I collect sports cards differnetly then most collectors.  You see, I could care a less about getting another card of Iginla, Hasek, Thornton, Ovechkin, etc.  But if I get a card of some fourth liner on the Blue Jackets, a card of someone I've never heard of, or a card of someone I don't have any of,  I'm in heaven.

When I buy boxes of cards, I always check to see how many cards are in the set.  If it's a 100 card set, I'm not buying in.  If there are two-fifty or more to the set, then I'm on it like a fat kid to cake.  I want variety, I want cokplete teams, prospects, draft picks, hell, I'll even take checklists.

As primarily a sports autographs collector, I want cards of guys that are going to sign.  The chances of that no name, sixth defenseman,  toiling  away in Phoenix, signing an autograph through the mail, is much greater then getting a guy like Sydney Crosby to even get a whiff of my request. 

So when my friends kids come up to me, and ask if I want to trade hockey cards, don't be surprised if I take a peek through them, and pick out six or seven lesser players, and offer up twenty or thirty stars in exchange.  I'm not ripping off the little angels of their ultra rare, short print, R.J. Umberger card.  I am offering up a trade that they will appreciate, and I'll get my Florida Panthers back up goalie.