2x boxes 97-98 Score
I got these for $18 a box...feels a lil bit expensive but whatever. I thought maybe I might get some sort of Mask card as these boxes have a big Cujo mask on the front and a big Pinnacle logo as well...but I found out that's the company logo, not the product logo.
But I was still pleasantly surprised to get some nice cards. No base set though 
Check It! I always thought Amurol/Score/Pinnacle to be a second rate company who only cared about beating Topps old bubblegum cards. So I never broke much of this company's stuff including this product (which made it more fun for me to break this for the first time). But credit where credit is due, they made some of the best and most memorable subset inserts ever. Check-It, Pinnacle B, Z-Team, Nifty Fifty and of course Masks.
Pinnacle I think actually helped alter the collectors' mindshare (better and worse) to make goalies cooler and thus more collectible. Wish someone would do the same for defensemen although the number of talented defensemen in hockey, nearly all due to the 2003 and 2008 draft classes, are certainly raising the position's profile.
The EPIX card is a rather common card. What you want is Moment and the color to be green (Emerald). So the best EPIX card their matrix is Emerald Moment Wayne Gretzky. Weirdest and most complicated insert set ever. If one day I'm rich, I may go about and build the entire, entire set. I'm sure someone out there did. 
Pretty nice Hasek Artists Proof. There may be 10 guys in the set of 100 who were top players then and another 5 or so who became memorable later, where if you get their AP, you did good. And then there are like 280+ where if you hit average joe hockey player, you got rocked. So even though it's not numbered, auto'ed or memorabilia'ed, I still like the card!
The foil Roy (zomg foreshadow) is like a Rink Collection base set parallel. Not quite as good as AP.
Fun thing was I was opening these packs at the show, next to a large waste basket and people would walk by, look at the bright yellow wrappers and go WTF has a yellow wrapper? (not Magic, Yu Gi Oh, non-sport or sport...quite baffling to them!)
I might go back to this dealer who had more boxes (so I can make the base set)...he also had a bunch of odd UD 90s boxes as well, some possible Game Jersey hit, some just for the memories. I'll go make him an offer for about 2/3rds what he's asking and take everything. Judging by the amount of dust on these boxes, he ought to do it but probably won't.
Next, some UD base brand, which has now taken over as my favorite brand in hockey.
- R
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PS - You guys ever find yourself scanning and uploading as fast as possible, racing to beat Photobucket before the annoying commercial video plays?? 
