Saturday, June 13, 2009

07-08 OPC blasters

Found 07-08 O-Pee-Chee blasters for cheap, so I bought two. Still missing a fair bit of this set. Anyway, here goes.

BOX 1
Oversized Card - Martin Brodeur

Pack 1
- SHAAAANE DOAAAN, Saku Koivu, Vanek, Hasek, Craig Weller Rookie, McLean
Sign of good things?

Pack 2 - Gomez, Gorges, Stajan, Hordicuk, 89-90 Zarley Zalapski card, Avery
1:36 pull on the buyback. Still.....

Pack 3 - Holmqvist, Walker, Smithson, Pettinger, Jonathan Towes rookie, Hemsky
That's a nice rookie pull.

Pack 4 - Klee, Recchi, Harding, Lalime, Dallas Stars team card!, Stastny
Nice!

Pack 5 - Dupuis, Luongo, Kubina, Roy, Matt Niskanen rookie, Regehr
Doan, buyback, Toews, Stars short print, Stars rookie. Can't complain about this blaster.

Pack 6 - Knuble, Pyatt, Samuelsson, Oduya, Fedotenko, Brind'Amour micromotion insert
The Micromotion cards are nice.

Pack 7 - Fisher, Lilja, Stillman, Barnes, Bryan Little rookie, Leclaire
Decent rookie, and a Dallas Star in the pack. Wonder if Stu keeps his coaching job with Tippett gone.....

Pack 8 - Hamhuis, Garon, Backes, Zidlicky, Sidney Crosby Season Highlights, Adams
Any pack with a Crosby is a decent one.

Pack 9 - Legace, Carter, Tuomo Ruutu, Legwand, Pierre Parenteau rookie, Ohlund
Eesh. From Little and Toews to Pierre Parenteau, who is pictured in a Hawks jersey but is already Rangers property. The back of the card says one thing about him, and that the Rangers are actually his THIRD team. As long as he remembers to ask if people want fries with that, he should be successful.

Pack 10 - Morrisonn, Martinek, Ward, Krajicek, Mitchell, Nabokov
Huh.

Pack 11 - Streit, Vlasic, Horton, Parrish, Tyler Weiman rookie, Plekanec
After the first 8 packs being all decent, the last three..... yeah, not much there.

Pack 12 - Afinogenov, Calder, Colton Orr, Hudler, Malkin InAction, Kozlov
That's better.

Pack 13 - Labarbara, Roloson, Tootoo, Jagr, Lauri Tukonen, Arnott
Huh.

Good blaster. Getting tired of making quotes, so I think I'll run the next one real time, then make comments.

BOX 2
Oversized card
- Evgeni Malkin
Pack 1
- Luongo, Kubina, Fisher, Moen, Spezza, Kozlov
Pack 2 - Brind'Amour, Scott Thornton, Larose, De Vries, Curtis Glencross rookie, Salei
Pack 3 - Lilja, Legace, Carter, Tellqvist, Carolina Hurricanes team card, Malholtra
Pack 4 - Straka, Zednik, Sillinger, Hollweg, Rob Schremp rookie, Niittymaki
Pack 5 - Ruutu, Streit, Vlasic, Kaberle, Jason Williams, Chelios
Pack 6 - Witt, Hossa, Mikko Koivu, Miller, Torrey Mitchell rookie, Sturm
Pack 7 - Labarbara, Roloson, Connolly, Steen, Teemu Selanne Season Highlights, McLean
Pack 8 - Torres, Rozsival, Park, Klepis, Ville Koistinen rookie, Avery
Pack 9 - Tootoo, Dawes, Carney, Handzus, 81-82 Charlie Simmer Super Action, Clark micromotion
Pack 10 - Shelley, Lecavalier, Satan, Pisani, Andy Greene rookie, Hemsky
Pack 11 - Slater, Zajac, Miettinen, Malone, Martin Brodeur InAction, Stastny
Pack 12 - Veilleux, Laperriere, Jason Blake, Svitov, Ryan Carter rookie, Regehr
Pack 13 - Hilbert, Ouellet, Iginla, Warrender, Nylander, Leclaire

Well, the second blaster was garbage, and strangely had a LOT of doubles from the first one.