Tuesday, May 4, 2010

My Birthday, part 2

Here's the next 5 packs I opened.

Pack 1:
#51-Johnny Bower*
#76-Andy Bathgate*
#1-Lord Stanley*
#7-Patrick Roy
cool, a Roy (my favorite non-Flyer goalie of all-time). Bathgate looks like a creeper, just sayin'.

Pack 2:
#29-Georges Vezina
#16-Theoren Fleury****
#43-Clark Gilles*****
#81-Mario Lemieux**
already opened the Lemieux, and the Fleury card I was hoping for. I do really like the brown borders, I'd like to see a black border but nobody has pulled one and put it on the internet.

Pack 3:
#77-Craig MacTavish
#3-Lady Byng
#8-Ron Hextall**
#83-Phil Esposito**
I have some complaints about this set that I'll share after I finish bustin' these packs.

Pack 4:
#64-Rick MacLeish***
#86-Mario Lemieux*
#31-Tony Esposito**
#38-Wayne Gretzky*
Another MacLeish (that makes 3) along with the same amount of #38.

Pack 5:
#77-Craig MacTavish**
#3-Lady Byng**
#46-Bobby Hull*
#1-Lord Stanley***
So kind of a bust on the last pack, no new cards.

*-already had
**-already opened from this box
***-both * and **
****-brown border
*****-already have brown border

I still like the set no matter how many Gretzky and Lemieux cards there are (it does annoy me a little).

Saturday, May 1, 2010

My Birthday

was yesterday and I decided to go shopping online for cards. On Dave and Adam's Card World I found a box of 20 packs of the 2008-09 Legends Masterpieces set for $25 and I just had to get it. I was gonna open them 5 packs-a-day, but not opening packs all at once is like eating just one Lay's potato chip. Here's my first pack break on the internet.

Pack 1:
#16-Theoren Fleury
#87-Mark Messier*
#25-Lanny McDonald
#49-Brian Leetch

a good pack, I was hoping to get the Fleury and McDonald, an okay pack.

Pack 2:

#70-Rogie Vachon*
#64-Rick MacLeish*
#9-Richard Brodeur
#31-Tony Esposito

MacLeish, awesome, and Brodeur (not the gay one, his dad) in the old Canucks V-sweater.

Pack 3:

#53-Guy Lafleur*
#44-Scotty Bowman*
#66-Marty McSorley*
#12-Mario Lemieux*

okay, all doubles, that's cool though.

Pack 4:

#68-Dale Hawerchuk*
#24-Pat LaFontaine*
#81-Mario Lemieux
#84-Mark Messier

another Lemieux and another Messier in this set.

Pack 5:

#22-Cam Neely
#45-Glenn Anderson
#5-Jari Kurri
#8-Ron Hextall
#83-Phil Esposito

All new cards to me, and a Hextall card.

I love this set so much. The painting idea by Upper Deck is so smart, and to print it on a canvas was genius. Still looking for a couple cards like the Parent and the Sutters.