1981-82 O-Pee-Chee Glenn Anderson #108

the card

notes

Edmonton took Glenn Anderson 69th overall in 1979. The following year they used the 69th pick again and took Jari Kurri. Both men are in the Hall of Fame.

That is the same draft position, in consecutive years, by the same club, producing two Hall of Famers. The Oilers' 1979 class also took Kevin Lowe at 21 and Mark Messier at 48; the 1980 class added Paul Coffey at six and Andy Moog at 132. Between those two drafts Edmonton assembled most of a dynasty out of picks nobody else wanted.

Anderson did not join them straight away. He chose to play for Canada at the 1980 Winter Olympics instead, then signed for 1980-81 and scored 30 goals in 58 games as a rookie.

That is why this is his first card. He, Coffey, Kurri and Moog all debuted in the same season, so all four have their rookie card in the 1981-82 O-Pee-Chee set - card 108 for Anderson, 107 for Kurri and 111 for Coffey, three of them within four numbers of each other.

He finished with 498 goals, six Stanley Cups, and 214 playoff points - fourth all time behind Gretzky, Messier and Kurri. He still holds Edmonton's franchise record for regular-season game-winning goals with 72.

What PSA has recorded

PSA has graded 634 copies of this card and eleven are PSA 10, a gem rate of 1.74 per cent.

That is a small population by the standards of this set. The Coffey at 111 has been submitted 2,709 times and the Kurri at 107 1,385 times, against 634 here - so Anderson's card is graded a fifth as often as his own teammate's from four cards away.

The distribution is the usual one. PSA 8 holds 222 copies and PSA 7 holds 122, with 101 at 9 and eleven at 10.

Beckett reports a gem rate of 21.1 per cent and has never awarded this card a ten

That is the highest published gem rate this site has come across, and it is the clearest demonstration yet of why the figure should not be read as a count of tens.

Beckett has recorded 142 copies. Not one is a Black Label 10 and not one is a Pristine 10. All thirty of the cards behind that 21.1 per cent are 9.5s.

So Beckett's actual ten count on this card is zero. Against PSA's 1.74 per cent the published comparison suggests Beckett is twelve times more generous; the true comparison is that Beckett has never put its top grade on this card at all.

SGC has 51 copies and no ten, its best being a single 9.5. CGC has 24 and its best is an 8.

Every ten of this card that exists anywhere is in a PSA holder, and there are eleven of them.

No sales

We have no recorded sales for this card. Heritage and Goldin were both searched on 28 September 2026 and neither has sold an individual unsigned copy - only unopened wax, a multi-card lot, a later Anderson card and an autograph collection, none of which belongs on this page.

That is worth saying plainly rather than leaving blank. A card with 851 graded copies across four companies and no public auction record is not a card without value; it is a card that trades privately and on eBay rather than in the rooms this site can cite.

population

PSA

graded elsewhere

recorded 28 sep 2026. figures are a snapshot on that date, not a live count.

where to buy one

PSA 8 is where this card lives, with 222 copies. PSA 9 at 101 is the sensible stretch.

PSA 10 has eleven copies and no public sale on record, so anyone quoting a figure is working from private sales or asking prices rather than results.

Do not pay a premium for a Beckett 9.5 on the strength of a gem rate. Beckett's published 21.1 per cent on this card is thirty cards at 9.5 and zero tens. Its top grade has never been awarded here.

If you want a ten of this card it has to be PSA. SGC and CGC have 75 copies between them and neither has gone above 9.5.

This is the cheapest of the three Oilers rookie cards in the set and the least submitted. Kurri at 107 and Coffey at 111 both cost more and both are graded far more often.

Expect rough cutting. O-Pee-Chee's edges in this period would be called damage on an American card and are usually how the Canadian card left the factory.

what to check before you buy

Check centring on both sides, and look along all four edges for O-Pee-Chee's rough cut. It is original to the printing rather than handling, but it still caps the grade.

Confirm the back is bilingual. O-Pee-Chee prints English and French.

Check the card number and the year together. Topps ran a regional East and West split for 1981-82 covering cards 67 to 132, so a Topps card in this range exists in two versions, and Anderson has later O-Pee-Chee cards that are not this one.

Read the label for a qualifier before you read the grade.

If the label says Beckett, read the number rather than the word gem. On this card every Beckett gem is a 9.5.

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