Steve Yzerman is one of the greatest centers in NHL history, spending his entire 22‑season career with the Detroit Red Wings. Known as “The Captain,” he combined elite offensive skill with exceptional leadership, recording 1,755 career points in 1,514 games. Early in his career he was a prolific scorer, but under coach Scotty Bowman he transformed into one of the league’s best two‑way forwards, winning the Selke Trophy in 2000. Yzerman won three Stanley Cups as a player (1997, 1998, 2002) and later built another championship team as an executive. He also earned the Conn Smythe Trophy in 1998 and the Masterton Trophy in 2003. His calm, disciplined leadership became legendary; as Elite Prospects notes, he was “an outstanding two‑way center and an amazing defensive forward as well”. Yzerman’s significance to Detroit is unmatched — he is widely regarded as the greatest captain in franchise history and one of the most respected figures the sport has ever produced.

The photo is a photo of the actual card so please take a good look at the card and pay attention to grading. But please also note that the back of the card label will have a certification and copy protection holographic label on the back of the label (the empty spot on the back of the label will be filled, we omit it here for security reasons).

HHA is part of HHA Grading and Reclamation (BC Business Registry 725858229bc001) which began as a group for hockey historians and collectors who initially were focused (and still are) on finding and releasing to the public on Youtube free video of old hockey games 20 to 70 years old. Recently (2024) HHA began focussing on providing a new type of trading card grading system with collectors in mind rather than investors. 

HHA was never intended to compete with PSA et al directly, but to provide an inexpensive yet (in our opinion) superior alternative to PSA et al for collectors tired of being robbed by the high grading fees charged by PSA. We want to make getting your cards graded more affordable, and we want to make sure historically important cards that may not have a high dollar value with investors gets the attention they deserve regardless of their assessed value.

Recently HHA moved to include certification and a webpage for verification, but our focus is primarily on cards worth less than $250 and usually less than $50 where grading is not cost effective, hence these cards are seldom graded at all, which has left a hole in the market and more concerning historically significant cards (especially from the 80s-00s) were not getting graded at all even Hall of Fame inductees. To address this problem HHA began their "reclamation" project which actively seeks out historically significant mid to low value cards, buys them, grades and labels them, and resells them at low prices with the attention and dignified presentation they deserve. This came about as we recognized so many historically important cards were not getting graded and slabbed simply because of their assessed market value. Our Reclamation Project seeks to remedy this problem by buying up historically and artistically significant cards, grading them, labelling them, slabbing them, and reselling them at low prices. 

HHA's beautiful card labels are created for easy identification of licensed cards and to aid sorting, but should not be considered as an endorsement or affiliation with or from any professional sports league or its teams, including the National Hockey League. We sell only cards that have been licensed by the relevant professional leagues/teams and our labels reflect that. The only exception is  HHA's limited edition WHA commemorative cards, as the WHA name and logo trademarks were all abandoned long ago and are thus public domain. 

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