Box Break & Review - 2017-18 Parkhurst Hockey

After confirming Friday that Parkhurst hockey was sent to the States, I headed to a couple of Walmarts after work in search.  I only found one blaster (boo!), but at least I found one blaster.  I want to put the set together and perhaps complete the insert sets as well.

As I posted on A Pack To Be Named Later, it's difficult to be disappointed in the Walmart-exclusive Parkhurst product.  If you are, that's on you and you're a bad consumer.  The product delivers exactly what it should and perhaps more.  Last year, there was an unannounced "'Tis The Season" insert set that was pretty scarce.

The set is popular among set collectors.  It's a larger set, but it's down to 300 cards this season (it was 400 last year).  Also, no short prints are a part of the base set.  An additional bonus for some is the set containing some of the first game-action cards of Las Vegas Golden Knights players.

Every blaster contains 12 ten-card packs.  Typically you will receive one parallel or insert card per set.  I'm not going to "rate" sets and/or boxes, but if I did, I would probably give this a 10/10.  If you want inserts or high dollar cards, spend your money elsewhere for the card lottery.

The results...

Base Cards - 108 cards (36% of the complete set) with no duplicates.

Black Parallel (1:12 packs) - 1 - Clayton Keller

2017-18 Upper Deck Parkhurst - Black Border #275 Clayton Keller 

Red Parallel (1:3 packs) - 4 - 162 Rick Nash, 181 Matt Murray, 247 Dustin Byfuglien, 255 Adrian Kempe

2017-18 Upper Deck Parkhurst - Red Border #162 Rick Nash 

2017-18 Upper Deck Parkhurst - Red Border #181 Matt Murray

2017-18 Upper Deck Parkhurst - Red Border #247 Dustin Byfuglien 

2017-18 Upper Deck Parkhurst - Red Border #255 Adrian Kempe

International (1:5 packs) - 3 - PI-1 Sidney Crosby, PI-10 Erik Karlsson, PI-17 David Krejci

2017-18 Upper Deck Parkhurst - Parkhurst International #PI-1 Sidney Crosby 

2017-18 Upper Deck Parkhurst - Parkhurst International #PI-10 Erik Karlsson

2017-18 Upper Deck Parkhurst - Parkhurst International #PI-17 David Krejci 

Prominent Prospects (1:12 packs) - 1 - PP-3 Colin White

2017-18 Upper Deck Parkhurst - Prominent Prospects #PP-3 Colin White 

Blow The Horn - 1:10 packs - 1 - BH-7 Patrik Laine

2017-18 Upper Deck Parkhurst - Blow the Horn #SH-7 Patrik Laine 

East Vs. West (East 1:13 packs, West 1:13 packs) - 2 - E-7 Evgeni Malkin, W-7 Jonathan Toews

2017-18 Upper Deck Parkhurst - East vs. West #E-7 Evgeni Malkin 

2017-18 Upper Deck Parkhurst - East vs. West #W-7 Jonathan Toews 

If you're planning to put the set together, let me know.  Once I pick up a few more blasters up, perhaps we can help each other out.

If you shop online and haven't signed up and used ebates yet, you're missing out.  I also use it on eBay to get money back from purchases there.  Between referrals and cash back, I've gotten over $150 in a year (including $15 back on one Black Friday purchase last week).  FREE CARDS!  If you're on Twitter, please give me a follow.  Happy collecting!

Sportlots Mail - #3 of 11

I've posted two packages from one Sportlots purchase so far.  On to number three.  This one is a little different in that it's not just cards for the Russ Davis collection.  It's a little bit of a mixed bag. 

1998 Topps Minted In Cooperstown #202 Russ Davis

1998 Pacific Online Red #682 Russ Davis

1999 Upper Deck Victory #379 Russ Davis

These three cards now have me at 200 unique Russ Davis cards that are listed in the Sports Card Forum database.  The line now sits at 200/309/64.7%.

2015 Topps Heritage #344 Jedd Gyorko

2014 Allen and Ginter #12 Jedd Gyorko

While I don't believe I had the Allen & Ginter, I believe I have ten or so copies of the Heritage card.  Last time I tried to find them I couldn't, so for $.0.18 I picked this up "just in case." These two were the last two in the cart that I grabbed.  They weren't going to cost me any extra shipping, so why not?

All of the Blackhawks cards below had been in my cart on Sportlots for months and I'd just never completed the transaction.  Picking up the Davis and Gyroko cards from the seller was just an added bonus for me.

2013-14 Score Alternate Back #108 Brandon Bollig

I both love and hate that Score put these cards into their product.  They look like any other card, but it's the backs that make them different.  The card below is the back scan.  However, the normal base card backs were printed in black.

What I dislike about them isn't their scarcity, it's that likely people don't know about them.  I was never able to acquire a copy of this for my Andrew Shaw PC.  I never even saw one.  There are probably a handful sitting in some kids' box of cards and he has no idea how much I'd give to snag the Shaw copy.  UGH!

2013-14 Score Alternate Back #108 Brandon Bollig

2013-14 Score Red #102 Dave Bolland

2013-14 Score Red #101 Niklas Hjalmarsson

2013-14 Score Red #100 Viktor Stalberg

2013-14 Panini Prizm Red Prizms #122 Jonathan Toews

2013-14 Panini Prizm Red Prizms #126 Corey Crawford

2013-14 Panini Prizm Red Prizms #127 Patrick Sharp

2013-14 Panini Prizm Red Prizms #128 Brent Seabrook

2013-14 Panini Prizm Red Pulsar Prizms #124 Duncan Keith

I planned to get away from modern, but I've gravitated back on a few things.  Something I really enjoy are Blackhawks cards with black or red borders.  I know I'm not alone and that many collectors enjoy parallels with their teams' colors.  I'm not sure how active I will be in searching for them but at some point I will try and get some of them up on my want lists.  

If you shop online and haven't signed up and used ebates yet, you're missing out.  I also use it on eBay to get money back from purchases there.  Between referrals and cash back, I've gotten over $100 in about seven months.  FREE CARDS!  If you're on Twitter, please give me a follow.  Happy collecting!

COMC Compendium

com·pen·di·um

kəmˈpendēəm/

a collection of things, especially one systematically gathered.

When I made all my Black Friday purchases on COMC and had them sent, I got a handful of scratch-offs.  Three or four of them were for $3.99 (the basic shipping fee) off shipping, so I cashed one of them in.  This is the first of a few posts.  

I was really addicted to ePack for awhile.  I'm still logging in daily and getting my freebies.  From time to time I will try and make some trades to make some physical cards.  All of these cards below are ones that I "made" from ePack except for the blues.  They are so cheap that it's foolish to even build them.  

2016-17 Compendium Blue #83 Jack Johnson

2016-17 Compendium Blue #57 Marcus Kruger

2016-17 Compendium Blue #58 Erik Gustafsson

2016-17 Compendium Blue #59 Andrew Desjardins

2016-17 Compendium Blue #60 Jonathan Toews

2016-17 Compendium Blue #61 Trevor Van Riemsdyk

2016-17 Compendium Blue #62 Scott Darling

2016-17 Compendium Blue #63 Tanner Kero

2016-17 Compendium Blue #64 Artem Anisimov 

2016-17 Compendium Blue #65 Michal Rozsival 

2016-17 Compendium Blue #66 Richard Panik

2016-17 Compendium Blue #293 Josh Morrissey

2016-17 Compendium Red #57 Marcus Kruger

2016-17 Compendium Red #58 Erik Gustafsson

2016-17 Compendium Red #59 Andrew Desjardins

2016-17 Compendium Red #60 Jonathan Toews

2016-17 Compendium Red #61 Trevor Van Riemsdyk

2016-17 Compendium Red #62 Scott Darling

2016-17 Compendium Red #63 Tanner Kero 

2016-17 Compendium Red #64 Artem Anisimov

2016-17 Compendium Red #65 Michal Rozsival 

2016-17 Compendium Red #66 Richard Panik

2016-17 Compendium Red #83 Jack Johnson

2016-17 Compendium Gold #62 Scott Darling 

2016-17 Compendium Gold #83 Jack Johnson

2016-17 Compendium Heart And Soul #HS1 Jonathan Toews

Just a little bit of show and tell.  More coming over the next few days.

Happy collecting!