Your 20-21 Raptors and More!

The extent of my basketball for the foreseeable future will likely not be wax busting, but simply grabbing up the Raptors in group breaks, and just adding to my team collection. Which means I can finally welcome their 2020 first round pick into my binders.

He's also among the base cards in Hoops, with Ibaka and Gasol winding down their appearances in Raptors unis on base cards.

Prime Twine? *groan*

High Voltage returns for a second straight season. These are suitably foil-y and bright.

And there's no better way to start off a new player in the Raptors collection than with an autograph from his first available Raptors autos. And considering that it is legible, I'll overlook the abbreviated first name and the size, since that legibility is enough to put him well into the upper tier of Raptor signature quality.

The Raptors spot in a half-case of Certified didn't go quite as well, but I did get another team set of base cards.

But there were a few unnumbered parallels to go alongside the team set. My final Marc Gasol card?

And another nice Malachi Flynn card. It may not have an autograph or swatch attached to it, but it does go perfectly with the jersey colours.

Just for S&G, I picked up the Denver spot as well in the break, hoping to add some Jamal Murrays to his PC.

Here's the 89th and 90th card of the local product.

The Gold Team insert was new to the post, as was one of these 2020 graffiti style inserts. Interestingly, Nnaji sports both #22 with Denver, sported #22 with the Arizona Wildcats, and was drafted 22nd overall. This photo appears to be a photoshop special from his Prizm draft card.

If I get another one of that same photo, you might as well throw in one with a swatch and an autograph attached to it. At least now I've got a second reason to pay attention to Denver box scores.

There you have it!

2021 Adventures in Repacks Part 7.5 - Cubism

1999 BAP Signatures - Nelson Emerson - First up in the final portion - a hit! Emerson bounced around a lot during his career with 8 different stops, including a part-season in Ottawa.

2019 UD - David Perron

1994 Donruss - Joe Murphy

2001 Prizm McDonald's - Jarome Iginla - Shiny!

2004 ITG Franchises - Bernie Geoffrion - A Franchises card and a 2/14 card! Even though this lists his birthdate as 2/16, I'm still counting it.

2000 OPC - Mike Richter

2005 ITG H&P - Thomas Pock

2019 UD - Jujhar Khaira

2008 Victory Game Breakers - Olli Jokinen

2016 UD - Justin Williams

2005 SPA - Dominik Hasek - Sens content!

2009 UD - Scott Nichol

2000 Topps - Scott Gomez - The Rookie Cup wasn't limited to just baseball appearances.

2001 BTP - Robert Esche

2008 OPC - Jiri Novotny

1992 Ultra - Claude Lapointe

1990 UD - Kent Manderville

2018 UD Rookie Materials - Evan Bouchard - Hit #2 of this portion.

1992 Score - Grant Ledyard

1990 Topps - Brian Propp

1991 Score - Claude Lemieux

1992 Ultra - Bill Lindsay

1994 Pinnacle - Greg Adams

1992 UD - Calle Johansson - The final 2/14 content of the repack, and despite being a junk wax era card, it was a need.

1991 Pro Set - Pat Verbeek

1993 Parkhurst - Mike Richter

1999 SPA - Andrew Brunette

2012 ITG H&P - Jayden Hart

1991 Score - Clint Malarchuk

2009 McDonald's - Mikka Kiprusoff

2009 McDonald's - Rick Nash

2009 McDonald's - Dion Phaneuf - Triple food issue!

2002 Topps - Kamil Piros - The obligatory player I had no memories at all of.

2005 Diary of a Phenom - Sidney Crosby - I can't complain about a random Crosby appearance.

2007 McDonald's - Iginla/Kiprusoff/Phaneuf

2004 ITG Franchises - Curt Bennett - The final Franchises card from the repack.

1995 Bowman - Petr Sykora

2013 Crown Royale - Matt Anderson - Your final numbered card.

1995 Bowman - Mathieu Schneider - Your final shininess.

1991 Pro Set - Darrin Shannon

1991 UD - Enrico Ciccone

1990 Bowman - Paul Gillis

2018 UD - Samuel Girard

2019 MVP Blue - Teddy Blueger

2019 UD - John Tavares

2016 UD - Joe Colborne

2017 UD - Troy Brouwer - And the final card.

On the whole, not as many cards from my favourite repack sets (Franchises/TYIH) as last time, but a couple surprising 2/14 additions and some solid hits still make it a worthwhile bust. 

There you have it!

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1994 Score - Richard Park - Starting off with a very 90s (read: garish) card. 

2006 MVP - Sami Salo

1997 Pinnacle Autographs - Craig Rivet - And here's the first hit in this portion.

2008 OPC - Petr Sykora

2001 Parkhurst - Matthew Barnaby

2002 Topps - Jason Smith

2002 Total - Olli Jokinen

2000 UD - Manny Fernandez

2007 UD - Mike Cammalleri

1993 Score - Ric Nattress

1995 OPC - Brian Bradley

1992 Parkhurst - Donald Audette

1994 Premier Special Effects - Dixon Ward - Back-to-back parallels!

2018 UD - Michael Ferland

2019 UD - Jonathan Drouin

2017 UD - Matt Beleskey

1992 Topps Gold - Brett Hedican - And another parallel.

2017 Parkhurst - Vladislav Kamenev

2016 UD - Brad Marchand

2016 UD - Zach Parise

2019 UD - Jordan Eberle

2015 UD - Marek Zidlicky

2013 Contenders - Ondrej Pavelec

1994 Ultra - Gary Suter

1992 Topps - Brent Sutter - Throwback/anniversary jersey!

2015 Showcase - Patric Hornqvist

2006 McDonald's - Ed Jovanoski

1991 Score - Herb Raglan

2002 Stad. Club - Evgeni Nabokov - Stadium Club also brought great photography to their hockey issues.

2003 UD - Curtis Brown

2016 UD - Nick Foligno

2012 ITG Between the Pipes - Junior Gems - Maxime Lagace/Alex Dubeau - Another hit! This one perfect for the mask binder collection.

2005 SPA - Brendan Shanahan

2009 UD - Eric Staal

2008 MVP - Brian Gionta

2008 SPGU - Jason Arnott

1990 OPC - Dave Taylor

1990 UD - Mike Craig

1994 Ultra - Don Sweeney

1992 Topps - Bobby Holik

1998 Coll. Choice Preview - Calle Johansson - 2/14 content, and better yet, 2/14 content I didn't have!

1992 Score - Adam Oates

1991 Pro Set - John Cullen

1993 Parkhurst - Craig Billington - Sens content.

1998 MVP - Doug Gilmour

1995 Pinnacle - Ed Belfour

1994 Pinnacle - Esa Tikkanen

1989 OPC - Brian Hayward

1990 Pro Set - Daniel Shank

1998 Topps - Tony Granato

1990 Score - Mike Ridley

1994 Leaf - Stephane Richer

2003 Complete - Matthew Spiller

2004 ITG Franchises - Eric Vial- Another Franchises card.

2005 ITG H&P - Andy Hilbert - This portion wraps up with a  card destined for Ann Arbor at some point.

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2015 UD - Brandon Pirri - A rather blah start to this grouping, which, on the whole, was probably the dullest of the groups.

2011 UD - Brandon Dubinsky

2015 UD - Chris Kreider

2010 UD - Alexander Frolov

2018 Parkhurst - Sami Niku

1991 Score - Kelly Kisio

2006 SPA - Kari Lehtonen

2002 Total - Jozef Stumpel

2003 UD - Jim Fahey

1990 Bowman - Russ Courtnall

2019 MVP Blue - Kris Letang - A factory set card. Yay? 

2019 UD - Andrei Svechnikov

2019 UD - Corey Perry

2016 UD - Zack Kassian

1998 OPC Chrome - Derrick Walser

1990 Score - Jeff Hackett

1994 Leaf - Jeff Shantz

1995 Coll. Choice - Ron Francis

1992 UD - Ed Courtenay

1990 Pro Set - Scott Thornton

2015 OPC - Colton Sceviour

2015 UD - Jeff Skinner - Rangers alum!

1994 Premier Special Effects - Jamie Macoun - And a parallel.

1990 UD - Mick Vukota

1989 OPC - Gary Suter

2003 OPC - Scott Niedermayer

2002 Victory - Chris Drury

2004 ITG Franchises - Johnny Bucyk - As usual, gotta scan a Franchises card.

2001 ITG BAP - Jeff Ulmer

2006 UD - Kevin Weekes

2004 ITG Franchises - John Vanbiesbrouck - The Franchises exception. As always, fuck this guy. 

1991 Score - David Maley

2013 Titanium Retail - Anze Kopitar

2014 UD - Jack Johnson - Even if it is only pregame jersey, still an alternate worth scanning.

2011 UD - Mikhael Grabovski

2015 UD Canvas - Phil Kessel

1990 Score - Brad Shaw

1992 Premier - Brian Leetch

1990 Pro Set - Kevin Hatcher

2016 UD - Robin Lehner

1989 OPC - Ron Hextall

1993 Score - Paul Stanton

2014 UD - Brian Gionta - Uniforms of the damned!

2003 Complete - Lasse Kukkonen - Complete was Pacific's version of Total, although distributed in multiple products instead of standalone.

1990 Bowman - Tony McKegney

2019 UD - Petr Mrazek - A 2/14 dupe.

2016 UD - Boone Jenner

2018 SP - Clayton Keller

2018 UD - Erik Gudbranson - What's with the goggles?

2019 UD - Vladimir Tarasenko

2014 UD - Erik Cole

2012 UD - Dustin Byfuglien

2013 Titanium - Daniel Alfredsson - A theme for this repack is a surprising number of PC cards I thought I had, but didn't. This is another one.

2014 UD - Andrew Shaw - I'm more interested in the airborne Flyer in this photo, but it is an interesting photographic ending to this fifth.

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2003 Portraits - Rick Dipietro - A mask binder card starts this one.

1998 OPC Chrome - Jeff Heerema

2001 McDonalds Prizm - Brett Hull

2004 ITG Franchises - John Davidson - Another Franchises card. 

2000 OPC - Jiri Fischer

2005 ITG H&P - Geoff Platt - Minor league jersey fun.

1994 Pinnacle - Charlie Huddy

1992 UD - Paul Stanton

1993 Score - Greg Hawgood - I'd love to know what Hawgood saw that shocked him so much.

2016 UD - Brent Seabrook

1991 Score - Keith Primeau

2015 UD Portraits - Anton Slepyshev - Back in 2015, Slepyshev was the Oilers rookie you didn't want to see when busting a product.

1990 Topps - Mathieu Schneider

1995 Ultra - Brian Savage

1990 OPC - North Stars team

1989 Topps - Stephane Richer

1992 UD - Joe Sacco

1995 UD - Glen Murray

1990 Topps - Steve Bozek

2016 UD - Jamie Benn

2008 OPC - Derek Roy - Much like the Macinnis yesterday, a Rangers alum card I thought I had, but didn't.

2003 Bee Hive - John Madden

2008 OPC Retro - Marc-Edouard Vlasic - Parallel!

2000 Ice - Chris Pronger - Acetate!

2009 1972 TYIH - Tony Esposito/Vladimir Petrov - While the last of these had plenty of '72 TYIH cards in it, this was the only one here.

2019 UD - Patrick Laine

2004 ITG Franchises - Bill Cowley - And another one.

2009 McDonald's - Jonathan Toews

2009 McDonald's - Jeff Carter - Back to back cards from the same food set.

2002 Total - J-S Giguere

2007 McDonald's - Sundin / Tucker / McCabe

1990 Bowman - Bob Errey

2004 ITG Franchises - Andy Bathgate - Keep 'em coming.

1994 UD - Mattias Norstrom

1990 Pro Set - Troy Gamble

1992 UD - Mark Freer - Sens card! WOO-HOO!

1995 UD - Mike Donnelly

1994 Leaf - Scott Mellanby

2018 Parkhurst - Nick Bjugstad

2011 Parkhurst - Al Iafrate

 

2013 UD MVP - Roberto Luongo - Perfect how the mask matches the retro jersey as best a mask can.

2013 Artifacts Treasured Swatches - Zach Parise - The first hit of the repack. I didn't know the Wild had black on their jerseys. 

2002 OPC - Jose Theodore

2019 SPA - John Gibson - Mask binder card to start and one to end. But this one is a Rangers alum, so this is the winner of that two-card war.

Lots more still to come!