Reports from Vancouver

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Stars On Ice tour

Miki Ando X3
Evan Lysacek X2
Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir X2
Sasha Cohen X2
Joannie Rochette X1

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Cory Monteith X4

he did a show here with his band, was quite a good signer.

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NHL - San Jose Sharks
Antti Niemi X5
Patrick Marleau, Joe Thornton X3
Dany Heatley, Dan Boyle, Ben Eager X2
Logan Couture, Ryane Clowe & a variety of smaller players X1

NHL- Vancouver Canucks
Cody Hodgson X3
Ryan Kesler, Sami Salo, Chris Higgins, Kevin Bieksa, Jannik Hansen, Maxim Lapierre, Cory Schneider X2
Dan Hamhuis, Henrik Sedin X1

Don Cherry X5, Ron McLean X1

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1994 Vancouver Canucks reunion

3 jerseys done by 13 players & the coach.
1 logo photo by 9 players & the coach.
+ 3 Kirk McLean, 1 Trevor Linden & 1 Pat Quinn
Disappointing that they all didnt come, especially Pavel Bure, but for what was here, I was pretty happy to get some of the guys that never come out this way like Jose Charbonneau, Gerald Diduck & Sergio Momesso.

back when the team went to the finals, I got all of them plenty of times...but over the years I had sold many of them & lost some others....so I actually never got to keep anything from that season that had more than 2 guys on it. So was pretty pumped to get a large chunk of a team item done in 1 shot.

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Day 1 - STANLEY CUP FINALS.

Bruins
Milan Lucic X3

Cam Neely, Bob Essensa, Doug Jarvis & Don Sweeney X1

This was 1 of the worst signing teams this season that came here, no shock, in the finals, they are nothing short of pricks... atleast hometown boy Lucic is still nice

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Day 2 Stanley Cup Finals

Bruins
Lucic X2
Nathan Horton, Tyler Seguin, Tomas Kaberle, Gregory Campbell X1

I expected much better....but pouring rain at the worst time made what appeared to be shooting fish in a barrel into a complicated & unproductive venture.

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Day 3 Stanley Cup Finals (technically day 5...but I skipped 2 days)

Bruins
Dan Paille X4
Dennis Seidenberg, Bob Essensa X3
John Bucyk X2

also
Don Cherry X3, Ron MacLean X1

Although its in my hometown, this has been by far, the WORST autographs hounding final I have ever done. Some of it has been bad luck, but a lot of it is the 2 teams in it are just so bad at signing.

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Day 4 Stanley Cup finals

Canucks

Kevin Bieksa X2
Daiel Sedin, Henrik Sedin, Aaaron Rome, Sami Salo & Dan Hamhuis

Seems quite a few of the Canucks were in "not going to sign for regulars mode", which I would generall think is fine, but when the items you are getting signed didnt exist till a week ago, I am a little put out so many of them were passing them over.

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Day 5 Stanley Cup finals

Bruins
Milan Lucic X4
Mark Recchi, Adam McQuaid, Steve Kampfer X1

Shoulda done better in theory, but with so few people out (only 2 of us for most of the day) (even less than earlier in the series, because a few of the hounds were off chasing ufc for whatever reason) it was hard to get everyone when they came back or went out in packs.

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Leo Awards were yesterday here
Of course, to most of you, you wont recognize 90+% of the names, but to the local hounds here its big because it gives us a chance to get some of the local TV/movie people that maybe we need to finish items.

Ali Liebert X7
Amanda Tapping, April Telek X3
Robin Dunne, Ryan Robbins, Agam Darshi, Dustin Milligan X2
Michael Daingerfield, Michael Eklund, Lauren Lee Smith, Paul McGillion, Amanda Crew, Jodelle Ferland, Christoper Heyerdahl X1

As usual for this event, I did quite well for what was there, but was still a bit underwhelmed as I did miss 3 or 4 people I had items for. Whether or not they were actually there is still unknown.

Fave stories from it had to be Lauren Lee Smith signing a photo of her playing with herself inside a pair of short shorts from a movie called Lie With Me, unlike lots of actresses who get all uppity about signing racy photos that they had no problem taking the money for doing the scene/shoot, Lauren had the attitude of "I did the film, so I shouldnt complain when people pull out that pic". Thats the right attitude to have.

While getting Amanda Tapping to sign, her Sanctuary co-star Robin Dunne looks over at what we're getting signed, which included shots of her posed on a bed with just a sheet covering her, and said "I need to get some of those photos....for my bedroom" *awkward pause by everyone...till Amanda laughs*