Remember when I got myself
a 24-pack blaster box of Upper Deck's 2016-17 MVP hockey cards three days ago? Well, oops, I did it again:
I wanted to know how lucky I could get by comparing what I considered to be a below-average level of "pulls" to what came next, which may have been even worse. Starting with 42 repeats (on 120 total cards, that's over one in three) from the first box, not including cards that are in sub-sets as well as the regular one (i.e. "Silver Scripts" or "Puzzle Cards"), which probably brings the count up to 50%.
Considering I didn't even buy them at the same store... I was hugely disappointed with the card selection, which went like this:
Eight "High Numbers" cards, including the same two retired Hall Of Famers -
Bobby Hull and
Al MacInnis - but also doubles of
Filip Forsberg,
Alex Ovechkin, and
Henrik Zetterberg, as well as
Patrice Bergeron,
Jordan Eberle and
Roberto Luongo:
Once again, there were
three Rookie Cards, including duplicates of
Hudson Fasching and
Steven Santini, but also one of
Michael Matheson:
Plus the
Silver Script Rookie card of
Oskar Sundqvist:
And a
Gold Script Rookie card of
Tom Kuhnhackl, numbered 131/135:
There were six "Puzzle Cards", and 19 of players on Canadian teams, including three from my hometown
Montréal Canadiens,
David Desharnais,
Andrei Markov and
Alex Galchenyuk:
My
Leading Lights insert was of
Kyle Turris:
And I landed two
NHL Territory cards, featuring
Bo Horvat and
Adam Henrique:
Once again, the scans don't render these foil cards justice. They really are beautiful to the naked eye, particularly the Turris one.
I would probably have been satisfied pulling these cards one pack at a time, over the course of a few weeks; however, in two separate boxes purchased just days apart in opposite ends of the city, it feels like a bit of a letdown in terms of "hits".
My grade on the look remains, however, with a 8/10.
Selection gets a 6/10.
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