One Card Only: A Real Icebreaker

 I've got a quick return to my most-recent COMC box and an auto I'd been planning to add for a bit.

With his recent induction into the Hall of Fame, more autographs from the breaker of hockey's colour barrier have hit the secondary market. So, I naturally went for one of his first autographs ever on the market, going all the way back to 1997-98 Beehive. This entire set consists of 5*7 cards, so this really feels more like an autographed photo than a card. Thankfully, COMC shipped this in an appropriately-sized top loader, so it got here in good condition. And I've now got an O'Ree auto!

There you have it!

Redeemed!

These arrived two weeks after my autographed redemptions, likely because FedEx was used for those, and standard mail was used for the regular rookie redemptions, but they're here now!

While I had already added his Young Guns and OPC Update card to my Sens collection, the Senators team redemption would technically become my first card of Scott Sabourin in the collection. He really didn't fit the usual rookie description, making his NHL debut after over 300 AHL games. A goal in his debut game pretty much guaranteed he'd be the Sens representative in this.

The Wild Card redemption are generally used for the second best rookie on the team. It really wasn't a surprise when Kirby Dach, the 3rd overall pick, got the nod for Chicago. But it was Kubalik that was named one of the finalists for the Calder Trophy this season, alongside Quinn Hughes and Cale Makar. Sometimes, things work out oddly.

I got this Connor Clifton redemption in the same box where I got the Makar autograph linked above. This finally completes that box.

Hey! An Emerald redemption! I guess the Ducks didn't have any qualifying rookies in the early part of the season, and with Max Jones being in the original set, Boyle was really the only option. That's still better than with the Flames, who had Dillon Dube. He was a Wild Card redemption last season, and didn't even make an appearance in O-Pee-Chee this year.

And the final 2. Emil was the redemption for the Blue Jackets, while Frost was another pretty good name relegated to the Wild Cards in favour of Joel Farabee.

That should end the 2019 Artifacts posts for the season.

2020 Adventures in Repacks: Part 26.2 - Hockey Cubism

2007 Going for the Gold - Marc Andre Fleury - The first post's first card was a patriotic entry. Here's another one.

2009 SPX - Henrik Lundqvist - A mask binder card.

2001 Between The Pipes - Mike Noronen - And another.
1997 UD - Kevin Hatcher
1993 Parkhurst-  James Patrick
1990 Bowman - Jimmy Carson
1993 UD - Frank Pietrangelo
1991 UD - Jim Hrivnak
1994 Leaf - Mike Stapleton

1997 SPA - Mike Johnson - Shininess! Or at least Foiliness.
1991 UD - Brian Leetch
1990 Score - Peter Stastny
1993 Pinnacle - Joe Nieuwendyk
1993 UD - Mario Lemieux
2016 Parkhurst-  Milan Luciic
1990 Score - Guy Carbonneau

1990 Pro Set - John Tucker - Rangers alum!
1990 Premier - Jiri Latal

2017 Ice - Nail Yakupov - Acetateness as a career on this continent wound down.
2016 Parkhurst - Cal Clutterbuck
2017 UD - Tyson Barrie

2019 UD - Taylor Hall - The most recent card in this repack.
2010 UD - Stephane Robidas

1990 7th Inning Sketch - Steven Rice - A more obvious Kitchener Rangers alum.
2018 SPA Red - Connor Hellebuyck
2018 UD - Henrik Zetterberg
1991 UD - Dave McLwain
2007 MVP - Tyler Arnason

1990 UD - Brian Bellows - One more!
2012 Score - Brad Richards
2015 UD - Marco Scandella

2007 Hot Prospects - Jaromir Jagr - Jagr cards without a flowing mullet visible seem wrong.
1991 UD - Trevor Linden
1990 Bowman - Mathieu Schneider
1995 Score - Garry Galley
2003 Quest for the Cup - Curtis Joseph

2004 ITG Franchises - Dennis Potvin - Much like 1993 Leaf, I feel like I have to highlight any appearance from this set.
1991 UD - Sheldon Kennedy
1993 Classic - Dimitri Yushkevich
1990 Score - Lou Franceschetti

1993 Parkhurst - Robert Burakovsky - Sens content!
2004 H&P - Doug O'Brien

2007 MVP - Chris Phillips - Almost back-to-back!
2018 SPA - Marcel Dionne

1993 Parkhurst - Shawn Burr - The fourth alum in this portion.
1990 Bowman - Tony Tanti

1993 Leaf - Martin Gelinas - Scanning the back.

2005 Rookie Update - Milan Hejduk - 2/14 appearance!
1998 Pacific - Mike Sillinger
1990 Score - Craig Janney
1993 Stad. Club - Paul Ysebaert
1990 Score - Craig Ludwig

2004 Franchises - Dit Clapper - Another Franchises card, with Clapper being more obscure of a player in terms of cardboard appearances. Easily my favourite in this portion.
1999 Stad. Club - Adam Deadmarsh
1992 Ultra - Brian Mullen
1990 Bowman - Glenn Anderson
1990 Score - Tony Tanti
1992 Stad. Club - Ken Baumgartner
1990 Score - Greg Paslawski
1990 Topps - Mike Modano
1994 Classic - Jeff O'Neill
1992 Classic - Curtis Bowen
2015 UD - Jaroslav Halak
2003 ITG Action - Tim Gleason

2013 Showcase - Larry Robinson - #5.
2018 UD - Jason Demers
1990 Bowman - Tony Hrkac
1990 Score - Dan Quinn
1991 Parkhurst - Brad McRimmon
1993 Pinnacle - Rob Zamuner
1991 OPC - Sabres Team

2007 MVP - Barrett Jackman - And that's that.

2020 Adventures in Repacks: Part 26.1 - Hockey Cubism

This is the final repack from my latest "Straight from the Source" binge. As usual for these 250-ish card cubes, I'm breaking this into about 4 piles of about the same height.

2013 UD - Lars Eller - First up, here's Lars standing on guard for thee. The white jersey indicates a road game,  but the jerseys in the audience indicate the Habs fans travel well.

2015 UD - Alex Goligoski

2005 Ice - Alex Frolov

2016 Parkhurst - Brandon Saad

1990 UD - Al Iafrate

1993 Leaf - Curtis Leschyshyn - Gotta scan the back of a 1993 Leaf card.

1993 Score - Scott Thomas

1994 Pinnacle - Martin Gelinas

2016 UD - Jacob Trouba

2007 Heroes & Prospects - Josh Godfrey - This was the only major release card of Godfrey's hockey career. Why'd I scan the back instead of the front? Good question!

1991 UD - Grant Fuhr - A great photo from UD's early releases.

1990 Score - Mark Messier

1990 Pro Set - Geoff Courtnall

1993 Donruss - Murray Craven

1995 Be A Player - Gino Odjick - A subset that features tough guys. This theme still makes appearances in sets, such as Super Colossal back in 16-17.

1990 Score - Larry Robinson - Rangers alum! And somehow, not a dupe!

1994 Pinnacle - Cliff Ronning

1992 UD - Garry Valk

1993 Premier - Bob Sweeney

2011 Rookie Anthology - Jason Spezza  The first Sens card in the cube.

1998 UD Gold - Chris Osgood

2009 Artifacts - Ryan Kesler

2005 Parkhurst - Slava Kozlov - Some mercifully forgotten jerseys.

2018 SPA - Nathan MacKinnon

1990 Bowman - Rejean Lemelin

2016 UD - Kyle Clifford

1991 Pro Set - Dave Capuano

1991 Parkhurst- Brian Lawton

1993 UD - Derek Plante

1993 Leaf - Tomas Sandstrom - More '93 Leaf.

1994 Pinnacle - Scott Niedermayer

1993 Parkhurst - Troy Loney

1994 Leaf - Uwe Krupp - While these were not as great as the previous year, I also like these backs.

1993 Leaf - Frank Musil - Speaking of...

1994 UD - Jassen Cullimore

2007 MVP - Brian Campbell

1990 UD - Mark Osborne

2000 Be A Player - Tyler Wright

1991 OPC - Mark Janssens

1995 Donruss - Ken Wregget

2016 UD - Henrik Lundqvist

2018 UD - Ondrej Palat

2015 UD - Matthew Dumba

1992 UD - Ralph Barahona - The obligatory player that I had no memories of aside from cards.

2009 UD - Tomas Kaberle - A nicely cropped photo with the puck slipping past the goaltender just visible at the bottom.

1990 Bowman - Dave Gagner

1993 UD - Roman Oksiuta

2017 MVP - John Gibson - Another Rangers alum.

2005 ICE - Paul Kariya

1991 UD - Mike Bullard

1990 UD - Danton Cole

1994 Pinnacle - Petr Klima

1990 Pro Set - Tim Hunter - While not as great as his 1991 UD card, this is still a memorable nose photo.

1990 UD - Steve Larmer

1992 Topps - Stephane Quintal

1995 Score - Dale Hunter - Yet another alum.

2018 Trilogy - Filip Forsberg - My first hit of the repack.

2009 UD - Bruno Gervais

2015 SPA - Tyler Seguin

1992 UD - CJ Young

1990 Pro Set - John Tanner

1990 UD - Joe Sakic

1991 Score - Kirk Muller

1990 Pro Set - Dave Lowry - It is a dupe, but I'll highlight a 2/14 guy's appearance.

2008 OPC - Kyle Brodziak

2008 Ice - Ryan Getzlaf

2016 UD Portraits - Chris Bigras - Ending on one of those perpetually boring Portraits inserts.

And there's a 1/4 cube.

Ice Time

19-20 Ice dropped a little over a week ago. I would have tried a box. However, for a second year in a row, the base cards aren't acetate. That is reason enough for me to go a couple years back with some 17-18 instead.

For some reason, I'm still unofficially working on the 1-100 base set for this. These, along with most of the others in this box, were needs for me. I'm still about 15 cards short, and those might be added to my set wantlist sooner rather than later.

While Ice Premieres are considered part of the base, I really don't plan to add those to the set. But these were the two I got here. Generally, the higher the expectations of the rookies, the lower the print run. Both these guys saw action last season, but it was Amadio who spent the whole season with the big club.

Sens content in the Sub-Zero inserts, but that White was a dupe. The Legend portion of this insert set is 1:60 packs, or 1 per case, so I did really well not only landing one, but landing a Gretzky.

Not the most impressive relic hit, as JFK is already back in Sweden. His Ice Premieres was numbered /499.

But the other rookie hit in the box - that's much nicer. Keller doesn't have the greatest penmanship out there, but the silver pen on a black background always looks nice on a card. And it is of one of the better young players in the league. It is a little hard to tell looking at the scan, but this is /25.

Definitely a winning box with the Keller and Gretzky!