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.