2009-10 Champ's Hockey Box Break/ Review

[RandomH]

Today, the 09/10 UD Hockey Champ’s box came in from Upper Deck. I somehow managed to win the box from the Upper Deck Blog. I got a nice letter from Chris Carlin, congratulating me and thanking me for following UD Facebook. As someone who wants to get into the field of marketing, I noticed that Chris Carlin’s title was “Sports Marketing Manager”. Talk about sweet job, I envy you Mr.Carlin! I would like to greatly thank the people at UD for hooking me up. Being a student, I rarely bust boxes so this was a lot of fun. To be honest, I mainly collect baseball, but sometimes I dabble in other sports. I mean I watch hockey (Go Blackhawks), but I just never picked up a lot of cards. I was glad in a way for this box because it opened a collecting focus into hockey. Man NHL cards are pretty sweet! I'm in the process of going after the Base set.

So here’s some info regarding 09/10 Hockey Champs

-20 packs a box
-5 cards per pack
- 5 rookies per box
- 4 hits per box
- 1 Yellow, 2 Red, and 5 Green cards per box. (variation set)
- 2 mini cards per box
- You can also get one of those mega cool Museum Pieces cards which have like pieces of dinosaur bone and stuff.

- The box has a freaking dinosaur on it!
- The packs have a freaking dinosaur on them too!
- Tons of random inserts like “Wonders of the World”
- Bunch of mini cards
- It’s kind of like Allen and Ginter + UD Goodwin goes hockey

Ok here’s what I pulled.


BASE
1 Getzlaf
2 Bobby Ryan
3 Niedermayer
4 Kovalchuk
5 Little
6 Lucic
7 Terry O’Reilly
9 Bourque
12 Derek Roy
14 Ryan Miller
15 Kiprusoff
16 MacInnis
18 Iginla
19 Eric Staal
23 Dennis Savard
26 Stastny
27 Craig Anderson
30 Nash
31 Brassard
32 Modano
34 James Neal
36 Zetterberg
38 Red Kelly
39 Yzerman
40 Gordie Howe
44 Gagner
48 Frolik
49 Doughty
53 Havlat
55 Casey Price
56 Scotty Bowman
57 Patrick Roy
58 Cammalleri
60 Arnott
62 Parise
63 Bossy
65 Okposo
70 Gretzky
72 Spezza
73 Alfredsson
77 Gagne
78 Carcillo
79 Doan
85 Heatley
90 Kessel
91 McDonald
92 Gilmour
96 Ovechkin
97 Mike Green
99 Varlamov

GREEN VARIATION
6 Lucic
25 Bobby Hull
53 Havlat
62 Parise
91 McDonald

RED VARATION
51 Ryan Smyth
71 Leetch

YELLOW VARATION
64 Clark Gillies

MINI CARDS
204 Blake Wheeler
207 Perreault
212 MacInnis
231 Turco
232 Zetterberg
240 Gagner
247 Smyth
283 Berglund
284 St. Louis
309 Malone
318 Pronger
325 Peter Mueller
333 Kovalev
334 Mahovlich
345 Filatou
383 Tim Thomas
384 Bogosian
385 Lehtonen

ROOKIE CARDS
110 Brian Salcido Ducks
126 Geoff Kinrade Senators
131 James Van Riemsdyk Flyers
144 John Tavares Islanders
193 Michael Grabner Canucks

Historical Figures
515 Sir John A Macdonald
546 John Tyler
552 Abraham Lincoln
554 Ulysses S. Grant

Natural History Collection
435 Edmontonia Longiceps
459 Dawson’s Caribou
495 Purple Violet
504 Sharp- Tailed Grouse
507 Pitcher Plant

Wonders of the World
396 Chichen Itza

HITS
Bobby Hull Mini Parkhurst Variation 1:320 packs!
Joe Mullen Champ’s Threads GU Jersey (hint of black on the top right)
Scotty Bowman Champs’s Hall of Champions Authentic Memorabilia (Looks like suit?)
Artem Anisimov Champ’s Signatures Autograph
Alex Pietrangelo Champ’s Signatures Autograph

My thoughts: Overall this seems like a fantastic product to bust. It was a lot of fun opening compared to other products. The wide arrange of different cards keep it interesting. The Green, Red, and Yellow variations are a nice add. I’m kinda a fan of #ed cards and seeing that there were no #ed cards kinda sucked. I wish that maybe the yellow ones would be numbered? It was nice seeing a vide range of legends in the product. It was cool pulling a Bobby Hull or a Mike Bossy. To be honest, the thought of having mini rookie cards is kind of new. It’s interesting seeing RC get minis instead of normal sized cards. The Relics and Autograph cards were cool being “Mini-ized” I just don’t know if the player had to edit a signature, because of space though. The mini Relics cards are sick nevertheless. The Hull Parkhurst card was pretty neat along with the Scotty Bowman Memorabilia card. I wouldn’t mind another box from Upper Deck .

What are your thoughts on the box break? How did I do? I think the Tavares RC, Hull Parkhurst, and Bowman Suit were good pulls? Feel free to add and ask anything! Help a hockey noob out.

 

[pghbuccos]

once again congrats on winning the Champs box. I must say you did a great job with review. as for the break I think it was pretty solid. the Tavares, JVR, the Hull Parkhurst, the Pietrangelo auto, Mullen mini jersey and the Bowman mini suit card are all very nice pulls. it seems that you also have almost a full base set out of the box. are you going to try to complete it?

it always nice to hear someone who doesn't open hockey cards say how much they enjoyed their break.

 

[RandomH]

once again congrats on winning the Champs box. I must say you did a great job with review. as for the break I think it was pretty solid. the Tavares, JVR, the Hull Parkhurst, the Pietrangelo auto, Mullen mini jersey and the Bowman mini suit card are all very nice pulls. it seems that you also have almost a full base set out of the box. are you going to try to complete it?

it always nice to hear someone who doesn't open hockey cards say how much they enjoyed their break.

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed reading it. It only took me like 2 hours to get everything done :lol: . Yeah opening the box was awesome. I think that I may go after the set considering that I'm kinda close to the finish. I gotta find the BVs.

 

[PhillyPuckNut]

I gotta say, you got a very good box. Getting a Parkhurst back, Hall of Legends GU and 2 autos in the same box is unreal. Congrats!

 

[G $MONEY$]

Nice write up and decent break. I like the Tavares RC, the Bowman suit swatch is really nice as is the Alex Pietrangelo autograph.

 

[RandomH]

Thanks guys for your comments!

 

[stu]

Any time you get a Tavares rookie, the break starts off good. Great review.

 

[RandomH]

Any time you get a Tavares rookie, the break starts off good. Great review.

Thanks man. He's was the #1 pick right? Does he just get that hype for being #1, or is there actually a talent there?

 

[pghbuccos]

Any time you get a Tavares rookie, the break starts off good. Great review.

Thanks man. He's was the #1 pick right? Does he just get that hype for being #1, or is there actually a talent there?

he was indeed the number 1 pick and he definitely has a ton of talent.

 

[RandomH]

Anyway I can get BV on these. I tried looking, but only found a couple.
Any help would be awesome


/10 Champ's Hockey Milan Lucic Green 6
09/10 Champ's Hockey Lanny McDonald Green 91
09/10 Champ's Hockey Zach Parise Green 62
09/10 Champ's Hockey Martin Havlat Green 53
09/10 Champ's Hockey Bobby Hull Green 25
09/10 Champ's Hockey Brian Leetch Red 71
09/10 Champ's Hockey Ryan Smyth Red 51
09/10 Champ's Hockey Clark Gillies Yellow 64
09/10 Champ's Hockey Scotty Bowman Hall Of Legends Authentic Memorabillia HL-SB
09/10 Champ's Hockey Champ's Threads Joe Mullen GU MT-JM
09/10 Champ's Hockey Bobby Hull Mini Parkhurst Variation 221
09/10 Champ's Hockey Artem Anisimov Champ's Signatures CS-AA
09/10 Champ's Hockey Alex Pietrangelo Champ's Signatures CS-AP