Thursday TTM and another trip to Kingston

Found out yesterday that Darryl Sittler was doing a signing in Kingston.  Normally I don't drive that far for one player, but Scott was looking for a ride from Brockville, and since I was going that way, I offered to pick him up.  We arrived a bit early, so we had breakfast and went to line up.  Despite the long line up, people at the front were getting 8-9 things signed at a time.  When our turn was coming up, they cut it down to two per ( I managed to sneak a third in).  It was a bit of a piss off that they didn't enforce it earlier.  First World problems.

Scott couldn't stay so I figured I'd drive him back home and back to Kingston in time for the second signing.  I made it back just in time.  A father and his son in front of me didn't have anything (it was originally supposed to be Frank Mahovlich, but he cancelled and Sittler replaced him).  I offered them two of the cards I had (it's not like I was going to get them signed anyway) if they could get me the Team Canada puck signed that I had.  They had no problems with it and I got 2 more cards signed on top of it.  The line up was small, so I thought I'd try a third time.  I made sure I was the last person so I wouldn't cut anyone off.  I showed him the last three cards I had and Darryl was like, "You again?"  I promised I wouldn't put them on eBay (not that I'd get anything for them) and he laughed and signed them.

All together I got 9 items signed (including one for Beth), and Scott got his set cards signed so it was a good trip.

Note how the autograph got shorter as time went on!


And my ttm return

Fredrik Modin
c/o Home
01/04 - 02/22
4/4

Address from SCF

Tampa, Tampa, Tampa.

A rare hounding outing.  Even rarer in Ottawa.  Went to the hotel with Cory to get the Lightning before practice.  As expected, most of them came out at once.  Saw Victor Hedman, Ondrej Palat, Steven Stamkos, and a couple others come out.  Stamkos was who I saw first, so I called him over and he signed a puck for me aaaaaaaaand .................. that was it.  At least I got Stamkos.

Came back for game time.  I haven't done this for a while so I didn't recognize a lot of the players.  Thank God Steve and a few Tampa fans helped me with some of the players. I was going to try for Stamkos again, but he got mobbed by about 50 school kids who were on some class trip, so I didn't bother.  Most of the team seemed pretty good to sign, considering there weren't that many of us there.  When I was getting Anton Stralman, he noticed an old Upper Deck card of assistant coach Todd Richards in a green Whalers jersey in the corner of my page.  He said, "Holy shit, is that Richie?"  I wasn't sure who he was talking about at first until he pointed to the card.  Chris Kunitz and a couple of others came over and had a good laugh.  They even took pictures it to show him.  Let's see if any of them post it on twitter.

Overall, it went pretty good.  Who knows?  Maybe I'll try hounding a bit more this year!

Who I got:

Ryan Callahan x3
Yanni Gourde x1
Victor Hedman x1
Tyler Johnson x2
Nikita Kucherov x2 (Special thanks to Steve for helping me here)
Chris Kunitz x1
Brayden Point x6
Mikhail Sergachev x1
Steven Stamkos x1
Anton Stralman x4

And here's the Todd Richards card the players were laughing at.

Update

Bob Nystrom
c/o Home
01/04 - 02/15
4/4

Bob Carpenter
c/o Home
12/08/2017 - 02/21/2018
5/5

Martin Brodeur
c/o Blues (Included $30 CDN Donation)
01/19 - 02/21
1/1

Home addresses can be found on SCF.

Quinn, Brylin, and the Body Bag

Dan Quinn
c/o Home (SCF)
01/04 - 02/07
6/6

Sergei Brylin
c/o Binghamton Devils
09/06/17 - 02/14/18
5/5

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand......
the dreaded body bag




Semyon Varlamov
c/o Avalanche
09/06/17 - 02/14/18
0/3
He did sign all three cards, but they were broken and damaged. Oh well, shit happens.

Another former Centennial for the collection!

Ray Sheppard
c/o Home
01/04 - 01/30
4/4

Vitali Yachmenev
c/o North Bay Home
09/26/2017 - 02/01/2018
6/6

Scott Gomez
c/o Islanders
01/04 - 02/05
1/3
Not the same cards I sent

Al Macinnis
c/o Blues
01/19 - 02/05
3/3
Signed each item with different colour marker