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Welcome to The Real DFG's Pittsburgh Penguin Autograph Project. My goal is to eventually try and get at least one autograph of every player to lace up the skates in an NHL game for the Pittsburgh Penguins. It could have been for one game or 700 games, I will add them. Occasionally I may post cards of former players in their new team uniforms. While the goal is to get autos in Pens uni's, it isn't always possible. Since the team has been in existence since 1967, the list is pretty large. Last I checked, it was somewhere in the range of 624 different players. Currently, I sit at about 100 autographs (with some duplication). Enjoy the posts.

Sunday, January 1, 2023

Bobby Dollas

 

 

Bobby Dollas, the 6" 2" 220lb defenseman the Penguins was drafted 14th overall by the Winnipeg Jets in 1983. Having amassed 646 regular season games in the NHL over 16 seasons, there wasn't a lot of consistency to his time in the the big league until he landed in Anaheim in 1993. He spent the better part of five seasons with the Duck.

In the 1998-99 season, he became a Pittsburgh Penguin after a trade with the Edmonton Oilers.  The Pens dealt the rights to Josef Beranek and received Dollas and Tony Hrkac in return. It was there he got to play in the most regular season games of his career, 70, and also 13 playoff tilts. He amassed almost as many PIMs as he did games, with 60 that year. 

In 2001, he was again traded to the Penguins, this time from San Jose in exchange for Jeff Norton. They also got Johan Hedberg in the trade which was easily the cog piece of the deal. After having only played five games that season with Pittsburgh, he retired from the NHL and if I'm not mistaken, currently does radio work for the Montreal Canadiens. 

This is the base autograph card from the 1998-99 Be A Player set.




 

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