2019 Adventures in Repacks: Part 19.1: Still Hanging Around

Here's a the first half of cards from an 80 card repack that I've been waiting too long to post.

2015 UD - Tomas Jurco - We're off and running.

2009 H&P - Austin Watson - I love the Petes unis, a shame Watson is a questionable person. And that's a very generous description.
1992 Parkhurst - Ed Olczyk
1991 Pinnacle French - Pelle Eklund
1993 Pinnacle - Petr Klima
1992 Score - Paul Stanton

1994 Pinnacle - Mikael Renberg - This was probably my favourite photo in this portion.
1991 UD - Rich Sutter
1990 Bowman - Larry Murphy
1990 Bowman - Peter Zezel
1990 Bowman - Don Beaupre

1992 Parkhurst - Bill Barber - WOO-HOO! A Rangers alumni, and on a drawn card as well.
2008 OPC - Tom Gilbert
1999 Dynagon - Sergei Samsonov

1997 Canadian Ice - Wade Redden - Sens content!

1996 UD - Daren Puppa - And a mask binder card as well!
1992 UD - Alexei Zhamnov

1995 Playoff One-on-One - Geoff Courtnall - Somewhat of an oddball - a card from a gaming set.
1991 UD - Neal Broten
1993 Parkhurst - Dino Ciccarelli
1992 Parkhurst - Alexei Kovalev
1990 UD - Randy Burridge
1992 UD - Mike Modano

2000 ITG BAP - Andrei Nikolishin - I always love when cards from sets you don't see much of show up in these.
1993 Donruss - Gaetan Duchesne

1997 Pinnacle Inside - Jaroslav Svejkovsky - Another such set.
1990 Score Canadian - Randy Cunneyworth
1990 Score Canadian - Steve Leach
1990 Score Canadian - Ilkka Sinisalo

2003 ITG Action - Miroslav Satan - Could it be SATAN!?!?

2003 Bowman - Jaromir Jagr - Jagr is always nice to find a card of.

2000 UD Prospects - Matthew Spiller - I will always take time to try and show off a nice look at a CHL uniform.

1994 Parkhurst - You Crash the Game - Brett Hull - While this was a contest related card, I would have no desire to strain my eyes to find out more.
1993 Donruss - Paul Ranheim

1997 UD - Craig Wolanin - A Kitchener Rangers alum, and an interesting photo.
1990 UD - Guy Carbonneau

1990 Pro Set - Doug Smail - The only Pro Set card from any of the overproduced sets in the repack. That's worthy of a scan!

2000 ITG Sig Series - Mike Modano - If I get two Modanos, I might as well show one of them.
2009 H&P - Philip Danault

2015 OPC - Dwight King - Fin.

A healthy start! The next 40 tomorrow!

Just 8 Cards

Only 8 cards, but these were the 8 I needed to put the last nails into the coffin of the base set of 2019 Heritage.

Bring on High Numbers!

Across the Spectra

Today, some cards from a case break that arrived just before my trip. Spectra means shiny, so how shiny were my acquisitions?

The base cards are neither super colourful nor shiny, but this is still a pretty nice looking addition to the Raptors collection.

This, however, is. The Raptors also had appearances in the base set of Jeremy Lin and Marc Gasol (listed with, but not pictured as Raptors), but this was the extent of my Raptors acquisitions. But at least they were inexpensive to grab.

I also picked up the Pistons under the same "Hey, they're not an expensive team. Maybe I'll go against the odds and get something nice." philosophy. How did that do?

Base card.

Blue parallel.

But I got some ink for this team, and my first Reggie Jackson autograph. Of either one. But at least this one never attempted to kill the Queen.

This definitely made it a worthwhile pick. While I didn't get a Raptors autograph, I did land one of a Raptors alum. He spent part of their first season with the team, after being picked in the expansion draft from Miami.

There you have it!

One Card Only: Is It Live?

Or is it Memorex?

Bills! Bills! Bills!

While I've already shown off some Score cards so far, here's a whole bunch from a purchase of the Bills in a team-select break.

The Bills were not especially prevalent in the insert portion of the set, but there were a couple. I'd already shown off a Josh Allen from when I did a box break. It wasn't just 1989 Score that got a salute in this year's release, but also 1998 in this draft-themed insert set.

Here's one of the Scoreboard parallels. Tyree Jackson won't have to look to far for a place to stay, as he's moving to the Bills as an undrafted free agent from the University of Buffalo.

It looks like I'll be busy super-collecting Ed Oliver this season, as he also had a base card, and henceforth lots of numbered parallels.

While the gold zone really aren't that spectacular for the rookies, they do look really nice here on the regular parallels. They combine nicely with one of the many great photographs of this set.

McCoy didn't get one of the top photos in this set, but the blue parallel does go nicely with the uniform.

The Bills had 4 rookie autographs among the draft portion of the set, and I managed to land all 4 of them in this break. WOO-HOO! Here's one of the players you've seen already.

The other undrafted player with a card in this on their way to One Bills Drive was David Sills V. Best of all with him is that any extras can easily be sent on to Walk the Plank.

Moving up to players picked by the Bills during the draft, here's Devin Singletary. He should be making plenty of appearances in sets this year, as he was also the Bills only invitee to the Rookie Premiere this past weekend. Bring on the player-worn swatches!

Finally, here's some more Ed Oliver! If I get an insert and parallel, I might as well add an autograph as well. That is variety I can approve of!

There you have it!

2019 Adventures in Repacks: Part 18: Cubism, yet again

Even if I'm away, I can still recap repacks.

While I didn't get 9 autographs like last time, there were some nice cards within.

Like before, I'm starting with the packs contained within. Here's the gold parallels from the Score packs. A Sen and a Rangers alum make this a pretty good group.

The 15-16 pack contained all regular base cards, so no Connor for me. But at least these face-off photos are kinda nice.

Fast forwarding a year, and I did get a YG card from that. He's a decent enough player, although he did get hit with the injury bug this year, and played in only 20 games.

The Victory pack did land an insert for me.

As with the previous set, the random grouping of 65 cards included a series in numerical order from this year's MVP factory set. This is mainly from the SP portion of the base set, even though there really can't be SPs in a factory set. So, here's a sampling of some of the better ones in terms of both stars and rookies.

As for the rest:

2007 Ultra - Ryan Smyth, Scott Niedermayer, Jay Bouwmeester, Ryan Getzlaf
2017 MVP - Morgan Reilly, Kevin Hayes, Jeff Carter, Reilly Smith

2005 Heroes & Prospects - Christobal Huet, Ilya Ejov, John Armstrong, Brad Winchester, Colton Yellow Horn. While I didn't bother to scan the MVP or Ultra, these did result in my first representation of the St. John's Fog Devils in my collection.

2016 UD - Troy Brouwer, Jordan Eberle, Kris Russell, Brad Richardson, Shawn Matthias, Brian Elliott, Jhonas Enroth, Riley Sheahan, Jason Dickinson Portraits, Markus Kruger, Milan Lucic. When in doubt, highlight an unexpected insert.

2010 Donruss - Steve Mason, Patrice Bergeron Boys of Winter, Deymond Langkow, Scott Gomez, Cal Clutterbuck. I guess I'm surprised in retrospect that I didn't highlight the Clutterbuck, but there was a short-term Rangers alum and a Bruin among the rest.

There you have it!

One Card Only: Seal of Approval

Because I can't have enough Golden Seals hits in the ol' collection.

2017-18 Cornerstones Box Break

I'd actually had these for a bit before posting the results. I will just blame it on the fact there was a redemption in the box and I wanted to wait for its fulfillment.

Here's your base card. At least they mixed some colour into the white.

And a base parallel, technically a quartz parallel.

Here's the final non-hit insert of the box. Startups might not be the most accurate description for Kennard, as according to his stats on wikipedia, he's only started 19 games over 2 years. Drafted right after him? Donovan Mitchell. Ouch.

The stony motif continues as you move into the hits, adding a classy touch to a bland plain white swatch.

Waltah! Much like with the Jerome Williams autograph I posted earlier this week, McCarty wasn't really a superstar during his time with the Celtics, but he was one of those 'fan favourite' types that I always love seeing make appearances in modern sets.

And the Celtics love continued with the redemption. I really feel like I've been a magnet for Semi autographs.

And while he's seen less action coming out of the 2017 draft than Kennard, he's acquired some pretty great nicknames so far in his career. The Man Made of Granite? Muscles Jesus? Those are better than mere statistics.

And there you have it! While I certainly didn't get my money back with these hits, there were still some nice enough things to make it at least a fun break.