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Jewels from the Garage #5: Blasts from the Past

The Bure at the Beach card from this morning’s post reminded me that I had a bunch of these time capsules to dig up. Continuing with the surf and turf theme, we start with the Rangers. We’ll also play a little game of “who the hell are these guys” for the cards that don’t have the names on the front. Most of them are obvious, some maybe not. (Answers at the bottom of the post.)

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[Note to RudyKelly: who does Hamrlik look like in this picture:]

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Now we’re getting somewhere. Who can name these guys?

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Jamie Linden looks in this picture like it’s his first time on skates.

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Guy on the left, easy. Guy on the right?

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Hair and Cooper-Alls.

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Last but not least, name these chuckleheads.

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Answers:

Three guys in the ocean: Doug Weight, Steven Rice, Tony Amonte (star rookie checklist – 91/92; other star rookies Len Barrie, Patrice Brisbois, Gilbert Dionne, Nelson Emerson, Stephane Fiset, Trevor Kidd, Viatcheslav Kozlov, Felix Potvin, Mike Sillinger.)

Sutters (left to right): Brian, Duane, Darryl, Brent, Rich and Ron.

Guy on the right: Tony Amonte.

Chuckleheads: Darius Kasparitus, Vladimir Malakhov (young guns checklist – 92/93; the other young guns include Roman Hamrlik, Martin Rucinsky, Martin Straka, Scott Niedermayer, Shawn McEachern, Alexei Zhitnik, Andrei Kovalenko, Sandis Ozolinsh, Dimitri Yushkevich, Scott Lachance, Alexei Kovalev, Teemu Selanne, Alexei Zhamnov, Dixon Ward and Igor Korolev.)

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