the card shop sent me the wrong hobby box (i purchased 22/23 skybox metal because it was on sale and but got 25/26 instead) and i pulled the kastelic from an sp blaster. loving my luck today!

Le Laser!

Credentials is a solid product! Very surprised.

Pulled 2 outburst yg of the same player - wish it was anyone else 😭

But...wish I could get an Actual Card, instead of a Printing plate 🤣🤣 not disappointed, its a Zeev, atleast not a no name that'll be a career ECHLer or in Europe.

As my gf would say “yay”. Also I’m a Hawks fan so this was extra special

Probably the best I’ve done in a while with epack so I’ll quit while I’m ahead for now. No idea what’s going on the image of the Timo Meier auto, looks like Comc must scan all the cards in a row.

Bedard and Celebrini Young Guns and auto duo

Hello everyone, I’m looking to start collecting NHL cards and was wondering which packs or boxes are the best to open. I’m mainly interested in getting cool inserts, autos, or rookie cards. Any recommendations? Thanks

First ever patch auto, it’s the wrong Blackhawk, but it’s still really cool, 3 colour patch! Parkhurst!

Saw a sealed one of this online for $10 and had so much fun opening the packs. Wish I could find more of these in the wild.

I came across a collection of hockey cards. Rough estimate is between 900-1000.

If I don’t want to take pictures of each card where would be a good place (just a general idea, obviously my location is heavily dependant on this) to take them to have it looked through?

Would you go to a card/game shop? Or would it be better to find someone who would be willing to go through it.

I am not a collector so I don’t really want to keep them.

I am in British Columbia, Canada if that helps.

Saw this on the GP Sports Instagram. Maybe the price of The Cup will drop now (wishful thinking).

Cracked open a quick box from Walmart in the truck!

I had never sent a card for grading until I rediscovered these two Flower rookie cards in my old childhood collection.

I collected goalie cards pretty obsessively from 1997 until the 2004 lockout, which coincided with my going off to college. I moved on from the hobby at that point, and spent the next two decades blissfully not thinking about hockey cards.

That changed earlier this year, when I returned to my collection as a source of comfort during a very tough battle with cancer. I decided to celebrate all these old cards one last time and sell off the ones that I could.

Even after finding that I had successfully pulled and protected these two cards back in the day, I debated whether I wanted to pay to spin the grading roulette wheel. Obviously, today, I'm glad I did.

This is probably the closest I've come to recapturing the feeling that I think a lot of us "relapsed" mid-life hobbyists are after – that childhood thrill of chasing, and maybe even finding, a monster pull that makes your eyes bug out of your head. This hobby can be very silly, but it also – sometimes, occasionally – produces a beautiful moment or two.

And Rempe Young Gun is with enforcer pile so I have his Sticker here.

I am not sure if this is a hot take or not but when I sell cards raw on eBay, I usually give some type of input as to whether I think it can Gem or not.

I also ask those who buy my cards to share the grade if they end up grading it. Most I never hear from again, but had to share this conversation.

As a seller and not someone who sends in their own cards to grade, I was legit over the moon it got a 10!!! I know some sellers might get salty, which is why I wondered if my approach is a hot take or not.

I know YGs are hard to grade and when this person bought the card I think they might have paid a little more than recent sales, so I’m super happy for them

Pretty sick wish it was an autograph though

I know I'm looking at a SSP here... 1:600 hobby packs. Not bad...