What is your All-Time favorite card release?

Some of the old sets are great but the double rc year was great for TC...some great cards popped out of the product.
Some of the newer ones, McDavid rc year stuff: Portfolios & Champs. The patches in Portfolios are some of the best in any UD product outside of The CUP, & you can’t beat on card autos from Champs. I might be bias on these products since I pulled a /6 quad of Subban out of my 1st box of Portfolio & the Gretzky mini auto and the McDavid SSP rc from the 1st box of Champs.

I think I have bought the equivalent amount of a case in each. They are very fun breaks IMO.
 
1992-93 Topps - because it was my first hockey set
1994-95 Topps Finest
2000-01 Gold Label
2003-04 Topps Pristine

Those are some of my favorite breaks. I guess I really liked Topps!
 
2003-04 Parkhurst Rookie, was a blast to rip.. ofcourse being in highschool at the time and opening a 300+ Dollar Box was a little bit of a bank breaker

2007-08 OPC Premier - was such a beautiful set, great subsets, nice looking Rookies, didn't break the bank for what you get in return

2003-04 Topps Pristine - Didn't open much of this, but I always loved the Encased Rookies
 
TanguayFan said:
The set that started it all: 90-91 Upper Deck.
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I am also going to cast my vote here. This would be the set that I opened my first ever box. I remember the different feel to the cards. I remember pulling the Patrick Roy from the box and being so happy.

A close second was OPC Premier from the same year although I couldn't afford to open boxes of this back in the day.
 
Wow, some great sets listed here. Pretty much all of them are bringing back some awesome memories. Honestly surprised to see the amount of Pro Set love, but it is hard to beat in terms of top to bottom inclusion. 1997 to about 2003 was my favorite time period of collecting (I'm only 31, so vintage wasn't possible while I was young) & seeing some of the sets listed so far really brings back some sets that I absolutely loved opening and chasing!
 
I didn't start collecting hockey until the 96-97 timeframe, so I missed the early 90s.

Maybe it was because of when I started, but I still love me some of the Pacific insert sets. The Glove-side Lasercuts, the Off the Glass. They were creative designs (if not tacky).
 
creasecollector said:
Going with 05-06 Parkhurst for the nostalgia :)
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Parkhurst name aside, don't ever use a set from 2005-06 and the word "nostalgia" in the same sentence, you're making some of us feel old ya young whippersnapper!

How old are you might I ask? I'm gonna go with 26-30 range. Just a guess and if you don't want to answer, that's cool, and if you want to message me privately, that's cool as well.:beer:
 
For myself, being one of HIs senior members,lol. It was 61-62 Parkhurst, the Keon rookie from the set is probably my favorite card of all time. Just a very clean design and look that I still love to this day. I'm really happy to see all the love for those early Pro Set offerings. It was in those days that I got back into collecting with my two sons and we enjoyed the heck out of those sets.
These days we seem to get too caught up in the hobby;s downfalls. I think we all know we can still enjoy this hobby by breaking it back down to the reasons most of us fell in love with collecting in the first place.
Happy collecting to everyone.
Dan.
 
RGM81 said:
Habs Centennial
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My favorite too! I remember the excitement at the release of it. The base set was a joy to build and I still look at it sometimes. I had some sweet hits in my boxes that I still PC. Sealed boxes dried pretty quick and the SP singles are still going for crazy money. Everything hard-signed, clean designs, strong checklist.

Parkhurst Original 6 Montreal was a joy too. I remember opening a box on the week of its release in 2004. The first time I was buying a box at release like that.

Forever Rivals, my first and only case break in my life. Right at release, pulled a cut Barilko auto and some nice hits.

PC BBr was a joy a few weeks ago too.

The only product focused on Habs that I never opened is Superlative BBR. Too expensive for my taste at that moment.


Every set focused on Habs is a pleasure for me :)
 
TheGriceBoys said:
Parkhurst name aside, don't ever use a set from 2005-06 and the word "nostalgia" in the same sentence, you're making some of us feel old ya young whippersnapper!

How old are you might I ask? I'm gonna go with 26-30 range. Just a guess and if you don't want to answer, that's cool, and if you want to message me privately, that's cool as well.:beer:
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I just turned 25 this year. :)
 
#1 1986/87 O-Pee-Chee, my favorite design of all time!!
#2 Anything from 1990/91 other than Bowman. Great designs that season
 
Crud. Several:

87/88 OPC - This is the year I really remember busting packs and chewing gum. I still have a good number of the bigger cards from this set, albeit I had to upgrade almost all of the significant cards. This was the last year of Gretzky the Oiler, and everyone in my school labeled him a traitor that summer (and coincidentally, a LOT of LA Kings caps were on the playground the following year). Looking back at the RC's (which meant zilch at the time) Robitaille, Oates, Vernon, Hextall, Damphousse, Richer, etc. were all fairly big names in the late 80's/early 90's.

90/91 Upper Deck - Suddenly collecting became a serious enterprise. People were actually paying MONEY for cards! Trades were no longer 1 for 1, regardless of player. I couldn't afford OPC premier, so UD became my jam, until it got too expensive as well. Even without Lindros and Belfour you could make an all-star team out of the RC's in this set.

98/99 ITG Be A Player: I was out of the hobby by 94, busy buying up punk and grunge CD's. By the time I left high school the hobby bug bit me once again. Tried 2 packs of this stuff thinking the concept was neat: Joe Thornton and Luc Robitaille gold ended up being my graphs, and I was back in the hobby.... at least until I had to be an adult full-time. At the time the Mats Sundin jersey I pulled from series 2 of this stuff was the biggest card I've ever pulled.

01/02 Fleer GOTG Auto's. Clean design, and a project that took me a few years to complete. Funny enough, when it first came out I only bought half a box or so, took my Tiger Williams and Bobby Smith auto's and called it a day. 7 years later I'd be waiting for the mail truck to deliver the Paul Henderson graph I needed to complete this set.

03/04 ITG Original Six. Where to begin: ITG was on absolute fire at this point. The Original Six line is probably the best team-dedicated product to ever hit the market. (ITG Franchises Canadian being the runner up). Fairly good value (unless you got one of those darned shooters jersey cards.... unless it was in the Rangers box....). For a brief period we all became kids again with this stuff, putting together sets of our favourite Original 6 teams. For whatever reason I did best with the Blackhawks boxes.
 

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