Hello all!
I am back! I had an amazing trip to Eagan, MN to see my son over the past week-and-a-half, and trust me when I say that it was extremely hard to leave. I miss my boy so much and wish that I could be with him all of the time. The city of Eagan is gorgeous too! So much greenery, very nicely kept, forest area everywhere. It was just a great place to be. We are surely going back and hope to stay longer next time.
While there I attempted (not too hard, mind you) to find some hockey cards, but only came across baseball in WalMart, and was unable to find an LCS. So I just waited until I got home and bought a box of Contenders. I liked what I got, but am not that impressed to collect anything from it. I also picked up three boxes of 2010-11 SP Authentic, one 2010-11 Series One and 12 packs of 2010-11 SPx. The SPx was the absolute best for the money out of these pick-ups, but I did manage some great hits out of the Contenders and SPA. I have also acquired some traders from eBay for decent prices.
On to the show:
PC from my breaks and eBay:
2010-11 Upper Deck Series 1-Jeff Skinner Young Guns RC
2010-11 SP Authentic Sign Of The Times Dual-David Backes/Jaroslav Halak
And this Halak RC brings me down to needing only 2 to have one of each. 2007-08 Trilogy-Jaroslav Halak RC
If anyone knows where I can find a Halak Be A Player or OPC Premier RC, please let me know. They are the last two that I need!
From eBay:
2010-11 SPx: Winning Materials-Claude Giroux; Winning Combos-Claude Giroux/James van Riemsdyk; Rookie Materials-Nino Neiderreiter
2010-11 SP Authentic: Future Watch AU/RC-Eric Tangradi, Nick Johnson; Holo FX-Sidney Crosby, Mario Lemieux; Sign Of The Times-Eric Tangradi
On to the breaks:
3 boxes 2010-11 SP Authentic
Future Watch RC-Travis Hamonic, Nick Holden, Matt Kassian, Alexander Vasyunov
Future Watch AU-Alex Plante (Wrong darn Oiler!!!), Eric Wellwood, Justin Falk, Evan Brophey, Brandon Pirri, Brandon Yip
Holo FX-Wayne Gretzky, Brian Gionta, Dustin Penner, John Tavares, Daniel Alfredsson, Shane Doan
Sign Of The Times-Tim Kennedy (who?!?!), James van Riemsdyk
Future Watch AU/Patch-Mark Olver (the patch is SICK!!! Four colors and seven breaks!)
12 packs 2010-11 SPx:
RC-Eric Wellwood; Finite RC-Evgeny Grachev; AU/JSY RC-Kevin Shattenkirk; Winning Materials-Shane Doan; Patch RC-Cody Almond (3 colors, 3 breaks)
2010-11 Playoff Contenders:
AU RC-Jacob Josefson, Ian Cole, P.K. Subban; Playoff Ticket RC-Alexander Burmistrov #88/100 (see if you can spot the error); Classic Ticket-Johnny Bower; The Great Outdoors-Evgeni Malkin; Calder Contenders-Jordan Eberle; Leather Larceny AU-Nicklas Backstrom #15/50; Legendary Contenders Emerald-Terry O'Reilly #4/50 (also have the regular version f this one)
I also have the following inserts from the Playoff Contenders box:
Awards Contenders Norris-Drew Doughty, Nicklas Lidstrom
Draft Tandems-Ryan Smyth/Thomas Holmstrom
Leather Larceny-Mike Smith
Lottery Winners-Matt Duchene
Against The Glass-Chris Neal
Perennial Contenders-Henrik Sedin
2010-11 Upper Deck Series 1:
20th Anniversary-Henrik Sedin, Eric Tangradi YG
This box also had the Jeff Skinner YG; a Brayden Schenn YG (eBay, along with the other four YG's); Adam Oates and Dustin Brown Game Jersey; Joe Thornton and Jeff Carter All-World Team; Steve Yzerman #HH4, #HH5; Clear Cut Champions-Scott Niedermayer #27/100 (jersey number, eBay).
All in all I think that I did very well for what I bought! I would like to thank all of those who wished me well while I was on my hiatus. When I last logged in I was shocked to find that we have to now pay for the Org. feature! Wonder how many people have quit due to this new ruling? Well... all is available, save for the Halak and Skinner cards! I hope that all are doing well!
Randi
I am back! I had an amazing trip to Eagan, MN to see my son over the past week-and-a-half, and trust me when I say that it was extremely hard to leave. I miss my boy so much and wish that I could be with him all of the time. The city of Eagan is gorgeous too! So much greenery, very nicely kept, forest area everywhere. It was just a great place to be. We are surely going back and hope to stay longer next time.
While there I attempted (not too hard, mind you) to find some hockey cards, but only came across baseball in WalMart, and was unable to find an LCS. So I just waited until I got home and bought a box of Contenders. I liked what I got, but am not that impressed to collect anything from it. I also picked up three boxes of 2010-11 SP Authentic, one 2010-11 Series One and 12 packs of 2010-11 SPx. The SPx was the absolute best for the money out of these pick-ups, but I did manage some great hits out of the Contenders and SPA. I have also acquired some traders from eBay for decent prices.
On to the show:
PC from my breaks and eBay:
2010-11 Upper Deck Series 1-Jeff Skinner Young Guns RC
2010-11 SP Authentic Sign Of The Times Dual-David Backes/Jaroslav Halak
And this Halak RC brings me down to needing only 2 to have one of each. 2007-08 Trilogy-Jaroslav Halak RC
If anyone knows where I can find a Halak Be A Player or OPC Premier RC, please let me know. They are the last two that I need!
From eBay:
2010-11 SPx: Winning Materials-Claude Giroux; Winning Combos-Claude Giroux/James van Riemsdyk; Rookie Materials-Nino Neiderreiter
2010-11 SP Authentic: Future Watch AU/RC-Eric Tangradi, Nick Johnson; Holo FX-Sidney Crosby, Mario Lemieux; Sign Of The Times-Eric Tangradi
On to the breaks:
3 boxes 2010-11 SP Authentic
Future Watch RC-Travis Hamonic, Nick Holden, Matt Kassian, Alexander Vasyunov
Future Watch AU-Alex Plante (Wrong darn Oiler!!!), Eric Wellwood, Justin Falk, Evan Brophey, Brandon Pirri, Brandon Yip
Holo FX-Wayne Gretzky, Brian Gionta, Dustin Penner, John Tavares, Daniel Alfredsson, Shane Doan
Sign Of The Times-Tim Kennedy (who?!?!), James van Riemsdyk
Future Watch AU/Patch-Mark Olver (the patch is SICK!!! Four colors and seven breaks!)
12 packs 2010-11 SPx:
RC-Eric Wellwood; Finite RC-Evgeny Grachev; AU/JSY RC-Kevin Shattenkirk; Winning Materials-Shane Doan; Patch RC-Cody Almond (3 colors, 3 breaks)
2010-11 Playoff Contenders:
AU RC-Jacob Josefson, Ian Cole, P.K. Subban; Playoff Ticket RC-Alexander Burmistrov #88/100 (see if you can spot the error); Classic Ticket-Johnny Bower; The Great Outdoors-Evgeni Malkin; Calder Contenders-Jordan Eberle; Leather Larceny AU-Nicklas Backstrom #15/50; Legendary Contenders Emerald-Terry O'Reilly #4/50 (also have the regular version f this one)
I also have the following inserts from the Playoff Contenders box:
Awards Contenders Norris-Drew Doughty, Nicklas Lidstrom
Draft Tandems-Ryan Smyth/Thomas Holmstrom
Leather Larceny-Mike Smith
Lottery Winners-Matt Duchene
Against The Glass-Chris Neal
Perennial Contenders-Henrik Sedin
2010-11 Upper Deck Series 1:
20th Anniversary-Henrik Sedin, Eric Tangradi YG
This box also had the Jeff Skinner YG; a Brayden Schenn YG (eBay, along with the other four YG's); Adam Oates and Dustin Brown Game Jersey; Joe Thornton and Jeff Carter All-World Team; Steve Yzerman #HH4, #HH5; Clear Cut Champions-Scott Niedermayer #27/100 (jersey number, eBay).
All in all I think that I did very well for what I bought! I would like to thank all of those who wished me well while I was on my hiatus. When I last logged in I was shocked to find that we have to now pay for the Org. feature! Wonder how many people have quit due to this new ruling? Well... all is available, save for the Halak and Skinner cards! I hope that all are doing well!
Randi
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