National Hockey Card Day

I guess Upper Deck's sales are slow this time of year, so they created a "holiday" for hockey collectors!  You get a free pack of cards when you step into a certified hobby dealer, so I hit up the card stores in the area and made out with a few packs, as well as some purchases.

2017-18 O-Pee-Chee

Cost: $75
Cards Per Pack: 8
Packs Per Box: 32

Rookies (1:4):  8

Valentin Zykov
Carter Rowney
Kalle Kossila
Samuel Morin
Robbie Russo
Mike Vecchione
Riley Barber
Dan Renouf

Black Border (#/100): 2

Jason Spezza
Aaron Ekblad

Playing Cards (1:9): 4

Nikita Kucherov (J Clubs)
Mike Hoffman (2 Spades)
Henrik Lundqvist (K Spades)
Sergei Bobrovsky (5 Diamonds)

Playing Cards Foil (1:33): 1

Johnny Gaudreau (8 Hearts)

Hockey Minis (1:7): 4

Mitch Marner
Tyler Seguin
Anthony Mantha
Joe Pavelski

Hockey Minis SP (1:35): 1

Vladimir Tarasenko

Hockey Minis Rare (1:86): 1

Steven Stamkos

Black Foil Parallel (1:21): 2

Mark Scheifle
Ryan O'Reilly

100 Year Anniversary Patch (1:360): 1

Brent Burns

Thoughts:  I always wait until later in the year to purchase this product because the wrapper redemption is over and it's usually cheaper.  I'm not a big fan of the playing cards and it's design.  It was nice to pull some rare cards and a patch card as well as a decent looking base set.  Not a bad start.

2017-18 Upper Deck Series 2 (Retail)

Cost: $65
Cards Per Pack: 8
Packs Per Box:24

Young Guns (1:4): 6

Christian Jaros
Valentin Zykov
Mike Vecchione
Brendan Lemieux
Michael Amadio
Nikita Skerbak

UD Canvas (1:7): 3

Justin Williams
Valtteri Filppula
James Neal

UD Canvas Retired (1:192): 1

Jean Beliveau

UD Portraits (1:6): 4

Denis Gurianov
Alex Kerfoot
Vince Dunn
Valentin Zykov

OPC Update Base (1:24): 1

Alexander Radulov

OPC Update Rookie (1:6): 4

Andrei Mironov
Dylan Ferguson
Christian Djoos
Alex Formenton

OPC Update Rookie Retro (1:15): 2

Oscar Fantenberg
Jan Rutta

Rookie Jersey (1:36): 1

Madison Bowey

Thoughts:  Well, at least I pulled a couple of Sens cards to get signed!  I decided to get the retail since I'm cheap and poor.  The Beliveau Canvas was a surprise (not as big a surprise when I looked at it's BV on Beckett!).  As usual, the photography is nice, and the OPC Update cards are a continuation of this year's set, as opposed to being a separate set as in the past.  Overall, not a bad break.