Owen Power Gets Cooking & The 2022-23 Rookie Report, Upper Deck Synergy Release Imminent, the Quality Control Dilemma & Hobby News!

Send us a text On this episode of the Hockey Cards Gongshow podcast, we start by honoring the NHL's greatest player to wear number 52 for episode 52 (3:50). Next, in Who's Hot Owen Powers starts scoring goals and Alexsander Barkov and Zach Hyman are sizzling hot...but are any of these players rookie card values increasing (12:23)? Jack Eichel and Alex DeBrincat ride the Struggle Bus and we look at how their recent play has affected their card values (22:20). There's been a lot of talk in the sports card world about quality control issues, including some very high-profile card errors. We examine the hockey side of this issue and what can be done to prevent the best cards from having errors and condition issues (27:23). In Hobby News, we take a look at the NHL injury report and the Andrei Kuzmenko contract extension (47:52). Then it's our slightly past mid-season rookie report where we examine the top rookie points leaders, goal scorers plus card values for both 2021 and 2022 Young Guns on these lists (54:21). If you've never heard the Howie Morenz story, you'll want to listen as we feature a 1933 autographed card currently available in the PWCC fixed marketplace (1:17:33). Finally in new product releases, we give some additional thoughts and observations on the newly released 2022-23 Artifacts plus preview the imminent 2021-22 Upper Deck Synergy release (1:24:05). Partners & Sponsors Our Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/HockeyCardsGongshow PWCC Marketplace - https://www.pwccmarketplace.com Stand Up Displays - https://www.standupdisplays.co Sign up for Card Ladder - https://app.cardladder.com/signup?via=HCGongshow Follow Hockey Cards Gongshow on social media Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/hockey_cards_gongshow/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@hockey_cards_gongshow Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/HockeyCardsGongshow Twitter - https://twitter.com/HCGongshow YouTube - http://youtube.com/@hockeycardsgongshow The Hockey Cards Gongshow podcast is a production of Dollar Box Ventures LLC.