New Hockey Card Products That Have Been Released

With the new Upper Deck's Sp Authentic, Pinnacle, and In The Game Between the Pipes, being released within the last couple months, the trading boards, on Sporstcardforum.com, and Hobbyinsider.net have been going crazy with live breaks!

So far, my opinion on Sp Authentic is that the product is awesome! The cards have a sweet, clean autograph, and last eyar they had this dash inbetween the first and last name, on the front of the card, which look weird, and cheap, but this year, it looks way more impressive in my opinion, with the players' entire name written in gold for the future watch, HOF autos,and the sign of the time autos, and the names written in white on a black background for the Marks of Distinction autographs. The only thing that I never really care about are the holo fx die cut cards. For example, this year, the other thing that made you tell apart the die cut from the regular holo fx was this quarter circle cut on the edge of the card, almost looking like someone could have bit into the card? In my opinion. But if I were to rate SPA, it would probably be around an 8/10.

I haven't really seen too many Pinnacle breaks, and haven't heard too much about this product, but those City light cards are really awesome! I like how they put the skyline of that particular city that that player plays in. For example Martin St. Louis plays for the Tampa Bay Lightning, so they put a skyline of tampa Bay in the background. Also, those multi-coloured swatches in City Light game worn cards are really awesome! Some of the inserts looks a bit old, but they probably did that on-purpose to remind collectors of the olden days, when I'm guessing Pinnacle used to be relaly big, back then.

As for Between the Pipes, this product is once again awesome! It never fails. The autos look alright...not a big difference compared to the older BTP autographs, but the game used cards look sweet! The stick and auto cards look amazing, and the ready, willing, able cards look very nice! I really like the Luongo/Schneider one :)

Well, thats it for today, I'll try to write something else up later this week.

2 TTM autographs recently

Got 2 TTM autographs lately.

First off was from Sens all-star, Nick Foligno. He generously signed and personalized 2 index cards.
It took about 3 months...not a bad time. I sent it out on December 17 2010, and received it back on March 7 2011.

Another successes that I got a few weeks ago was from another player, but this time it was all-star goaltender...Craig Anderson!!

This one was very fast. I sent out the through the mail request on March 25 2011, and received 1 autographed OPC card with a clean blue autograph, on April 11 2011!

Thanks Craig, and Nick for the very nice returns! :)

Panini Score

I recently broke open some packs of Panini hockey score- a product that came out a few weeks ago. I was extermely impressed by the quality of the cards, and how many different sets you could collect out of just one product. There are autographs, glossy cards, snow globes, net cam cards, etc. I simply think that it is worth the money, considering that you can pull autographs out of packs.

If I were to rate this product I would rate it an 8 and a half out of 10.

Thanks for reading! And happy holidays!
I will probably have another writeup in the next few days.

Writing Update, Some New Personal Collections! :)

Well, it has been a long time since I last posted. Time just flies by.
No TTM autographs for a while. The last one that came is still the Jeff Deslauriers.
But I have still been getting some mail. Last month, I decided to collect In The Game, Between he Pipes goalie equipment. The cards have been starting to accumilate, and I now have four. I think BTP is a really cool set, and I think ITG has some really good quality cards, no matter how cheap or expensive they can get. No matter what type of of budget you are on, you will almost always be able to afford a box of an ITG product. Hoereos and Prospects as well as Between the Pipes have been popular, their boxes are well priced, and the cards are good quality.
Just my opinion.

I have also started a player collection of Colorado Avalanche rookie, Brandon Yip. I just think he is a very solid and good player, as well as a nice player off the ice hence the reason I chose him. So far I only have one card of him, haha. Only have a Victory rookie of him...well at least I have one card lol. I will have 2 cards of him in the next week or so...just expecting a Score base card, nothing much.

Happy collecting, and Thanks for reading!

No Mail, But Hansen Signs!

I'v haven't gotten anything in the mail recently. Well, hopefully I will get one package in the mail tomorrow.

But some good news came from the Vancouver Canucks today, and that is that they signed foward, Jannik Hansen! Hansen had 1 goal, and 2 assists in 12 playoff games. Pretty good in my opinion. He has been moving back and forth from the Manitoba Moose and the Vancouver Canucks. Last season he played 47 games with the Canucks. He tallied 9 goals and 6 assists. Thats about a point every 3 games. He is definitely no superstar, but he is definitely not the worst player on the team. Nice move that the Canucks made.

Mail Pickups, And Some New Players to the Vancouver Canucks!

I have gotten quite a few packages in the mail from trades that I have made on sportscardforum.com including cards for my Matt Duchene and UD game jersey 2009-10 series 1 PCs. And some very kind members that were kind enough to send me some free cards.

In the mailbox recently, a few cards that I have recieved have been: Jason Pominville UD game jersey 2009-10 series 1, Matt Duchene Victory Gold rookie (a special thank you to Geschrocks33 for sending it to me for free), and a bunch of Matt Duchene/Mason Raymond/Ryan Kesler cards (another very special thank you to mr.ozzie for sending me some PC pickups...for free!).

Other than that, I have been just waiting for the new hockey season to begin.

The Vancouver Canucks look like a very good tea next year. I love the look of their defence. Ballard, Hamhuis to name a few new names. With a new forward by the name of Manny Malhotra. Boy, am I looking forward to watching the Canucks next season.

Thanks for reading!

Jeff Deslauriers TTM autograph, and 2 PC pickups In the Mail Yesterday

Yesterday (June 28) I received a couple packages in the mail. A few members on sportscardforum.com may know a little bit of what I received as I posted a show and tell thread about this. I picked up:

Paul Stastny 2009-10 Upper Deck Series 1 Game Jersey
Saku Koivu 2009-10 Upper Deck Series 1 Game Jersey

These 2 cards go right into the 2009-10 Upper Deck Series 1 Game Jersey PC (Personal Colllection)

And a pretty big additon to my TTM autograph collection is a Jeff Deslauriers TTM autograph. He signed and personalzied 1 index card. The personalization says: To Andrew, All the best! :) (along with a smiley face), Jeff Deslauriers

I just love his autograph. I wasn't sure if he would return it, but I am sooooooo happy that he did. Thanks Jeff!

I still have a few TTM autograph requests still out there. Including Dustin Penner, Steve Mason, Doug Gilmour and Darryl Sittler just to name a few.

Hopefully those willbe in my mailbox in the next few weeks!
Thanks for reading!