Hockey NHL Discussion Thread (Spoilers)

Sash3350 · Mar 2, 2012

Been a bruins fans on and off since the late 90's... still collect some bruins stuff...mainly Milan Lucic... good to see so many people into hockey also.

punkologist · Mar 2, 2012

I've never collected hockey cards before so im pretty excited for the cards to arrive. I have been into hockey since the mid to late 90s but even more so now that I have access to watch so many live games via NHL gamecenter.

I plan to start a Ducks PC. Especially Teemu Selanne and players from the stanley cup winning team. I'll create a wanted list once I figure out what I'm after. I'm not sure if im quite ready for the more higher priced cards yet but a few of the lower range inserts will be good. Maybe the higher priced ones in the future.

Sash3350 · Mar 2, 2012

I have noticed that the hockey cards a slightly cheaper to get than some of the other major us sports... go me some nice bruins autos cheap on ebay... good luck with the Ducks pc.

Lazlow · Mar 6, 2012

punkologist said:
Upper deck doesn't ship to Australia, I used my US address with www.shipito.com
In future though I'll just get my hockey cards from www.dacardworld.com who ship to Australia and it arrives in about 3 days. I just got a box of Topps Baseball from there, I ordered it Friday an got it Tuesday. The UD hockey cards I bought have only now arrived at the US address.

Awesome, thanks for the link. Going to order some UD Black Diamond and ITG Heroes and Prospects through them.

I sorted what I got from the two retail boxes of UD Series 1 and I have a complete base set with a fair stack of doubles. With the two Hobby Boxes still to come I may end up with 2-3 complete base sets.

Rodster · Mar 7, 2012

Guys Joe Manzella is also quite good. You'll find a couple of stores in Canada are better priced then dacardworld as well. I have imported boxes for the past 10 years now (well over 100 boxes). Having said that dacardworld are pretty good too.

Lazlow · Mar 8, 2012

Got those 2 UD S1 Hobby Boxes in the mail today, a few good finds. Thornton, Ovechkin & Fleury Canvas Cards, a Daniel Sedin Jersey card made me pretty happy, and a Cameron Gaunce UD Exclusives Young Gun.

Got a butt load of base cards to sort, as well as a few Young Guns doubles amongst others.

Still yet to hit a clear cut, signature sensation, or patch card.

btw I've been using this dude's blog as a guide to what sets to chase up; http://thecardboardreview.blogspot.com.au/

Despite his review though, can't say I'm too fussed with Score.

punkologist · Mar 9, 2012

Got my UD black Diamond Blaster box this morning. I'm going to buy a hobby box asap, what a great looking set!

Highlights from the 6 packs:

- Gretzky Quad Diamond
- Cameron Gaunce Triple Diamond Rookie Gem
- Dany Heatley Double Diamond
- Chris Stewart Double Diamond

Also got some Ducks cards which made me happy:
- Teemu Selanne
- Saku Koivu
- Bobby Ryan
- Former (Stanley cup winning) Duck Jean-Sebastien Giguere

Not too bad at all out of 6 packs of 5 cards. The commons in this set all look like inserts.

Lazlow · Mar 14, 2012

My order arrived today and from the Black Diamond box the pick of the bunch would be a Ruby Quad Patrick Roy 71/100. Also got:
- Ruby Rookie Gem Cam Atkinson 27/100
- Ruby Single Tobias Enstrom 40/100
- Quad Bret Hull
- Quad Nicklas Lidstrom
- Mats Zuccarello Gemography
- Jerseys: Zdeno Chara, Miikka Kiprusoff
- Rookie Gems: Stephane Da Costa, David Rundblad, Justin Faulk, Alexei Yemelin, Jarome Iginla, Brad Marchand

High rate of duplicates in the single diamond range though. Every card I got in the 50-99 range had a duplicate, bar two. Still, these are really nice looking cards, and I'm tempted to get another box. However, I have ordered 2 boxes of UD Series 2 (plus a bunch of sleeves and toploaders) and after that I might give a rest for a bit.

BTW, my free gift from D&A Card World was two boxes of UD 07/08 Rookie Class. It's a simple complete set of the 50 top rookies from that season + a 3.5" x 5" commemorative card of 1 rookie. Whilst I'll hang onto both commemorative cards I don't need a second base set, so it's free incl postage to whoever wants it, still wrapped. You can see a guy breaking a box here:

punkologist · Mar 14, 2012

check out my box break of 2 boxes of UD Black Diamond: http://www.ozcardtrader.com.au/community/threads/2-hobby-boxes-2011-12-ud-black-diamond.116666/

Matty76 · Mar 14, 2012

If anyone is interested, I bought a replica puck signed by Bobby Orr from his website www.bobbyorr.com and it cost $150 + $5 postage, came with a certificate of authenticity and looks brilliant in hand!

The Villain · Apr 19, 2012

Anyone keeping up todate with the playoffs(is there a thread already) ive been following the flyers/pens game and capitals/bruins there been a few cracking games and high scoring especially the flyers/pens games....

LETS GO FLYERS!!!!!

Lazlow · Apr 19, 2012

Well I can lower my stress levels a little.

Until Monday

Lazlow · Apr 19, 2012

Flyers/Pens has been wild. Great to see the passion, not so great that the puck is their #1 priority.

Also Shanahan's suspensions are horribly inconsistent. Asham gets 4 games for a behind play cross check, while Carkner only gets 1 for decking an unwilling combatant and laying into him when he was down on the ice.

The Villain · Apr 20, 2012

yeah man that ottawa/rangers is looking to be a good series i havent seen a game of it yet hoping ottawa can top the rangers ...

Lazlow · Apr 21, 2012

If the Canucks get bundled out then my allegiances shift to Ottawa. Would like to see Alfredsson hoist the cup, especially after that dog elbow from Hagelin.

I use NHL Vault. Seeing as most games are on when I'm at work paying $120 for Gamecenter doesn't make much sense, Vault's only $5 a month and games are pretty much put up the next day. Plus to get access to a massive library of past games.

Rekless · Apr 21, 2012

Great to see Marty Brodeur get his 24th career playoff shutout, he now sits alone at the top of the list for most career playoff shutouts.

The Villain · Apr 23, 2012

Flyers top Pens today oh yeah boy bring on round 2 ..

also canucks bundled out by LA, got 2 mates mad canucks fans are both carnn't believe what happen this morning and are absolutely gutted.......

carnt wait for bruins/capitals game 7 nice close series its been

Lazlow · Apr 23, 2012

Yeah, its well shit

It all went tits up when they traded Hodgson, not only did they lose a great play-making center, leaving them with only Henrik, it messed up the balance of the lines and they never really got in sync again. It was blatantly apparent when Vigneault was shuffling them around like a deck of cards.

It also completely nutted the powerplay.

Sure they had a great record in the stretch, but that was against teams that didn't make the playoffs. And admittedly Vancouver are the big fish in a weak division.

Oh well I'll be happy if the Caps bundle out the Bruins, and Ottawa goes on to win.

The Villain · Apr 23, 2012

Lazlow said:
Yeah, its well s***

It all went tits up when they traded Hodgson, not only did they lose a great play-making center, leaving them with only Henrik, it messed up the balance of the lines and they never really got in sync again. It was blatantly apparent when Vigneault was shuffling them around like a deck of cards.

It also completely nutted the powerplay.

Sure they had a great record in the stretch, but that was against teams that didn't make the playoffs. And admittedly Vancouver are the big fish in a weak division.

Oh well I'll be happy if the Caps bundle out the Bruins, and Ottawa goes on to win.

it made it abit hard with one of the sedin brothers out first 3 games of playoffs but after droping the first 2 at home you guys where always going to struggle ....

nothing would be better than the bruins out carnt wait till thursday hope its shown on tv

The Villain · Apr 26, 2012

Bruins gone haha now both last years stanley cup finalist are out sure does open up the playoffs

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