1960-61 Parkhurst Hockey

 Parkhurst issued this set of 61 cards in 1960 featuring the Maple Leafs, Canadiens and Red Wings. The set is notable for containing the last card of HOFer Maurice Richard and also the rookie card of John McKenzie. Four very popular cards in the set (56-59) actual feature three line mates together on a single card.

1961-62 Parkhurst Hockey

 Parkhurst issued this 51 card set in 1961 featuring players from Montral, Toronto and Detroit. The set features many of the game's greats such as Beliveau, Howe, Sawchuck and Plante plus the rookie card of HOFer Dave Keon.

1961-62 Topps Hockey

 Topps 1961 issue displayed its most impressive design since the inaugural '54 issue. Player photos appeared blended into In Action collages while an oversized black puck, on edge, contained the players name, position and card number. Again minus Detroit and Howe, Topps innovated to fill the gap with the first ever inclusion of Checklist and Team cards for a hockey set. Key rookies included Rangers' line mates Rod Gilbert and Jean Ratelle.

1962-63 Topps Hockey

 Topps innovated with full color borders in 1962, first with its baseball set - the famous woodies - and then with its hockey issue, a 66 card set featuring the American teams (minus Detroit) laid out against a solid blue border. Given the design is more prone to showing effects of wear and chipping, high grade examples from this set are not easy to find. The set features the rookie card of Chico Maki and Vic Hadfield.

1964 Topps Hockey

 The 1964 Topps "Tall Boy" set is the company's classic hockey set, featuring condition rarities in high grade due to the oversize design, plus many impossible short prints. Complete at 110, the set represents the 'benchmark' hockey set for the company. Especially since for the first time in history it featured players from all six original franchises…bringing Howe, Hull, Sawchuk and Beliveau together for the first time! The set is additional enhanced through the inclusion of tough high number All Star cards, two impossible to find checklist cards and team coaches cards including HOFers Toe Blake and Milt Schmidt.

1965-66 Topps Hockey

 Topps increased the size of its 1965 offering to 128 cards, again featuring players from the original six. The design features a large portrait of each player, framed by a bottom border containing name and position and a clever design on the top border showing the team name in an array of hockey pucks. Very difficult single printed team cards represent the last six cards. The set is extremely "rookie rich" - featuring the cardboard debuts of Phil Esposito, Yvan Cournoyer, Ed Giacomin, Gerry Cheevers, and Kenny Hodge.

1966 Topps Hockey

 Topps used a television set motif on its Football and Hockey sets in 1966, reprising the important Bowman design from the 50s. The tough brown borders make the set a highly sought condition rarity, with comparatively few graded in the PSA Population report. NOTE: Topps also tried test marketing the set into the US for the first time, creating a 66 card version know as the "Topps USA Test Issue" - not to be confused with this set, which was widely distributed, albeit only in Canada. The set is largely reknown for card #35, the Bobby Orr rookie, which along with the 1979 Gretzky and the 1958 Hull are Topps most important hockey cards for three decades.

1967-68 Topps Hockey

 Topps last Canada-only issue was its 1967 set of 132 cards. Despite the league's expansion from six to twelve teams in 1967, the set contained only players for those original six franchises. Topps filled out the set with award winners and all-stars, in the process creating three cards of Bobby Orr, and two cards of many other top stars including Howe and Hull. Key rookie cards include Rogie Vachon, Glen Sather, Jacques Lemaire and Derek Sanderson.

1968-69 Topps Hockey

 Topps expanded its license with O-PEE-CHEE to include hockey cards in 1968, creating for the first time a US-only hockey set of 132 cards. Since OPC was now distributing a similar (albeit much larger) set for the Canadian market, the card backs were no longer bi-lingual, but rather in english only. For this issue, Topps virtually cloned its 1968 Football cards to create a horizontal , two photo motif. The set was the first to contain players from all twelve teams, which includes the rookie card of Flyer goalie Bernie Parent.

1968-69 OPC Hockey

 O-PEE-CHEE's first release of Topps licensed cards for distribution in Canada featured 216 of the games top stars. The set closely resembles its Topps counterpart; however, there are some cards with different poses and/or numbering throughout. The set features the rookie cards of Bernie Parent, Mickey Redmond and Garry Unger.

1969-70 Topps Hockey

 Topps famous "Hockey Stick" set consists of 132 cards featuring the game's top stars. The card reverse contains a short bio and either a cartoon or a placeholder for a 1969 stamp insert. The set was distributed solely in the US market, as the 1967-68 expansion had added teams in Philly, Oakland, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Minnesota and Pittburgh. Some players have a spot on the card reverse to affix on of the insert stamps that were included in wax packs of this issue.

1969-70 OPC Hockey

 The 1969 release by O-PEE-CHEE contained 231 cards with the famous 'hockey stick' motif. Similar in design to its Topps couterpart, the set additionally featured the rookie card of Tony "O", of the Chicago Black Hawks. As with the Topps issue, some cards feature a stamp outline on the reverse for affixing the insert stamps.