2025 Adventures in Repacks - Part 8 - The First Hockey of the Year

 

No hockey repacks and I'm on the third month of the year? Time to fix that with a pair of these.

The contents of #1. Thanks to these repacks, I will never run out of sleeves.

I don't want to bust a repack in which contains a 2006 Parkhurst and that isn't the best card in that portion of it. The Foligno wins this group of 5 easily.

2 entries from 2021 make for a really dull 2020s portion.

But the goalie pack is pretty good, with that Ullmark being a super photo and ideal usage of a horizontal layout. The other two are mask binder dupes, which shows how a single card can elevate things.

Even with a couple nice items, still pretty bland on the whole. I blame the sleeves.

But there's all cardboard in the second one!

More bland 2021s, but at least JT Miller provides a decent hockey smile.

While the Canadian Team Franchise pack would imply that they're all from the same team, the Cammalleri card is a traded card, and he's listed with the Habs on the card.  So they're all Canadian team cards still, I just have to ignore the Franchise tag.

Although I'm not sure they can really be considered as parallels in the usual way, since they did appear in standalone packs, but the three junk wax era cards here are all the French/bilingual versions. In retrospect, 35 years later, I'm sad that they didn't translate the front of these cards. Even if google Translate tells me that Speedster is the same in English and French. 

And here's the contents of that MVP pack. That Ice Battles parallel of Gibson is new to my Kitchener Rangers alum collection, And that's all it will take to make the second repack better than the first. Even if Johnny Gaudreau cards are now pretty depressing.

But there you have it!