ryancalgary
Verified Trader
New scanner this weekend, so for now nada on that front. I don't love Certified, but was reasonably fun break. I don't mind the looks of Artifacts - except that I wish the base set was not split East v. West (don't love the yellow/gold cards).
Anyhow, to the results:
CERTIFIED
Inserts: Crosby Top Choice /500, Howard Potential /500, Butler Potential /250
RC: Thiessen (PIT) Auto /799
Parallels: Weber Mirror Gold 06/25, Frolik Mirror Emerald /5
Fabric of the Game: Kovalchuk /250, Varlamov /250
Fabric of the Game Auto: Marleau /25
Junior Legacy Combos: Spezza/Ott /250 (damn you Al Muir)
Not bad parallels, even if the names aren't ideal. Marleau jersey/auto is attractive. Not sure why Ott is on a multi-jersey card, surely there were better combos available.
ARTIFACTS 1
RC /999: Larsen (DAL), Pechurski (PIT)
Stars /999: Lundqvist, Perreault
Redemption: Carolina
Parallel: Halak Stars Emerald /50
Base Card Jersey: Gaborik /150
Treasured Swatches: Mike Richards /150
Tandems: Eric/Jordan Staal Patch /40 (Eric Red/White, Jordan White/Black with breaks)
Autofacts: Miller
Meh, nothing great in that one. But not bad names on the memoribilia/auto.
ARTIFACTS 2
RC /999: Bodnarchuk (BOS), Yip (COL)
Stars /999: Carter, Daniel Sedin
Redemption: Vancouver
Parallel: Subban Emerald /50
Base Card Jersey: Kopitar /150
Treasured Swatches: Mark Messier /150
Tandems: Vanek/Stafford /125
Autofacts: Caputi
Not a particularly good box at all. Ah well, there were some redeeming qualities.
ARTIFACTS 3
RC /999: Falk (MIN), Tangradi (PIT)
Stars /999: Doughty, Orr
Redemption: Wild Card 232
Parallel: Vanek stars /35
Autofacts: Pelech (at least he's a Flame)
Base Card Patch: Gagner /50 (White/Blue, Red/Blue/White with breaks)
Tandems: Sedin brothers /35
Frozen Artifacts: Gretzky /50
Very nice box without any monster hits - all cards were low-numbered and pretty good player selection on the higher-numbered stuff.
All in all - two patches from three boxes of Artifacts and some pretty good players. All is theoretically for sale/trade but I'm not going to lie - I've been pretty lazy lately.
Any thoughts on who the redemptions would be?
Anyhow, to the results:
CERTIFIED
Inserts: Crosby Top Choice /500, Howard Potential /500, Butler Potential /250
RC: Thiessen (PIT) Auto /799
Parallels: Weber Mirror Gold 06/25, Frolik Mirror Emerald /5
Fabric of the Game: Kovalchuk /250, Varlamov /250
Fabric of the Game Auto: Marleau /25
Junior Legacy Combos: Spezza/Ott /250 (damn you Al Muir)
Not bad parallels, even if the names aren't ideal. Marleau jersey/auto is attractive. Not sure why Ott is on a multi-jersey card, surely there were better combos available.
ARTIFACTS 1
RC /999: Larsen (DAL), Pechurski (PIT)
Stars /999: Lundqvist, Perreault
Redemption: Carolina
Parallel: Halak Stars Emerald /50
Base Card Jersey: Gaborik /150
Treasured Swatches: Mike Richards /150
Tandems: Eric/Jordan Staal Patch /40 (Eric Red/White, Jordan White/Black with breaks)
Autofacts: Miller
Meh, nothing great in that one. But not bad names on the memoribilia/auto.
ARTIFACTS 2
RC /999: Bodnarchuk (BOS), Yip (COL)
Stars /999: Carter, Daniel Sedin
Redemption: Vancouver
Parallel: Subban Emerald /50
Base Card Jersey: Kopitar /150
Treasured Swatches: Mark Messier /150
Tandems: Vanek/Stafford /125
Autofacts: Caputi
Not a particularly good box at all. Ah well, there were some redeeming qualities.
ARTIFACTS 3
RC /999: Falk (MIN), Tangradi (PIT)
Stars /999: Doughty, Orr
Redemption: Wild Card 232
Parallel: Vanek stars /35
Autofacts: Pelech (at least he's a Flame)
Base Card Patch: Gagner /50 (White/Blue, Red/Blue/White with breaks)
Tandems: Sedin brothers /35
Frozen Artifacts: Gretzky /50
Very nice box without any monster hits - all cards were low-numbered and pretty good player selection on the higher-numbered stuff.
All in all - two patches from three boxes of Artifacts and some pretty good players. All is theoretically for sale/trade but I'm not going to lie - I've been pretty lazy lately.
Any thoughts on who the redemptions would be?
