Adding to the library

With renovations going on at work, there's been a whirling dervish running through the sports department throwing away just about anything that isn't nailed to the walls or weighing more than 200 pounds.

Fortunately, I was able to save these from the Pinellas County landfill and add them to our growing hockey library. In all, there were three Minnesota North Stars guides, five from the Hartford Whalers, three Quebec Nordiques guides and six from the Winnipeg Jets.

Being a Buffalo Sabres fan, I also preserved a baker's dozen of their guides.

Sorry, folks, but they're not for sale. Not now, nor ever. Unlike others, I can't put prices on hockey history.

C'mon, just look at the Nordiques 1991-1992 yearbook cover. That's Joey Sakic and Mats Sundin. I guess the team didn't have room to put Owen Nolan and the team's 1991 No. 1 draft pick Eric Lindros (we all know how that turned out) on the cover.