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For the past couple of months, every time I'd seen boxes of
Upper Deck's
2020-21 Series 1 boxes, they were well over $200, because the market was going nuts for
a certain rookie card. They're
back around $120 at the moment for retail boxes, so I thought I'd give the product another try.
I was able to land a couple of foil
Dazzler cards of
Anze Kopitar and
Sidney Crosby, though the Crosby is dented and has the bottom-right portion of the card bent:
It'll have no retail value, but my kids will be able to play with it and I won't get a heart attack if they tear it apart
I got three "regular-issue"
Canvas cards, featuring
Jonathan Huberdeau in a weird angle,
Roman Josi playing soccer, and a view from the ceiling of Bell MTS Place of
Kyle Connor (look closely, he's there):
There was also this great-looking
Canvas Young Guns card of
Pavel Francouz:
I pulled a jersey card of
Braden Holtby, featuring three-dimensional round spots:
I guess I'll have to not only get used of the
Portraits sub-set, but also of getting repeated duplicates of
Jack Hugues,
Max Domi and
Nathan MacKinnon:
But this
Portraits Rookie card of
Martin Kaut was a pretty sweet pull:
Of course, the main reason why the cost of these boxes went sky-high is the
Young Guns inserts, such as
Lucas Carlsson and
Martin Kaut:
There is also
Artem Zagidulin and
Ryan McLeod:
And, yes (FINALLY! On my second Retail box, after two Tins!)
Alexis Lafrenière and
Kieffer Bellows:
Of note, because of the closed border and confinement rules, the picture was taken at my alma mater, Collège Notre-Dame, where (former) NHLers
Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre,
Ben Guité, Mathieu Darche,
Tom Draper and
Alex Burrows also played, as well as
Team Canada Olympians
Ann-Sophie Bettez and
Lauriane Rougeau.
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