Top 10 - McDavid, Matthews and Eichel!

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This year I have spent most of my focus collecting the "generational" talent players: Eichel, McDavid and Matthews. Of course I've added a few Ovechkin's and Crosby's along the way as well.

If you're on instagram and want to see more of my collection, check out high_end_rookies.





10. Some of my rarer Eichel's share this spot. I have a few copies of Eichels' YG exclusives, but had been after a higher grade for awhile. After narrowly missing out on his YG exclusives PSA 10, I eventually worked out a deal here for the BGS 9.5, which is only pop 13 - thanks again @charnick ! I think my favourite here is the SP FW gold limited /25, which is actually the highest grade available (although there are 3 PSA 10s out there). I'm still after his SPGU /15 and the YG high gloss.

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9. Eichel Cup rainbow. I'm partial to 3+ colour/top set patches, but the cup /99 features the Sabres' sword cross which apparently is the only one in the entire print run! The gold is 09/24 which is Eichel's current jersey number.

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8. I had been looking to pick up a Matthews ARP, and really liked the design and concept of this set, being limited to jersey number. I had my eyes set on a McD Exquisite /97, but that will hopefully be a 2019 pickup.

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7. Maybe my favourite parallel, the Young Guns Exclusives. I actually have a 4th Exclusives that is "true gem", but I took that one straight to the safety deposit box. (Included the high gloss in the pic just to look complete)

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6. I've wanted this ever since I first started collecting, so when one was offered to me I pulled the trigger. Without doubt, he is the best goal scorer I've ever seen.

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5. I've had multiple copies of this card, but this is the highest grade I've owned. There is only 1 BGS 10 in the pop report, and then this is the second highest grade, being only 0.5 away from a 10!

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4. I really like Ice Premieres, and I really like McDavid...enough said.

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Now for the Top 3



3. I accidentally won this card (I thought I'd be outbid). One of my better mistakes of 2018, LOL

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2. This card is so beautiful, and so scarce.

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1. This was a local pick-up, and the cornerstone to my Matthews' PC.
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That's about as average of a year as it gets, right? Jokes aside, that is a haul of a lifetime, so to do all that in one year is mind boggling.
 
Thanks all!

Very Very nice!
How about adding some Foil YGs to make a more complete rainbow?

I actually have a couple silver foils, they just didn't make it on to this list.

I don't have an ePack account, and TBH, I'm actually not a huge fan of the foil YGs. The concept seems a little obscure to me - an easy one to skip, IMO. I don't have any of the oversized YGs either.

I'm pretty sure the McD rainbow foil was never made, hence all the undervalued silver foils on the market; and if I recall correctly, the Matthews rainbow foil is pop 1?
 
I love the foil YGs, they are underappreciated IMO. The Mcdavid Does exist and has been going up in value from my monitoring, I actually own 2 of them! The last I checked there were upwards of 300-400 graded on Beckett.

I have seen far less Matthews on the market.



I actually have a couple silver foils, they just didn't make it on to this list.

I don't have an ePack account, and TBH, I'm actually not a huge fan of the foil YGs. The concept seems a little obscure to me - an easy one to skip, IMO. I don't have any of the oversized YGs either.

I'm pretty sure the McD rainbow foil was never made, hence all the undervalued silver foils on the market; and if I recall correctly, the Matthews rainbow foil is pop 1?[/QUOTE]
 
I love the foil YGs, they are underappreciated IMO. The Mcdavid Does exist and has been going up in value from my monitoring, I actually own 2 of them! The last I checked there were upwards of 300-400 graded on Beckett.

I have seen far less Matthews on the market.

I'm referring to the rainbow gold foil - which requires you to turn in 5 silver foil's to make one, exclusively on ePack (25 base set YGs total). I don't think the McDavid YG rainbow gold foil has been made. And I know of only one Matthews Rainbow gold foil.

The silver foils are under appreciated for a reason, they are typically worth less than the 5 base set YGs required to make one. I think people had realized this with McDavid, which might explain why there are fewer Matthew's silver foil YGs.

Just FYI:
- the BGS pop report for McDavids' silver foil YG shows a total of 128: 8 BGS 10s, 114 BGS 9.5s
- The rainbow gold foil YG is not in the pop report for McD
- the BGS pop report for Matthews' silver foil YG shows a total of 9: 1 BGS 10, 8 BGS 9.5
- The rainbow gold foil YG for Matthews is pop 1 (BGS 9.5). I knew the previous owner of this card.
 

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