The other companies could not use a “Draft Day” photo, nor could they use photo manipulation to put his head on a different Senators player’s body. Pinnacle Brands - which made the Score and Pinnacle hockey card sets - had worked out a deal with Daigle, so that only they could picture him in a Senators uniform until he played in an NHL game. Daigle was selected first-overall by the Ottawa Senators in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft. One addition to this year’s ranking is how each company included Alexander Daigle in their sets. The NHL also mandated that companies could only issue two sets per season, so Topps had to jettison its unpopular Bowman Hockey set, while O-Pee-Chee stopped making its own smaller, premium “Premier” set, as the “Premier” name would be used by both Topps and O-Pee-Chee that year for their large, two-series card sets. Pro Set had gone bankrupt in 1992-93, and while it tried to issue a set for the 1993-94 season, its license was revoked by the NHL. Unfortunately, there were some casualties. The company also issued the set in two series, so it could include rookies and traded players in their new uniforms later on that season. There were five different card companies competing with each other, so they had to try hard to do better than one another.įor example, Topps finally got with the program and printed its flagship set on quality card stock, with gloss coating and full-color backs. There were some great insert sets, but not so many different insert sets like it is today, where you can buy a box of cards and get 40 different inserts across 10 different insert sets. (The 1994 NHL Lockout would change that, but that’s a story for another time.) There were really no short prints, other than the odd insert, so sets were fairly easy to complete. Packs were still affordable, with most between $1 and $3. My situation in life made collecting easy for me that year.Īs for the cards themselves, the 1993-94 season was the last year before hockey card collecting got out of hand. Plus, I was still promoting a monthly neighborhood show, so a lot of times people would bring me cards that I needed. I had just gotten my drivers licence, so I could drive around Chicago to other card shops or local shows to find the last few inserts I needed for a given set. I was working full-time at a card and comic book shop, so I could buy new cards at a deep discount. I was living with my Grandmother and going to a local junior college, so my cost of living was low. Everything about that season was just so right for me. The 1993-94 season was my favorite year to collect hockey cards.
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