The Roster - 1989-90 Topps

It seemed only appropriate that I start off this new blog with the very first hockey cards I collected as a kid, 1989-90 Topps (I collected the O-Pee-Chee set as well).  The 1989-90 Topps set contained just 198 cards, typical of the smaller Topps hockey sets of the era.  The Whalers were represented on 12 cards in the base set:

 #11 - Peter Sidorkiewicz

#20 - Kevin Dineen

#32 - Pat Verbeek

My first post here, and already the first instance of airbrushing, seems only fitting...

#46 - Dave Babych

#70 - Ray Ferraro

#91 - Brian Lawton

#97 - Mike Liut

#124 - John Anderson

#134 - Dave Tippett

#162 - Sylvain Cote

#175 - Ron Francis

#183 - Paul MacDermid

Included in packs of '89-90 Topps were the standard team sticker cards that were packaged in with many of the '80s Topps hockey sets.  The Whalers were not represented within the first 12 stickers, each of which depict one of the league's stars.  They do however, like all teams, have a team sticker in the set:

Team Stickers #25 - Hartford Whalers

So, that's a complete 1989-90 Topps Whalers team set, the first of many I'll be featuring here on Whalers Hockey Cards.  Eventually I hope to complete a Whalers master collection of every card from every year (excluding 1/1s, etc), but it's going to be a while if it ever happens at all.  In the meantime, if there's a particular team set you'd like to see leave me a comment!