New Sens-ations

A whole bunch of new Sens cards for the collection, some from a group break, some from COMC that weren't too expensive because of e-pack.

Two posts within a week starting with an Ice Reps mascot appearance. Yes, the greatness of Sparty makes up the derpy facial expression on Brady.

The best moment from yet another lost season last year might have been Stutzle's mid-air, last-second goal during the Global Series games in Sweden. Take your glory where and when you can. 

I'll always be partial to including a city scene as part of the design. It's even better when they use different photos for different players. The only beef I have here is that it's the same area of the city - where the Ottawa River and Rideau Canal meet. Jake has the view approaching the locks, Tim's got the locks themselves.

Here's a whole bunch more e-pack cards - except one. That was one of a handful of true base cards I needed of his. Using tcdb as a guide, I have 374/409. 

Switching over to group break goodies, here's the team's regular base set out of a half-case Extended. That Hamonic is already one of my favourite Sens base cards. Also important was to get a second Kubalik for my Kitchener Rangers alum collection.

While it wouldn't have been guaranteed at 36 SPd cards in the half-case, I did also get all 4 of their cards from the SP'd Young Guns/Draft portion of the set. Jarventie is making his first Ottawa appearance in my collection, but he's had AHL Belleville cards before (including in this very post). Angus Crookshank is an awesome name for hockey, but it might even sound better if he were a curler. 

Off to the inserts! Canvas continues through Extended, providing, in general, more interesting photo choices than the regular ones. I said more interesting, not more flattering. A self-snowing by Stutzle definitely is the former.

The best thing about these Holoview Retros is that there are 3 photos on the front - and none of them are re-used. The full-colour photo is re-used on the back, so nothing is perfect.

Even more inserts! The color match on the Seeing Red is nice, but that would likely look hideous if there isn't a perfect color combo.

Here's some rarer inserts. You can't really tell because the design scans horribly, but that Grieg is a triple diamond, coming in at 1:50 packs. The Special Forces are 1:60, and are acetate, even if the colouring/photo reduce the transparency.

I'm not sure what the ratio of these are, but I do know there should only be 999 more of these out there.

A trio of nice Stutzles, including a couple tougher pulls makes for a successful break!

There you have it!