Connor Bedard made his name by being a hockey phenom in the WHL, playing for the Regina Pats, where he broke decades-old records, and then being drafted the NHL by the Chicago Blackhawks at 18. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
Joe Geluch and his five-year-old son Barry, from North Vancouver, B.C., are on the hunt for their golden ticket.
“It’s fun opening [the boxes] with my dad,” Barry said.
For Geluch, hunting for that one Bedard card has meant spending more time with his son.
“It has sparked an interest for us to do such things together,” he said.
The father-son duo haven’t found the outburst card but have, nonetheless, bagged another rare item — a Connor Bedard printing plate, once used to manufacture the cards found in the Upper Deck collection series.
$1 million offer
Rookie cards are major investments that can fetch anywhere from a few thousand to hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to Billy Celio, Senior Product Manager of Upper Deck.
“Hockey is actually still quite calm when it comes to this sort of stuff,” he said. “The prices people are paying for football and basketball and baseball cards … it’s crazy.”
Just this February, a Saskatchewan family sold a case full of unopened 1979 hockey card boxes for over $5 million. The boxes contained an unknown number of Wayne Gretzky rookie cards.
An American collectibles company, Dave and Adam’s Card World, posted a “bounty” of $1 million on social media for the Berdard gold card last week.
“We haven’t really seen … a generational talent like Bedard [in a long time],” said the company’s CEO Adam Martin.
“I feel like hockey collectors worldwide have been waiting for someone like Bedard to come along to say, ‘this is the card that I want to own.’ We’ve seen an explosion of interest in all of his cards.”
Martin said the company will offer the money if the card is in good condition, without any damage.
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