Rookies seeded 1:2 packs, 2 on 2 jersey 1:box, parallels to 100, parallels to 25, autos 1:288 (or 1:case if you prefer), and other random inserts that will probably fall in where there's none of the above. In other words..... yes, nothing has changed. You should get 'something' in every pack.
2 Doan 2 on 2 jerseys in this product, and I already have one of them. A few Dallas Star ones, but in reality, even if I don't get one of these, with 4 jerseys on a card, they book pretty high and have good trade value. Hoping also for a Doan in the parallels, but that would be quite a feat. I just want to open packs, really, and this was a good price. Here we go.
Pack 1 - Meszaros, Hunter, Brashear, Walker, McDonald, Brunette, UD Propoganda Card (I guess there will be one per pack aside from the jersey pack, so there's no need to mention it again I suppose), BJ Crombeen Rookie
7 cards in a pack now. Used to be 8, so that's different. Lots of foil on them as usual, and the normal embossed printed auto, which I've always liked.
Pack 2 - Frolov, Sykora, Brind'Amour, Boyes, Richards, Kariya, Setoguchi, Alexander the Gr8 insert
Nice that UD has finally acknowledged Ovechkin's existence.
Pack 3 - Luongo, SHAAAAANE DOOOOAAAAN, Steen, Roloson, Kane, Gaborik, Timonen, Tim Ramholt Rookie
8 cards in this pack, guess they're really trying to decoy. I have the Doan, but I need one more if I'm making a set. Good thing on these two, as then I don't have to focus on who Tim Ramholt is and why he needs a rookie card.
Pack 4 - Kessel, Nilsson, Olesz, Satan, Weiss, Gionta, Bouchard Gold 021/100, Thornton Marked By Valor insert
Two things. Unlikely now that I will get the Doan Gold. Also.... Thornton and Valor don't really go together, considering his playoff 'performances'.
Pack 5 - Perron, Samuelsson, Giguere, Hemsky, Kunitz, Erik Johnson, Leclaire, Blake Wheeler Rookie
Wheeler is a good one. Looking for the Brunnstrom and Neal, of course.
Pack 6 - Lalime, Langenbrunner, Backes, Hedberg, Stoll, Rob Blake, Ovechkin First Line Phenoms
Ah, inserts. Really, have they run out of ideas? That's the end of the left front row of packs.
Pack 7 - Datsyuk, Justin Williams, Thomas, Forsberg, Jason Williamsn, Madden, Russell, Teddy Purcell Rookie
Rookie cards aren't always great pulls.
Pack 8 - Savard, Burns, Sheppard, Jordan Staal, Wolski, Dubinsky, Erat, Lidstrom Marked By Valor
Now that's a player with Valor.
Pack 9 - Brule, Comrie, Knuble, Heatley, Guerin, Kopitar, Tanguay, Jakub Voracek Rookie
Brule, Comrie, Guerin, and Tanguay have always left their teams wanting more than they are given. Hopefully Kopitar and Voracek aren't sullied by being in the same pack.
Pack 10 - Bertuzzi, Kovalev, Hensick, Plekanec, Toews, Rafalski, St. Louis, Lafontaine Magnificent 7s insert
An insert set commemorating game 7 heroics is pretty cool. A new idea. From Upper Deck. Huh. Strange note - the cards stick together a little. That's odd.
Pack 11 - Legwand, Huet, Hudler, Zidlicky, Harding, Burish, Antropov, Mikkel Boedker Rookie
Boedker looked pretty good in his rookie year.
Pack 12 - Paille, Fisher, Samsonov, Rivet, Lombardi, Morrison, Franzen, Getzlaf First Line Phenoms
This card sticking thing is getting to me a little. If the product was a year or two old, fine. But these aren't that old.
Pack 13 - Budaj, Lehtonen, Pavelski, Weber, Vrbata, Laraque, Kesler, Sakic/Hejduk/Wolski/Smyth 2 on 2 jersey card, Clay Wilson Rookie
Well.... it's not an Oiler jersey card, but it is an Avs one. Why.... why must I pull Avs and Oilers so frequently? Anyway, $30 book, so that's not horrible.
Pack 14 - Getzlaf, Campbell, Eric Staal, Fleury, Langkow, Boogaard, Cullen, Alexander the Gr8 insert
I have AO1 and AO8. I wonder how many are in the set?
Pack 15 - Sakic, Gagner, Sharp, Byfuglien, Koivu, Godard, Ryan Miller, Kevin Porter Rookie
Two Coyote rookies that aren't Turris.
Pack 16 - Zherdev, Gonchar, Murray, Campoli, Daniel Sedin, Winnik, Phillips Gold 041/100, Eric Staal Marked By Valor
2 Golds. Almost for sure no Doan unless there's the one out of 25.
Pack 17 - Olli Jokinen, Stillman, Vokoun, Lecavalier, Havlat, Modano, Burrows, Niklas Hjalmarsson Rookie
Took a long time to get a Dallas Star.....
Pack 18 - Brodeur, Jovanovski, Biron, Tlusty, Lupul, Marian Hossa, Carter, Malkin First Line Phenoms
Lots of typing here. Getting tired.
Pack 19 - Lucic, Cole, Enstrom, Kozlov, Tucker, Whitney, Bergeron, Tom Sestito Rookie
Heheh. Cole does bubkis in Edmonton, then returns to Carolina to get them to the playoffs. Oilers even got screwed in the trade. Heheh.
Pack 20
They need to change up insert sets because they have the same players in each one. How about a "He'll Get What's Coming To Him" insert set? Burrows, Cooke, Jarkko Ruutu, Downie, Gauthier, Avery..... man, that could be a HUGE set.
Pack 21 - Henrik Sedin, Regehr, Weight, Jack Johnson, Clarkson, Christensen, Gerber, Danny Taylor Rookie
I'm not getting very good rookies in this box. Just saying.
Pack 22 - Parise, Boucher, Ribiero, Drury, Mikko Koivu, Sturm, Arnott, Brodeur Magnificent 7s
The M7 set was clearly started prior to this year's playoffs.
Pack 23 - Kostitsyn, Labarbara, Parros, Laperierre, Elias, Markov, Orr, Garrett Stafford Rookie
I'm getting the worst of rookies for each team. Seriously. All but the good ones.
Pack 24 - Valiquette, Aucoin, Bouwmeester, Chara, Latendresse, Nash, Vermette, Mueller First Line Phenoms
Well then.
So as a break goes, that wasn't very good. The jersey is definitely a trader - at least a good one - but aside from the Wheeler, I got pretty much nothing with the rookies. Lots of inserts, and I should be halfway to a base set, but..... well, this was a pack ripper box. Too much typing though. I did buy two other packs of Between The Pipes and got an auto. So not a complete loss overall. Yeah, I'll go with that.
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