2014 Hockey Product of the Year?

[Frendo]

Stickwork, no doubt.
The chance to getting a 1/1 card from Stickwork is ridiculously high (about 1:2 ratio) and almost all boxes gives you much more than $150 back.

[sedinfan]

While ITG Stick Work was definitely amongst my favourites, IMHO it's a runner up to Lord Stanley's Mug. And I'm not just picking it because I'm chasing the master set, rather I'm collecting the master set because I feel it's not just the product of the year, but one of the best in quite some years. Can't beat a set where every card features one or more Stanley Cup winners ranging from the turn of the century up to the present day, zero redemptions, only one level of parallels, hard signed autographs from numerous all-time greats including some of the last Beliveau and Howe autos, and of course ITG's amazing selection of trusted game-worn memorabilia including Morenz, Shore, Joliat, Howe, both Richards, Barilko, Dryden, Beliveau, Orr, Gretzky, etc. And last but not least, the Mega Patches, a stunning 110 card subset with perhaps the nice Gordie Howe card I've ever seen... it takes something special to make a card that I would treasure even more than my Sedin PC, but ITG has done it with this product, how can you top this...

[10-4 collector]

I liked Anthology a lot! I was pretty lucky with the 9 boxes I had, a wide variety of nice hits. But what can you say about NT, I only bought a box but when it came out at 450, it was a steal, I made all my money back.

[Bimola]

Prime - specifically Prime Colors (again!). Best player and jersey selection yet - can't believe the included a 1974 Borje Salming rookie jersey into the set (not to mention the other incredible vintage additions!)

I enjoyed Stickwork, however, I think I'm the only person, who didn't get close to the purchase value out of my case.

[Cunnuc]

For me it was Decades 90s mainly for the nostalgia of growing up watching hockey and 100 hard signed autos. It also contained 48 1/1 Mega Patches similar to Lord Stanley's Mug that Sedinfan posted which I was fortunate enough to pull two of (Lemieux and Potvin). Patches numbered to /6, /3 and /1 which I pulled about 6 of.

Stickwork was definitely good and sold very well on secondary market. I never opened Lord Stanley's Mug but my friend won 2 boxes at the Expo and pulled a very nice Richard. The older players bring in a ton of collectors and money to go with it.

I have a 1/1 Tim Horton patch from ITG-Used which I love, but openly participated in a case break.

National Treasures was huge as one of Panini's final adieus.

The Cup is always good but I cannot compare it to previous Cup releases since I don't break enough to compare.

[09232003]

Prime was great and so was totally certified, had geat success getting some nice hi end out of it.

and as usual UD ser1 was great , had fun putting together my Yg set and the Yg canvas set this time around.

jim

[RGM81]

There was a lot of great stuff this year.

My favourite product in terms of the most I opened? Prizm. What's not to like about this?

Subban Prizm.jpg

But of all the releases that have fantastic stuff to jump all over and make your PC pop?

National Treasures. And IMO it wasn't even close.






Those are just beautiful hockey cards.

We were pretty spoiled this year eh? An embarrassment of riches that had something for everybody!

[KingKuba]

Where's your gold one??

[dudical]

Though I haven't bought any, NT has to be the nicest set of the year. I've seen some at local shows, and wow!
For everyone else on the other end of the scale, you can't go wrong with Series 1. MacKinnon/Tarasenko/Hertl/Galchenyuk etc etc etc. The rookies in that are nuts!

[Cunnuc]

NT was definitely nice but I don't like autos on acetate or similar, same with Playbook. Don't like the smudging on the Carey Price :(

But yes seeing all the new cards at the Expo in display cases was almost orgasmic. Specially that whole display case of Red Wings patches/autos/Rookie-patch-autos that someone had!