Where are the SPA hype threads?

[ChicagoGuyInJax]

Gonna go against the grain and say I really like this year's SPA. Design looks great and the cards are pretty interesting. Then again, I'm not a rip and flip guy so I can understand why a lot of you aren't so hot on it.

[jjdicaprio]

Gonna go against the grain and say I really like this year's SPA. Design looks great and the cards are pretty interesting. Then again, I'm not a rip and flip guy so I can understand why a lot of you aren't so hot on it.

I agree the design is a lot better this year. And the majority of the SOTT and buyback cards are actually decent this year compared to last year.

[Gmbs82]

I kind of find it hard to pay $80 to break my team when I can buy on ebay all of the rookies that I want for about $60. I like the design but after watching box breaks its hard for me to justify spend 115usd +tax to get a bunch of ud series 2 update cards. I love sp authentic but this is just not worth my money... I'm going to stick to completing my 13-14 set

[ChicagoGuyInJax]

I kind of find it hard to pay $80 to break my team when I can buy on ebay all of the rookies that I want for about $60. I like the design but after watching box breaks its hard for me to justify spend 115usd +tax to get a bunch of ud series 2 update cards. I love sp authentic but this is just not worth my money... I'm going to stick to completing my 13-14 set

See it doesn't really jive with me that you're complaining that they threw in extra inserts like the update cards where I wouldn't have been able to get young gun acetate cards, etc. without that. It's not like they replaced anything, they literally just gave more extra inserts than previous years.

[Gmbs82]

Base cards should not be considered inserts. The retros are cool and if your lucky enough to hit an acetate YG thats cool too. But YG updates and base series 2 cards isn't worth the money to me. I will pick up my Sam Reinhart FWA and be done with this product. Authentic has always been my favorite product just not feeling it this year... Hey at least ill save a bunch of money for my eichel cards

[TRDouble]

I bought a box this year. I skipped the last two years -- 2012-13, nothing was really good and 2013-14 SPA had awful designs.

I almost skipped this year because of the lack of Sabres, but the designs are really nice this year and I hadn't bought a single 2014-15 UD product; my only 14/15 purchase had been a box of Leaf/ITG Heroes & Prospects.

My box was okay. If I was a rip & flip person, I would have been disappointed, but it was a fun break and the inserts were some of the best they have done since I started collecting SPA.

So no regrets. I will consider finishing the base set and buy older product as I wait for 2015/16 and Jack Eichel cards.

[RGM81]

Holy Crap all the good guys are Redemptions!

Gaudreau
Pastrnak
Draisaitl
Teravainen
Hammond
Horvat
Duclair
Rattie

There are 9 more that I have yet to see

This kills the product.

[EliasDevil]

Now to see which of them get the dreaded SPA redemption bump on ebay...

[theboxbreaker96]

I pre ordered a box even though I had a feeling it would be bad. I still opened it even after I saw what was coming out. Theres not much in there to get. Half of the good rookies are Redemptions. The veteran content has been reduced the past two years. Look at all the new rookie Auto sets. (Rookie Chirography, Authentic Moments Autos that include rookies, Premier Prospects) These all take the place of case hits you used to get like Immortal Inks, SOTT Group A, Marks of Distinction.

SOTT hardly exists anymore. That's a good set that lots of people collect. Not to mention the stupid update cards that count as hits.

[JEG]

I pre ordered a box even though I had a feeling it would be bad. I still opened it even after I saw what was coming out. Theres not much in there to get. Half of the good rookies are Redemptions. The veteran content has been reduced the past two years. Look at all the new rookie Auto sets. (Rookie Chirography, Authentic Moments Autos that include rookies, Premier Prospects) These all take the place of case hits you used to get like Immortal Inks, SOTT Group A, Marks of Distinction.

SOTT hardly exists anymore. That's a good set that lots of people collect. Not to mention the stupid update cards that count as hits.

I do agree the update cards shouldn't count as a "hit"