Details on our National Hockey Card Day contests

Tune in right here on Saturday afternoon for a few live-post contests in celebration of National Hockey Card Day.

We’re planning to give away the following Upper Deck hockey cards starting at 1 p.m. (central time):

1. Grand Prize: One box of 2008-09 SP Game-used Hockey (six packs, six autographs or game-used cards per box).

2. Other boxes: Three boxes of 2008-09 Fleer Ultra (24 packs; six Rookie Cards and two jersey or autographs per box).

3. Big-pack prizes: We’ll be awarding a few boxes’ worth of packs from 2008-09 SP Game-used Hockey (one hit per pack) and some packs from 2007-08 Hot Prospects throughout the day until we’re out …

How can you win? Be here and be ready to comment …  it’s that simple.

However, everyone is eligible for the grand prize — just send an e-mail to colds@beckett.com with the subject line “hockey cards” along with your name and address. The grand prize will be randomly drawn from those names. E-mails not including addresses will be disqualified.

Looking for the contests? Go back to the blog’s main page by clicking on the header to see each contest — do not just refresh this page.

Chris Olds has collected sports cards and memorabilia since 1987. Before coming to Beckett Media, he wrote about the hobby for the Orlando Sentinel on his blog, SportsStuff, and for the San Antonio Express-News and The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News. Do you have a comment, question or idea? Send e-mail to him at colds@beckett.com.