Normally I get a lot of product info sent to me and just weed through the ones I am excited about enough to put on the blog. I have to tell you though, ITG’s January 19th release date, and a pre-sell on Blowout Cards for $59.99 has me bugging out. That’s 5 autographs and 2 game used for $60. The checklist reads as a who’s who of tough guys in hockey:
Partial Checklist – Complete Checklist will be posted shortly
| Barnaby, Matthew |
| Beck, Barry |
| Belak, Wade |
| Berube, Craig |
| Bialowas, Frank |
| Boschman, Laurie |
| Boughner, Bob |
| Brackenbury, Curt |
| Brashaer, Donald |
| Buchberger, Kelly |
| Butcher, Garth |
| Chase, Kelly |
| Churla, Shane |
| Ciccone, Enrico |
| Clark, Wendel |
| Corson, Shane |
| Cummins, Jim |
| Domi, Tie |
| Dupont, Andre |
| Ewen, Tod |
| Fontinato, Lou |
| Fotiu, Nick |
| Gaetz, Link |
| Gallant, Gerard |
| Gilles, Clark |
| Gillies, Trevor |
| Goldthorpe, Bill |
| Grimson, Stu |
| Jonathan, Stan |
| King, Kris |
| Kocur, Joey |
| Konopka, Zenon |
| Kyte, Jim |
| Lambert, Denny |
| Laraque, Georges |
| Laus, Paul |
| Lysiak, Tom |
| Maloney, Dan |
| Mann, Jimmy |
| Manson, Dave |
| Marchment, Bryan |
| May, Brad |
| McCarthy, Sandy |
| McGill, Bob |
| McKenzie, Jim |
| McRae, Basil |
| McSorley, Marty |
| Miller, Jay |
| Mirasty, Jon |
| Nilan, Chris |
| Nystrom, Bob |
| O’Reilly, Terry |
| Odelein, Lyle |
| Odgers, Jeff |
| Odjick, Gino |
| Paiement, Wilf |
| Peckham, Theo |
| Peters, Andrew |
| Pilon, Rich |
| Plett, Willie |
| Probert, Bob |
| Probert, Bob |
| Ray, Rob |
| Ruskowski, Terryi |
| Russell, Phil |
| Rychel, Warren |
| Schultz, Dave |
| Semenko, Dave |
| Snepsts, Harold |
| Tootoo, Jordan |
| Tucker, Darcy |
| Twist, Tony |
| Watson, Bryan |
| Weir, Wally |
| Wells, Jay |
| Wesnick, John |
| Williams, Tiger |
| Worrell, Peter |
I swear everytime I see these cards they add another name of a player who I want an autographs of. Plus the cards look pretty damn good, see for yourself:
Plus the publicity this set has been getting is fantastic, almost every major news outlet wrote a story about the blood stained cards. Saying how the set is in bad taste, forget about that, if you are a true hockey fan, how can you not be psyched about this set. I am very much hoping for a preview box, generally I get it one day in advance. I will give away EVERY SINGLE CARD in the box! So be ready come 1/19/12.
What do you think about the set?
Looks like more garbage from Brian Price. If you have no license and your company is getting less and less love from collectors you have to produce crap like this. Horrible design, some of the cards haven’t even been cleaned up in photoshop.
Feel free to donate your 60 bucks to the Brian Price I need a steak dinner fund.
I’m stoked for this—whats not too like–hockey, tough guys and hits—-its not like a set honouring penalty killers–not quite the same appeal–would love to win something here