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A hockey card is a type of trading card typically printed on some sort of card stock, featuring one or more ice hockey players or other hockey-related theme and are typically found in countries such as Canada, the United States, Finland and Sweden where hockey is a popular sport and there are professional leagues.
The O-Pee-Chee Company, Ltd. was a Canadian confectionery company founded in 1911 based in London, Ontario. [1] O-Pee-Chee was best known as a maker of trading cards.It entered into a marketing agreement with the Topps Company in 1958, releasing several collections of baseball, gridiron football, and ice hockey cards.
Pinnacle Brands, Inc. was a US-based manufacturing company of trading cards, focused on sports-related items. Pinnacle produced American football, baseball, hockey and motor sports cards. [1] Founded in 1986, the company had licenses with several major sports leagues, such as MLB, NFL, NHL, NASCAR, and the WNBA.
NHL Power Players [1] (also known as Esso Power Players) was a hockey trading card scheme dreamed up by Imperial Oil (owner of the Esso brand) and the NHL Players' Association (NHLPA) in the 1970–71 hockey season. Every time a customer purchased fuel at an Esso fuel station in Canada, they received a packet of six "Power Players Trader's ...
In 2012, Topps began creating digital sports cards, starting with the Topps Bunt baseball card mobile app. [16] After releasing Bunt in 2013 and finding success with it, [17] they expanded their sports card market into other apps including the Kick soccer app in August 2014, Huddle Football app in April 2016, and Skate hockey app in 2017.
A massively successful promotion for the Upper Deck brand, the triple portrait of Jackson, remains an iconic image among baseball card collectors. [12] At the beginning of the 1992–93 NHL season, Upper Deck made Patrick Roy a spokesperson. Roy was a hockey card collector, with more than 150,000 cards.
In The Game (ITG) was a sports card manufacturing company founded by Brian H. Price in 1998 with its head office in the United States and an office in Canada. [1] The company mainly produced ice hockey trading cards. In 2014 the right to use the "In The Game" name was transferred to Leaf Trading Cards in Dallas, Texas.
Parkhurst Products was a Canadian confectionery manufacturing company based in Toronto.Parkhurst also produced Parkies and Zip trading cards in the 1950s and 1960s. Led by George Kennedy, it primarily produced hand-size picture cards mainly for ice hockey, but also for baseball, Canadian football, wrestling and other subjects.