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CANADIENS v MAPLE LEAFS • THE GREAT HOCKEY RIVALRY • WEEK 3 • Every Saturday throughout the 2011-12 hockey season, we will highlight two vintage stars from hockey’s greatest on-ice rivalry: the Montréal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs. The Saturday series will run 40 weeks from the start of October through to the end of June. The series will highlight stars from the 15 Montréal-Toronto playoff series: 1918, 1925, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1951, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1978 and 1979. For each vintage duo, we will feature five cool items listed in the 2012 Vintage Collector’s Almanac & Price Guide. Be sure to pick up your copy of the 2012 Vintage Collector’s Almanac & Price Guide at magazine stores (in Canada) or popular hockey collector stores.

1925 PLAYOFFS: MONTRÉAL WINS THE NHL CHAMPIONSHIP

Hamilton was supposed to meet the winner of the Toronto-Montréal playoff series in the 1925 NHL Championship, but a strike by the Hamilton players kept the team out of the playoffs. As such, the Toronto-Montréal series was the NHL Championship, with the winner advancing to the Stanley Cup final to meet the Western League winner from Victoria. Montréal won the two-game NHL final 5-2 on aggregate, but then lost the Stanley Cup final in four games to the Victoria Cougars.

MONTRÉAL CANADIENS: NEWSY LALONDE

Newsy Lalonde won goal-scoring titles in the National Hockey Association, Pacific Coast Hockey Association and National Hockey League. He won the Stanley Cup in 1916 with the Montréal Canadiens. A two-sport star, he became an honoured member of both the Hockey Hall of Fame (1950) and the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame (inaugural class of 1965).
2012 VINTAGE COLLECTOR’S ALMANAC & PRICE GUIDE
PAGE 26 – 1910-11 Prominent Canadian Hockey Players #42 Newsy Lalonde $2,500
PAGE 38 – 1955-56 Quaker Oats #55 Newsy Lalonde $50
PAGE 40 – 1960-61 Topps #48 Newsy Lalonde $25
PAGE 78 – 1983 Hockey Hall of Fame #E10 Newsy Lalonde $5
PAGE 116 – 1960-61 Montréal Canadiens Yearbook (numerous players on cover including Lalonde) $60-$125

TORONTO ST. PATRICKS: JACK ADAMS

Jack Adams was a two-time Stanley Cup champion, winning titles with Toronto in 1918 and Ottawa in 1927. He also played out west for the Vancouver Millionaires, winning a league goal-scoring title in 1921-22. After his career as a player, he enjoyed an even longer career as coach and then manager of the Detroit NHL franchise. In 1959, he became an honoured member of the Hockey Hall of Fame (players category).
2012 VINTAGE COLLECTOR’S ALMANAC & PRICE GUIDE
PAGE 21 – Jack Adams cut autograph $800
PAGE 26 – 1923-24 Paterson’s Hockey League Bar #24 Jack Adams $225
PAGE 27 – 1924-25 Champ’s Cigarettes Hockey Players Jack Adams $425
PAGE 29 – 1937-38 Ice Kings #99 Jack Adams $300
PAGE 79 – 1983 Hockey Hall of Fame #J1 Jack Adams $3.50

THE RIVALRY: INDEX v INDEX

There are 78 items listed on the Newsy Lalonde Collector’s Index. The earliest hockey cards are the 1910-11 Prominent Canadian Hockey Players postcard and the 1910-11 Hockey Series by Imperial Tobacco. There is also a 1910 lacrosse card (like the Hockey Series card, it was produced by Imperial Tobacco). In 2010-11, Lalonde was featured by In The Game in Ultimate Memorabilia and In The Game Enshrined.

Meanwhile, there are 25 items listed on the Jack Adams Collector’s Index. The earliest item is the 1923-24 Paterson’s Hockey League Bar hockey card. This past season, Adams was featured in the 2010-11 In The Game Enshrined set.

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