2020 Adventures in Repacks: Part 26.1 - Hockey Cubism

This is the final repack from my latest "Straight from the Source" binge. As usual for these 250-ish card cubes, I'm breaking this into about 4 piles of about the same height.

2013 UD - Lars Eller - First up, here's Lars standing on guard for thee. The white jersey indicates a road game,  but the jerseys in the audience indicate the Habs fans travel well.

2015 UD - Alex Goligoski

2005 Ice - Alex Frolov

2016 Parkhurst - Brandon Saad

1990 UD - Al Iafrate

1993 Leaf - Curtis Leschyshyn - Gotta scan the back of a 1993 Leaf card.

1993 Score - Scott Thomas

1994 Pinnacle - Martin Gelinas

2016 UD - Jacob Trouba

2007 Heroes & Prospects - Josh Godfrey - This was the only major release card of Godfrey's hockey career. Why'd I scan the back instead of the front? Good question!

1991 UD - Grant Fuhr - A great photo from UD's early releases.

1990 Score - Mark Messier

1990 Pro Set - Geoff Courtnall

1993 Donruss - Murray Craven

1995 Be A Player - Gino Odjick - A subset that features tough guys. This theme still makes appearances in sets, such as Super Colossal back in 16-17.

1990 Score - Larry Robinson - Rangers alum! And somehow, not a dupe!

1994 Pinnacle - Cliff Ronning

1992 UD - Garry Valk

1993 Premier - Bob Sweeney

2011 Rookie Anthology - Jason Spezza  The first Sens card in the cube.

1998 UD Gold - Chris Osgood

2009 Artifacts - Ryan Kesler

2005 Parkhurst - Slava Kozlov - Some mercifully forgotten jerseys.

2018 SPA - Nathan MacKinnon

1990 Bowman - Rejean Lemelin

2016 UD - Kyle Clifford

1991 Pro Set - Dave Capuano

1991 Parkhurst- Brian Lawton

1993 UD - Derek Plante

1993 Leaf - Tomas Sandstrom - More '93 Leaf.

1994 Pinnacle - Scott Niedermayer

1993 Parkhurst - Troy Loney

1994 Leaf - Uwe Krupp - While these were not as great as the previous year, I also like these backs.

1993 Leaf - Frank Musil - Speaking of...

1994 UD - Jassen Cullimore

2007 MVP - Brian Campbell

1990 UD - Mark Osborne

2000 Be A Player - Tyler Wright

1991 OPC - Mark Janssens

1995 Donruss - Ken Wregget

2016 UD - Henrik Lundqvist

2018 UD - Ondrej Palat

2015 UD - Matthew Dumba

1992 UD - Ralph Barahona - The obligatory player that I had no memories of aside from cards.

2009 UD - Tomas Kaberle - A nicely cropped photo with the puck slipping past the goaltender just visible at the bottom.

1990 Bowman - Dave Gagner

1993 UD - Roman Oksiuta

2017 MVP - John Gibson - Another Rangers alum.

2005 ICE - Paul Kariya

1991 UD - Mike Bullard

1990 UD - Danton Cole

1994 Pinnacle - Petr Klima

1990 Pro Set - Tim Hunter - While not as great as his 1991 UD card, this is still a memorable nose photo.

1990 UD - Steve Larmer

1992 Topps - Stephane Quintal

1995 Score - Dale Hunter - Yet another alum.

2018 Trilogy - Filip Forsberg - My first hit of the repack.

2009 UD - Bruno Gervais

2015 SPA - Tyler Seguin

1992 UD - CJ Young

1990 Pro Set - John Tanner

1990 UD - Joe Sakic

1991 Score - Kirk Muller

1990 Pro Set - Dave Lowry - It is a dupe, but I'll highlight a 2/14 guy's appearance.

2008 OPC - Kyle Brodziak

2008 Ice - Ryan Getzlaf

2016 UD Portraits - Chris Bigras - Ending on one of those perpetually boring Portraits inserts.

And there's a 1/4 cube.

Expo Recap: Post 8 - The Sens

Nothing is going to compare with the box I posted over the weekend, but here's a whole bunch of Sens acquisitions. With the exception of the new AHL cards, all came, once again, from the 5 for $1 bin.

With a name like this, goaltender seems like a position you're just destined to play. Kelly's time as a Senator was limited to back-up time on the roster, with no ice time. But he still got cards out of the deal.

A numbered card for 20 cents? Sure thing!

You want some miscellany before you get to the players I acquired multiple cards of. Here you are? Any appearance of Lalime's Marvin the Martian themed mask definitely deserves to be right in the middle.

2 is multiple, right? Retros were so nice in 2016-17 OPC.

Spezza miscellany!

Alfie miscellany!

I'd already shown off Jack Rodewald's card from this set in the 2/14 recap portion. Here's a few more. Leier has a background that one doesn't see much in pro-level cards - time spent in the Canadian university system. He spent 4 seasons out east for Acadia. Balcers came to the Sens as part of the Karlsson trade. He spent time with the big club this season, and should have cards at that level shortly. Gustavsson does have 'Goalie of the Future' potential and was the best goaltender at 2018 World Juniors. In other words, he'll disappoint me later rather than sooner.

And why not throw an autograph in as well? I have to get at least one Sens hit out of the show, right?

Up next, the baseball!

Expo Recap: Post 6 - 2002-03 SP Game Used Box - Packs 1 through 3

There's Ottawa Senators content on the box! How can this possibly be a bad box? Seriously, the Spezza appearance was the only reason I opted for this box, which was from his rookie year.

Here's your checklist. 1 through 50 are unnumbered base. 51-65 are All-Star flashback cards numbered /999, while the remainder are rookies /750. Only the autographs have odds listed, but that works out to 1 every other box.

Pack 1:

Despite offering 3 cards per pack, I only got this one in the first pack. Will that bode well?

So, since I've only got one base card to show off, I might as well show the back of the card as well. The DYK is a different way to show off your typical back of the card factoid.

Lose a base card, but gain a low numbered patch of a certain HOFer. That's an acceptable sacrifice. Only one colour, but when you touch it, that's definitely a patch.

Pack 2:

There's two base cards. Amazingly, both of players that are still active as I type this. Of the regular 50 cards that comprise the base, the only other one that played a game in the NHL last year was Ilya Kovalchuk. What are the odds of that? (Rhetorical question)

WOO-HOO! That's my first Gretzky hit! If the listing is correct, the first one is from a Rangers jersey, and the second one is from the 1999 All-Star game, should the logos on the back be believed. It is the great one, so I don't really care that they are both plain white swatches.

Pack 3:

One regular base card here.

But there was a numbered rookie to go with it. I had no memories of Jeff Paul in the NHL, and he looks to have only played 2 games in the league. Still 2 more than me.

What does it say about a run of packs that a Markus Naslund swatch is the blandest of the 3?

And that's it. The other 3 packs go tomorrow. All I will say is that when it is done, Iginla won't even reach the medal podium of the top 3 players I landed hits from.

One Card Only: One Great Patch

I'm not too verbose today, so here's a great swatch from a Spezza jersey out of 13-14 Prime that just speaks for itself.

The only beef I have is that this was placed upside down in relation to the actual logo, once you place it in relation to the full logo.

Which you can see on the back of the card, is from the lower corner of the helmet.

And there you have it!

2019 Adventures in Repacks - Part 13.4 - Straight from the Source

1992 Score - Jocelyn Lemieux - Starting off the final batch of cards with a repeat appearance of Chicago's 75th Anniversary jersey.
1990 Score - Dave Taylor
2005 Black Diamond - Marc Denis
1990 Topps - Mark Messier

2006 Going for the Gold - Luc Bourdon - There were a lot of GftG cards in this. Here's another one, featuring the late Luc Bourdon.
1991 OPC - Brad Jones
1992 Topps - Keith Primeau
1992 UD - Markus Ketterer

1995 Choice - Samuel Phalsson - A Players Club parallel of someone who had a decent career on this side of the Atlantic. Things got better for him when they started spelling his name right.
1991 UD - Paul Coffey
1990 Bowman - Al Secord
2015 UD - Connor Murphy

1991 UD - Marty McSorley - This photo sure captures the nature of his style of play.
1991 Stad. Club - Mark Hunter
1991 UD -  Shawn Antoski
1994 SP - Alexei Zhamnov
1995 Choice - Joé Juneau
1996 Choice - Alexei Zhamnov

2006 Going for the Gold - Joe Thornton - I would not be surprised if I end up pulling this entire set through repacks, although this was a dupe.
1991 UD - Sergei Makarov
2005 Ice - Tuomo Ruutu
1993 Donruss - Pat Peake
1995 Topps - Mike Vernon
1990 Pro Set - Kevin Stevens

2006 Going for the Gold - Jason Spezza - As close as I'd get to a Sens card in this.
2001 UD Mask Collection - Jeremy Roenick
2011 Score - Chris Vande Velde

2016 Artifacts - Lord Stanley's Legacy Relics - Cam Ward - The final hit, and the only relic.
2015 UD - Joe Vitale
1995 Parkhurst International - Landon Wilson

1991 UD - Ralph Barahona - This issue appears to be his only NHL card.
1991 UD - Doug Weight
2011 Victory - Ryan Clowe
1992 Score - Dave Snuggerud
2017 UD - Kris Letang
1990 Bowman - Michael Pivonka
2006 Victory - Mark Parrish

2016 UD Shining Stars - Johnny Gaudreau - Another insert.
1996 Choice - Doug Weight
1990 Pro Set - Vincent Riendeau
1993 Stad. Club - Evgeny Davydov
1991 UD - Glenn Healy

1998 UD - Al MacInnis - The Rangers alum actually photographed in a defensive position instead of in the motion of delivering a slapshot.
2006 Black Diamond - Justin Williams
1992 Score - Geoff Sanderson
1990 UD - Miloslav Horava

1992 UD - Tim Hunter - That nose!
1997 UD - Keith Primeau
1993 UD - Tom Fitzgerald

1993 Parkhurst - Russ Courtnall - Your best example of derp face in the repack!
1991 Score - Andy Moog
2017 UD - TJ Oshie
1991 UD - Tyler Wright
1992 UD - Niclas Andersson
1995 Ultra - Danton Cole
1993 UD - Derian Hatcher
1993 Donruss - Stephan Lebeau
1991 Platinum - Kelly Kisio
1992 Score - Jeff Hackett

2006 Going for the Gold - Kris Letang - The final GftG card, although a second dupe.

2001 Heritage - Gary Roberts - The chance to use the Heritage label on a hockey post! Awesome!
1990 Bowman - Greg Adams
1993 Pinnacle - Sylvain Cote

1993 Premier - Vladimir Malakhov - It isn't just the Maple Leaf or Stars & Stripes for patriotic cards.
1995 Ultra - Bobby Holik
1991 Pro Set - Mark Hunter

2014 UD - Alex Galchenyuk - Fin.