Another Autumn, another food-based hockey set, namely
Upper Deck's
2017-18 Tim Hortons series:
At $2 a pop for 3 cards (or one pack at $1 per beverage purchase), it's still a tad on the expensive side, but they look great, so much so that the
Tim Horton one looks like it's extremely low-resolution in comparison to the
Connor McDavid:
Each pack contains two base cards and one insert; my base card list reads as follows thus far:
1.
Tim Horton
2.
Duncan Keith
11.
Anze Kopitar
25.
William Nylander
38.
Nikolaj Ehlers
49.
Bo Horvat
64.
Mikael Granlund
84.
Steven Stamkos
97.
Connor McDavid
98.
David Pastrnak
Among the inserts that are back from previous years is the
Game Day Action sub-set, of which I pulled a
Max Pacioretty commemorating his first career four-goal game:
The young players have an altered sub-set now titled
Clear Cut Phenoms, of which I pulled
Patrik Laine, which I have already seen sell online at around $20 a pop:
Among new sub-sets is
Stat Makers, which has golden foil, as seen on this
Sean Monahan card (the silver in the scan actually looks gold in real life):
And, in celebration of the NHL's Centennial, the checklist cards this year feature players who were chosen among the league's Top 100;
Patrick Kane and
Sidney Crosby fit the bill:
All told, they still look pretty cool.
Completing the set will probably almost prove impossible again, and many of the players featured are stars too "big" to sign autographs for adults like myself, but the cards do look really cool.
I'll rate this one a solid 8.5/10.
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