April 3

Steve Ludzik

Well, let's start another streak. Today's birthday features Steve Ludzik.

Selected by Chicago Blackhawks in  round 2 #28 overall 1980 NHL Entry Draft.

 Scored goal in first NHL game. The goal, at 6:15 of the third period, beat Quebec goalie Dan Bouchard and was Chicago's only goal in an 8-1 loss to Nordiques.

NHL Totals

GP 424

G 46

A 93

TP 139

PIM 333

You can read this article at Puckjunk.com on the UER RC and a bit on Steve.

http://www.puckjunk.com/article.php?artid=20090001

I guess I should have had them sign each others card also. I had the OPC 86/87 snafu with the Joel Otto-Moe Lemay cards signed by each other

You can read about that also.

http://customhockeycards.blogspot.com/2008/01/1986-87-moe-lemay.html

http://customhockeycards.blogspot.com/2008/01/1986-87-joel-otto.html

As you can probably tell, I had these signed at two different times (blue ink vs black sharpie) iP.

Steve has written a book called Been There, Done That

You can find out more on his official site

http://www.ludzy.com/