Panini America Releases the List of Hockey SSPs for 2011-12 Elite, 2011-12 Contenders
Over the course of the last few weeks we've brought you the list of short prints found in both 2011-12 Elite Hockey and 2011-12 Contenders Hockey. What we haven't unveiled up to this point, however, are the lists of SSPs -- or Super Short Prints -- found in those two popular products. For not having those lists published before now,…
Revealed: Panini America Identifies List of 2011-12 Elite Hockey Autographed SPs
Judging by the amount of requests flooding The Knight's Lance and the Panini America Facebook and Twitter feeds in recent weeks, inquiring collecting minds want to know: "When is Panini America going to release the autograph SP list for 2011-12 Elite Hockey. The short answer to that question is "today." Below, you'll find the preliminary list of autograph short prints…
Video & Gallery: The Panini America Team Quality Controls 2011-12 Elite Hockey
It was an all-hands-on-deck kind of afternoon Friday inside the Panini America Production Department conference room as Karvin Cheung, Chris Barr, Alex Carbajal, Tim Trout, Joe Reyes and even NBA brand manager Keith Hower pitched in to scrutinize the second quality control case of 2011-12 Elite Hockey. The QC process started Thursday on-location at the Panini America printing facility but a…
Newest Hockey Arrivals Provide Answers to the Panini America Autograph Contest
In this special, multi-faceted Saturday-morning post, Panini America officials will unveil some of the sweetest new arrivals coming soon to their roster of NHL products (most notably 2011-12 Elite Hockey and 2010-11 Contenders Hockey). In the process, they'll also provide the answers to the "Guess the Autograph" contest they started earlier this week in conjunction with the start of the…
The Panini America "Guess the Autograph" Contest Returns in Time for NHL Playoffs
The thought occurred to me yesterday afternoon while checking out the newest Panini America NHL autograph arrivals that it's been way too long since we last conducted one of our popular "Guess the Autograph" contests. How long? Well, if my math is correct, it's been almost eight months. Like I said, "way too long." So inspired by the Stanley Cup…
A Sneak Peek at 2011-12 Elite Hockey's New Breed and Elite Materials Inserts
My primary goal in venturing across town to the Panini America printing facility yesterday morning was to capture some compelling images from 2011 Prime Cuts Baseball before that product starts packing out next week. But I kept getting distracted by a flurry of activity that was taking place on a table just in front of me and to the left,…
New Autos from Hockey, Hardball Highlight Panini America's Latest Mail Days
We get the sense that Panini America baseball and hockey collectors are growing restless. After all, while basketball and football collectors are currently enjoying the new-release spoils of such products as 2011 Preferred Basketball and 2011 Totally Certified Football, those waiting patiently for, say, 2011-12 Contenders Hockey, 2011-12 Elite Hockey or 2011 Prime Cuts Baseball are left counting down the…
Panini America Peeks New Hockey Arrivals for 2011-12 Elite, 2011-12 Contenders
With so much hobby attention being heaped recently on the long-awaited fist NBA product of the season (2011-12 NBA Hoops) and the second one hot on its heels (2011 Preferred will be live next Wednesday), we've admittedly been distracted from the flurry of autographic activity surrounding Panini America's next two NHL products: 2011-12 Contenders and 2011-12 Elite. So we took…
Panini America Behind-the-Scenes Gallery: Preparing for an On-Card Onslaught
For once yesterday afternoon, the commotion emanating from the Panini America Acquisitions department had nothing to do with me performing a cross-body splash onto a prone Joe White from atop his cubicle walls. On this particular Tuesday afternoon, the hum of activity audible throughout the building was the furor of seemingly half of Acquisitions and Product Development preparing a stunning…
Panini Peek: 2011-12 Elite Hockey
If this was a normal Panini Peek post, I'd spend the first paragraph or so crafting a flowery and adjective-filled -- but well-earned and accurate -- introduction to herald the coming excitement of a new Panini America product. But this is no normal Panini Peek post because 2011-12 Elite Hockey is no normal hockey product. So instead, I'll quote from the…