Farm hands

By Mike
Hockey Hounds Universe Toronto correspondent

The Toronto Marlies, the Maple Leafs AHL club, held an open practice recently at Burnhamthorpe Arena in Mississauga. Afterwards, the team had a free signing session. That's where I added these:

Signing the cards shown above are Joe Colborne (top) and Fabian Brunnstrom.

Signing these pucks were Colborne, left, and Jake Gardiner.

Rounding 'em up

By Puckhound
Hockey Hounds Universe editor

Unless this is your first rodeo, cowboy, it's fairly common knowledge among established hockey hounds across North America, maybe even Sweden, that New Jersey goalie Johan Hedberg is a more-than-willing signer.

If you didn't know this, though, consider yourself duly informed.

These three pucks, obtained during the Devils' recent visit to Hockey Bay, are proof that Hedberg will sign more than one item.

The Stars have aligned

By Moody
Hockey Hounds Universe senior correspondent

Prior to the undefeated Dallas Stars suffering their first loss of the season, I ventured out for my first hounding adventure of the season. In what has become typical West Coast form, the Stars were a pretty good signing team.

Signing cards were:

Top row: Charlie Huddy, Trevor Daley, Stu Barnes, Karlis Skrastins, Brandon Segal; and
Middle row: Kari Lehtonen, Staphane Robidas, Matt Niskanen, Steve Ott, Mike Ribeiro; and
Bottom row: Jamie Benn, Loui Eriksson, Mark Fistric, Brian Sutherby, Brandon Morrow.

Once again, taking advantage of the freebies provided by fan packs, I was also able to add a Trevor Daley and Stu Barnes postcard.

Loui Eriksson was also kind enough to sign a Team Sweden photo.

Recent Stanley Cup winner Adam Burish signed a Cup celebration photo.

Playing for pride

By Puckhound
Hockey Hounds Universe editor

Some folks might believe Dallas captain Brenden Morrow placed more emphasis on helping Canada win the 2010 Winter Olympics gold medal than his play for the Stars last season. Only Morrow can answer that question for himself. To me, representing one's country would certainly be a motivating factor.

To his credit, Morrow certainly had no issues signing this puck earlier this week when Dallas visited Hockey Bay to take on the Lightning.

Target-rich environment

When Upper Deck gathered likely members of the 2010-11 NHL Rookie Class at the MasterCard Centre for Hockey Excellence in Toronto earlier this month, it made perfect sense for Al and Mike, two of Hockey Hounds Universe's Toronto-based correspondents, to attend and get in a little preseason hounding.

Really, is there any reason, other than living in Florida, that any hockey hound wouldn't attend an event like this? When you have top prospects like Edmonton's Taylor Hall, shown above, taken first overall in June's NHL draft, in your vicinity, it could be viewed as a crime not to make a play.

Also attending the event were Boston's Tyler Seguin, taken No. 2 overall in June; Edmonton's Jordan Eberle; and Los Angeles' Brayden Schenn.

Al, our senior Toronto correspondent, got Hall to sign this Oilers puck and an 8x10.

Mike, our other Toronto-based hound and resident Ontario Hockey League expert, added these pucks to his collection.

Top row: Edmonton's Magnus Svensson-Paajarvi, Columbus' Ryan Johansen and Carolina's Jeff Skinner; and
Bottom row: Vancouver's Jordan Schroeder, Dallas' Scott Glennie and Seguin.