1984-85 Topps #80 Steve Payne

1984-85 Topps #79 Gilles Meloche

1984-85 Topps #78 Tom McCarthy

1984-85 Topps #77 Brad Maxwell

1984-85 Topps #76 Dennis Maruk

1984-85 Topps #75 Al MacAdam

Where's the mustache, Big Al?

1984-85 Topps #74 Paul Holmgren

St. Paul native and Philadelphia Flyers great Paul Holmgren came home for 27 games to finish his playing career.

1984-85 Topps #73 Dino Ciccarelli

1984-85 Topps #72 Neal Broten

I remember when some price guides would list this Broten card (and the '84 Bellows card, for that matter) as his "rookie."  Since Topps did not produce American sets in 1982-83 or 1983-84, this issue technically represents their first Topps cards, but they are not true rookies.

1984-85 Topps #71 Brian Bellows

1984-85 Topps #70 Don Beaupre

I just picked up a 1984-85 Topps North Stars team set today.  It's smaller than the O-Pee-Chee issue, but I badly needed replacements for some of my very first hockey cards.  Virtually all of my North Stars from this set had a thumbtack hole through them.  The set I received has nice, sharp corners, though there is spotty printing on quite a few of them.  I guess I don't know if that was an issue that plagued this set (the first Topps set in three years) or not.

1984-85 Topps #134 Rob Ramage

1984-85 Topps #71 Brian Bellows (Autographed)

In the spring of 1991, near the beginning of the North Stars' exciting run toward the Stanley Cup Finals, I went to a card show at the legendary Thunderbird Hotel in Bloomington, Minnesota, right next to the Met Center.  The big attraction to this particular show was the in-person appearances and autograph signings by Brian Bellows and Mike Modano.  I met both and had each sign a card for me.