Ty’Quan Doe

Sports Card Collector | @steelers @NHLFlyers | Arber Xhekaj, Shane Doan, Zdeno Chara, @PatMcAfeeShow.

[Ty’Quan Doe @SoapboxTCG]

I don’t have anyone else to share this with so here ya go Twitter. Finally picked up my holy grail. Not an OPC but it’s authentic and it’s mine.

[Swan @AndySwan]

League meeting to determine what the first word in the league name means

[Vegas Golden Knights @GoldenKnights]

June is National Cancer Survivor Month 💛

No one fights alone.

#ForgedInGold | @CCCNevada

[Ty’Quan Doe @SoapboxTCG]

@HCGongshow In your experience, how do you deal with buying PC cards that are outside of your budget? At what point should you pay up for a card now versus waiting patiently for after their career? Mainly for hobby-irrelevant players with cards that sell because of rarity and not the player.

[alyssa @aturnz11]

death, taxes and

[John C. Wharton IV 🇺🇲 @johnnywharton]

If you just started watching hockey, and followed the US Olympic hockey team last week because of 'Heated Rivalry' and were shocked to learn they're not poly-estrogen fueled pronoun warriors, hopefully you'll be leaving now.

[Ari Meirov @MySportsUpdate]

BREAKING: #Steelers HC Mike Tomlin is leaving the organization after 19 seasons, per @AdamSchefter.

End of an era.

[brady✈️🇨🇦 @NHLChunky]

Predators looking for Youth

[Ty’Quan Doe @SoapboxTCG]

@SportsCardInv How does hot dog get associated with hockey and the hockey hot dog cards aren’t the choice lol

[/r/Habs @HabsOnReddit]

Do not fuck with Arber Xhekaj

[JB @OldTownJB]

Once upon a time no more than 6-7 years ago, “the hobby” wasn’t for everyone. It was a nerdy thing we did in the shadows and were told by our significant others to please stop bringing it up at a parties or in social settings.

Sometimes we’d give a card to a friend of a player he really likes. Sometimes we’d show some people “yes I really do still have a Pokemon collection” but it was generally a little secret slice of our lives and brought us joy (I’m giving big 40 year old virgin vibes here and idc lmao).

Fast forward to today. Tom Brady has his face all over the hobby and Fanatics. Alex Rodriguez. Livvy Dunne. Kevin Hart. Hired bikini models sitting next to breakers. The hobby looks more like Vegas than like a 1990s LCS.

This crowd has infiltrated.

Is that bad?

Idk. Feels bad to me. But like so many people keep saying “dOnT gAtEkEeP tHe hObBy iTs fOr eVeRyOnE” ok fine. Sure. I can’t control who’s interested and how they consume cards.

But ffs please understand so many of us didn’t ask for the Covid boom. We didn’t ask Rubin to buy Topps. We want to collect Brady cards, we don’t want him as our spokesperson. We have nothing in common with Tom Brady and are fine with it.

But if you’re curious why new people are met with immediate reserve (and then vitriol), it’s because, yes, honestly, many of us generally don’t fucking want them here and we miss the days when we owned our nerdy thing.

It felt special. Now it feels commoditized and commercialized. And the joy for many of us is slipping fast

[Puckbunny Dudebro 🦇 @njdivas]

“I asked Grok” “I asked ChatGPT” well I asked an NHL player and he said “just get pucks in deep and stay heavy on the forecheck”

[Ty’Quan Doe @SoapboxTCG]

@HCGongshow It feels like I’m the only one collecting AHL every year, so do you think UD should do more with the AHL to draw in buyers? CHL has a large flagship set and SPGU. AHL has one small set with no game used cards. I’d love to collect AHL patch cards but I doubt they’ll ever come.

[Colorado Eagles @ColoradoEagles]

Blue Tarp has been release from his ATO.

[Mike Commito @mikecommito]

In honour of Thomas Edison’s birthday, here’s footage he took of a hockey game in 1898

[bella @stottlover]

don’t jump to conclusions

me:

[B/R Open Ice @BR_OpenIce]

IT'S THE HEAVYWEIGHT FIGHT EVERYONE WAS WAITING FOR: ARBER XHEKAJ VS. MATT REMPE 🥊

[Sportsnet @Sportsnet]

Xhekaj lowers the BOOM on Reaves 💥

[NHL @NHL]

A dominant win on home ice for the @NHLFlyers 🏠