“Who is Skip Krake?” “Isn’t he the guy with his picture on Don Awrey’s 1967-68 and 1968-69 hockey cards?” Yes. But, is there more to… Read More »Skip Krake: More Than Just The Don Awrey Picture Swap?
1968-69 was the first time O-Pee-Chee had their name on a set of hockey cards in three decades. It was the first set of hockey… Read More »1968-69 O-Pee-Chee: Odd And Unusual
After going pro in 1963-64, following a loss in the Memorial Cup finals with the Niagara Falls Flyers, it took Don Awrey until the NHL… Read More »Don Awrey: 3 Time Stanley Cup Champion*
1967-68 was the first year of the expansion era in the National Hockey League, marking the end of the ‘Original 6’ and the start of… Read More »Bad Boys of the 1967-68 NHL
Topps and O-Pee-Chee really had an issue with Don Awrey and Skip Krake in the late 1960’s. Not once, but twice in a row their… Read More »Don Awrey and Skip Krake: A 2 Year Hockey Card Identity Crisis