2002 Provo City Employee Hockey Pin

This was a popular, but rare, pin traded for during the 2002 Winter Games held in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Peaks Ice Arena in the city of Provo, which sits 40 minutes south of Salt Lake City, was a venue for women's ice hockey during the Games. Production of this pin was limited to 500 pins, and the value of the pin is $12.00 USD (though during the Games it sold for up to $30.00 USD).

2006 Palasport Olympico Hockey Venue Pin

This hockey venue pin is from the 2006 Winter Games held in Torino, Italy. This pin has a value of $6.00 USD.

2006 Visa USA Hockey Sponsor Hockey Pin #2

This is the second of the two player photo pins produced for Visa's sponsorship of USA Hockey during the 2006 Winter Games held in Torino, Italy. This time, the USA men's paralympic team is represented by goaltender Manny Guerra. The value on this pin is $8.00 USD.

2006 Visa USA Hockey Sponsor Hockey Pin #1

This is the first of two player photo pins produced for Visa's sponsorship of USA Hockey during the 2006 Winter Games held in Torino, Italy. The pin features the USA women's hockey icon Cammi Granato (who was also featured on the 2002 Kodak pin highlighted on this blog on March 25, 2012). The value of this pin is $8.00 USD.

1980 Lake Placid Hockey Player Pin

This is an "unofficial" USA hockey pin commemorating the 1980 Winter Olympics held in Lake Placid, New York. The pin has a value of $3.50 USD.

2002 Kodak Commemorative "Share the Spirit" Pin #2

This is the second of the Kodak Share the Spirit pins from the 2002 Winter Games held in Salt Lake City, Utah. This time, Kodak commemorates the 1980 U.S. men's Olympic hockey team and the "miracle on ice" at the Lake Placid, New York Olympics. The value on this pin is also $2.00 USD or less.

2002 Kodak Commemorative "Share the Spirit" Pin #1

This is the first of two hockey pins from the Kodak "Share the Spirit" campaign during the 2002 Winter Games held in Salt Lake City, Utah. This pin features Cammi Granato, who was one of the U.S. women's Olympic hockey team heroes from the 1998 Winter Games held in Nagano, Japan. For Kodak this was a marketing effort which flooded the 2002 Games with thousands of low-quality Olympic pins having a simple decal atop a lightweight alloy pin. The value on these pins is only about $2.00 USD (or more likely even less than that).

2006 Molson Hockey Canada House Sponsor Pin

This sponsor pin was made for Molson and comes from the 2006 Winter Games held in Torino, Italy. The pin has a value of $9.00 USD, though during the 2006 Games I saw it sell for up to $48.98 USD.

2010 Paralympic Sledge Hockey & Skiing Pin

This pin comes from the 2010 Paralympic Games held in Vancouver, Canada. The pin features both a sledge hockey player and a skier. There were 16,000 of these pins made, and the pin has a value of $10.00 USD.

2002 Hard Rock Cafe Green Hockey #4 Pin

This pin was made by Hard Rock Cafe in support of the 2002 Winter Games held in Salt Lake City, Utah. The pin is number 4 in a series of 5 pins, one in each of the colors of the Olympic rings, which each pin depicting a different Olympic sport discipline. This pin as a value of $15.00 USD.

2002 Utah County Ice Hockey Venue Pin

This pin is from the 2002 Winter Games held in Salt Lake City, Utah, and represents Utah County which is the home of the City of Provo, Utah. Provo is home to the Peaks Ice Arena, which is 40 miles south of Salt Lake City and served as one of the venues for the women's and men's 2002 Olympic ice hockey tournaments. The pin features the official Salt Lake City Mascots (Powder the rabbit, Copper the fox and Coal the bear) playing ice hockey. It has a value of $15.00 USD.

1980 Soviet Union Souvenir Ice Hockey Pin

This pin comes from the 1980 Winter Games held in Lake Placid, New York, USA. The pin is one of a four-pin set of Soviet Union souvenir pins (the other three pins from the set include the official Lake Placid Olympic logo, a pair of skis and an sled (presumably for skeleton events, though I am not sure). This hockey pin has a value of $6.00 USD.

1994 Gjøvik Olympiske Fjellhall Venue Pin

This is a venue pin from the 1994 Winter Games held in Lillehammer, Norway, and represents the Gjovik ice arena where the Olympic hockey tournament was played. The Gjovik arena was constructed for the 1994 Games and is officially known as the "Gjøvik Olympiske Fjellhallen" or Gjovik Olympic Cavern Hall. It is called a cavern hall because the arena is carved into a mountain in Gjovik, Norway. This pin has a value of $5.00 USD.

1988 Blue Cross/Blue Shield USA Hockey Pin

This pin was made for Blue Cross / Blue Shield as a sponsor of USA Hockey during the 1988 Winter Games held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The pin features the classic USA Hockey logo, which was also used on the official USA Hockey team pin from the 1988 Winter Games. This pin has a value of $7.00 USD.

2002 Russian "POCCИЯ 2002" NOC Pin

This is the official Russian NOC pin from the 2002 Winter Games held in Salt Lake City, Utah. The pin was provided to Russian athletes competing in the Games. The pin has a value of $25.00 USD, though during the 2002 games it routinely sold for $50.00 and above.

1992 Kraft Foods Collector's Edition Hockey Pin

This pin was made for the Kraft Foods company and is part of a six-pin collector's edition set entitled "Kraft Sets the U.S. Olympic Training Table," which was produced for Kraft's sponsorship of the U.S. Olympic team at the 1992 Winter Games held in Albertville, France and the 1992 Summer Games held in Barcelona, Spain. Because 1992 was the last year in which the Summer and Winter games were held in the same calendar year, this set is one of the last dual-Olympic sponsorship sets containing both Summer and Winter Olympic pins. The individual hockey pin has a value of $5.00 USD, and the complete set of six pins has a value of $18.00 USD.

1968 Soviet Union Champions Commemorative Pin

Like the pin I posted about on September 15, 2011, this pewter-toned version of the pin commemorates the Soviet Union's gold medal in ice hockey at the 1968 Winter Games held in Grenoble, France. This pin has a value of $3.00 USD.

1988 Czech NOC Banner Pin

Like yesterday's pin, this Czech NOC pin comes from the 1988 Winter Games held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. I consider these "hockey pins" as far as my collection goes because they represent the Czech athletes who competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics, including the hockey team as evidenced by the Czech hockey team photo set below. This pin has a value of $15.00 USD.

1988 Czech NOC Pin (No. 1)

This Czech Republic NOC pin comes from the 1988 Winter Games held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. This is the larger of the two Czech NOC snowflake pins made for the 1988 Games. The pin has a value of $12.00 USD, though I have seen it recently sell for over $30.00 USD.

1992 Olympica Hockey Pin

There were several different Olympic winter sport disciplines represented in the set of pins from which this hockey pin comes, which were made for the 1992 Winter Games held in Albertville, France. This pin has a value of $6.00 USD, though I've seen it sell for as high as $22.00 USD as it is quite a rare find.

2010 Budweiser USA Olympic Hockey Sponsor Pin

This pin symbolizes Budweiser's sponsorship of USA Hockey during the 2010 Winter Games held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The pin has a value of $10.00 USD, though during the 2010 games it sold for up to $25.00 USD.

1992 Visa Olympic Mascot Hockey Pin

This pin was made for Visa for the 1992 Winter Games held in Albertville, France. The pin features the official 1992 Winter Games mascot, Magique, playing ice hockey. The pin has a value of $5.00 USD.

1994 Hakons Hall Venue Hockey Pins

These pins come from the 1994 Winter Games held in Lillehammer, Norway and represent Hakons Hall, which was the primary hockey venue for the 1994 Games. The official pin guide from the 1994 games indicates that there were 33,100 of the pins on the left made for the Games. The pins each have a value of $6.00 USD.

2006 U.S. Olympic Women's Ice Hockey Team Pin

To complete the trio of USA Hockey pins from the 2006 Winter Games held in Torino, Italy, this is the pin for the women's ice hockey team that competed during the 2006 Games. The pin has a value of $10.00 USD, though it sold during the 2006 Games for up to $15.00 USD.

2006 U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team Pin

Like the pin featured in yesterday's post, this is also a USA Hockey pin from the 2006 Winter Games held in Torino, Italy, but this pin is specifically for the men's squad that competed during the 2006 Games. The pin has a value of $10.00 USD, though sold during the 2006 Games for up to $17.00 USD.

2006 U.S. Olympic Ice Hockey Team Pin

Pictured is the U.S. Olympic Ice Hockey Team pin from the 2006 Winter Games held in Torino, Italy. The pin features both the classic USA Hockey skater logo, and the U.S. Olympic Team hexagon logo from the 2006 Games. This pin has a value of $10.00 USD, though during the 2006 Games it sold for up to $27.00 USD.

2010 Olympic Hockey Slap Shot Pin #5

Finally, with the fifth pin from the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics pin set labeled "Slap Shot: The Hardest Shot in Hockey" the hockey player lets fly with a zinging slap shot and reaches full extension as the imaginary puck sails toward the net. Thus, you have pictured below the entire five pin set creating a freeze frame action sequence of the hockey slapshot in motion. Each pin in this set has value of $10.00 USD.

2010 Olympic Hockey Slap Shot Pin #4

In the fourth pin from the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics pin set labeled "Slap Shot: The Hardest Shot in Hockey" the hockey player's stick seemingly bends as it has now come in contact with the imaginary hockey puck which would be near ready to fly off the blade of his stick toward the goaltender. Each pin in this set has value of $10.00 USD.