OHL Alumni Central

The first ever OHL Alumni Central Free Giveaway Contest has arrived. As mentioned, a Wayne Gretzky rookie card, it is not. We’re giving away two hockey cards of John Slaney. You won’t find these in a Beckett’s guide and a dealer won’t give you the time of day for them. But, any OHL fan would appreciate the rarity of these cards.

First is a 7th Inning Stretch OHL card from 1991 featuring John as an OHL all-star with the Cornwall Royals. Second is a card featuring him on his newest team, Germany’s Frankfurt Lions.

Future OHL Alumni Central free giveaways will increase in monetary value, but hey – it’s free, right? All you have to do is go to our contest page and fill out the online form or you can e-mail giveaway@ohlalumnicentral.com with ‘John Slaney’ as the subject line and you may be the one luck winner.

For those who don’t know who John Slaney is for some reason, John played in the OHL from 1988-89 to 1991-92 with the Cornwall Royals. His best season was 1989-90 when he scored 38 goals and added 59 assists for 97 points and won the Max Kaminsky Trophy as the league’s top defenseman.

In 1991, he scored the game winning goal in the gold medal came for Canada at the World Juniors. In 2004-05, he was an important part of the AHL’s Philadelphia Phantoms Calder Cup winning team. To this day, he is he AHL’s all-time top scoring defenseman. John also had a 268 game NHL career with Washington Capitals, Colorado Avalanche, Los Angeles Kings, Phoenix Coyotes, Nashville Predators, Pittsburgh Penguins and the Philadelphia Flyers. He began play in Germany in 2007-08.

Here’s the prize:

Our first free giveaway contest will open Saturday evening, March 20, at 9:00pm EST. Tune back in at that time to find out what the prize will be. A Wayne Gretzky rookie card, it will not be! However, it will be a hockey card – and it won’t be a common card.

This is the page to visit on Saturday evening. There will be no fees, no obligations, to hidden sign-ups. Simply enter and your name will be put in for a random draw to be held the following Saturday.