Official Hockey Pickup Thread - March 2012

[pghbuccos]

 

[AK11]

Busted 8 UD2 Hobby boxes today at the lcs and got another UD2 card in the mail today:

Very excited that I pulled the Nugent-Hopkins POE Canvas which is harder to pull than his YG Canvas and is a more timeless photo no matter which pro teams he plays for. The Toews Game Jersey is one of 4 SPs in the UD2 set and I had to pay nearly $200 in a last minute bid to win. Only UD2 card I really still want is a Landeskog YG Canvas, but will wait until there is some graded ones out there. Out of my 8 boxes, I pretty much hit all the case hits including an OPC Signature, a Rookie Breakouts, a Retired Stars Canvas, a veteran Spectrum, and of course the Hopkins.

 

[pghbuccos]

Andrew those are all very cool but that Hull/Mikita card is absolutely fantastic.

 

[pghbuccos]

these POE Canvas are not cheap :|

 

[AK11]

these POE Canvas are not cheap :|

They harder to get than the YG Canvas and I think they are cool because they remind of the days 10-plus years ago when the rookies in UD were allowed to be POE cards.

 

[Terry]

This has been elusive in the way of getting outbid on them every single time, but finally picked one of these up for a best offer of $35

Also working on a deal for the 11/12 Certified base 1/1 and auto 1/1. if I land those 2, I will be absolutely KILLING it with the 11/12 stuff.

 

[Terry]

This will be in my mailbox shortly.

which leaves the Purple /10 as the only missing object to complete the rainbow. is there a 1/1 parallel for the totally certified, or is it just that and the purple /10?

 

[thefatguy]

Green has been spotted around Calgary in the offseason, training with other Calgarians (Taylor Hall, TJ Galliardi)
I may track them down in Aug before training camp. Last year some of them were at SAIT just getting some skating in (Galliardi was there the one day I worked)

(To see the SAIT arena, see my sig )

 

[pghbuccos]

Andrew the POE are very cool and I like the idea of UD using them as RC's as well.

Terry sweet Green pickups. I still need to grab one of those ASG auto's for Fleury. good luck completing the Certified Rainbow.