Pure Certified Bliss!

[wild4life]

Anyone else fall in love with Panini Certified this year aside from myself? lol I just can't get over the design and appeal of these cards. I pulled a nice Okposo Big Men on Campus /250 and Lucic Fabric of the Game /25 so far and couldn't be more impressed with Panini. I think they came back into the hockey card business with a bang this year!

[ComancheKeen]

I'm also loving Certified! I don't care if it has a bunch of parallels, I find it a very fun break and the variety of insert sets makes it fun to piece together. I also really like to look of most of the cards. The only bad thing I've found so far is the price has gone from $99 per box, to $109, to $119 at my LCS. Still won't stop me from breaking a couple more. Hopefully Crown Royale will be as fun of a break as Certified has been for me.

[FrankToronto]

Certified are definitely nice cards and a lot of people like it. I'm not a fan of parallel-laced sets, but I give credit to Panini on this one.

[Dogg]

I'll admit, some of my best pulls this season are compliments of Certified. I also like the design and variety in the inserts. I'm having a grand ol' time chasing the Fabric of the Game cards of the players I collect. On the other hand, I could not stand Limited: butt ugly, full of redemptions, expensive and a real "hit or miss" buy (miss for me all the way). I, too, am hoping Crown Royale real delivers... we'll see.

[ziadefan]

I'm right there with you. Aside from BD, I haven't even liked any of UD's sets this year, but Certified is definitely my fave set of the year so far. As a whole, I love the number of die-cut cards that Panini is putting out. Just makes the cards a little more interesting.

And yeah, prices of boxes have gone up all over. Its a good thing I bought my boxes right before the price went up. :)

[RGM81]

I think that the fact that I have more Certified cards in my Carey Price collection than from any other set this year tells you what my opinion is. Absolutely love it. I've had great fortune with my box breaks, as I had one hot box and the other had some great stuff in it...and my blaster break yielded a Paajarvi RC!

[TheBoxBreaker]

I really like this season's Certified hockey. I haven't bought any boxes of it yet, but I'm a Panini fan in general. I've opened lots of their football (soccer) products in the last couple of year's so when they announced they'd do hockey, I was happy with the news.

A great company and great value for the money on those Certified cards. Nice multicolored swatchtes, too. Only bad thing (for me and some other collectors) is that there are perhaps too many parallels of cards in Certified this season. Otherwise a great product; can't wait for Crown Royale!

[lemieuxl66]

I'll second, no third, no fourth... well Yeah.. I love this stuff too. Yeah the prices of boxes have really shot up. Bought my first at 75$ when it first came out, the next few just before Xmas at 80$ and this past week, the were asking 91$ for them??? Guess that just means that Panini has a hit on their hands I guess.

[gatesnapper]

agreed. this has been my favorite so far as well. I have busted two boxes, and working my way towards the #1-150 base set, just a few shy.

this was a picture taken a few weeks ago. I have picked up a few more since then. I am at 51 cards of certified Bruins.

[NyFanCam01]

i'm a flyers fan but that it awesome! ^^^