Hi everyone! Indeed, like the title of this post indicates, it certainly feels like summer has arrived here in Ottawa. It’s actually been very humid and uncomfortable the last few days, but beggars can’t be choosers, and I’ll take this over the seemingly endless winter we went through this year. And to celebrate the occasion, we present you yet another in our series of 1991-92 hockey card atrocities: the classic Pavel “I’m-not-yet-in-the-NHL-but-with-this-type-of-photogenic-presence-I’m-sure-to-be-a-hit-with-the-ladies” Bure. Pavel here must have signed a rich entry-level deal with Vancouver because he certainly looked to be living it up in what was presumably his first summer in North America. He may have also taken in a couple of nearby Seattle Mariners games because I swear, in this card, it looks like he is more interested in playing baseball, but I’ll let you to decide if he ultimately made the right decision by choosing the Canucks.

In the articles section, I’ve added a great article from October 1991 which covers the Seals’ most interesting and sometimes truly bizarre moments. I received this article sometime in the mid-1990s when I started doing very preliminary research for my book. I had the idea of writing to the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum and asking them if they had any information on the Seals. Of course, this was long before I had access to the Internet, so this was some pretty hardcore research. A few weeks later, I received an envelope with four or five articles from the San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner. This week’s article is my favorite of the bunch.

Time is running out to vote for your picks for the 2018 Seals Hall of Fame, so it you haven’t voted yet, now is the time. The polls will close the first week of July, and this year’s inductees will be announced around the time of the site’s third anniversary, which also falls around the time of the Seals’ move to Cleveland.

Until next time, stay gold!