First off let my apologies, I was going to post some picture but got fed up with the pop-ups and how slow Photobucket is. I guess I'll be going like lots of others and be moving over to Flickr.

We had a fun time in the Fan Fest area. Played some games, won some Blackhawk theme prizes, Didn't get my picture with the cup, line was over 2 hours long, but I did get a nice picture of it. Also had a chance to take some pictures of all the NHL trophies in the Upper Deck area.

We had general admission tickets (nose bleed) for the draft. After finding some decent seats we were approached my some one from the NHL and asked us if we wanted to sit down closer to the draft floor as seat fillers. We didn't even think twice about it. We ended up sitting in the same section that the players and their families were sitting in. It was cool to see the excitement in the players and their families as their names were called when they were drafted. We also noticed the disappointment in players and families as their names weren't called as the draft went on. Overall we had a blast experiencing the draft first hand. We did our fair share of clapping and cheering and of course of booing (Bettman and the Penguins). It was a long day/night but well worth it for any fan of hockey.


Spent some time in the Upper Deck area and had to purchase some packs and a box to do the puck drop. My Brother-in-law wanted a hockey card of himself, he ending up doing it twice, lol.

First off from my packs and box purchases

16/17 Ice
Thomas Chabot World Juniors die-cut 655/699
Oskar Sundqvist Premieres auto 285/299

16/17 SPA
Authentic Moments
104 Thornton
113 Marner
114 Laine
Silver Skates
Conner
McDavid
16/17 UD Update
503 Granlund
507 Schaller
508 Wiercioch
516 Greer YG
522 Benning Yg

Box 16/17 OPC Platinum

Marquee Rookies
151 Matthews
154 Schmaltz
158 Heinen
159 Bjorkstrand
160 Puljujarvi
162 Gauthier
164 Tryamkin
172 Morrissey
176 Laine
177 Kuhnhackl
178 Crouse
181 Sorensen
185 Mantha
189 Soshnikov
192 Eriksson Ek

Puck Personas
Lemieux

Platinum Phenoms
Dylan Strome

Rainbow
68 Tarasenko
129 Spezza
139 H. Sedin
189 Soshnokov

Ice Blue Traxx
75 Jamie Benn
177 Kuhnhackl

NHL Logo Crest
Jaime Benn

Retro Rainbow
R77 Milano

Red Prizm
125 Price 061/199

Seismic Gold
40 Jagr 09/50

Rainbow Orange
143 Ryan Johansen 14/25

Kyle Conner Rookie auto redemption


From Upper Deck

14/15 MVP
Teal Die cut
30 O. Jokinen
33 J. Jokinen
48 Sekera

14/15 Masterpieces
57 Couture Game used (teal)
106 Ranford Game Used (wht)

5x7 cards NFT
Mikita
Bobby Hull
Toews

NHL Draft cards
Got a full set (NFT) plus these extras

17 Kane x3
18 Toews
19 Tkachuk x2
20 Monahan
22 RNH
26 Spezza
28 Marner
29 D.Sedin
32 Scheifele x3

Also got a bunch of packs of 2017 NHCA
2 Motte
3 Werenski
4 Provorov
5 Vesey x2
6 Larkin
7 Eichel x2
8 Pavelski
9 Quick
10 Kane
11 Roenick
12 Guerin x2
13 Leetch
15 Modano

All cards are FT/FS. Trading for my set needs in my signature