September recap

Nothing like finishing out the month on a hot streak.  USPS says I have two more coming in today (Lee Thomas and Ray Rippelmeyer, I believe), and the last mail delivery day where I got nothing was September 12.

September 18
Dan McGinn, c/o home, 3/3, 1 week
Frank Reberger, c/o home, 3/3, 1 week
Roger Repoz, c/o home, 3/3, 1 week

September 19
Billy Grabarkewitz, c/o home, 3/3, 1 week

September 20
Beto Dos Santos, c/o home, 5/4, 2 weeks
Bobby Pfeil, c/o home, 2/2, 2 weeks
Dick Woodson, c/o home, 3/3, 2 weeks
Paul Doyle, c/o home, 2/2, 2 weeks
Bill Stoneman, c/o home, 3/3, 2 weeks

September 21
David Wright, c/o Las Vegas 51s, 1/1, 3 weeks
Darcy Fast, c/o home, 1/1, 1 week

September 22
Manny Mota, c/o L.A. Dodgers, 3/3, 2 weeks
John Strohmayer, c/o home, 3/3, 2 weeks
Dick Green, c/o home, 3/3, 1 week
Don Buford, c/o home, 3/3, 1 week

September 24
Jussi Jokinen, c/o home, 1/1, 2 and a half years (11x14 photo)
Brian Lee, c/o home, 1/1, 3 weeks, personalized
JC Martin, c/o home, 3/3, 2 weeks

September 25
Jarrod Parker, c/o home, 1/1, 3 weeks
Bill Voss, c/o home, 2/2, 2 weeks

September 26
Ron Cook, c/o home, 1/1, 1 week

September 27
Gary Nolan, c/o home, 3/3, 1 week
Oscar Brown, c/o home, 3/3, 1 week
RTS: Lee Stange, with note from his wife; I mailed September 19 and he died September 21

After hearing that hockey team hotels are no longer the barren wasteland of impossibility that they once were, I may try a few this season for set needs.  Looking at...

THU. OCTOBER 4: Stars Opening Night Green Carpet (Alexander Radulov)
SAT. OCTOBER 13: Anaheim (Ryan Miller)
TUE. OCTOBER 23: Los Angeles (Dion Phaneuf)
THU. OCTOBER 25: Anaheim (if 10/13 fails)
THU. NOVEMBER 8: San Jose (Doug Wilson)
FRI. DECEMBER 7: San Jose (if 11/8 fails)
FRI. JANUARY 4: Washington (Alexander Ovechk-HAHAHAHA sorry, trying to be serious here)
TUE. JANUARY 15: Tampa Bay (Steven Stamkos and Ryan Callahan-- finish two sets at once!)
THU. JANUARY 17: Los Angeles (if 10/23 fails)
TUE. MARCH 5: New York Rangers (Henrik Lundqvist)
FRI. MARCH 15: Vegas (Paul Stastny)
TUE. MARCH 19: Florida (Keith Yandle)
SAT. MARCH 23: Pittsburgh (Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin)

We'll see. I haven't done hockey IP on a serious basis since 2005. In the incredibly unlikely event that I can get them all AND my help comes through in Europe and Canada AND I get my TTMs back successfully, I'll have two completed sets (2007-08 and 2008-09 UD Rookie Class), two cards left on the 2005-06 UD Rookie Class set (Pavel Vorobiev and Mike Richards), and three cards left on the 2006-07 UD Rookie Class set (Alexei Kaigorodov, Yan Stastny, and Kelly Guard). Plus 14 left on Archives, 10 left on Topps Total, and 15 left on Fleer Throwbacks. And several of those guys I know I can get for a small fee (Schultz, Esposito, Dionne, and Mahovlich are all about $10 each).

I also have enough stamps to fire off three more requests. Not sure who will get them yet.