HammerHawks
THE Niklas Hjalmarsson Super Collector, Verified T
Moving on to the next part of the series, player PC additions!
I'll start out with a NEW player PC...Brogan Rafferty! Brogan has been involved (attended and then coached) at the hockey camp I have been involved with (same as Slavin and Whitmore), so I was happy he got some cards. Still hoping he will get some more throughout the year.
^His only true rookie to date so far.
Actually have two Retro Blacks...first one has some surface damage, so I grabbed another.
If you don't see it shown above, I need it! That means Red, Red Blank Back, and Retro Blank Back!
Next, one lonely Derek Whitmore addition, though I actually do have another copy of this one incoming!
Some Christian Fischer pickups:
^Had a copy of the Synergy Red, but it also had surface damage, so I finally got around to grabbing another. This one (both of these cards, actually) came in the lot of low-end rookies mentioned in my previous posts.
^Was thrilled to finally get each of these. Now for a YG High Gloss...
Moving on to the biggest sections! First up, Jaccob Slavin!
This is my fourth copy of the card, but I like it a lot, and got this one for a good price, so why not?
^Really love the photo UD used on this card!
And a big grouping of this year's OPC!
Just need the Red Blank Back to finish the rainbow. "Just." Those things can be a huge pain to find...Hjalmarsson is the only of my four main PC guys that have them that I own right now. Haven't even seen a single copy of any of the others (Slavin, Dzingel, Rafferty).
And finally, wrapping up with Ryan Dzingel!
^Need Red, Red Blank Back, and Gold to complete his rainbow.
And finally, a HUGE addition for my Dzingel collection.
I had been looking to grab a copy of this card for years, really ever since it came out. The few copies I have seen were listed for crazy high prices or sold for more than I wanted to pay at the time.
Well, this one finally popped up a while back and I was able to agree on a price with the seller. It was higher than I wanted, but I was tired of trying to find one for a good price. Bite the bullet and call it good.
Not so fast.
I keep an eye on the tracking and all looks good. Then, out of nowhere, the tracking stops getting updated when it arrived at a USPS distribution center. I wait a week or so and nothing. No card, no update. This led to opening a case with the USPS, and nothing really happened, of course.
So after all that, and waiting a few more weeks, the seller gave me a refund, which was nice of them given it clearly was not their fault.
So, I figure that I will have to wait another few years to grab a copy, sigh.
Then, out of absolutely no where weeks later, a mangled bubble mailer inside a sealed plastic bag lands in my mailbox. Could it be? Is the card somehow okay even though the bubble mailer is literally destroyed?
Yes.
FINALLY!
:dance:
I'll start out with a NEW player PC...Brogan Rafferty! Brogan has been involved (attended and then coached) at the hockey camp I have been involved with (same as Slavin and Whitmore), so I was happy he got some cards. Still hoping he will get some more throughout the year.
^His only true rookie to date so far.
Actually have two Retro Blacks...first one has some surface damage, so I grabbed another.
If you don't see it shown above, I need it! That means Red, Red Blank Back, and Retro Blank Back!
Next, one lonely Derek Whitmore addition, though I actually do have another copy of this one incoming!
Some Christian Fischer pickups:
^Had a copy of the Synergy Red, but it also had surface damage, so I finally got around to grabbing another. This one (both of these cards, actually) came in the lot of low-end rookies mentioned in my previous posts.
^Was thrilled to finally get each of these. Now for a YG High Gloss...
Moving on to the biggest sections! First up, Jaccob Slavin!
This is my fourth copy of the card, but I like it a lot, and got this one for a good price, so why not?
^Really love the photo UD used on this card!
And a big grouping of this year's OPC!
Just need the Red Blank Back to finish the rainbow. "Just." Those things can be a huge pain to find...Hjalmarsson is the only of my four main PC guys that have them that I own right now. Haven't even seen a single copy of any of the others (Slavin, Dzingel, Rafferty).
And finally, wrapping up with Ryan Dzingel!
^Need Red, Red Blank Back, and Gold to complete his rainbow.
And finally, a HUGE addition for my Dzingel collection.
I had been looking to grab a copy of this card for years, really ever since it came out. The few copies I have seen were listed for crazy high prices or sold for more than I wanted to pay at the time.
Well, this one finally popped up a while back and I was able to agree on a price with the seller. It was higher than I wanted, but I was tired of trying to find one for a good price. Bite the bullet and call it good.
Not so fast.
I keep an eye on the tracking and all looks good. Then, out of nowhere, the tracking stops getting updated when it arrived at a USPS distribution center. I wait a week or so and nothing. No card, no update. This led to opening a case with the USPS, and nothing really happened, of course.
So after all that, and waiting a few more weeks, the seller gave me a refund, which was nice of them given it clearly was not their fault.
So, I figure that I will have to wait another few years to grab a copy, sigh.
Then, out of absolutely no where weeks later, a mangled bubble mailer inside a sealed plastic bag lands in my mailbox. Could it be? Is the card somehow okay even though the bubble mailer is literally destroyed?
Yes.
FINALLY!
:dance:
