September 08, 2025

2025-26 Hockey Hobby Breakout Candidates, A Special Get To Know Your Hall Of Famers: Ken Dryden, Top 5 2024-25 Highest Selling Rookie Cards Not Named Celebrini, Hutson or Michkov, Retail Trading Card Sales Are On Fire, Gongshow Mailbag & Personal Pickups

2 hours 34 minutes

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On this episode of the Hockey Cards Gongshow podcast we start with Get To Know Your Hockey Hall of Famers, this time paying tribute to Ken Dryden who passed away this past Friday (26:07). Next, we continue with our 2025-26 Hobby Preview Series by looking at potential breakout candidates for this upcoming season (40:39). In hobby news, we review the August 2025 grading recap from GemRate.com, The NHL nukes the LTIR loophole, and Retail sales of trading cards is on fire (1:15:16). We take a look at the top 5 selling 2024-25 rookie cards from players not named; Celebrini, Hutson or Michkov (1:27:04). Next, we answer your hockey cards mailbag questions (1:37:12), then finish the show with personal pickups (2:27:53).

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