Box Break: 2017-18 MVP

At the card show a couple of weeks, I decided to pick up a box of MVP.  See my hits below.

$50
8 cards per pack
20 packs per box

Short Prints 1:2

202 Taylor Hall
208 Anze Kopitar
210 Auston Matthews
212 Johnny Gaudreau
221 Eric Staal
223 Patrik Laine
231 Ivan Barbashev RC
233 Nikita Scherbak RC
240 Adrian Kempe RC
242 Jack Roslovic

Silver Scripts 1:4

55 Mitch Marner
83 Adam Henrique
195 Jimmy Vesey
198 Mikael Granlund
219 Henrik Lundqvist
232 Charlie McAvoy

Super Script #/25

Travis Zajac

Puzzle Back 1:4

40 Corey Crawford
56 Drew Doughty
77 Anthony Mantha
153 Sergei Bobrovsky
160 Nick Leddy
167 Cam Fowler

NHL Player Credentials
Level 1 1:8

Anders Lee
Matt Murray
Teuvo Teravainen

Level 2 1:20

Taylor Hall

Colour and Contours

27 Tyler Seguin L3 Gold (1:48)
42 Patrik Berglund L1 Gold (1:20)
63 Richard Panik L2 Blue (1:20)
148 Charlie Coyle L1 Blue (1:15)
179 Cam Ward L1 Blue (1:15)

Overall Impression:

Pretty Decent overall.  Good for people who want to set build and not have to load up on coffee or doughnuts.

Beckett Returns

Got these graded cards back from Beckett today.

Thursday and Friday's Returns

Chris Dahlquist
c/o Home (SCF)
09/06 - 09/28
6/6

Ron Hextall
c/o Flyers
09/12 - 09/28
1/3

Don Sweeney
c/o Bruins
09/08 - 09/28
4/4

Chris Tamer
c/o Crossfit Brighton
09/06 - 09/29
3/3
Swapped out two of my cards

3 Successes and 1 RTS

Keith Carney
c/o Home (SCF)
09/06 - 09/27
4/4

Sheldon Keefe
c/o Marlies
10/17/2016 - 09/27/2017
3/4

Shjon Podein
c/o Home (SCF)
09/06 - 09/27
5/5

RTS - Bob Carpenter

More TTM Successes!

Tom Draper c/o Home (SCF) 5/5
Troy Loney c/o Home (SCF) 6/6
Brad Tapper c/o Adirondack Thunder 4/4

TTM Successes

Five way tie for first place!  All were sent September 9th and returned September 21st.

Jock Callander c/o Cleveland Monsters 2/2
Jimmy Carson c/o Home (SCF) 5/5
Iain Fraser c/o Home (SCF) 5/5
Greg Johnson c/o Home (SCF) 4/4
Wendell Young c/o Chicago Wolves 5/5

Sens Training Camp

A crappy summer with a lot of rain, so I was actually looking forward to training camp this year.  No Karlsson since he has the bum foot.  Went yesterday, but they all showed up early and only got the newcomer, Johnny Oduya.  I said "Screw it" and came back today. 

Showed up early and missed Danny Taylor (who I got on the way out).  Most players said they'd sign on the way and for the most part kept their word (Derick Brassard sprinted from his truck to the door since he was late).  Going in I got Chris DiDomenico, Andrew Hammond, Marcus Hogberg, Tom Pyatt, Bobby Ryan, Nate Thompson and Kyle Turris.  Alex Burrows refused all Vancouver items and I had nothing else for him.

The security guards put up a make shift barricade, which was four pylons and caution tape which one of the players called "The rope of death."  Apparently, according to Mike Condon, one of the psycho girl hounds that comes sometimes was running around the parking lot trying to get somebody and almost got hit by one of the players (he probably could've made a better effort, but that's just my opinion).

I went inside for a bit to watch practice and cool off.  Came back out and Brassard walked over.  He signed my Ottawa card and hesitantly signed a Columbus card.  He apparently only signs Ottawa stuff, but he didn't want to look like a douche since he was signing multiples for people.    I also got Cody Ceci, Dion Phaneuf, Nick Paul, Danny Taylor, Chris VandeVelde, Zack Smith and Craig Anderson.  I missed Mike Blunden twice as I was getting other people.  I traded one of my Taylor cards for a Condon, since I had nothing for him.  I would've if my printer wasn't printing all of my photos red.

A decent, and hot, day overall.