Behind The Scenes With Panini at the Rookie Photoshoot

[RGM81]

I think it's fair to say after this that you can't blame Panini for not giving people enough time to sign their cards...they have Dominion 2011-12 cards in there!

http://paniniamerica.wordpress.com/2...ookie-showcase

The Panini America hockey team spent a good chunk of Sunday night and a wee bit of Monday morning preparing the company’s signing quarters inside Toronto’s Westin Harbour Castle for the 26 young NHL superstars who will make their way through the room later this morning.
Three different groups of players (two groups of nine and one group of eight) will sign autographs for Panini America during the first day of the 2011 NHLPA Rookie Showcase, including on-card gems such as Private Signings and Pen Pals duals, trios and quads. (New Jersey Devils defenseman Adam Larsson was unable to make the trip due to travel complications caused by Hurricane Irene).

Below you’ll see a gallery of images previewing all of the action that will take place today. Tomorrow gives way to the actual photo-shoot portion of the Showcase, when all 26 players will take the ice at MasterCard Centre for action photography, studio shots and interviews.
Stay tuned later today for a recap of today’s activities — and all week long for continued coverage of the 2011 NHLPA Rookie Showcase.

Jets! Jets! Jets!


Leafs quad auto


Who is #1?


700 signatures, please.


And 200 from this box, including a special one.


Boxes and boxes of stuff to sign.


More pics at this link: http://paniniamerica.wordpress.com/2...ookie-showcase

[oilfan10]

Pretty cool, but what happens if some of these guys don't end up playing a game this season? The manufactured patches are fine, but would they have to destroy the Dominion cards?

[kovyheater]

Hopefully Dominon will come out sooner than July 2012....

[RGM81]

Pretty cool, but what happens if some of these guys don't end up playing a game this season? The manufactured patches are fine, but would they have to destroy the Dominion cards?

Yes they would.

This is, upon some thought, probably why so many of Subban's RC's in UD products were redemption cards. He had to go through the entire process in 2009-10, but since he didn't debut until after the cutoff date they had to scrap everything and start again from scratch.

[Yipper]

Very interesting. I can see they are getting ready for Dominion and Limited.

This answer some of the questions on why some players are /99 and /249 for The Cup as well as /99 and /199 for Dominion and companies don't change the print run to suite particular players as they grow throughout the season.

Product is decided ways ahead.