Buy/Sell/Trade Forum

Since I'm 12 cards away from completing my 78-79 Topps Hockey set I've decided to expand my vintage hockey collection by adding cards #265-396 from the 78-79 OPC set.

Using the 9-card gallery function, and assuming the backs will be a different color and will include French write-ups, the only difference I could find within the 1-264 was the empty banner space on what are the All-Star cards in the Topps set, is that right? If that's the only difference I'll be adding the OPC version of the players from the Topps set, sans the All-Star reference.

Whatever the case I'm looking forward to trading for these and as usual condition is very flexible as I'm basically looking to complete the set: bring me your creased and rough edged...

Since O~Pee~Chee hockey printer later than Topps, sometimes if a player was traded early in the season or at the end of training camp etc., there would be a "traded to Colorado" or "franchise transfered to Cleveland" printed on the front of the card. Not sure if there were any big trades in the season for this set?  

Upon further review there are 25 differences within the first 264. Here's the list;

14-Gene Carr , 18-Gregg Sheppard , 20-Rogie Vachon , 23-Dick Redmond , 37-Gary Sargent , 43-Joe Watson , 45-Steve Jensen ,46-Bob Stewart , 73-Wayne Dillon , 93-Jude Drouin , 111-Nick Beverley , 116-Pierre Bouchard , 119-Tom Edur (has 2 notations on front "now with Blues" & "Retired") , 134-Bill Nyrop , 141-Dennis Maruk , 146-Dale Tallon , 149-Dean Talafous , 161- Jim Lorentz , 163-Harvey Bennett , 173-Rick Bowness , 174-Rick Hampton , 179-Pierre Plante , 184-Jean Pronovost , 218-Red Berenson & 219-Ron Grahame

Thanks for that information. Makes sense with the later release date.