Welcome To 2020

Well I hope everyone has a wonderful New Year’s Eve; I spent my evening organizing my collection. I have a drawer that is a card collect-all. Whenever I receive cards, they go in to the drawer until I have time to go through them. To let you know how bad my collect-all drawer was, I had cards from my COMC Spring sale still sitting in there. Yes, I was that far behind.

Last night I got through most of the cards, there is still a Monsters from Hell Kickstarter set that I need to go through and a handful of NBA cards and then I will be all caught up. Today’s card comes from the drawer. 

Today is the NHL’s Winter Classic so let's go with one of the few NHL cards in my collection, a 2012-13 Panini Limited Net Assets.

The back of the card talks about the 2011 NHL All-Star Skills Competition and the net is described as “event used” so I figured the net was probably from the competition, which is fine.

Preview: 2012-13 Panini Limited Hockey

As hockey fans continue to wonder when the lockout may end Panini is finishing up the final details for the release of Limited Hockey. Set for a December 26^th release date boxes will run $100 and contain 7 cards, which at least 3 will be hits, either autographs or memorabilia.

 

Box Break:

3 Autographs or Memorabilia cards

 

The set will consist of 150 base cards and 3 subsets; 30 Captains, 20 Retired Captains and 40 autographed Phenoms Rookies. The base cards will be #/299 and the Captains & Retired Captains subsets will be #/99. The autographed Phenoms are #/299 or less plus there will also be a 1/1 parallel.

 

I am not a big fan of the base card design; it reminds me more of what I would expect from Titanium or one of the other Pacific-rebirth hockey products. The Net Crashers and Manufacturers Mark relic cards are pretty cool, I like that the companies are looking to go with more original relics like the net strings and shoe strings from the skates.

 

Even though this is only $100 (pretty standard for Panini products), I would put this more on the upper-end product list because you only get 7 cards out of the box. While I can justify paying $100 for 3-4 hits out of a standard Panini product I cannot see paying that price here, the difference being 20-24 packs versus 1 pack. I just find opening 20 packs more enjoyable than a single pack, there is the hope and anticipation each time you rip one open.

 

It does not help that the NHL season seems more like a dream as each day passes. It should be noted that only games through November have been cancelled so if an agreement were to be reached games could potentially begin December 1^st and run on a shortened season schedule.