2020 Adventures in Repacks: Part 26.3 - Hockey Cubism

Time to start the second half.

1990 7IS - Sean Basilio  -  I had no idea what trophy that was in the picture, but it is the OHL's FW 'Dinty' Moore Trophy for the Lowest Rookie Goals-Against Average.
1991 UD - Russ Courtnall
1994 Parkhurst - Garth Butcher

2007 McDonald's - Marian Hossa - These are the shiniest cards in this.
2001 UD - Petr Sykora
2007 MVP - Anze Kopitar
1993 Ultra - Scott Mellanby
1989 OPC - Gary Suter
1990 Bowman - Keith Acton
1990 Score - Steve Leach
2017 CHL - Thomas Gregoire

2017 Team Canada - Brett Ritchie - This portion's patriotic entry.

2016 Premiere - AJ Greer - Here's the second hit in the cube. Greer's been more AHL than NHL, but a hit is a hit!
1990 Score - Bernie Nicholls
2013 UD - Sergei Bobrovsky
2009 UD - Chris Higgins
1991 UD - Rob Zettler
2011 SPA - Keith Yandle
1990 Score - Gerald Diduck
1993 Premier - Boris Mironov

2004 Franchises - Jean Beliveau - All these are getting scanned. No exceptions. Even for dupes. Which this isn't.
2011 UD - Drew Doughty

1993 Leaf - Ed Belfour - Here's another '93 Leaf back!
2017 SPA - Darryl Sittler
2015 UD - David Backers
2018 UD - Adrian Kempe
1990 UD - Rick Bennett

2015 UD - Alex Killorn - One of the contenders for best photo in this portion.
2013 UD - Semyon Varlamov
1991 UD - Jassen Cullimore
1990 Score - Cam Russell
1990 Score - Dana Murzyn
1991 Score - Dale Kushner

1993 Parkhurst Emerald - Matthew Barnaby - Do coaching alumni count for my Rangers collection? Yup!
1990 UD - Andrew Cassels
1990 UD - Mark Osborne
2011 Score - Erik Gustafson
2016 Showcase - Jaroslav Halak

1997 Coll. Choice - Martin Lapointe - And this is the other contender. Both horizontal cards, too!
2014 UD - Joe Colborne

2015 MVP - Nazem Kadri - A more traditional alum.
1990 Score - Carey Wilson
1989 OPC - Harold Snepsts

1991 Score - Craig Wolanin - And another.
2015 UD - Victor Rask

1992 Topps - Petr Svoboda - 2/14 content.
1992 Parkhurst - Grant Fuhr
2016 Parkhurst - Evander Kane
1991 Topps - Donald Audette

1990 Bowman - Rob Murray - A rare interesting photo in this pretty dull release.
1993 Stad. Club - Darryl Sydor
1992 7IS - Tony Bella
2007 MVP - Chris Drury
1991 UD - Trevor Kidd
1990 UD - Martin Hostak
1991 7IS - Jeff Walker

2006 OPC - David Printz - Even if he didn't have the most amazing career, SP rookies are still unexpected in this.

2004 Franchises - Elmer Lach - Yup. All of thse are getting scanned.
1990 UD - Vincent Riendeau
2016 Parkhurst - James Van Riemsdyk

1986 OPC - Chris Nilan - The oldest card in the repack.
1993 Pinnacle - Vladimir Malakhov
1992 Score - Kevin Todd
1990 Score - Kelly Hrudey

2007 Rookie Class - Curtis McElhinney - One of those "Are we sure this isn't a metal album cover" masks.
1990 OPC - Jamie Macouon

1993 UD - Matthew Barnaby - And we end on the second Barnaby in this portion.

1 more stack of cards to go!

2020 Score Football Box Break - Pack #1

2 and half days after the supposed delivery date, this arrived. So, let's start the football season with the first pack. I'll go through this one pack per post per day.

A solid start to the season with the first card out, even if it is a normal enough 2-handed catch with minimal acrobatics from Odell.

The back of the card. The photo is re-used, but the 'Fun Fact', which was on all the base cards, more than make up for it. So much so, while I originally planned to recap multiple packs per post, I changed my mind to instead recap just one to highlight some of my favourite facts.

Very little change in the base design, with logos and names just being switched to the other side of the card.

I guess they couldn't find too fun a fact about Van, since they more or less copied it over from the biography.

My first Bills card of the year also includes an amazing photo to go with it.

But it pales in comparison to this even more impressive dive on Deshaun Watson's card.

Kicker card!

And a throwback uniform as well.

Let's see a bit of the weather as well, from the frozen tundra of Lambeau.

Returning to the backs and the fun facts contained upon them, Tre Flowers and his first job wins the first pack's competition easily.

But collation does lead to a pair of Eddie Murphy factoids.

Are there parallels in this? Of course there are!

The Draft insert set also returns, as an excuse to add more rookie content. Laviska went to the Jaguars in the second round.

As has been the usual for the past few seasons, the Fantasy themed inserts are easily the the least interesting for me.

But the All-Hands team also returns with nice photography to make up for it.

First pack! First auto! Cheyenne O'Grady was undrafted, and remains unsigned at this point. There are 110 cards in the rookie portion of the set, most with autos, and he is one of 2 players that don't have a team yet. That's a pretty good ratio on the whole for Panini, even if I ended up on the bad side of the percentages.

There you have it!

Opening some Opening Day

2020's Opening Day might be unknown at this point, but there's always time for opening some new product.

The box promises an extra, exclusive Jays card per three packs. I guess this is my first opening Day card for the season then. These parallels are exclusives to Canadian Walmarts, and I guess this rookie is the one you want to pull.

Kershaw was the first pack-pulled card from the set. This does set a theme for the break through, as Jays and Dodgers were the most common teams in the packs.

But first, here's the only Mets card in the packs.

But I'll shift back to Toronto for the first Jays card of the packs.

And the Jays were also represented among the inserts, specifically this one that saluted the actual 2019 opening.

My favourite photo in the packs was this beautiful Matt Carpenter.

If photos that you'll likely see in Series 2 are more your thing, here's my favourite among those with this casual Robles catch.

Back to the inserts, here's a Traditions card. Interestingly, this pack also had the Aaron Judge base card. Yay, collation!

Sticker!

But this here was actually a pretty big hit for the packs. The Walk this Way insert, which commemorates walk-off homers, falls at a rate of 1:369 packs, so they're pretty rare pulls. As one can tell by the jersey, this would be the Dodgers walk-off homer on Jackie Robinson Day, making it one of the more perfectly timed walk-offs from last season as well.

And there you have it!

2020 Adventures in Repacks: Part 10.1 - Hockey Cubism

I said I ordered a trio of 250 card cubes, hockey, football and basketball, to go along with the Surprise bags I posted in the past weeks. Now is as good a time as any to start working my way through them. As with the previous ones, I'm breaking them down into 4 stacks of similar height, and listing all the cards.

Let's get at it!

2017 UD - Jared Spurgeon - And we're off!
2018 UD - Joel Edmundson

2016 Parkhurst - Teemu Selanne - I kinda wish the photo had been from his 54th goal celebration (the glove shooting), but this is still a nice insert.
2018 SPA - Colton Parayko

2004 ITG Franchises - Herb Lewis - My first Detroit Falcons card! There were a nice selection of inserts from this set in this repack, and I'm probably going to scan every one of them.
2009 Ultra - Steven Stamkos

2009 ITG 1972 TYiH - Pit Martin - And another set that I'll probably scan every card from.
2000 BAP Memorabilia - Gary Roberts

2000 Ice - Patrik Stefan - Some acetate.
2002 Pacific - Jamie Langenbrunner

2017 Tim Hortons - Corey Perry - And a food issue card.

1993 Score - Dominic Roussel - Mask binder content.
1990 UD - Chris Joseph
1991 Score - Rod Langway
1991 Score - Bob Sweeney

2016 The Cup - Alan Quine - I guess this is what they meant by 'Premium' on the packaging. He's now in the Flames system.
1990 UD - Adam Burt
1992 Classic - Cory Stillman

1993 Leaf - Mike Donnelly - Gotta scan the back of '93 Leaf cards.
2002 Stad. Club - Dennis Seidenberg
1993 Score - Theo Fleury

2006 ITG GftG - Stacy Wilson - The Women's team sees some love.
1991 Stad. Club - Mikko Makela
1993 UD - Ed Olczyk
1991 Pro Set - Jeff Lazaro
1995 Score - Darren Turcotte
1991 OPC - Flyers Team
1991 UD - Bob Probert
1991 Pro Set - Wendel Clark
2010 H&P - Cody Hodgson
1991 Score - Dave Capuano

1994 Donruss - Rob Zamuner - While I do love the '93 Leaf backs, I do like the look of these as well.
1993 UD - Pelle Eklund
1995 Pinnacle - Shean Donovan
2001 Pacific - Ryan Smyth
1991 7IS - Brent Brownlee

2009 ITG 1972 TYiH - Tony Esposito - Yup. I'm scanning all of these.
2013 Score - Ladislav Smid
2000 BAP Memorabilia - Jiri Fischer
2006 Ultra - Eric Lindros

2004 H&P - Timofei Shishkanov - Here's your AHL representation.
2003 MVP - Brian Rolston

2009 ITG 1972 TYiH - Darryl Sittler - A rare photo featuring Sittler attempting to grow a mustache. There's a reason there aren't many of these photos out there.

2004 ITG Franchises - Lowell MacDonald - I don't have a lot of dark blue Penguins uniforms in my collection.

2003 UD - Patrik Stefan - Face off photos are always great, and this one is perfectly timed to the moment the puck leaves the linesman's hand. I'm enjoying a Patrick Stefan card way more than I should.
2003 ITG Action - Paul Martin
1994 Classic - Nolan Baumgartner
1995 Classic - Terry Ryan

1992 Classic - Dwayne Norris - A great way to end this brief run of Classic - the dad of recent Senator call-up Josh Norris.
2011 UD - Brooks Laich
2015 UD - Adam Larsson
2016 UD - Zach Parise

2014 OPC - Retro - Nail Yakupov - A parallel.
2018 UD - Brian Elliott

2018 MVP - Brett Burns - Now that's how facial hair is done.

2016 UD - Brandon Saad - There's the first quarter.

And there you have it! No complains so far with the retro-ish cards from ITG and a completely random The Cup appearance. Another 1/4 of this next time.