Today, it is a bunch of Kitchener Rangers alum from their NHL careers.
A surprising name for the volume king this time - Steve Eminger and a trio of Pacific cards. Two are numbered, with the Crown Royale being /2299 and the Calder to a less bulky /825. He'd play 17 games for the Capitals in 02-03, before heading back to the Rangers to help them to their second Memorial Cup.Set volume goes to O-Pee-Chee with this small stack of alumni. Even though I wasn't crazy about the uniform in their original appearance, I do kinda like seeing the throwbacks here on Jeff Skinner. The card would have been even better had the logo matched what was used in the photo.This years S2 also makes multiple appearances. I really should have bought a second Gibson for the mask binder.I gotta have a Timmies appearance in here. In this case, the trend set was MacInnis having a consistent 100mph slap shot. Another card that salutes MacInnis' shot skills.Sportscards From The Dollar Store
Sunday 5 May 2024
Expo Post 5: A Rangers Recap
Friday 3 May 2024
Time Out for a Polar Bear
When a mailer arrived yesterday with Mets goodies for a group break, I knew I had to take a brief break from the Expo recap to show off a card.
Because this is worthy of an immediate appearance here. Aside from a 1/1, I can't imagine a better example of a 'chase card' in the product. This becomes not only my first Red Real One Autograph in any collection, but also my first Alonso autograph. Alonso was also the only Mets autograph in the product, so I lucked out even more with this being a hit in one of the boxes.Such a card also deserves to have its reverse shown off as well.Thursday 2 May 2024
Expo Post 4: Actual Sens Cardboard
OK. Yesterday wasn't a card, but I thought it was nice enough to deserve a post of its own. Today, some of my actual Sens acquisitions.
And I can go back-to-back with posts where the first image is an Andrew Hammond appearance. Even if this one dates to his AHL days at their affiliate's former days in Binghamton. "Rookie Commence" as an insert set name still sounds like Engrish. These were inserted into Series 1 tin packs, and in 2018, and the Commence cards were never used again afterwards.Best photo from the Sens portion is easily this one from this year's flagship. When you're chasing base cards as opposed to Young Guns, you tend to notice interesting ones like this. I love the concentration on his face, still focused on the puck even if his stick is the only thing touching the ice.If you prefer some shininess with your umlauted names, here's one. This in an orange parallel, which were retail exclusives.The set I picked up the most singles I picked up, whether for myself or for mailers to others, was this year's OPC. It having the deep 600 card checklist and being all available in a single series made it easy to stock up for myself and others. You'll be seeing more from this set in a couple future Expo posts too.Patrick Lalime's back on the blog! And so is his front!Wednesday 1 May 2024
Expo Post 3: The Hamburglar
Just a quick break from the cardboard to show off an autographed 8*10 of Andrew Hammond I picked up. That's all. Back to cards next post.
Monday 29 April 2024
Expo Post 2: Heritage!
My main goal on Friday was to bust a box of Heritage, then hit the floor and do some damage to the rest of the set. At the end of the day, I ended up just over a 100 cards short of the main set, about 70 or so SPs and 30 not so SPs. That's a give-or-take as to what the totals look will like when I move them from box to binder pages, but here's the 103 I don't believe I have at this point.
Now let's see what was in that 1 hobby box.Sunday 28 April 2024
Expo Post 1: The Quest for 4000
As I continue my climb to 4000 cards in the 2/14 collection, I figured out I'd add to the binders at the Expo. And here's the damage I did:
The bulk of cards I brought home were out of 2024 Heritage, whether part of the hobby box or in terms of singles to build the set, I was sure to add a couple singles to the pile. Nick Pivetta is part of the set, but he's hiding among the SPs. I'll probably limit myself to his set build card. But I did learn that Nolan Schanuel's middle name is Ryan. What more could you ask for a baseball player? Other than him being a pitcher versus a first baseman. Please let him pitch just one inning during a blowout. Please?Here's a couple more Nolan appearances, moving his current count to 7. This might be my first Big League cards in the binders.With 5 variations of his base card out of 2023-24 O-Pee-Chee, Nikolaj Ehlers was the big winner here. The purple version is /49. With Bedard as a chase card in this, I couldn't even find any retail to bust. So I'm content with this.And here's a few more cards to put me at the 125 mark for his count.