Insight into draft classes and products

[Ray33]

Are we just talking about their true rookie card years? Or, their rookie season? If so, for their true rc year, how can you forget forsberg from 91-92 and pavel bure from 90-91? Also, Scott Niedermayer is from 90-91. But 90-91 is pretty stacked, you might as well throw Igor Larinov in there. Petr Nedved, Patrice Brisebrois, Felix Potvin, Adam Graves etc.. Not hall guys, but all not bad. 91-92, I will also add in Vladimir Konstantinov, Valeri Kamensky, John Leclair, Sandis Ozolinsh (sp.) etc....

A new box of 90-91 OPC Premier still fetches over $50.00 for some bizarre reason. It should be about $15.00. I realize that you can get 9 Owen Nolan Rookies like I did instead of 9 Sundins or Roenicks, but usually you get 4 per box of almost every rookie.

I wasn't arguing the value of the cards, I was defending the talent alone. On that merit, the 2 years or 90-91 and 91-92 are pretty hard to beat. 2005-06 will be similar in nature, just not quite as many getting into the Hall.

90-91 will place - 12 players into the Hall when all is said and done. Jagr, Modano, Sundin, Brodeur, Lindros, Bondra, Cujo, Roenick, Mogilny, Blake, Fedorov, Belfour.

91-92 will be like 2005-06 and place 4-5 players into the Hall: 91-92 Niedermayer, Lidstrom, Tkachuk, Hasek, and perhaps another.

[centrehice]

The weird thing about those 2 years is that many did not even get rookie cards until they were almost in year 3 of playing. It was a bit of a cluster fire-truck in that 3 year window.

[centrehice]

Zhamnov was an amazing player until he turned into Mikeal Samuelsson. Sometimes these Russians get a taste of the good life and stop trying. Alexei Kovalev was a great example.

He could have been the greatest forward the game has ever seen, but he's lazier than a full-fed, fat dog on a sun porch. Kovalev managed to do as well as he did by only playing every 4th game. Guys like that should be fined by their teams.

[eliteco3]

i bought my first two hockey hobby boxes. Totally Certified and UD series one both from 13-14. Thanks for the awesome insight and kindness on this board.

[RGM81]

Make sure to post your results in the Box Breaks section! May get you some trading action going!