Dream Come True: Tavares Gets Ready For His Rookie Card

August 26, 2009

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Growing up in Sweden, Victor Hedman was a big fan of countryman Peter Forsberg. How big, you might ask? Big enough that the young Tampa Bay Lightning defenceman says he owns 201 different hockey cards featuring Forsberg’s image.

Soon enough, Hedman can start collecting cards with his own face on them, if he wants.

Ask any up-and-coming NHL’er about his biggest moments in hockey, and chances are that being drafted and putting on his team jersey for the first time would be near the top of the list. But let’s not kid ourselves – there isn’t a hockey-playing youngster out there who hasn’t at least given a passing fantasy thought to having his own hockey card. And for a select few, it’s about to happen.

On Wednesday, the first step to that fantasy becoming reality took place in Mississauga, Ontario, where 14 of the NHL’s top picks and prospects participated in a photo shoot for Upper Deck trading cards. The company plans on using the images in their upcoming sets for the 2009-10 season…

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