A Few Random Packs

First off, two score retails packs.

Pack 1:
450-Mike Komisarek
422-Barrett Jackman
39-Saku Koivu
370-Scottie Upshall
1-Joe Sakic Season Highlights
508-Justin Mercier
458-Alexandre Burrows Glossy


A rookie and a really nice card of Sakic's '19' being lifted to the rafters, plus a former Flyer.


Pack 2:
445-Kris Versteeg
483-Karl Alzner
345-Sergei Gonchar
229-Tomas Vokoun
285-Shea Weber
501-Nazem Kadri
367-Shane Doan Glossy


One down, one to go. The Kadri and the Subban 'Hot Rookies' are the ones to get.


2008-09 Upper Deck Series 1:
99-Andrei Kostitsyn

15-Pavel Kubina

30-Erik Johnson

79-Brendan Witt

197-Francois Beauchemin

186-Chuck Kobasew

170-Dion Phaneuf

HT8-Vincent Lecavalier Hat Trick Heroes


I didn't really collect this set so these cards are all 'new' to me. Plus the Phaneuf picture rocks.

2009-10 UD Victory Pack 1:
37-Eric Staal
68-Johan Franzen
219-Riku Helenius Rookie
109-Max Pacioretty
20-Clarke MacArthur
196-Alexander Semin

Pacioretty is the only new card I pulled from this pack. I already had two Helenius'.

Pack 2:
13-David Krejci
114-Shea Weber
GB36-Shane Doan Game Breakers
21-Derek Roy
160-#87
198-Sergei Fedorov

Roy and Doan are new, the rest are doubles.





P.S. Does anyone know if Score is gonna have a series 2 update?

The pictures will all appear in a period of days.

2010-11 Black Diamond Pack Breaks

The first cards I will be sharing with you are the six packs of Black Diamond I opened. I have never been a huge fan of the set, due to it being more high end than the sets I ussually look to buy. I would scan every card but they are way too shiny and it looks awful.

Pack 1:
83-T.J. Oshie
47-Jamie Langenbrunner
81-Scott Hartnell
7-Ville Leino
34-Blake Wheeler

Two Flyers in a pack is the best I've done in a while. I usually have a hell of a time trying to pull a Flyer. A good pack. Okay, mediocre pack. No. Good pack.

Pack 2:
52-J.S. Giguere
72-Jakub Voracek
107-Ilya Bryzgalov Double Diamond
62-Rene Bourque
68-Joe Pavelski

Sweet, a double diamond.

Pack 3:
88-Saku Koivu
73-Alex Burrows
20-Nik Antropov
76-Rick Dipietro
64-Victor Hedman

Another okay pack.

Pack 4:
65-Tomas Kaberle
67-Mike Fisher
209-Oliver Ekman-Larsson Rookie Gems Quad Diamond
46-Tim Gleason
42-Brendan Morrow

Three olympians, and a pretty awesome rookie card.

Pack 5:
14-Dustin Brown
44-Kari Lehtonen
82-Ryan Malone
8-Marty Turco
37-Jonas Hiller

A native Ithacan, and three goalies.

Pack 6:
5-Olli Jokinen
86-Vaclav Vinny Prospal
150-Marc-Andre Fleury Triple Diamond
69-Guillaume Latendresse
21-Patrick Sharp

Two former Flyers and a dude I hate on a pretty good card.


Not bad... stay tuned for more breaks...

2010-11 Victory Fat Pack Break 2, part 2

#32 - Rene Bourque
#28 - Eric Staal
#164 - Devin Setoguchi
#83 - Stephen Weiss
#159 - Dan Boyle
#22 - Derek Roy
#137 - Milan Michalek, I ripped a red parallel of him in my last fat pack.
#69 - Niklas Lidstrom
#222 - Richard Clune
#GB-KA - Patrick Kane, I really like this subset
#231 - Nick Spaling Red Parallel, nice, two rookies
#53 - T.J. Galiardi
#95 - Martin Havlat
#13 - David Krejci
#25 - Erik Cole, Local boy from Oswego, New York
#91 - Niklas Backstrom
#166 - David Backes
#140 - Jeff Carter


It's about freakin' time I got a Flyer. Sometimes this phan just can't catch a break and get three without breakin' 20 packs.

2010-11 Victory Fat Pack Break 2, part 1

Don't you just love the smell of a newly opened pack of cards, ahhhh.

#199 - Ryan Miller Cheklist
#116 - Zach Parise, starting out pretty bad...
#85 - Drew Doughty, the pack has been redeemed
#162 - Patrick Marleau
#157 - Jordan Staal, and it's bad again
#173 - Victor Hedman
#93 - Brent Burns
#51 - Craig Anderson
#243 - Alexander Pechurski
#SOG-PD - Pavel Datsyuk
#51 - Craig Anderson Red Parallel, what? another Anderson... interesting
#73 - Sam Gagner
#178 - Tyler Bozak, gonna be a big star once Toronto takes off
#154 - Tyler Kennedy, fart-head
#44 - Kris Versteeg
#18 - Tim Connolly
#193 - Tomas Fleischmann
#94 - Cal Clutterbuck


The Flyers won in the shootout last night thanks to Richy and his moves.

2010-11 Victory Fat Pack Break!, Part 2

Here's the second half of my new rack pack:

#40 - Duncan Keith
#138 - Jason Spezza
#111 - Shea Weber
#39 - Patrick Kane
#17 - Blake Wheeler
#124 - John Tavares
#46 - Kristian Huselius
#155 - kris letang
#219 - Alex Plante
#GB-SC - sidney crosby
#90 - Ryan Smyth Red Parallel
#27 - Joni Pitkanen
#72 - Andrew Cogliano
#103 - Tomas Plekanec
#12 - Zdeno Chara
#61 - Brendan Morrow
#30 - Cam Ward
#112 - martin brodeur

2010-11 Victory Fat Pack Break!, Part 1

I finally got a pack of this upcoming season's Victory, a fat pack from Wal-Mart. Hopefully I'll be getting more tonight. Here we go!

#70 - Brian Rafalski
#113 - Patrik Elias
#8 - Evander Kane
#163 - Joe Pavelski
#100 - Brian Gionta
#37 - Matt Stajan
#165 - Joe Thornton, the best playmaker since the lock-out
#181 - Phil Kessel
#207 - Jamie McBain
#SOG-SW - Shea Weber, nice subset, but please more color or none.
#137 - Milan Michalek Red Parralel
#189 - Mason Raymond
#63 - Mike Ribeiro
#175 - Ryan Malone
#115 - Jamie Langenbrunner
#41 - Brent Seabrook
#94 - Dustin Brown
#23 - Drew Stafford

2008-09 Legends Masterpieces Pack Break

I have broken a few packs in the past, here they both are. I recently purchased two packs, and here they are.

Pack 1:

#63-Steve Shutt

A great player and scorer who is a Hockey (NHL) Hall of Famer

#20-Wayne Gretzky

The greatest of all-time, traded to Los Angeles. couldn't bring them a Cup, just a finals appearance, LA's only Cup final ever.

#23-Mike Bossy

Don't like him or any other Islander from their inagural season until 1995.

#65-Manon Rheaume

She played in two preseason games for Tampa as a publicity stunt.

I didn't own one of those cards, good pack if it weren't for Bossy.

Pack 2:

#27-Bobby Hull

"The Golden Jet" was signed by the Jets to a whopping $1 million contract... Good for him (it was a record at the time. Boy have times changed)

#17-Wayne Gretzky

A different Gretzky, something I talked about here and fixed here.

#72-Eddie Shack

I believe they called him "The Entertainer", Eddie was the man that clinched the '63 Cup for the Leafs.

#82-Bobby Orr

Amazing defenseman who paved the way for offensive defenseman such as Ray Bourque, Paul Coffey, and Niklas Lidstrom

I already have the latter two, but another winner with Hull in the WHA and Gretzky.

My first pack break:
Pack 1----------4.5 Stars
Pack 2----------4 Stars

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).

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.