2019 Adventures in Repacks: Part 23.1 - A Normal Start

This is a perfectly fine 40 card half of an 80 card repack.

2015 Champ's - Justin Abdelkader - Champ's is always a wonderful way to start a post!

2010 Score - Andrew Cogliano - And it follows nicely with a card bound for Ann Arbor in a future mailer.
2011 Pinnacle - Tom Wandell
1990 UD - Joe Sakic
1990 UD - Garth Butcher
1990 UD - David Shaw
1990 UD - Kevin Hatcher

1994 Premier - Pavel Bure - A nice Bure is a great way to end a run of cards from the same set.

1998 UD - Wendel Clark - Great photo from a set that had a lot of pretty generic ones.
1991 UD - Mike Ridley

1990 Score - Cam Neely - Gimmicky, sure. But I still gotta scan a Neely.
1989 OPC - Thomas Steen
1993 Classic - Ryan Hughes

1991 UD McDonald's - Luc Robitaile - Food issue!
1990 Score - Derian Hatcher
1991 Topps - Hartford Whalers

2007 BTP - Justin Peters - Looks like Justin might have been obsessed with the missiles in Super Mario.
2007 ITG - Brad Marchand
2000 ITG BTP - John Vanbiesbrouck

2000 ITG H&P - Alexander Karpovtsev - Interesting that the name is spelled differently on the front and the back of the same card.
1990 Bowman - Dave Barr
1990 Bowman - Thomas Steen
1990 Bowman - Larry Murphy
1993 Pinnacle - Alexei Zhitnik
1994 Donruss - Claude Lapointe

1998 UD - Chris Terreri - Again, another really great photo. The cynic in me thinks it is because he moved to NJ from the Hawks.
1990 UD - Paul Gillis
1995 Choice - Ray Bourque
1995 Topps - Donald Audette

1993 Leaf - Jeff Daniels - Gotta show off the back of a '93 Leaf!

1992 UD - Teemu Selanne - If someone debuted with a rookie season like Teemu had a YG card today, this wouldn't be in a repack. It was just a base card back then.
1993 Donruss - Panthers Opening Night
1993 Ultra - Mike Rathje
1991 UD - Pat Elynuik
1991 Score - Joe Murphy
1993 Stad. Club - Robb Stauber
2016 UD - David Perron
2017 UD - Trevor Van Riemsdyk

2014 SPA - Tom Barrasso - One half down. One to go. And it maybe has the worst card I've ever found in a repack. Or at least a contender for worst person.

2019 Adventures in Repacks - Part 13.3 - Straight from the Source

1998 Pacific - Zdeno Chara - All three groups have started with an Isles card. This might be my favourite of the group, being a somewhat uncommon appearance of Chara with the team.
2011 UD - Jarome Iginla
2015 UD - Jeff Carter
2012 Black Diamond - Lars Eller
1990 Pro Set - Doug Smail
2017 UD - Darcy Kuemper
1991 OPC - Greg Adams
2002 Topps - Pavel Brendl

2017 Artifacts - Rasmus Anderson /799 - The final numbered card in the pack. Rasmus just finished his first full season in Calgary.
1990 Score - Peter Stastny
2015 UD - Marko Dano
2017 UD - Jason Demers
1991 UD - Tim Cheveldae
1992 UD - Peter Andersson

1992 UD - Paul Ranheim - Just a magnificent photo. Shadows aren't just great on baseball cards.
2014 UD - Niklas Kronwall
1990 UD - Doug Crossman

1996 Choice - Geoff Sanderson
1996 Choice - Brendan Shanahan - Back-to-back Whalers from the same set!
1997 Choice - Phil Housley
1991 Parkhurst - Bryan Trottier

1996 Be A Player - Lyle Odelein - The second auto in the repack. An interesting one as well, as he had a nice journeyman-like career.
1990 Pro Set - Lester Patrick Trophy
2001 Be A Player - John Erskine
1991 Pro Set - Ken Hammond
1990 Score - Curtis Joseph
2015 UD - Andrei Markov
1990 UD - Patrik Sundstrom
1994 SP - Chris Pronger

2005 Artifacts - Milan Hejduk - A 2/14 guy! And it isn't a dupe!
1991 Score - Phil Bourque

1999 UD Gretzky - Scott Stevens - Rangers alum. And from a set I don't see much of.
1992 UD - Keith Tkachuk
1990 OPC - Alexander Lysenko
1990 UD - Paul Cavallini
1992 Ultra - Bob Bassen
1993 Parkhurst - Mark Fitzpatrick
2018 MVP - Chris Kreider
1992 Parkhurst - Kelly Kisio
1996 Be A Player - Jamie McLennan

2008 Champ's - Nicklas Backstrom - Gotta show off some Champ's!
1992 UD - Thomas Steen
1991 Pro Set - Alan Kerr
1992 Topps - Eric Desjardins

1991 UD - Al MacInnis - And one of the defensive partners of the previous Rangers alum.
1991 Score - Paul Cavallini
2005 UD - Stu Barnes

2006 Going for the Gold - Leland Irving - Since the mask binder can't have enough Team Canada cards.
2010 SPX - Evgeni Malkin
1992 UD - Jeff Hackett
1994 Donruss - Keith Primeau
1992 Pro Set - Derian Hatcher
1991 Stad. Club - Doug Gilmour
1990 Bowman - Paul Cavallini

1991 UD French - Petr Svoboda - 2nd 2/14 card of this post, 3rd for the repack, and this parallel is also a need.
1998 UD Gold Reserve - Phil Housley

1997 Pinnacle - Daymond Langkow - Face-off photos are quickly becoming one
of my favourite things for hockey cards.
1992 UD - Mike Richter
1991 Pro Set - Frank Musil
2013 Score - Retail Rising Stars Rookies - Nail Yakupov
2008 Between the Pipes - Trevor Cann
1991 Parkhurst - Jeff Brown

2006 Going for the Gold - Marc-Andre Fleury - Two patriotic mask binder cards in this.
1991 Score - Joe Cirella
1991 Topps - Ray Sheppard

2015 UD - Marko Dano - Not too many dupes in the cube, but this was one.
1991 UD - Russ Courtnall
1994 Leaf - Sean Burke
1992 Pro Set - Pat Falloon
1991 Stad. Club - Jeff Norton

1991 UD - Adam Oates - Ending with Hull'n'Oates. A perfect example of where the photo on the back is so much better than the front one.

The Champ's Is Here! - Box 10

Ending not with a bang but a whimper, but that's mainly because I'm migrained right now and doped up on codeine. But, I wanted 10 boxes in 10 days, so here goes nothing.

#10-8:

Another three relics - but all three were dupes. At least I've got a trade partner in mind for the Larkin.

#7:

The fish card needed to finish that portion of that set.

#6-2:

And the last 5 cards needed for the base set.

#1:

And the final auto of the box. Cody was claimed by Vegas in the expansion draft, and played the full season there.

There's a case worth of Champ's. With the complete set, I can't really see myself busting another box, but this was really fun to tear into.

The Champ's Is Here! - Box 9

Another box.

#10:

Opening this box, I needed two fish to complete that subset, and knocked one of the two off with this one.

#9:

Drool...

#8:

Anothe box with 3 relics as opposed to two relics, and this one was the only dupe.

#7:

A 2/14 parallel card for that collection. This card wasn't centered as badly as it seems with this scan, I just hosed up the cropping of the image.

#6:

Relic #2. The top of the bottom half is about as high as I'll go for a plain white swatch.

#5:

Another one-colour swatch to start off the second half, but this one is in the team colours.

#4:

A decent enough autograph. Janmark's wrapping up his second season in the league, after missing all of 16-17 with an injury.

#3:

A 2-14 high-numbered short-print! It was really nice to knock this one off the wantlist. 

#2:

But nice as that is, another high number card dropping off the list is even nicer, especially when it features the classic Nordiques blue.

#1:

This is from the 'rare stars' portion of the set. These fall at a rate of 1:1200 packs, or 1:6 cases. I'd pulled one of these before, and it was also the Gretzky rare stars card. I'd put the first one up on COMC and got just under $115.00 for it, so I'll very likely be doing the same this time to recover some of the cost of the case.

One box left to go!

The Champ's Is Here! - Box 8

Yesterday, I called this the most consistent of the 10 boxes. Today, you see why.

As a hint, these were cards that didn't make the top 10.

#10:

All 3 of the fish cards in this box were needs for that subset, so I just grabbed the first one that was on the pile for inclusion in this post.

#9:

Another indication of the strength of this box is that one of hits only reaches #9.

#8:

This parallel card should be higher, but it was one that gets knocked down lower by the fact I really never planned on keeping this. This one of maybe 3 or 4 cards that were immediately in my "off to COMC" pile, with several others making appearances as dupes.

#7:

Another relic that should be higher, especially with it being the alternate jersey.

#6:

Not really surprising that the Northern Lights card would be the most colourful of the entries into the Northern Wonders series.

#5:

This was one of two cards in the set that I was glad I didn't need to purchase.

#4:

While the Larkin was the more expensive option for the base set card I didn't want to buy, this one does have have the classic Winnipeg Jets logo to elevate it.

#3:

The autograph in the box. Mike's been back-and-forth over the past few years between the AHL and the parent club.

#2:

My final silver /25 parallel in the case was this Steve Mason. A Kitchener Rangers alum!

#1:

The best way to wrap up a 2015-16 box break is with a Connor McDavid card, and this is my first hit of his. Even his one-colour rookie swatches go for a a decent amount, but I think I'll be hanging on to this one. Interestingly, I didn't get the McDavid #315 base card in this box, which I was a magnet for when only busting one or two boxes at a time. So, this was his only appearance for me in this break.

And there you have it.