1976-77 O-Pee-Chee WHA Hockey Cards
Product Details
For the third straight year, O-Pee-Chee featured a separate set of hockey cards showcasing players from the rival World Hockey Association. 1976-77 O-Pee-Chee WHA Hockey retains the 132-card size and introduced a new subset. Clearly, the league seemed to be doing well enough to mix it up a little bit.
Card fronts feature a player picture, with the border forming a frame that morphed into hockey-specific design features. A banner at the bottom left contains the player's name and team, while a hockey-stick shaped image at the bottom right has his position. The team logo is placed in the lower right corner.
1976-77 O-Pee-Chee WHA Hockey backs are oriented vertically, with most of the information placed into oval-shaped areas. The top oval contains a biography in English. Beneath that is an oval that shows the card number, with a brown bar extending across the card and giving the player's name. An oval below that has his vital stats along with the past year/lifetime statistic line. Finally, the last oval-shaped area has a French translation of the biography on the top.
Cards 1 through 6 feature the previous season's leaders in several categories, the only time a WHA set would include that.
1976-77 O-Pee-Chee WHA Hockey has one checklist card, as well as an All-Star subset that ran from cards 61 through 72. The All-Star cards had puzzle backs that formed a picture of either Gordie Howe or Bobby Hull. Surprisingly, there are no notable rookies.
Key 1976-77 O-Pee-Chee WHA Hockey Cards:
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Set Checklist
1976-77 O-Pee-Chee WHA Hockey Cards Set Checklist
2 Ulf Nilsson Assists Leaders
3 Ulf Nilsson Scoring Leaders
4 Gord Gallant Penalties Leaders
5 Ulf Nilsson Points Leaders
6 Wayne Rutledge GAA Leaders
7 Barry Long
8 Danny Lawson
9 Ulf Nilsson
10 Kevin Morrison
11 Gerry Pinder
12 Richard Brodeur
13 Robbie Ftorek
14 Tom Webster
15 Marty Howe
16 Bryan Campbell
17 Rick Dudley
18 Jim Turkiewicz RC
19 Ed "Rusty" Patenaude
20 Joe Daley
21 Gary Veneruzzo
22 Chris Evans
23 Mike Antonovich
24 Jim Dorey
25 John Gray RC
26 Larry Pleau
27 Poul Popiel
28 Rene LeClerc RC
29 Dennis Sobchuk
30 Lars-Erik Sjoberg
31 Wayne Wood RC
32 Ron Chipperfield
33 Tim Sheehy RC
34 Brent Hughes
35 Ron Ward
36 Ron Huston RC
37 Rosaire Paiement
38 Terry Ruskowski RC
39 Hugh Harris
40 J.C. Tremblay
41 Rich Leduc
42 Peter Sullivan RC
43 Jerry Rollins RC
44 Ken Broderick
45 Peter Driscoll RC
46 Joe Noris RC
47 Al McLeod
48 Bruce Landon RC
49 Chris Bordeleau
50 Gordie Howe
51 Thommie Bergman
52 Dave Keon
53 Butch Deadmarsh
54 Bryan Maxwell RC
55 John Garrett
56 Glen Sather
57 John Miszuk
58 Heikki Riihiranta
59 Richard Grenier RC
60 Gene Peacosh
61 Joe Daley All-Star
62 J.C. Tremblay All-Star
63 Lars-Erik Sjoberg All-Star
64 Vaclav Nedomansky All-Star
65 Bobby Hull All-Star
66 Anders Hedberg All-Star
68 Kevin Morrison All-Star
69 Paul Shmyr All-Star
70 Andre Lacroix All-Star
71 Gene Peacosh All-Star
72 Gordie Howe All-Star
73 Bob Nevin
74 Richard Lemieux
75 Mike Ford RC
76 Real Cloutier
77 Al McDonough
78 Del Hall RC
79 Thommy Abrahamsson
80 Andre Lacroix
81 Frank Hughes RC
82 Reg Thomas RC
83 Dave Inkpen RC
84 Paul Henderson
85 Dave Dryden
86 Lynn Powis
87 Andre Boudrias
88 Veli-Pekka Ketola
89 Cam Connor
90 Claude St. Sauveur
91 Garry Swain RC
92 Ernie Wakely
93 Blair MacDonald RC
94 Ron Plumb
95 Mark Howe
96 Peter Marrin RC
97 Al Hamilton
98 Paulin Bordeleau
99 Gavin Kirk
100 Bobby Hull
101 Rick Ley
102 Gary Kurt
103 John McKenzie
104 Al Karlander RC
105 John French
106 John Hughes
107 Ron Grahame
108 Mark Napier
109 Serge Bernier
110 Christer Abrahamsson
111 Frank Mahovlich
112 Ted Green
113 Rick Jodzio
114 Michel Dion RC
115 Rich Preston RC
116 Pekka Rautakallio RC
117 Checklist
118 Marc Tardif
119 Doug Barrie
120 Vaclav Nedomansky
121 Bill Lesuk
122 Wayne Connelly
123 Pierre Guite
124 Ralph Backstrom
125 Anders Hedberg
126 Norm Ullman
127 Steve Sutherland RC
128 John Schella
129 Don McLeod
130 Canadian Finals
131 U.S. Finals
132 World Trophy Final
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Robert Cameron
I really like this WHA set. It has a pretty good selection of players and goalies. I like the info and stats on the back of the cards. I thought that the photography was also descent. The only complaint that I have is that the paper stock is lighter than previous issues and the cards tend to bend or fray more. Overall, a nice addition to any vintage collection. Got to like the goon players like Gallant, Sutherland, Jodzio, etc. that are included in the set!