Which Year Has The Best RCs?

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With the lockout, I got bored and figured: why not look back at the past decade's RCs and why not do it in a way that's beneath the sophistication of HI members : )

After 05-06 (and I guess 07-08), what RC year will prove to have the best players when it's all over and how do the rest rank? Will set value correlate? For reference, I ranked the top 10 players each year in FWA form roughly from best to worst. Any mistakes?


2001-02 SP Authentic:
#145 Pavel Datsyuk RC $60
#175 Ilya Kovalchuk AU RC $150
#139 Erik Cole RC $10
#177 Kristian Huselius AU RC $25
#131 Ilja Bryzgalov RC $10
#157 Martin Erat RC $5
#162 Mikael Samuelsson RC $5
#153 Pascal Dupuis RC $5
#148 Jason Chimera RC $5
#180 Raffi Torres AU RC $30


2002-03 SP Authentic:
#186 Henrik Zetterberg AU RC $100
#137 Tim Thomas RC $50
#191 Jason Spezza AU RC $100
#166 Ryan Miller RC $30
#184 Rick Nash AU RC $100
#155 Patrick Sharp RC $12
#197 Ales Hemsky AU RC $25
#188 Alexander Frolov AU RC $25
#174 Craig Andersson RC $30
#187 Jay Bouwmeester AU RC $20


2003-04 SP Authentic:
#137 Eric Staal AU RC $50
#146 Patrice Bergeron AU RC $50
#158 Alexander Semin AU RC $30
#150 Dustin Brown AU RC $40
#153 Marc-Andre Fleury AU RC $80
#143 Nathan Horton AU RC $30
#155 Milan Michalek AU RC $25
#164 Jason Pominville RC $30
#111 Ryan Kesler RC $15
#136 Joffrey Lupul AU RC $30


2005-06 SP Authentic:
#181 Sidney Crosby AU RC $700
#190 Alexander Ovechkin AU RC $400
#171 Henrik Lundqvist AU RC $100
#131 Ryan Getzlaf AU RC $50
#167 Zach Parise AU RC $60
#132 Corey Perry AU RC $30
#155 Jim Howard AU RC $40
#178 Mike Richards AU RC $30
#147 Duncan Keith AU RC $25
#177 Jeff Carter AU RC $30


2006-07 SP Authentic:
#196 Evgeni Malkin AU RC $200
#184 Anze Kopitar AU RC $60
#187 Shea Weber AU RC $40
#200 Kristopher Letang AU RC $50
#163 Phil Kessel AU RC $50
#219 Joe Pavelski RC $12
#218 David Backes RC $10
#174 Paul Stastny AU RC $50
#176 Loui Eriksson AU RC $25
#209 Alexander Edler AU RC $20


2007-08 SP Authentic:
#203 Jonathan Toews AU RC $125
#177 Jonathan Quick RC $150
#204 Patrick Kane AU RC $100
#225 Carey Price AU RC $120
#250 Nicklas Backstrom AU RC $60
#193 Bobby Ryan AU RC $40
#230 Ryan Callahan AU RC
#201 Tuukka Rask AU RC $150
#199 Milan Lucic AU RC $25
#223 Jaroslav Halak AU RC $40


2008-09 SP Authentic:
#237 Claude Giroux AU RC $135
#247 Steven Stamkos AU RC $150
#231 Alex Pietrangelo AU RC $30
#183 Cory Schneider RC $25
#244 Drew Doughty AU RC $50
#198 James Neal AU RC $30
#178 Max Pacioretty RC $30
#195 Brandon Sutter AU RC $15
#219 Blake Wheeler AU RC $20
#242 Alex Goligoski AU RC $20


2009-10 SP Authentic:
#201 John Tavares AU RC $120
#203 Matt Duchene AU RC $80
#223 Jamie Benn AU RC $40
#209 Erik Karlsson AU RC $60
#259 Logan Couture AU RC $40
#207 Evander Kane AU RC $40
#222 Ryan O'Reilly AU RC $25
#260 Brad Marchand AU RC $40
#211 Tyler Myers AU RC $25
#204 Colin Wilson AU RC $25


2010-11 SP Authentic:
#281 Jordan Eberle AU RC $80
#295 Jeff Skinner AU RC $60
#301 Tyler Seguin AU RC $120
#280 Taylor Hall AU RC $100
#262 Derek Stepan AU RC $25
#277 Brayden Schenn AU RC $50
#271 P.K. Subban AU RC $60
#307 Cam Fowler AU RC $25
#249 Marcus Johansson AU RC $30
#269 Anders Lindback AU RC $15


2011-12 SP Authentic:
#248 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins AU RC $200
#247 Gabriel Landeskog AU RC EXCH $80
#246 Sean Couturier AU RC $40
#230 Adam Larsson AU RC $25
#227 Mika Zibanejad AU RC $30
#224 Cody Hodgson AU RC $50
#245 Ryan Johansen AU RC $25
#231 Matt Read AU RC $25
#228 Mark Scheifele AU RC $40
#239 Adam Henrique AU RC $40


My ranking for best crop of players goes as follows:

1) 05-06
2) 07-08
3) 09-10
4) 06-07
5) 10-11
6) 11-12
7) 08-09
8) 02-03
9) 01-02
10) 03-04
 
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08/09 looks pretty good with Stamkos, Giroux, Doughty and Pietrangelo. If Schneider plays in Vancouver like he can...:devil: Max Pac, Voracek and James Neal just add to it. If Steve Mason had lived up to his hobby potential it would be crazy. But yeah, after 05/06 everything pales in comparison. Till 2013/14...hopefully.
 
thedewk said:
08/09 looks pretty good with Stamkos, Giroux, Doughty and Pietrangelo. If Schneider plays in Vancouver like he can...:devil: Max Pac, Voracek and James Neal just add to it. If Steve Mason had lived up to his hobby potential it would be crazy. But yeah, after 05/06 everything pales in comparison. Till 2013/14...hopefully.
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How much of an effect did the last lockout have on 05-06? Was it just a rookie pileup or is 05-06 more than 2x better than any other release?
 
05/06-07/08-08/09

Not only did 05/06 benefit from multiple great draft years - 03, 04, 05. The double rookies makes it hard to beat.

After #2 arguments could be made for a few of those years.
 
hextall27 said:
05/06-07/08-08/09

Not only did 05/06 benefit from multiple great draft years - 03, 04, 05. The double rookies makes it hard to beat.

After #2 arguments could be made for a few of those years.
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This. Plus Crosby and Ovechkin captured the imagination of a whole new generation of hockey fans/collectors. Generational talents tend to do that I guess.

With the lockout and chance the season may not start before December, teams that have players in junior hockey may just leave them there for the season to develop. That loads up the following years' releases as it did from 03-05. Were the season to be cancelled(worst case scenario) the rookies for 2013/14 could possibly include Yakupov, Galchenyuk, Murray, MacKinnon, Jones, Monahan, Barkov, etc plus all the previously drafted and signed players who would have came up for their first season in 2012/13. It really juices the cardboard at the expense of the fans.
 
If you're talking players, then 1990-91 has to enter the topic, tons of star RC's that year and 1991-92 was also solid.
 
on a hobby perspective,obviously it would be '05-'06 first and '07-'08 right behind.i would put my vote in for '03-'04 for third based on players who have won the Cup.
Staal
Bergeron
Brown
MA Fleury
Horton

until the newer YG's actually step up and prove their mettle,i'll go with this rookie class.
 
05-06 witout tinest doubt if during the 2000's...but you forgot Cam Ward at that year?

It was ineed a amazing season rookie-wise, but could be more amazing because of that Geno Malkin was actually going to debut at that season but decided to playing one more year in russia instead, or am I dead-wrong?

But Henrik Lundqvist only at $100??? His ARP's from The Cup are quite expensive at ranges of $400-$800 (if 4-colored) from what I had seen while I collected him.
 
g-force said:
If you're talking players, then 1990-91 has to enter the topic, tons of star RC's that year and 1991-92 was also solid.
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I think the topic is Rookie Cards and we can only wish they had an autograph rookie set in 1990-91.

That might actually be a decent insert set for SPA - autograph "rookie cards" for different eras. A la ITG missing link set.
 
hextall27 said:
I think the topic is Rookie Cards and we can only wish they had an autograph rookie set in 1990-91.

That might actually be a decent insert set for SPA - autograph "rookie cards" for different eras. A la ITG missing link set.
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In terms of sets, I think you would have to look at some of the very earliest ones, ie. 1910-11, 1923-24, and arguably 1951-52 which had much more depth in terms of high value rookies than anything modern. Really, any of the modern sets have 2-3 elite end rookies and a bunch of middle end. Those years have a lot of four figure rookie cards of players that defined the game.
 
g-force said:
If you're talking players, then 1990-91 has to enter the topic, tons of star RC's that year and 1991-92 was also solid.
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g-force said:
In terms of sets, I think you would have to look at some of the very earliest ones, ie. 1910-11, 1923-24, and arguably 1951-52 which had much more depth in terms of high value rookies than anything modern. Really, any of the modern sets have 2-3 elite end rookies and a bunch of middle end. Those years have a lot of four figure rookie cards of players that defined the game.
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It might be my translation but wasent the OP talking about the last decade ?
 
If you're talking about last decade only, minus the last couple of years (not enough time to judge yet), 05-06 is better than any other two years put together.

Not only does it have two years' worth of rookies/RCs, it also has the majority of the monster 2003 drafted prospects in it.

07-08 has recently become much stronger with the emergence of Jonathan Quick while 08-09 also has a deep draft in it as well.

However, the 09-10 crop to me is now officially underrated. When you have a guy like Karlsson coming out of the blue like that...

- R
 

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