1970-71 O-Pee-Chee

The 1970-71 O-Pee-Chee set contained 264 standard-size cards. Players from expansion Buffalo and Vancouver are included. Bilingual backs featured a short biography as well as the player's 1969-70 and career statistics. The cards were printed in Canada, and the O-Pee-Chee copyright, and not the Topps, appeared on the back for the first time. Many player poses were different from the Topps set of this year. Cards were grouped by teams. However, there a… [Read More]

The 1970-71 O-Pee-Chee set contained 264 standard-size cards. Players from expansion Buffalo and Vancouver are included. Bilingual backs featured a short biography as well as the player's 1969-70 and career statistics. The cards were printed in Canada, and the O-Pee-Chee copyright, and not the Topps, appeared on the back for the first time. Many player poses were different from the Topps set of this year. Cards were grouped by teams. However, there are a number of cards that had updated team names reflecting off-season trades. Card no. 231 is a special memorial to Terry Sawchuk, who passed away in 1970. Card nos. 111, Brit Selby, and 175 Mickey Redmond, could be found with or without a line of text acknowledging trades. Rookie Cards included Wayne Cashman, Bobby Clarke, Brad Park, Guy Lapointe, Gilbert Perreault, and Darryl Sittler. [Collapse]