The picture card was worth a thousand words.
And about 10 cents.
Patrick Kane's name is nowhere to be found on Sylvain Turgeon's trading card from the 1994-95 Pinnacle hockey set.
But when his 6-year-old face was spotted on it years later, the card became priceless to the Blackhawks All-Star forward and his family. "You could look at that picture and I'm just a young kid looking up at some hockey players, like any young kid would," Patrick Kane said.
After Kane became a star in the NHL many years later, the monetary value of the card went up as well.
The fact such a card exists is improbable.
That Kane happens to be sitting on his father's lap, staring wide-eyed at Hall of Famer Dale Hawerchuk, seems almost impossible.
Sandwiched between two Sabres players, Hawerchuk (No. 10) and defensemen Doug Bodger (No. 8), Turgeon is shown sailing through the air. A photographer captured the moment, Pinnacle used it as Turgeon's card and the unofficial Patrick Kane rookie card was born.
Only nobody knew it at the time.
Here are the stories of this card.
