Sports Cards Live tonight @ 10pm ET/7pm Pacific: Chris Barr (aka: vegaspuck) Panini Basketball Brand Manager

[gomaz]

Well team, here's a blast from the HI past, long-time member and friend to many here, Chris Barr @vegaspuck will be joining me tonight for an in-depth discussion about his industry experience and lead up to starting his job with Panini in 2012 as well as his collector history, the process of creating a set of cards, the differences between being a collector and a brand manager, the basketball and soccer markets as well as the International card market. And of course, Zion mania. And yeah, we will be touching on hockey too as he still does collect it!

Viewer questions and comments will be in play as always, so please join us.

 

[will-411]

Wow... Crazy to think of meeting Chris all those years ago at Expo when he was just a Flyers collector... lol

I've missed the last few but am hoping to catch up on this one. Looking forward to it! Thanks Jeremy!

Cory

 

[pwag31]

gotta try to stay up for this one tonight, should be a good one

 

[SNobles]

I am very interested in this. I know it isn’t a hockey only show but I hope he can speak to their time with a license.

 

[gomaz]

I am very interested in this. I know it isn’t a hockey only show but I hope he can speak to their time with a license.

Yes we will be covering the time with the license and the final year of it.

 

[odjickfan]

I wasn't aware that vegaspuck has now such a high job at Panini. An exclusive for a large market like basketball is serious business!

 

[malsk]

Great interview again. So much great info.

Chris said one of his favorite moments was meeting Lindros at the VIP event. The event itself was one of my favorite moments. I really miss those.

Some key takes aways for me:

In regards to parallels...Panini wanted something different in all formats so the product was not sitting on the shelves...listening UD?

He is so bang on about Prizm Hockey....McDavid Silver and Gold parallels would have been amazing...such is life.

 

[SNobles]

I enjoyed the interview as well.

Wish we could get them back into the hockey market as I am one of those collector who loves inserts and parallels which they seem to do very well.

 

[incetardis]

They've been coming up with great inserts the past few years, really wish we could get another taste!