Hi everyone! I don’t know about any of you, but I’ve been fit by the nostalgia bug lately. I don’t know if it’s because it’s playoff time, or if I’ve just had more time to think lately, but I’ve been really digging going through my old hockey cards, surfing eBay looking for cards to complete my old sets from the mid-seventies, even helping my son make sense of his Pokemon cards. I doubt I’ll ever feel the same as I did back in the early nineties when I would buy a full box of cards and spend an hour or so tearing open pack after pack, but this feels nice too, especially now that I have a pretty sizable budget to indulge in my collecting hobby. The rush you feel when you’ve picked up a card for which you’ve been searching many months, and then you get it, and for a good price, is awesome. It’s not like jumping out of an airplane or something, but hey, I’ll take it.

For this week’s nostalgia trip, I’d like to share an interesting article about the Seals’ Al MacAdam and Dennis Maruk, who both came into their own during the 1975-76 season. The piece comes from the November 13, 1975 San Francisco Examiner, so at this point, fans were just getting a taste of what was to come from the Seals’ dynamic duo. Interestingly, there is no mention of future “3-M” linemate Bob Murdoch, which is not surprising since he hadn’t played much, if at all, with MacAdam and Maruk, but that would soon change, of course. You can read the article, written by Ken Miller, right here.

Thanks for reading my post again this week. Until next time, stay gold!