I decided to start Hockey Cardboard as a way to express and process my thoughts about a hobby that’s changed so much in the 2020s. I’m not sure where this site will go or how it will evolve, but I hope readers find it entertaining and a little bit different from podcasts and videos—especially since there isn’t much written hockey card content out there.

About Myself

I grew up in and around Vancouver, spending time in Victoria and a pretty long stint in Chilliwack before venturing out to Vernon and Kelowna. I also spent 14 years living just outside Moncton, NB, before moving back west to Calgary in 2022. I’m a Canucks fan first and foremost (yes, it’s more times than not, pretty brutal but also quite entertaining with the drama of it all, haha), though I also enjoy following the NHL as a whole. My interest in other sports fluctuates these days based on what’s going on, but never reaches the levels I had for them in the 1990s and 2000s.

I’ve followed sports cards since the late 80s with various levels of interest. From a childhood in the junk wax era, getting in-person autographs as a teen, acquiring some legendary cards in the mid-2000s, and piecing together a mishmash collection in the 2010s. Over the past couple years, I was drawn back into the hobby more deeply — partly as a distraction from the stresses of real life, and partly because of all the entertaining hobby content being pumped out these days (like Hockey Card Gong Show and Sports Cards Live).

These days, I only buy hockey cards. I’m interested in players who hold nostalgic meaning for me or cards that I see value in acquiring. That said, one player that I will never, ever buy a card of is Bobby Orr because he was a jerk to me back in the day and I still hold the grudge! (lol) Other than that, everything else is fair game.

I consider myself a bit of an enigma as a collector because I enjoy looking at and hunting down cards but I always eventually end up moving on from them for one reason or another. I suppose it’s partly because of how I’m wired, and partly because I’ve always been self-employed so when “life happens”, it usually means cards are the first to go when the need arises.