1973-74 O-Pee-Chee Jim Peters #231 Los Angeles Kings

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1973-74 O-Pee-Chee Jim Peters #231 Los Angeles KingsNot every hockey card is about goals, and this 1973-74 O-Pee-Chee Jim Peters card, number 231, is a small monument to the men who did the unglamorous work that let the scorers do theirs. Peters was a big left shooting centre from Montreal who broke in with Detroit in 1965-66 and spent 54 games with the Red Wings before landing with the Los Angeles Kings, where he built a reputation as a defensive specialist and penalty killer who could be trusted in his own end and in the faceoff circle. That selfless role is written right on the card back, where the 1972-73 season record shows 77 games played, 4 goals, 5 assists, 9 points and a remarkable 0 penalty minutes, a stat line that tells you everything about how he played the game. The hockey bloodline runs deep as well, since his father Jimmy Peters Sr. skated in the NHL for Montreal, Boston, Detroit and Chicago between 1945 and 1954 and was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1981, and the O-Pee-Chee back pays tribute to that heritage. The front shows him in the Kings gold and purple with the crown crest, number 20 on the sleeve, in the pale studio light of a 1973 photo shoot, and the reverse is the Canadian bilingual English and French back with the printed in Canada mark that identifies this as the OPC issue rather than the Topps version. the top edge is noticeably fuzzy along its length, a tiny blue print dot sits on the green border at the top left, a small brown tape like spot marks the top right edge of the photo area, the bottom edge shows light fuzz, and a minor white scratch sits near the glove. Corners show moderate fray. Centering is good, and with no creases the conservative raw estimate is EX 5.Grade Estimate: EX 5