BOX BREAK - A Little Bit of Everything

My latest trip to Seattle last weekend brought a change to my hockey card buying habits. Let me set the scene: my family dropped into a Target to get a few last minute items, I went straight to the hockey card section. There was very small selection which I wasn't surprised to see since Seattle is a non-hockey city. Basically my ten dollars gave me two options. First, I could buy 3 packs of Pinnacle (I picked through the packs and picked 2 really thick packs that looked to have a GU hit inside. Second, something I've never seen before. Take a look...

I've never seen this before up in my neck of the woods. Let me say right now, I should have picked the packs of Pinnacle. But that price tag in the top right corner saying "9.99" and in the left the "Extreme Value" broke me down. I'm a sucker whenever I see anything where I can get extreme value quantity wise. As you can see there are 3 parts to this box.

PART 1

Included in a small brown box was 100 randomized hockey cards. These cards ranged from 1985-86 to 2009-10. This box produced a whole lot of crap but let's see my top 3 cards anyways.

#3

1985-86 Topps

Dave Lewis #66

#2

2009-10 Fleer Ultra

Rick Nash #42

Gold Medallion Version

#1

1990-91 Bowman

Patrick Roy #50

The 100 cards also contained an extra Kay Whitmore card for my goalie project. Something I really was interested in was if this box really did contain "Extreme Value". Let's take a look:

According to Beckett:

TOTAL CARDS - 100

TOTAL VALUE - $14.60

So far I've already beat my initial purchase of $9.99 by $4.61. So far, so good.

PART 2

PACK 1

2008-09 UD Series 1

Favorite card: Marc Staal #71

Daniel Carcillo #53

Rostislav Olesz #117

Ole-Kristian Tollefsen #146

Matthew Lombardi #171

PACK 2

2006-07 Fleer Ultra

This was probably the best pack of the bunch. It produced an Alex Ovechkin, a Curtis Sanford for my Goalie Project, and a Gold Medallion version of Ryan Kesler.

Favorite card: Ryan Kesler #193 (Gold Medallion Version)

Joe Sakic #49

Eric Lindros #67

Mathieu Garon #91

Dustin Brown #95

Curtis Sanford #168

Kyle Wellwood #184

Alex Ovechkin #196

PACK 3

2006-07 UD Series 2

Favorite card: Zdeno Chara #266

Mike Sillinger (Victory)

Brian Smolinski #296

Mark Rycroft #300

Jody Shelley #312

Mike York #374

Antero Niittymaki #393

Michael Peca #430

PACK 4

2009-10 Fleer Ultra

This was an interesting pack. That Alex Ovechkin insert in itself is an $8 card according to Beckett.

Favorite card: Alex Oveckin #SK1 (Scoring Kings Insert)

Ales Hemsky #58

Anze Kopitar #68

Eric Godard #163 (Gold Medallion Version)

Niklas Lidstrom #187

PART 3 

BONUS 

PACK 5

2006-07 UD Series 1

Mike Grier (Victory)

Mikko Koivu #347

Pavol Demitra #349

Radek Bonk #358

Colin White #367

Joe Corvo #385

Dominic Moore #408

Dainius Zubrus #447

ALL FIVE PACKS

TOTAL CARDS - 34

TOTAL VALUE - $29.90

TOTAL CARDS IN ALL - 134

TOTAL VALUE IN ALL - $44.50

So according to Beckett I made $34.51 on this purchase. Of course if I were to resell this crap bundle it would probably go on eBay starting at $5 IF THAT. All in all, disappointing purchase compared to what I could have gotten in 2 of the 3 packs of Pinnacle. 

Alex Auld - 3/3 COMPLETE! 26 TOTAL
Murray Bannerman - 1/3 COMPLETE! 1 TOTAL
Martin Brochu
Richard Brodeur - 1/3 COMPLETE! 2 TOTAL
Gary Bromley
Bruce Bullock
Sean Burke
Frank Caprice
Jacques Caron
Dan Cloutier - 1/3 COMPLETE! 1 TOTAL
Ed Dyck
Ken Ellacott
Bob Essensa - 3/3 COMPLETE! 13 TOTAL
Mike Fountain
Troy Gamble - 2/2 COMPLETE! 21 TOTAL
George Gardner
John Garrett - 1/3 COMPLETE! 1 TOTAL
Glen Hanlon
Johan Hedberg - 2/3 COMPLETE! 4 TOTAL
Rick Heinz
Corey Hirsch
Charlie Hodge
Arturs Irbe
Jason LaBarbera - 2/3 COMPLETE! 4 TOTAL
Ken Lockett
Roberto Luongo - 3/3 COMPLETE! 38 TOTAL
Drew MacIntyre - 1/3 COMPLETE! 1 TOTAL
Cesare Maniago - 1/3 COMPLETE! 1 TOTAL
Bob Mason
Dave McClelland
Steve McKichan
Kirk McLean
Rob McVicar - 1/1 COMPLETE! 1 TOTAL
Alfie Michaud
Tyler Moss
Mika Noronen - 2/3 COMPLETE! 5 TOTAL
Maxime Ouellet
Félix Potvin - 3/3 COMPLETE! 25 TOTAL
Andrew Raycroft - 1/3 COMPLETE! 6 TOTAL
Curt Ridley
Dany Sabourin - 2/3 COMPLETE! 2 TOTAL
Curtis Sanford - 3/3 COMPLETE! 7 TOTAL
Cory Schneider - 1/2 COMPLETE! 7 TOTAL
Corey Schwab
Petr Skudra - 3/3 COMPLETE! 4 TOTAL
Gary Smith
Garth Snow
Kevin Weekes
Steve Weeks
Kay Whitmore - 1/3 COMPLETE! 1 TOTAL
Dunc Wilson - 1/3 COMPLETE! 1 TOTAL
Wendell Young

GO NUCKS GO!