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2010-11 ITG Decades 1980s Hockey
Release Date: June 2nd, 2011
Box Configuration: 9 Cards Per Pack, 1 Pack Per Box
Suggested Retail Price: Around $85 to $90 Per Hobby Box
Box Break + Highlights
• One Decades Rookie Card
• One 100 Years of Hockey Insert Card
• One Non-Memorabilia Insert Card
• Three Game Used Memorabilia Cards
• Three Autographed Cards
Decades Rookie Card
• A 45-card list featuring the most exciting Rookies from the 1980s!
100 Years of Hockey Insert Card
• The year long celebration continues with 25 more cards to collect!
Non-Memorabilia Insert Card
• Featuring 8 different Non-Memorabilia Insert Sets to collect including Great Moments, Long Island Dynasty, Edmonton Dynasty, Battle of New York, Battle of Alberta, Battle of Quebec, Memorable Masks, and Canada's Best.
Game Used Memorabilia Cards
• A huge selection of authentic Game Used Memorabilia cards to collect including Game Used Memorabilia Autographed cards!
Autographed Cards
• Over 150 authentic hard signed Autograph cards to collect including all 20 members of the Miracle on Ice Hockey Team!
What We Pulled
Decades Rookie Card
An excellent center playing for 7 teams during his NHL career, Doug Gilmour was on the 1989 Stanley Cup champion Calgary Flames. A very cool retro card with him in the St. Louis Blues uniform and a nice partial background of the Blues logo.
100 Years of Hockey Insert Card
A nice card of Stan Mikita who played his entire career with the Chicago Blackhawks. He scored over 1400 points in just under 1400 games in the NHL. An inductee into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1983.
Non-Memorabilia Insert Card
Our Non-Memorabilia insert is from the Memorable Masks set. Patrick Roy is arguably one of the best NHL goalies of all time who played for the Montreal Canadiens and the Colorado Avalance. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2006.
Game Used Memorabilia Cards
This is a very nice Game Used card of a great goalie for the New York Rangers. John Vanbiesbrouck is an American born Hockey player from Detroit. I love the look of this Trophy Winners Game Used card.
Mike Modano, another of my favorite non-Bruins, is the all time NHL goal scoring and points leader among American born players in the NHL. It is amazing that he is still playing today! He played this past season for the Detroit Red Wings.
A very nice looking two color patch card of Chris Chelios. Chelios is one of the all time best scoring defensemen in the NHL!
Autographed Cards
Phil Housley is the second leading scorer among U.S. born players only behind Mike Modano! A very solid looking on card autograph with a nice background of hockey fans behind the glass.
Rick Wamsley shared the 1982 William M. Jennings Trophy and was a member of the Stanley Cup winning Calgary Flames in 1989. You can see every single letter of his name in his signature, which is rare nowadays.
Our second John Vanbiesbrouck card pulled from this box. His autograph goes nicely side by side with his Game Used card.
Final Thoughts
This was a different type of break for me personally with 3 Game Used cards and 3 Autographs per box. This has the feel of a high end box with no base cards involved. The cards have solid designs and are not overly flashy. In The Game continues its cross product collection with the 100 Years of Hockey Insert Cards. The Autographs are on card autographs which majority of collectors prefer these days. Some of the card designs have the same feel as cards from the other product lines (such as Between the Pipes). Hence the lower rating on the Innovation category below. I always like to see more diversity in different products. Since you are guaranteed 3 Autographs and 3 Game Used cards in the box, the Rebuy Value is higher on this product. Overall it was fun to bust another ITG product and I cant wait for the next release!
How I Rate This Product
Value = 4
Innovation = 3
Fun and Experience = 5
Rebuy Value = 5
I rate this product a B+ for ITG
NPN
There is no NPN for this product.
Thank you so much to In The Game as well as Card Collectors World for giving me the chance to review this new product. Be on the look out for future contests with cards from this box break.
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