1998 Women's Inaugural Ice Hockey Gold Medal Pin

This pin was produced following the United States' women's hockey team's gold medal victory in the inaugural women's Olympic ice hockey tournament at the 1998 Winter Games held in Nagano, Japan. Going into the tournament, the Canadian women were highly favored as they had consistently beaten all of their competition for years, including the United States. However, it would be the Americans that skated away with Olympic gold at Nagano, winning the final match against their North American rivals by a score of 3-1. The United States (5-0), Canada (4-1), Finland (3-2), China (2-3), Sweden (1-4) and Japan (0-5) each had a team in the tournament. There were only 1998 of these individually numbered pins produced, and the value of the pin is $10.00 USD.

2006 Sledge Hockey Stick Pin

Okay, so I am not quite certain about this pin. I know it comes from the 2006 Winter Games held in Torino, Italy, but I am not certain that it is a sledge hockey stick pin. To me, it looks like it could simply be an Olympic torch pin, but I have seen it advertised so many times as a sledge hockey stick that I thought I should include it here and perhaps let you all give some input. Either way, whether its a torch or a stick, the pin has a value of $6.00 USD.

2014 Sochi Hockey Equipment Pin No.4

This is the sixth of the "sochi.ru 2014" hockey pins recently released for the 2014 Winter Games that will be held in Sochi, Russia. It is the fourth hockey equipment pin and features a goaltender's hockey mask and a hockey stick, each with the colors of the Russian flag. This mask and stick pin is different from many other such pins made over the years because the hockey stick depicted on the pin is not that of a goaltender, but rather is a skater's sticks. The pin has a value of $12.00 USD.

2014 Sochi Hockey Equipment Pin No.3

This is the fifth of the "sochi.ru 2014" hockey pins recently released for the 2014 Winter Games that will be held in Sochi, Russia. It is the third hockey equipment pin and features a hockey puck and a stick blade with the colors of the Russian flag. The pin has a value of $12.00 USD.

2014 Sochi Hockey Equipment Pin No.2

This is the fourth of the "sochi.ru 2014" hockey pins recently released for the 2014 Winter Games that will be held in Sochi, Russia. It is the second hockey equipment pin and features two crossed hockey sticks, each with the colors of the Russian flag. The pin has a value of $12.00 USD.

2014 Sochi Hockey Equipment Pin No.1

This is the third of the "sochi.ru 2014" hockey pins recently released for the 2014 Winter Games that will be held in Sochi, Russia. It is the first hockey equipment pin and features a hockey skate with the colors of the Russian flag. The pin has a value of $12.00 USD.

2014 Sochi Hockey Player & Russian Flag No.2

This is the second of the "sochi.ru 2014" hockey pins recently released for the 2014 Winter Games that will be held in Sochi, Russia. It is the second of the hockey player pins and also has a value of $12.00 USD.

2014 Sochi Hockey Player & Russian Flag No.1

With the 2014 Olympic Winter Games fast approaching, there are numerous pins being released for the Sochi Games. Recently, a series of six hockey pins was released featuring the "sochi.ru 2014" logo. This is one of two different hockey player pins (the other four are hockey equipment pins). This pin has a value of $12.00 USD.

2002 Generic Olympic Ice Hockey Skater Pin #3

This generic ice hockey pin comes from the 2002 Winter Games held in Salt Lake City, Utah. Like yesterday's hockey skater pin, this pin also features a hockey player over a silver metalic background. The value of this pin is $7.00 USD.

2002 Generic Olympic Ice Hockey Skater Pin #2

This generic ice hockey pin comes from the 2002 Winter Games held in Salt Lake City, Utah. The pin features the same red, white and blue dressed skater as yesterday's pin, but this puckster is wearing traditionally black hockey skates. The value of this pin is $7.00 USD.

2002 Generic Olympic Ice Hockey Skater Pin #1

This generic ice hockey pin comes from the 2002 Winter Games held in Salt Lake City, Utah. The pin features a red, white and blue clad skater in uniquely yellow hockey skates and bears the official Salt Lake 2002 logo. There were 5,000 of these pins made, and its value is $7.00 USD.

1960 AHA Hockey Olympic Pin

This pin commemorates the American Hockey Association team's participation in the 1960 Winter Olympic hockey tournament held in Squaw Valley, California, USA. The United States won its first ever Olympic hockey gold medal at the 1960 Games, defeating both the heavily favored Soviet Union and Canadian squads along the way. This pin has a value of $60.00 USD, though recently it has sold for as much as $154.00 USD.

1972 Soviet Union Souvenir Hockey Pin

This Soviet Union made souvenir hockey pin comes from the 1972 Winter Games held in Sapporo, Japan, where the Soviets won the gold medal in Olympic ice hockey. This pin has a value of $3.00 USD.

1956 Soviet Union Hockey Champions Series Pin

This rectangular pin is one of several from a Soviet Union ice hockey champions series of pins. This pin represents the Soviet Union's Olympic gold medal victory at the 1956 Winter Games held in Cortina, Italy. The pin has a value of $2.00 USD. There are similar pins in this series for the 1964, 1968 and 1984 Olympic Games.

1998 Nagano Hockey / Skiing Pin

This pin was produced for the 1998 Winter Games held in Nagano, Japan and features both a hockey player and a skier along with three ribboned medals. The pin has a value of $5.00 USD.

2010 Visa Worldwide Sponsor Hockey Mascot Pin

I know, this is not the most exciting pin on the blog, but it is an Olympic hockey pin. There were a huge number of these lesser-quality pins made for Visa for the 2010 Winter Games held in Vancouver, Canada. The pin bears the image of the mascot Quatchi in goaltender gear. Its value is not more than $4.00 USD because there were so many of them made and they were readily available all over Vancouver during the 2010 Games.

2006 Coca-Cola Mascot Sledge Hockey Pin

This pin is from the 2002 Paralympic Games held in Torino, Italy and it depicts the official paralympic mascot Aster playing sledge hockey. There were only 300 of these pins made, and the pin has a value of $15.00 USD.

2010 Canadian Olympic Hockey Skate Pin

This hockey skate pin bears the classic Canadian maple leaf and was made in support of the home team during 2010 Winter Games held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Of course, the Canadians ended up defeating the United States in the gold medal game. The present value on this pin is $7.00 USD.

2002 Patriotic US Olympic Hockey Skate Pin

In addition to yesterday's classic black boot pin, this Stars and Stripes hockey skate pin was popular among Team USA fans during the 2002 Winter Games held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. There were 25,000 of these pins manufactured, and the value of the pin is currently around $5.00 (but, again, this one sold for between $7.00 and $10.00 USD during the 2002 Games).

2002 Black Olympic Hockey Skate Pin

You often hear that the "little black dress" is a staple in any woman's wardrobe. Well, the patent black leather hockey skate is the international staple in Olympic hockey. (In fact, has anyone ever seen an Olympic hockey player lace up anything other than a pair of black bladed boots?) This generic black hockey skate pin was made for the 2002 Winter Games held in Salt Lake City, Utah. There were 5,000 of these pins produced, and the value of this pin is $5.00 (though during the 2002 Games is usually sold for between $7.00 and $10.00 USD).

Generic Olympic Hockey Skate & Sticks Pin

This is a generic, undated pin produced in support of Olympic hockey. Over the years, there have been numerous Olympic hockey pins depicting a lone hockey skate, several of which I have featured in prior blog entries (see, May 29, 2011 and August 1, 2011, for examples). This week I will feature a few more Olympic hockey skate pins. By the way, the generic pin shown here has a value of $4.00 USD.

1988 Unofficial USA Hockey Pin

This pin dates back to the 1988 Winter Games held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, though it is not an official "USA Hockey" pin. Nonetheless, it was produced to support the United States hockey team in the Olympic games. The pin has a value of $4.00 USD.

2010 Belarus (White) Olympic Hockey Team Pin

Above are two photographs of Belarus Hockey Team pins from the 2010 Winter Games held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. On April 26, 2011, I previously blogged about the pin in the black text box in the right half of this picture. In total, there are three white Belarus hockey team pins measuring 27mm x 17mm, 24mm x 15mm and 20mm x 12mm. The pin being blogged about today is the middle sized of the three pins, which is shown in the left half of the photo. Also, the placement of the words (Hockey Team Belarus) differs on these pins. The value on the pin on the right is $20.00 USD.

1992 Unofficial Albertville Hockey Penguin Pin

This pin, unofficially, was made to celebrate the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France. The pin features a penguin hockey player and the text Albertville 92. The pin has a value of $4.00 USD.

1994 Coca-Cola Gjovik Olympiske Fjellhall Pin

This Olympic hockey venue pin was made for Coca-Cola® for the 1994 Winter Games held in Lillehammer, Norway. The Gjovik Olympiske Fjellhall referenced on the face of the pin was the site of the Olympic ice hockey tournament. The value of the pin is $7.00 USD.