Saturday 27 February 2021

Your 20-21 Raptors and More!

The extent of my basketball for the foreseeable future will likely not be wax busting, but simply grabbing up the Raptors in group breaks, and just adding to my team collection. Which means I can finally welcome their 2020 first round pick into my binders.
He's also among the base cards in Hoops, with Ibaka and Gasol winding down their appearances in Raptors unis on base cards.
Prime Twine? *groan*
High Voltage returns for a second straight season. These are suitably foil-y and bright.

And there's no better way to start off a new player in the Raptors collection than with an autograph from his first available Raptors autos. And considering that it is legible, I'll overlook the abbreviated first name and the size, since that legibility is enough to put him well into the upper tier of Raptor signature quality.
The Raptors spot in a half-case of Certified didn't go quite as well, but I did get another team set of base cards.

But there were a few unnumbered parallels to go alongside the team set. My final Marc Gasol card?
And another nice Malachi Flynn card. It may not have an autograph or swatch attached to it, but it does go perfectly with the jersey colours.

Just for S&G, I picked up the Denver spot as well in the break, hoping to add some Jamal Murrays to his PC.
Here's the 89th and 90th card of the local product.
The Gold Team insert was new to the post, as was one of these 2020 graffiti style inserts. Interestingly, Nnaji sports both #22 with Denver, sported #22 with the Arizona Wildcats, and was drafted 22nd overall. This photo appears to be a photoshop special from his Prizm draft card.
If I get another one of that same photo, you might as well throw in one with a swatch and an autograph attached to it. At least now I've got a second reason to pay attention to Denver box scores.

There you have it!





Friday 26 February 2021

2021 Adventures in Repacks Part 7.5 - Cubism

1999 BAP Signatures - Nelson Emerson - First up in the final portion - a hit! Emerson bounced around a lot during his career with 8 different stops, including a part-season in Ottawa.
2019 UD - David Perron
1994 Donruss - Joe Murphy
2001 Prizm McDonald's - Jarome Iginla - Shiny!
2004 ITG Franchises - Bernie Geoffrion - A Franchises card and a 2/14 card! Even though this lists his birthdate as 2/16, I'm still counting it.
2000 OPC - Mike Richter
2005 ITG H&P - Thomas Pock
2019 UD - Jujhar Khaira
2008 Victory Game Breakers - Olli Jokinen
2016 UD - Justin Williams
2005 SPA - Dominik Hasek - Sens content!
2009 UD - Scott Nichol
2000 Topps - Scott Gomez - The Rookie Cup wasn't limited to just baseball appearances.
2001 BTP - Robert Esche
2008 OPC - Jiri Novotny
1992 Ultra - Claude Lapointe
1990 UD - Kent Manderville
2018 UD Rookie Materials - Evan Bouchard - Hit #2 of this portion.
1992 Score - Grant Ledyard
1990 Topps - Brian Propp
1991 Score - Claude Lemieux
1992 Ultra - Bill Lindsay
1994 Pinnacle - Greg Adams
1992 UD - Calle Johansson - The final 2/14 content of the repack, and despite being a junk wax era card, it was a need.
1991 Pro Set - Pat Verbeek
1993 Parkhurst - Mike Richter
1999 SPA - Andrew Brunette
2012 ITG H&P - Jayden Hart
1991 Score - Clint Malarchuk
2009 McDonald's - Mikka Kiprusoff
2009 McDonald's - Rick Nash
2009 McDonald's - Dion Phaneuf - Triple food issue!
2002 Topps - Kamil Piros - The obligatory player I had no memories at all of.

2005 Diary of a Phenom - Sidney Crosby - I can't complain about a random Crosby appearance.
2007 McDonald's - Iginla/Kiprusoff/Phaneuf
2004 ITG Franchises - Curt Bennett - The final Franchises card from the repack.
1995 Bowman - Petr Sykora
2013 Crown Royale - Matt Anderson - Your final numbered card.
1995 Bowman - Mathieu Schneider - Your final shininess.
1991 Pro Set - Darrin Shannon
1991 UD - Enrico Ciccone
1990 Bowman - Paul Gillis
2018 UD - Samuel Girard
2019 MVP Blue - Teddy Blueger
2019 UD - John Tavares
2016 UD - Joe Colborne
2017 UD - Troy Brouwer - And the final card.

On the whole, not as many cards from my favourite repack sets (Franchises/TYIH) as last time, but a couple surprising 2/14 additions and some solid hits still make it a worthwhile bust. 

There you have it!

Thursday 25 February 2021

2021 Adventures in Repacks Part 7.4 - Cubism

1994 Score - Richard Park - Starting off with a very 90s (read: garish) card. 
2006 MVP - Sami Salo
1997 Pinnacle Autographs - Craig Rivet - And here's the first hit in this portion.
2008 OPC - Petr Sykora
2001 Parkhurst - Matthew Barnaby
2002 Topps - Jason Smith
2002 Total - Olli Jokinen
2000 UD - Manny Fernandez
2007 UD - Mike Cammalleri
1993 Score - Ric Nattress
1995 OPC - Brian Bradley
1992 Parkhurst - Donald Audette
1994 Premier Special Effects - Dixon Ward - Back-to-back parallels!
2018 UD - Michael Ferland
2019 UD - Jonathan Drouin
2017 UD - Matt Beleskey
1992 Topps Gold - Brett Hedican - And another parallel.
2017 Parkhurst - Vladislav Kamenev
2016 UD - Brad Marchand
2016 UD - Zach Parise
2019 UD - Jordan Eberle
2015 UD - Marek Zidlicky
2013 Contenders - Ondrej Pavelec
1994 Ultra - Gary Suter
1992 Topps - Brent Sutter - Throwback/anniversary jersey!
2015 Showcase - Patric Hornqvist
2006 McDonald's - Ed Jovanoski
1991 Score - Herb Raglan
2002 Stad. Club - Evgeni Nabokov - Stadium Club also brought great photography to their hockey issues.
2003 UD - Curtis Brown
2016 UD - Nick Foligno
2012 ITG Between the Pipes - Junior Gems - Maxime Lagace/Alex Dubeau - Another hit! This one perfect for the mask binder collection.
2005 SPA - Brendan Shanahan
2009 UD - Eric Staal
2008 MVP - Brian Gionta
2008 SPGU - Jason Arnott
1990 OPC - Dave Taylor
1990 UD - Mike Craig
1994 Ultra - Don Sweeney
1992 Topps - Bobby Holik
1998 Coll. Choice Preview - Calle Johansson - 2/14 content, and better yet, 2/14 content I didn't have!
1992 Score - Adam Oates
1991 Pro Set - John Cullen
1993 Parkhurst - Craig Billington - Sens content.
1998 MVP - Doug Gilmour
1995 Pinnacle - Ed Belfour
1994 Pinnacle - Esa Tikkanen
1989 OPC - Brian Hayward
1990 Pro Set - Daniel Shank
1998 Topps - Tony Granato
1990 Score - Mike Ridley
1994 Leaf - Stephane Richer
2003 Complete - Matthew Spiller
2004 ITG Franchises - Eric Vial- Another Franchises card.

2005 ITG H&P - Andy Hilbert - This portion wraps up with a  card destined for Ann Arbor at some point.

Wednesday 24 February 2021

2021 Adventures in Repacks Part 7.3 - Cubism

2015 UD - Brandon Pirri - A rather blah start to this grouping, which, on the whole, was probably the dullest of the groups.
2011 UD - Brandon Dubinsky
2015 UD - Chris Kreider
2010 UD - Alexander Frolov
2018 Parkhurst - Sami Niku
1991 Score - Kelly Kisio
2006 SPA - Kari Lehtonen
2002 Total - Jozef Stumpel
2003 UD - Jim Fahey
1990 Bowman - Russ Courtnall
2019 MVP Blue - Kris Letang - A factory set card. Yay? 
2019 UD - Andrei Svechnikov
2019 UD - Corey Perry
2016 UD - Zack Kassian
1998 OPC Chrome - Derrick Walser
1990 Score - Jeff Hackett
1994 Leaf - Jeff Shantz
1995 Coll. Choice - Ron Francis
1992 UD - Ed Courtenay
1990 Pro Set - Scott Thornton
2015 OPC - Colton Sceviour
2015 UD - Jeff Skinner - Rangers alum!
1994 Premier Special Effects - Jamie Macoun - And a parallel.
1990 UD - Mick Vukota
1989 OPC - Gary Suter
2003 OPC - Scott Niedermayer
2002 Victory - Chris Drury


2004 ITG Franchises - Johnny Bucyk - As usual, gotta scan a Franchises card.
2001 ITG BAP - Jeff Ulmer
2006 UD - Kevin Weekes
2004 ITG Franchises - John Vanbiesbrouck - The Franchises exception. As always, fuck this guy
1991 Score - David Maley
2013 Titanium Retail - Anze Kopitar


2014 UD - Jack Johnson - Even if it is only pregame jersey, still an alternate worth scanning.
2011 UD - Mikhael Grabovski
2015 UD Canvas - Phil Kessel
1990 Score - Brad Shaw
1992 Premier - Brian Leetch
1990 Pro Set - Kevin Hatcher
2016 UD - Robin Lehner
1989 OPC - Ron Hextall
1993 Score - Paul Stanton
2014 UD - Brian Gionta - Uniforms of the damned!

2003 Complete - Lasse Kukkonen - Complete was Pacific's version of Total, although distributed in multiple products instead of standalone.
1990 Bowman - Tony McKegney


2019 UD - Petr Mrazek - A 2/14 dupe.
2016 UD - Boone Jenner
2018 SP - Clayton Keller

2018 UD - Erik Gudbranson - What's with the goggles?
2019 UD - Vladimir Tarasenko
2014 UD - Erik Cole
2012 UD - Dustin Byfuglien
2013 Titanium - Daniel Alfredsson - A theme for this repack is a surprising number of PC cards I thought I had, but didn't. This is another one.


2014 UD - Andrew Shaw - I'm more interested in the airborne Flyer in this photo, but it is an interesting photographic ending to this fifth.

Tuesday 23 February 2021

2021 Adventures in Repacks Part 7.2 - Cubism


2003 Portraits - Rick Dipietro - A mask binder card starts this one.
1998 OPC Chrome - Jeff Heerema
2001 McDonalds Prizm - Brett Hull
2004 ITG Franchises - John Davidson - Another Franchises card. 
2000 OPC - Jiri Fischer
2005 ITG H&P - Geoff Platt - Minor league jersey fun.
1994 Pinnacle - Charlie Huddy
1992 UD - Paul Stanton
1993 Score - Greg Hawgood - I'd love to know what Hawgood saw that shocked him so much.
2016 UD - Brent Seabrook
1991 Score - Keith Primeau
2015 UD Portraits - Anton Slepyshev - Back in 2015, Slepyshev was the Oilers rookie you didn't want to see when busting a product.
1990 Topps - Mathieu Schneider
1995 Ultra - Brian Savage
1990 OPC - North Stars team
1989 Topps - Stephane Richer
1992 UD - Joe Sacco
1995 UD - Glen Murray
1990 Topps - Steve Bozek
2016 UD - Jamie Benn
2008 OPC - Derek Roy - Much like the Macinnis yesterday, a Rangers alum card I thought I had, but didn't.
2003 Bee Hive - John Madden
2008 OPC Retro - Marc-Edouard Vlasic - Parallel!
2000 Ice - Chris Pronger - Acetate!
2009 1972 TYIH - Tony Esposito/Vladimir Petrov - While the last of these had plenty of '72 TYIH cards in it, this was the only one here.
2019 UD - Patrick Laine

2004 ITG Franchises - Bill Cowley - And another one.

2009 McDonald's - Jonathan Toews
2009 McDonald's - Jeff Carter - Back to back cards from the same food set.
2002 Total - J-S Giguere
2007 McDonald's - Sundin / Tucker / McCabe
1990 Bowman - Bob Errey
2004 ITG Franchises - Andy Bathgate - Keep 'em coming.
1994 UD - Mattias Norstrom
1990 Pro Set - Troy Gamble


1992 UD - Mark Freer - Sens card! WOO-HOO!
1995 UD - Mike Donnelly
1994 Leaf - Scott Mellanby
2018 Parkhurst - Nick Bjugstad
2011 Parkhurst - Al Iafrate
 
2013 UD MVP - Roberto Luongo - Perfect how the mask matches the retro jersey as best a mask can.
2013 Artifacts Treasured Swatches - Zach Parise - The first hit of the repack. I didn't know the Wild had black on their jerseys. 
2002 OPC - Jose Theodore


2019 SPA - John Gibson - Mask binder card to start and one to end. But this one is a Rangers alum, so this is the winner of that two-card war.

Lots more still to come!