This year my two packs contained, you guessed it, no parallels. I'll always keep trying though.
Retail packs of 5 cards cost $2.99, a bit expensive but the cards do look nice (as they always have).
The Hurricanes are closer to having a great team than people think. They've got a good coach, a great young defense and some shooters up front. Victor Rask is only 24 and in his 4th season. He's been a solid contributor each of his first 3 seasons, and should see the benefits of his hard work very soon in the tobacco belt.
Stanley Cup this year? That's what the Lightning have to be thinking. Kucherov is the early favorite to win the Rocket Richard trophy, as he and Steven Stamkos are making mince meat out of goalies so far this season.
Frederik Andersen is the lone Leaf I pulled out of the two packs. I'd love to see the Leafs find a backup goalie that they fully trust, because I believe that Freddie just isn't a 70 start goaltender. 50-60 is more like it.
Ryan Spooner is part of the turnover in Boston, and he's put up decent numbers over the last two seasons. He's been hurt a good portion of this season, not having played in the past month.
Part of the west coast beard movement, Jake Muzzin is the defenseman you don't hear about when discussion about the Kings happens. Hard to believe he's already in his 8th NHL season; it seems like I just started hearing his name in the past couple of years.
As always, the Artifacts design is for the lack of a better word, elegant. The Artifacts name is always at the top of the card, and little changes happen at the bottom as far as design goes. It's as reliable as it gets for card products, you know what you're going to get and how much you're going to pay for it.
thanks for reading, Robert
I pulled all the exact same cards, but I did a blaster. I was lucky enough to pull a red parallel of Adam Henrique. I posted a scan of it in my Birthday Cards Part 2 post.
ReplyDeleteThe base cards look really nice yet again. I can think of few complaints, if any, about Artifact base cards in the last decade or so. One set that Upper Deck seems to do really well.
ReplyDeleteI haven't gone out and tried to get in-person autographs in a couple of years. But if I decide to grab the Sharks, I might need to pick up an Artifacts team set. I think these cards would look nice with a little ink on them.
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