What is your favorite box of hockey cards to open?
Printable View
What is your favorite box of hockey cards to open?
For me, I had tonnes of fun opening ITG Original 6 a few years back. Of course, you'd have to be a fan of the teams to fully appreciate them.
In general, I think the most fun boxes to break aren't necessarily the ones that have that one single sweet pull, but the ones that have a lot of pulls and are generally a good value. I'd say O-Pee-Chee, especially 2008-09 fits that bill. You don't need to be a high end product to be a ton of fun. It seems that BTP is a really fun rip due to being extra loaded this year.
In general, I find UD Series 1 & 2 and SPA most years are fun to rip... sought after rookie cards and a number of other inserts make them generally fun.
05-06 Ultra and 05-06 UD2, back before the box dealers had heard about Ovechkin and they were still $40
02-03 UD Premier the first real high end hockey product.
01-02 Topps was a lot of fun to break. I was always a fan of Pacific too, didn't really have a specific year that was my favorite though.
Easily the Habs Centennial set. Before that came out, I really enjoyed cracking open Black Diamond for my set building project.
This is the first year I opened Hockey boxes.
Had a blast with the Black Diamond....great looking cards!
I have 2 favourites.
02/03 Fleer Throwbacks (Hobby Box). Here is a product chock full of all the players I collect. With a guaranteed memorabilia card (sometimes an auto) in a box as a bonus, it was great because even the base were gold to me! I almost have the full set (inc inserts and memorabilia cards), so buy the odd box here and there just in case.
05/06 Hot Prospects - I was really impressed with the amount of GU/Autos's you got out of a box of this. I got a case of this stuff when it came out and ended up with a load of stuff. Not forgetting of course that it was the rookie season of a future great of the game - a man who's effect on the game could be startling, he could change a game in a flash. I am referring of course to Derek Boogaard.
Any year SP Authentic!! Always fun to pull autos even if you never heard of them. haha
This year, definitely the loaded BTP boxes...my two were delightful lol
85-86 o-pee-chee
When I was first collecting, I would say it was any of the early 90's upper deck extended boxes.
Hot Prospects. And now its gone
I don't know why, but I liked opening 4 boxes of last year's MVP, it's REALLY fun. I loved setting aside the thick packs and then opening them and I could tell by looking at the top of the cards if I had a decoy or JSY, one box even had two JSYs! I was opening my fourth box with someone that had NO CLUE what anything was. We were opening the box together and they said they pulled a card that was different from the others. At first I thought they had pulled maybe a JSY, parallel, or Rookie Redmeption. But then they showed me the card and it was a case hit, a dual auto! Anyway, loved 07-08 MVP. Also really like 09 UD 1 too, pulled Stamkos, Oshie, Brassard, and Stamkos YGs from 2 boxes and a Fat Pack! Now I trying to do the whole YGs set!