearson was recruited by the newly formed World Hockey Association to add his veteran presence to the Minnesota Fighting Saints. He completed one season with the club and then retired for good never having a hockey card issued. Dennis Riggin spent parts of 5 seasons in the WHL before he made his NHL debut with the Detroit Red Wings in 1959-60. Sent back to minors for next 3 years and suffered eventual career-ending eye injury in 1960-61. He played another nine games with the Red Wings during the 1962-63 season before retiring after that year without a hockey card. Glen Skov Irv Spencer Don Ward suited up with the Chicago Black Hawks for three games in 1957-58 but the Boston Bruins acquired him via the Inter-League Draft on June 9, 1959. Ward joined the Bruins and played 31 games on their blue line and registered the only point of his NHL career when he chipped in an assist. When his time with the Bruins ended, so did his NHL playing days. He spent 12 another years in the WHL before he moved on to the Greensboro Generals of the Eastern Hockey League in 1972-73 for his final season as a player. None of this long career rated a hockey card. Thanks to Bob Fulton for these custom requests !!
You can purchase these cards, or any of my Missing Link creations, for $10 each postpaid, or $7.95 each for 3 or more. Email me at: [email protected], volume discounts available on larger orders.
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AuthorI am a lifelong Maple Leaf fan, now retired, who started creating custom cards for myself of Toronto players who never had a card issued in the Maple Leaf uniform. From posting some of these on eBay it has become the proverbial "snowball down hill" !!! Archives
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