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[aceecards]

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Have no idea what price point will be but a delicious looking gallery for sure.

Hopefully below $200.00 per pack.

Those ties cards are neat looking

[urbanmonk]

Nice looking cards though. But a real player collectors nightmare as there were at least 3 Modano numbered less than /5. Liked those Shadowbox looking cards myself, may have to watch those on Ebay and see. I don't open the real high end product like that, but think it will challenge The Cup as so far I have been more impressed with this than some of that that I seen opened from previous years, so will be interesting to see when that comes out. But I seem to be making a transition to ITG products with the older players even though they don't have a NHL license. But feel that Panini making an effort to dethrone UD in the NHL market, and I feel that competition is good for the Hobby and collectors instead of the monopoly UD had for many years.

[northicehero99]

But I seem to be making a transition to ITG products with the older players even though they don't have a NHL license.  But feel that Panini making an effort to dethrone UD in the NHL market, and I feel that competition is good for the Hobby and collectors instead of the monopoly UD had for many years.

Well for me ITG has gone the wrong way with their packaging, they have completely abandoned set builders imo. Used to love the full set stuff they do, kind of hate this one pack and done stuff. Overall, they do a good job selecting players and swatches, etc, just as I have said before would like Decades 80, Forever Rivals, History of Hockey to be full boxes, it makes it more exciting and last longer than a minute not knowing what you are pulling and that excitement that it could be in this pack or that one. Beyond that those full sets were fun to put together and included players who never made cardboard base sets. Sorry this is the set builder in me wishing ITG would do that again, rather than this 1 pack and done. History of hockey would be great to have a whole base set themed like that, rather than a 4 hit box imo.

As for Panini, Prime is the nicest thing they have put out, but overall this was just another mainly rookie product, like everything else anymore the complete focus is on the rookies. There was nice stuff, but the rarity of stars in this disappointed me. Based on the money being thrown around on cases it looks like that is the way this hobby is going. I don't really care for UD or Panini, both are about equal in my eyes right now. This was one of Panini's best products with nice hits, if you hit them. Overall, this will be one of the few Panini products that probably will not drop in value after the MAPP ends. All of the others have though, so either they failed to hold interest or were overpriced to begin with. I think it was probably a combination of both on their other products. As for UD's products haven't seen them climbing in price either so also could be a factor of the economy. ITG seems to be the only boxes holding value or increasing, maybe that says something even though I miss their full set products.