1972-73 O-Pee-Chee NHL Goals Leaders #272 Phil Esposito Bobby Hull Vic Hadfield League Leaders

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1972-73 O-Pee-Chee NHL Goals Leaders #272 Phil Esposito Bobby Hull Vic Hadfield League Leaders Slam-dunk a Hall-of-Fame roster onto your shelf with this 1972-73 O-Pee-Chee #272 NHL Goals Leaders single trading card, a legendary three-player League Leaders card loaded with three of the most famous goal-scorers of the era and built around the unparalleled prestige of O-Pee-Chee's bilingual printing. Card 272 showcases Phil Esposito of the Boston Bruins at the top of the leader board with his record-shattering 76 goals in the 1972-73 season—a single-season total that arguably stands as the most astonishing display of playoff-grade focus in modern hockey history—paired with Vic Hadfield of the New York Rangers at #2 and Bobby Hull of the Chicago Black Hawks tied at #2 with 50 goals each. This card features three photos in vertical-stack composition on the front, each in a black-barred mini-portrait with rank and team identifying stickers. The card's significance stretches far beyond its three-card layout, as it is the cardboard vault of one of the most storied goal-scoring seasons in NHL history—Esposito's 76 goals remains arguably the most famous single-season mark in the modern goals-per-game era. The 1972-73 O-Pee-Chee NHL set stands as the more popular companion piece to the 1972-73 O-Pee-Chee WHA set; O-Pee-Chee produced Canadian market-only cards that were often considered more vibrant than their Topps American counterparts. The back of this card is the unmistakable Canadian O-Pee-Chee bilingual back, presenting the season's top goal scorers in both French ("Meilleurs 1972-73 NHL GOALS LEADERS") and English parallel text, with a small WHA-franchise sponsor mark at top acknowledging cross-league confidence; the iconic "© O. P. C." mark and "PRINTED IN CANADA" stamp appear in the lower-left, and the overall card stock retains the trademark warm-cream aging of canadian-bodied chipboard. the front exhibits light to moderate softening at the upper-left and lower-right corners, the typical OPC diagonal wear pattern; the upper-left shows minor paper lift but no fibre breakage. Centring on the front has a slight bias to the right with margins slightly tightened at the top, while the back is centred cleanly with only minor pull-left. Edges show minimal chipping—one micro-fleck at the lower-middle and one along the upper-middle, neither breaking the cardstock integrity. No creases, no surface scratches, no wrinkles, no gloss-flip damage; the laminate surface catches light evenly with no flaking exampled visible. Conservative grade: EX-MT 6 to NR-MT 7. Grade Estimate: EX-MT 6