A Penguin, a Seagull and a Subway

 Random.org chose the following as my random card of the day. This 2023 Tim Hortons Legends - Canvas Legends #CL-10 featuring Mario Lemieux of the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Random.org seems to be on a hockey kick as I think this is now 6 days in a row where our random has drawn a hockey card. Not surprising since hockey is the largest segment in my collection. Sometimes card companies stretch things just a bit in 'legends' etc type inserts, but I'm gonna say they got this one right. I managed to pull 14 of the 15 cards in the set. Is it too corny to say the hole in my set is the man himself Tim Horton ?

I currently own 53 Lemieux cards and 777 Pittsburgh Penguins cards.

My favourite new card I added to my catalogue recently is this 2022 Panini Select Premier League #250 featuring Evan Ferguson of Brighton & Hove Albion. 

Picked by virtue of being the 1000th soccer card I've logged into my collection. The team I support isn't in the English Premier League, but that league obviously gets the most coverage here in Canada, and if there is a team I can say I support in that league, it would be Brighton. So that would explain picking the card up. Sounds like Ferguson may be on his way out the door to Man Utd. Such is life as a selling club. If they get 50 million for him, history suggests they'll use it wisely.

New additions to my all-time roster project catalogued yesterday were none. Hopefully can get a little cataloguing done tomorrow.

My All-time roster project now stands at 15,176 combinations.

My random postcard of the day is this card from Toronto showing a M-1 class TTC subway train.

Trains are cool, train postcards are cool. I bought this card at a local(ish) railway museum. Rail museums are cool too. I have currently catalogued 566 postcards from Canada.

Some Canadians, a Penguin and a House of Something Rotten

 Random.org chose the following as my random card of the day. This 1991 Future Trends Canada '72 #60 featuring Team Canada players on the front (shown) and Soviet players on the back.

I guess it was only a matter of time until Random.org picked some junk wax, so here it is. Not really my cup of tea as a set, maybe it would resonate more with me were I able to remember the Summit Series, but its just highlights for me.

I currently own 406 cards featuring Team Canada players.

My favourite new card I added to my catalogue recently is this 2006 Upper Deck Beehive #21 featuring Marc-Andre Fleury of the Pittsburgh Penguins.

I do kind of like this set, and probably should work on further completing it. It's old-timey enough looking without being gimmicky like say Allen & Ginter to hit the sweet spot.

New additions to my all-time roster project catalogued yesterday were

My All-time roster project now stands at

My random postcard of the day is this card from Helsingor in Denmark featuring Kronborg Castle.

Helsingor castle is of course notable as the setting for Hamlet. It's also the resting place of Ogier the Dane who sleeps there until he is needed to rescue Denmark.

This card is unwritten, and I would have bought it myself when living in Denmark. I currently own 698 postcards from Denmark.

A Flame, a Sabre and some Spacecraft

 Random.org chose the following as my random card of the day. This 2017 O-Pee-Chee - Playing Cards 8 of hearts featuring Johnny Gaudreau of the Calgary Flames.

I've never really made it a point to chase the playing card inserts, not sure why, maybe just a bit too gimmicky for me. I hope Johnny Hockey is enjoying life in Columbus. Kind of feels like he left a sinking ship in Calgary for one that never floated to begin with.

I currently own 43 Gaudreau cards and 773 Calgary Flames cards.

My favourite new card I added to my catalogue recently is this 2021 Upper Deck SPx - UD Black Obsidian Rookies #OR-28 featuring Arttu Ruotsalainen of the Buffalo Sabres. Why thisone, just think it's a cool looking card which caught my eye at the last show I attended as I had never seen this particular design before

New additions to my all-time roster project catalogued yesterday were none, those pesky things called work and chores got in the way.

My All-time roster project now stands at 15,176 combinations (which is a change from yesterday despite cataloguing no cards due to some database cleanup work)

My random postcard of the day is this card from the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, USA featuring 2 Gemini space capsules.

This postcard is unwritten and was received via a trade on an online postcard exchange group. Space themed cards, either related to the manned space program or astronomy as a science are always going to be a big hit with me. I currently own, or at least have catalogued 340 postcards from the USA.

A Devil, a Clipper and a Chapel

 Random.org chose the following as my random card of the day. This 2021 O-Pee-Chee #368 featuring Nolan Foote of the New Jersey Devils.

I know some folks aren't too hot on O-Pee-Chee perceiving it to not be 'hit driven' enough, but I really like it. The true cardboard stock takes me back to the first cards I collected, and I appreciate the larger more complete player coverage than is found in many sets.

Foote has been the very definition of injury snakebit and his career hasn't really launched as a result. The best thing about this card however is that it isn't of his brother.

I currently own 9 Foote cards and 694 New Jersey Devil cards

My favourite new card I added to my catalogue recently is this 2019 Panini Crown Royale - Crown Autographs Rookies #CR-MFK featuring Mfiondu Kabengele of the Los Angeles Clippers.

I'm not really a big auto chaser, but he qualifies as Can-Con so I picked it up. He had a very nice collegiate career at Florida State, but never really established himself at the NBA level bouncing around 3 teams as an end of the bench type. He's currently playing in the Greek league for AEK Athens after a spell in Italy.

New additions to my all-time roster project catalogued yesterday were none, spent time working on other tasks.

My All-time roster project now stands at 15,142 combinations.

My random postcard of the day is this card from Russia featuring the Iver Chapel in Moscow. Or to use its full name the The Chapel of Iverian Icon of Our Lady.

It sits at one of the gates to Red Square. The chapel was destroyed by the communist regime in the 1930's to allow military parades, but was rebuilt in the 1990's. So this card shows the replacement version. This card is written and was received via an online postcard exchange group. Sending and receiving cards via online exchange remains very popular in certain European nations, in particular Russia, Finland, Germany and the Netherlands stand out. Not surprisingly they have amongst the lowest postage rates in Europe.

I currently own 195 postcards from Russia.

A Ranger, a Canadien and a Parrot

 Random.org chose the following as my random card of the day. This 2019 Upper Deck #88 featuring Filip Chytil of the New York Rangers.

This card comes from what I consider to be a stretch of some of the worst designs in UD flagship memory. For about 3 years there the designs were awful, just silver foil and generic photos. 2019 is in the running for the worst of the lot.

I wonder if Mr. Chytil and I share long lost relatives. We effectively share a last name, if spelled differently, and he's from a town only a couple of hundred kilometers from where my ancestors were from.

I currently own 10 Chytil cards and 870 New York Ranger cards.

My favourite new card I added to my catalogue yesterday is this 2008 Upper Deck - Sophomore Sensations #SS3 featuring Carey Price of the Montreal Canadiens.

It came out of the same goalie mystery pack as the Turco from yesterday. Not quite peak Price card greatness, for that it needs to feature his fire engine red pads of later in his career, but a fine addition to the collection nevertheless.

New additions to my all-time roster project catalogued yesterday were:

• Ottawa Senators player #130 - Mads Sogaard
• Ottawa Senators player #131 - Don Beaupre
• Ottawa Senators player #132 - Jakob Chychrun
• Ottawa Senators player #133 - Randy Cunneyworth
• Ottawa Senators player #134 - Mike Fisher

My All-time roster project now stands at 15,142 combinations.

My random postcard of the day is this card from New Zealand featuring a Kea parrot.

Given the relatively few numbers of New Zealand cards I own, odd that Random.org would pull another so soon, but the random Gods want what the random Gods want. This card is written and was received via an online postcard exchange group. Like I said on the prior, any card featuring native flora or fauna is a winner to me. I currently own 19 postcards from New Zealand.

A Blue, a Star and a Galaxy Far Far Away

Random.org chose the following as my random card of the day. This 2019 SP Authentic #25 featuring Brayden Schenn of the St. Louis Blues. 

I know SP Authentic is more about the Future Watch than the base, so to me their designs are either really nice or miss the boat. This falls into the second group for me. At least Schenn was coming off a season where he was a key contributor to a Cup Winner. That Blues team is one of the odder Cup winners recently, probably don't even have a single Hall of Famer on it. Who was their best player ? Ryan O'Reilly maybe.

Full disclosure, this was actually spin #2 of the Random.org wheel for the day, but the first result was of a player too icky to feature and who deserves no recognition at all.

I currently own 35 Schenn cards and 816 St. Louis Blues cards.

My favourite new card I added to my catalogue yesterday is this 2006 Upper Deck McDonald's - Hot gloves insert #HG8 featuring Marty Turco of the Dallas Stars.

Honestly, I have zero recollection at all of this insert set so didn't recognize it when it came out of a 'goalie mix' I bought. Apparently it is the only one of the ten in the set I own. Turco put up some really good numbers in his career, but never really comes to mind as an elite keeper. Likely down to his doing it during an ultra defensive era.

New additions to my all-time roster project catalogued yesterday were none. Yesterday was a day for my postcard collection.

My All-time roster project now stands at 15,137 combinations.

My random postcard of the day is this card from the USA featuring the ARP 273 galaxies as photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. The blog post title is what they call clickbait ;-)

While an American made postcard, this card was actually sent to me from Ukraine via an online postcard exchange group. It is written and stamped. Depending on your perspective, I currently own 88 postcards from Ukraine and 340 from the USA.

A Titan, a Blue Jay and a Hall of Fame

 Random.org chose the following as my random card of the day. This 2018 Panini Certified Football - Mirror Silver parallel #150 featuring Harold Landry of the Tennessee Titans.

I appear to be the only person who has this card in their collection on TCDB, although oddly, I didn't submit the image so where it came from who knows. I own serial number 305 out of the 499. Must confess I really don't know much about Mr. Landry, but looking him up, I see he still plays for the Titans, so he's had a decent enough run in the NFL. Might be time to track down a Boston College card of his for my ATR project.

I currently own 3 Landry cards and 124 Tennessee Titans cards

My favourite new card I added to my catalogue yesterday is this 2017 Bowman Draft - Class of 2017 Autographs insert # C17A-LW featuring Logan Warmoth of the Toronto Blue Jays. Favourite as it was a first card of him for the Blue Jays ATR and a first auto of his, even if I'm not a big auto chaser.

Warmoth was a first round pick of the Jays that year, but has never appeared in a MLB game. He's still grinding it out in the minors. Looking it up, he's with the Mariners Double A club right now hitting a robust .193. After putting up a .091 at AAA in Tacoma, getting released and a .100 at Reno this year. Guessing that MLB debut might have to wait a while.

New additions to my all-time roster project catalogued yesterday were:

• New York Rangers player #166 - Vladimir Tarasenko
• Team Canada (hockey) player #148 - Colton Parayko
• Milwaukee Admirals player #15 - Pekka Rinne
• Team Canada (hockey) player #149 - Connor McDavid
• Manchester Monarchs player #14 - Dustin Brown
• New England Patriots player #69 - Ezekiel Elliott

My All-time roster project now stands at 15,137 combinations.

My random postcard of the day is this card featuring the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, Ontario Canada. This is its previous location on the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition along the Toronto waterfront, it has since moved to a new building in downtown Toronto.

This card is unwritten and I bought it, although I don't recall where. I currently own, or at least have catalogued 566 postcards from Canada.