2017 Adventures in Repacks - Part 19 - Smail Packages

Another trip to the Dollarama, with the $1 hanger and $2 Surprise Bag. Starting with the hanger pack.

2010 UD - Alex Kovalev - I'm sure I've got this card already, but I don't mind having a dupe of this great photo.
1990 Bowman - Bernie Nichols
1993 Premier - Viacheslav Butsayev

1990 Score - Doug Smail - Time to start the theme of this repack-fest.
1993 Ultra - Dave Manson

1992 Parkhurst - Jim Hiller - I did not think of him as a Calder Candidate.

2001 Vintage - Him, however...
2004 Top Prospects Game - Cam Barker
1990 Topps - Mark Messier

1990 Score Bonus - Eric Lindros - I think these were exclusive to factory sets. Not expected repack fodder, even for junk wax era stuff.

2007 ITG Going for the Gold - Meghan Acosta - Another somewhat surprising repack card. And one comes in the surprise bag as well.
1990 Pro Set - Mike Peluso
1991 UD French - Glenn Anderson

1990 Topps - Doug Smail - #2

1991 7IS - Dan Ryder - The blue/grey uniforms might be favourite OHL ones.

2011 Heroes & Prospects - Brendan Gaunce - And it ends on another OHL card.

Perfectly fine $1.

The Surprise Bag had a 2010s pack, a 6-card misc pack, a 1000-pt pack, and a 2007-08 OPC pack.

Here's the misc. pack with the second appearance of the Canadian Women's team in this pair of repacks. A nice mix of NHL and non-NHL cards, highlighted my an appearance of the short-lived Montreal Juniors QMJHL franchise. They're now the Blainville-Broisbriand Armada.

Memorial cards are always interesting additions, but still depressing ones. Still, that's my favourite card of the day.

Damphousse is the 1000-pt guy in this pack, and the Smail packages reference completes with the third appearance of his, all from 1990 sets.

And nothing too memorable in the OPC pack, with just regular base cards. Just a little too much border with this design, but the 2011 release would make this look restrained.

And there you go.

One Card Only: Yes, This is a Bills Card

And I'm calling it a Bills card because it was cheaper than actual Bills autographs of his on COMC. He appeared in all but one game in his rookie season, and that's pretty good for the 6th rounder.

Insomnia/Migraine Pack Break Special

Not really an insomnia special pack break nor a migraine special pack break, as it was already scanned and ready to be posted later today. But, since I'm awake and sorta coherent, I'm posting it holy crap o'clock.

A retail pack of Score football that had been awaiting posting for about a month. Let nobody say I can't procrastinate with the best of 'em.

The first 19 cards a veteran base cards. Notable here were the throwback uniform, Kerry Hyder's first card (coming into his 4th season, the first two being practice squad time), Chris Hogan torching his former team, the dirt infield still visible in Oakland, and a Bills card.

Some parallels. At least I know one of my trade partners will like that Peppers.

Inserts. For a 40 card retail hanger, they may have overdone it a bit with these.

Just a smidge. 12 inserts, along with the 3 parallels, seems to be way too much for a set-building set's retail options. I got more basecards in the 40-card hobby pack.

But the rookie portion was pretty good, at least in terms of positioning. The bottom row has the 6th, 2nd and 3rd overall pick respectively. As for the rest, Qualls was a 6th rounder to Philly, while Godwin went to Tampa in the 3rd. Ross was undrafted, but went to the Panthers.

And that's some retail football.

10103

1175.

1564.

1766.

2453.

3146.

That makes 10103, the total minutes spent in NHL penalty boxes by these 5 people. These cards were courtesy of Jason (aka OrlandoBolts from zistle) and a recent trade envelope. There's a second part of the envelope, and that will be up shortly. Thanks for this grouping of on-ice troublemakers!

COMC Challenge Funnies

I amuse easily.

Anyhow, these are a couple cards that came up while doing COMC Challenges that, while I found amusing, I just couldn't add to my want list.

This card showing up means that either:

A) A card from a 2000 set with the detailed instructions still stuck on it in post-it form somehow slipped into the pack
B) Hardaway may have signed this instructional card in 2000, forgot about it, then submitted it himself

Either way, that was spectacularly odd.

The strange thing is if this card were encased, and there was a note on the label reading that there was writing on the back, I'd probably add this card to my collection just for the amusement factor. That said, they still call this card "Good to Very Good".

A post where I don't have to scan anything myself! Perfect!

Too Many Days to Finish a Trade Post

I'd worked cards from the latest TMM/V mailer into various trade posts. It is finally time to put that to rest, and post the last of the cards in it. And then, maybe I could get to the next large envelope sitting nearby.

There's always a question with cards like this as to whether they'll go into the masks binder or to my Kitchener Rangers alum binder. Probably the latter in this case, but this may change. The non-mask portion of the card has an etched look that doesn't show up well in the scan.

But this one is a mask binder certainty. I'm really not crazy about the jersey, as it doesn't seem to know what design it wants to go for, but at least the colours work nicely with the duck head mask.

My Canadians-in-the-NBA collection seems to consist primarily of Tyler Ennis hits and Steve Nash cards. But I'm alright with that. Here's a couple more for the latter.

And how about some Mets to end it? The Clarkin/Smith dual was already in my 2/14 collection, but the Smith portion will move it into my Mets collection nicely. The Piazza mini is a nice card, especially since I haven't done much Ginter the past few years, but how can I vote against a pinstriped-Wright? That's a nice way to end this trade envelope, and rest assured I've already started to reload for my next mailer.

And there you have it.

4 if by Sportlots

Another sportlots foursome, since 4 is the point in which shipping from the US goes beyond PWE status and henceforth really expensive.

If this card isn't proof that you don't need a closely-cropped photo to make a memorable card, then nothing will act as proof. The failed tackler makes this perfect.

The pride of Windsor, Ontario!

Yes. It is a hockey card for a sled hockey player. And yes, it is an incredibly great entry into the oddball portion of my collection.

Another thing I love on cards but don't see enough of - a photo where the player featured is not touching the ice in anyway. I should probably look to see if Lindros did score against Osgood in the 2001-02 season, but am not really that curious.

And there you have it!

One Card Only: But Two Autographs

It is so appropriate this is a Knicks card.

Friday Evening PWE

Just a little PWE from Kerry @ Cards on Cards this evening where I'm not feeling chatty. The faces of the Raptors franchise start it off with a trio of cards. I don't have too many cards of Complete, especially inserts, so that's the big highlight in that group.

On the bottom, some shiny baseball. Only the Cespedes is a numbered parallel/ It's a gold press proof, although it scans more of a bronze-ish olive.

6 cards. 3 teams. One envelope. No complaints here - thanks for the goodies, CoC!

2017 Adventures in Repacks - Part 18 - Surprise!

A mid-week surprise bag from the Dollarama? Why not? Here are the contents:

Your contents. The McDavid chase is on with a blaster pack!

So much for that chase. Even the usually-interesting Canvas card was a pretty dull photo.

If I have to highlight something from the Pro Set pack, it might as well be the back of this Malarchuk card for highlighting the throat slashing as well as his lack of playoff performance.

The Hall of Fame pack was a big winner here. It is always nice when the promised HOF card isn't the usual 1990 Bowman or Pro Set base card. This beauty is from 2004 ITG - The Franchises and gives a real nice 1976 vibe on a more recent card. You also have Dustin Tokarski rocking his 'Tick' themed mask. Two mask binder cards in one little pack. Really nice.

But, I can't escape Bowman in the Franchise pack. But the other cards (mask binder/Espo/Heritage Classic uni) offset that.

$2 worth of enjoyment here? Certainly!