O-Pee-Chee loves me....

 

You of course all remember my 2012-13 OPC Hockey box break review in which I pulled not one, but two patches that are seeded roughly one in 3 boxes.

 

Well, I just happened to be by a card shop the other day, and I decided to buy, among other things, four more packs of this year's OPC as I'm still working on the base and retro sets.

 

I picked up a couple of legends and a rookie, so 3 SP's in four packs wasn't too bad........... and then in pack three I found this.

 

 whoa.

This surprise, unannounced insert set consists of 36 cards and are found at a rate of 1:960 packs.
Or, 1 in 30 boxes, which is 2 1/2 cases.
The chances of pulling a Brett Hull is 1:34560 packs.

That's a lot of packs.

The cards are 2/3 the size of regular cards, and the auto is a facsimile.

My apologies for the crappy scan. Due to the white borders it won't scan, and I can't crop out the dark background I used due to the deckel edge.


EDIT: Just for Casey, the checklist....

1	Alexander Ovechkin
2	Alexandre Burrows
3	Antti Niemi
4	Bobby Orr
5	Brett Hull
6	Carey Price
7	Claude Giroux
8	Curtis Joseph
9	Daniel Alfredsson
10	Drew Doughty
11	Eric Lindros
12	Erik Karlsson
13	Henrik Lundqvist
14	Ilya Kovalchuk
15	Jaromir Jagr
16	Jason Spezza
17	Joe Sakic
18	John Tavares
19	Jonathan Toews
20	Jordan Eberle
21	Mario Lemieux
22	Martin Brodeur
23	MilanLucic
24	Nicklas Lidstrom
25	Ondrej Pavelec
26	P.K. Subban
27	Patrick Roy
28	Patrick Sharp
29	Pavel Datsyuk
30	Pelle Lindbergh
31	Roberto Luongo
32	Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
33	Sidney Crosby
34	Teemu Selanne
35	Wayne Gretzky
36	Wendel Clark

TTM Success! Brett Hull, The Golden Brett, Hall of Famer

Ahhh... I may never catch up from my time without a scanner.... (read:slacking)....
In celebration of the fact that the St Louis Blues are in first place overall for the first time this late in the season since....... a horrifically long time, I'll feature a Blue today. Not just any Blue either.

Today's TTM return is from Hall of Famer Brett Hull.
Brett certainly lived up to the expectations of having a famous father... he scored over 80 goals in one season, over 70 three times, over 50 five times and over 40 eight times. Including the vaunted 50 goals in 50 games.

Where did I get this? Why, from Brett Hull of course.
What is it? An 8x10 from his days in St Louis.

Nice! Although Brett decided to keep the three cards I sent him. If any of you get extras from him, They're Mine!

Thanks Brett!