Minor league pucks

Thanks to the NHL lockout last year, plenty of NHL-caliber players and prospects played for American Hockey League teams. Talk about your target-rich environment. Recognizing the opportunity, I used pucks from these minor league teams, primarily the AHL, to quickly add to my collections of individual players.

Just like the basic autograph and specialty models, these pucks can be purchased from the AHL, teams or puck distributors. River City Sports is a primary source for East Coast Hockey League pucks.

Pucks shown above, from left:

Philadelphia Phantoms: Antero Niittymaki, March 9, 2005, Lowell, Mass.
Lowell Lock Monsters: Eric Staal, March 19, 2005, Lowell, Mass.
Providence Bruins: Hannu Toivonen, May 6, 2005, Lowell, Mass.