Hockey via Michigan

 There wasn't just repacks in the most recent mailer from Dennis at Too Many Verlanders, there were a bunch of loose cards hitting all sorts of PCs of mine. Here's the small hockey portion.

Literature! Actual reading material that can be opened up!

It might not be the most spectacular reading material, but the content inside is pretty nice. This becomes my second booklet in the collection, joining a National Treasures auto/patch of Christian Hackenberg. Fortunately for Nikolaj Ehlers, his NHL career went far better than Hack's NFL one.

But even an open booklet card can't compare to the size of this. It's a scanner bed-sized auto out of 2006 Signature Portraits. This was a set that came in a large envelope for packs, with each pack containing one of these large autographs, and then a small clear sleeve with the base cards. Size-wise, it is probably the biggest card in the collection.

Also size-wise, this Jason Spezza is probably the biggest card in the Senators collection as well. 

It wasn't just oversized items, there were metallic items included in the item. This might be the closest thing to a normal card in this post. In the sense you can find it in a normal-sized pack. Roman Schmidt was a third-round pick of Tampa, and is now doing his thing in the AHL.

The final item? Also not even cardboard!

This is a mini jersey of Dany Heatley, out of UD's 2006-07 Mini Jersey collection. That's proof that for a couple post-lost season seasons, UD was really thinking outside the box when it comes to releases. 

That's it for hockey! But there's plenty more to come in future, staggered posts.