Hockey as a game was conceptualized and played as early as 1875. But, formally, the NHL and its teams were established only in 1917. Next to baseball, the game of hockey grew quickly, a fanbase was created and started relating with its players. Taking full advantage of the situation, companies like Champ’s Cigarettes started giving player cards of the leading hockey players as freebies with their products. This resulted in two things, firstly increased profits for the company because of the increase in sales, and secondly, and most importantly, the hobby of hockey card collecting was born! However, the cards printed were few in number. Hockey cards also went out of production during the First World War and hence the hockey cards produced during this period are hard to find, rare and very valuable.

Along with Champ’s cigarette company, a leading Canadian candy manufacturer, O-Pee-Chee also started promoting their products by giving away free hockey player cards with their candies. However, this production was stopped during the Second World War and it was not until the beginning of the 1950’s that production of hockey player cards came into full swing. At that point, the first real hockey card collectors began their collections. Today, hockey card collecting is now a multi million dollar industry.

Cards printed during this early period, like the Billy Coutu cards, have become holy grails for any collector’s card collection. However, today vintage cards mean and include cards printed after the 50s and include mostly the players and the game statistics sometime during the early 70s. This is because, the earlier cards are either lost or, given their rarity, are untraceable. It was during the 1970s that the leading sports card manufacturer Topps, came into the picture and started producing hockey player cards. It was only after their entry into the hockey player cards market that the industry starting booming into what is presently known as the million dollar industry. Later on, companies like Score, Proset and Upper Deck started manufacturing hockey player cards and they have become quite popular with the public.

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After your initiate the search by entering in a hockey player name and, optionally, the hockey card year, HockeyCardChase.com will display search results for you. Typically, results will have prices and values, some will display the vintage hockey card you searched for.

On the left column of the results is a list of hockey card dealers and retailers of sports cards. The right side of the page will show the results of your hockey card search.

To see dealer results of old hockey cards, click on the name of the online sports card retailer. The hockey player search that you initiated will be displayed from the dealer’s website. Click on the next hockey card dealer if there are no matching player cards. For any match, the hockey card will be displayed in the right column of the results page. Usually a price or value will be displayed with the player card, but not always.

If you find a hockey player card that interests you, click on the image or link to the hockey card. The page will refresh and take you to the dealer site to purchase the hockey card or to send an email for more information.

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Finding hockey cards that you were interested used to be a frustrating exercise of searching stores, opening packs, contacting dealers and going to sports card conventions. Now, if you need a specific hockey card for your player sports card collection, you can find it, with HockeyCardChase.com.

Starting your search for that elusive hockey card for your sports card collection starts with a name. Once you know the correct spelling of the hockey player you are interested in, just type the name into the player field. The hockey card search engine will be based off of the name you enter here, so be sure to spell the name correctly. Looking for that vintage hockey card only needs a first name, last name or both. Obviously, if you enter the hockey player’s first name and last name together, the search results will be more relevant.

If you need a hockey card from a specific year, you can type in the year. This is optional and not required to use the hockey card search engine. Please note that you need to enter all four digits and not just two for the year.

That’s it. When you click the search button, HockeyCardChase.com will search the Internet for the old or modern hockey card that you are looking for.

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HockeyCardChase.com is finished with the initial beta of the site. Whether you are searching for old Gordie Howe cards or Wayne Gretzky or Joe Sakic cards, the search engine for hockey cards is now working. Player cards with values and prices are being displayed in the search results. Sports card dealers and online hockey card retail shops are stored in the database and showing up in the results.

With the close of beta, we will now be posting blog entries centered around hockey cards and the hobby of collecting sports cards. Please feel free to write us with your suggestions by clicking on the contact us page.

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During this beta period, we have made a few changes to the search for your favorite hockey player cards.

Most notably, we have added a few new hockey card dealers to the search results. So, this change should dramatically improve your results for sports cards. We placed Ebay in the number 1 position as they seemed to have the largest inventory of current and vintage hockey cards.

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The hockeycardchase.com hockey card search is now working. You can use the search engine to find old and rare hockey cards from across the Internet.

When we launched the beta a couple of days ago, there was a database bug that caused an error shortly after the launch. So, any search for a hockey player was not working correctly. The bug has been fixed, so you can now search, find prices and values and look for your favorite hockey card.

Please continue to use the beta site while we continue to improve the design and other features. Hockey player cards should now be findable.

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Welcome to the Beta Launch of HockeyCardChase.com. Today marks the official opening of our beta site.

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