1996-97 Score Hockey Forum

Just reading the release notes of each set:

Golden Blades
Inserted into standard packs. It is the contest version of the base set. Using a special reader that only the dealer's had, the back of the card had a small black patch that would reveal if it was a "winner" or a "loser" for a special Redemption version of the standard Artist's Proof Parallel.



Golden Blades Winners
These are the Golden Blades Winner cards that never got sent in for the redemption Artist's Proof. There is likely no known way of confirming if the entire set is attainable.


If there's no way to tell these apart from the naked eye, isn't it pointless making separate "Winner" and "Loser" checklists?

I think there is not "loser" but "sorry try again"

Supposedly someone posted a way to tell the difference on a forum in Europe but the link is dead and was not archived. I think that there is a way to tell the difference, but would need someone with a decoder to verify a card with winner and loser on each in order to make sure the correct pictures are compared.

For example, it is possible that the 2 Scott Mellanby pictures you put are of the same card and not the 2 different.

99.999999% of the users of the site don't have a decoder though, so if I'm Joe Q. Collector visiting the site adding one of these cards to my collection, I don't know if I have the "Winner" or "Sorry Try Again" card, so for the site's purposes, wouldn't it just be easier to combine these into one checklist?

To me it's no different than a QR code that's scanned or numerical code that you input on a website to see if it's a winner.  IMO, the "Winner Not Sent In" set should be removed.  Anyone can upload any card and claim it's a "winner".  The only verified "Winners" are the ones sent in, punched, and returned.

Put the gloves on old man!!! LOL I say that it is a set that does exist and yes there is a way to tell the diffeence. If I can find this among my notes (which I know I have) I will post the wording on how to tell the difference. If you want to see the difference you only need to look at my Bill Ranford scans, I know for a FACT the unpunched version is a NON-WINNER as it was scanned by the decoder same as the punched version that is a winner. The difference in the black patch is very identifiable within the squiggles. This is what the old website showed and I have it printed off somewhere in my heap. I am still trying to find a winner unpunched. 

1996-97 Score - Golden Blades Winners Punched #40 Bill Ranford | Trading Card Database (tcdb.com)

1996-97 Score - Golden Blades #40 Bill Ranford | Trading Card Database (tcdb.com)

I have researched this to the point of tracking down old store owners looking for a decoder and will stand on a hill over this one and I actually think I have had to in the past. The set should stay. Sorry just my opinion.

Its not fair to the collectors if the complete set doesnt exist, this site is for the collectors checklists, right? information like "cards maby exist" is good, but not in the insert/parallel checklists

i will never be able to complete score 1996-97 from this site xD