Teaser Gallery: Panini America Breaks Four Early Boxes of 2013-14 Playbook Hockey
By this time tomorrow, hockey collectors across North America will help Panini America pen a new chapter in the hockey-card history books by partaking in the first -- and perhaps only -- edition of Playbook Hockey. A unique Playbook brand that has resonated with football collectors for several years makes the bold transition to hockey with a library's worth of…
Panini America On Location: At the Printing Facility with 2011-12 Dominion Hockey
First things first: I owe you a huge apology. I inadvertently lied to you last Sunday when I said that day's gallery would be the final pre-release look at 2011-12 Dominion Hockey. Turns out it wasn't. It was supposed to be, but then a quick trip to the Panini America facility this afternoon changed all of that. Marketing comrade Chris…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2011-12 Prime Hockey (Process Continues)
You just thought you saw everything there was to see from the 2011-12 Prime Hockey QC process yesterday. The fact of the matter is that Panini America NHL Brand Manager Chris Barr spent well into Monday evening at the company printing facility ensuring everything in the product was falling as it should. As a result, Barr unearthed the following gems…
Gallery: Pre-Packout Process Continues for Panini America’s 2011-12 Prime Hockey
You can trace the considerable buzz that reverberated throughout the hockey collecting universe last week (and reverberates still today) directly back to The Knight's Lance. Indeed, our gallery documenting the pre-packout process for Panini America's upcoming 2011-12 Prime Hockey was nothing short of an appetite-whetting, hit-generating sensation. The good news? We have more sneak peeks to show you today. Panini America…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2012-13 Score Hockey (39 Must-See Images)
Here's reason No. 3,769 why every day at Panini America is a forever-entertaining, never-a-dull-moment, white-knuckle thrill ride: Just one day after previewing 2011-12 Dominion Hockey, one of the most lavish, super-premium NHL products in existence, we now get to preview 2012-13 Score Hockey, one of collecting's most affordable, bang-for-your-buck bargains. So even as they feverishly work on putting the finishing…
Updated Gallery: Panini America Initiates Pre-Packout for 2011-12 Prime Hockey
I returned to the office this morning following a whirlwind five days at the 2012 National Sports Collectors Convention to an email inbox overflowing with an array of stunning images from the upcoming 2011-12 Prime Hockey release. Turns out Karvin Cheung, Panini America's Director of Product Development for the NBA and NHL, is spending time at the printing facility today…
Panini America Offers Pre-Ink Peek at the Peerless Patches in 2011-12 Dominion
Let's be honest: There's never a bad time to preview a product like 2011-12 Dominion Hockey. So even though it's still a ways out on the release calendar with 2011-12 Prime Hockey to come before, I couldn't resist sharing some of the serendipitous scenes I saw back in the Acquisitions department earlier this week. Among the rush of incoming collection-makers…
A Must-See Pre-Ink Peek: 2011-12 Dominion Hockey Rookie Card Variations (Gallery)
It's coming. 2011-12 Dominion Hockey -- the high-end juggernaut that's easily one of the most anticipated products of the entire 2011-12 season -- will be here before you know it. (The crowd erupts.) And here's one surefire way I know it's getting closer: Last week, amid the frenzy of activity surrounding 2011-12 Prime Hockey and getting that beauty ready for, well,…
Package Deal: Panini America to Deliver 1/1 Packaging Printing Plates at the National
While the collecting world anxiously awaits complete details on Panini America's wrapper-redemption program for the 2012 National Sports Collectors Convention (which will be revealed in the coming days), there is at least one unique aspect we can shed some light on right now. For the first time ever, Panini America will deliver 1/1 printing plates from product packaging through special…
Panini America Peeks Primo Penmanship Coming to 2011-12 Prime Hockey (Gallery)
Up to this point, the intense sense of anticipation that has developed for Panini America's upcoming 2011-12 Prime Hockey has almost everything to do with the unparalleled selection of prime memorabilia slated for the product that we've previewed now on a couple of different occasions. But 2011-12 Prime Hockey is about so much more than just pretty patches. It's also…