Teaser Gallery: Panini America Cracks Open Three Boxes of 2013-14 Dominion Hockey

On Friday, just three days into the new year, 2013-14 Dominion Hockey will hit U.S. hobby shops packing the serious Product of the Year potential that collectors north of the border have experienced firsthand in the few days since the product released in Canada. Dominion Hockey has undergone a few changes in the months since it last released, but there's no…

Gallery: Panini America Completes Packout for 2013-14 Dominion Hockey (Checklist)

Yesterday we brought you a stirring recap of the social-media buzz Panini America created by live Tweeting the preliminary stages of packout for 2013-14 Dominion Hockey on Tuesday. The painstaking -- but ridiculously rewarding -- packout process concluded yesterday afternoon from Panini America headquarters. Today, we bring you the more stirring images of the cards unearthed yesterday. Featured in the…

Live on Twitter: Panini America Launches Packout for 2013-14 Dominion Hockey

Reason No. 3,648 that you need to be following Panini America on Twitter -- if you're not already -- took place yesterday afternoon when NHL Brand Manager Chris Barr commandeered the Panini America account to bring you real-time updates of the 2013-14 Dominion Hockey packout process live from the company's production facility. Indeed, you saw the first live looks at one of…

Dominion on Display: Panini America Peeks the Heat Coming in 2013-14 Dominion

Even as the scorching 2013-14 Select Hockey continues fanning secondary-market flames and delivering one hot pull after another, Panini America NHL product developers are steadily preparing another barn-burner for release in just a few weeks: 2013-14 Dominion Hockey. Although the sport's preeminent high-end brand has moved up on the release calendar and tweaked just a bit, the 2013-14 edition is…

Panini America Peeks New Autographs from Immaculate, Dominion, Contenders, More

I love this time of year inside Panini America HQ. With all four major sports in play, the levels of excitement, intrigue, production and entertainment are at goose-bump-inducing, don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-a-lot levels. As an example, we submit just some of our most recent on-card-autograph arrivals. In just the last few days alone, we've been on the receiving end of future collection-makers from…

New Arrivals Help Dominion Hockey, Prizm Perennial Draft Picks Baseball Take Shape

Even as the collectibles industry is all abuzz over last week's release of 2013-14 Prizm Hockey and next week's release of 2012-13 Flawless Basketball, we here at Panini America understand the never-ending fascination with what's next. Heck, we're just as fascinated ourselves. So given that premise, we wanted to share with you today just a glimpse into the future with…

Panini Peek: 2013-14 Dominion Hockey

If it's true that absence really does make the heart grow fonder, hardcore hockey collectors are in for an intense love affair when 2013-14 Dominion Hockey makes its triumphant return to the ice in early December. Confined to a bonus-pack run in 2012-13 Prime Hockey during the non-traditional 2012-13 NHL collecting season, Panini America's high-end landmark returns to standalone status in…

Exclusive Access: Panini America Takes You to the Production Facility (Video & Gallery)

Every time I'm fortunate enough to take the cross-town road trip to the Panini America production facility (literally every single time), I can't help but think I'm peering into a whirring, bustling version of collecting's crystal ball, spying rarely seen first looks at tomorrow's hottest sports cards. That scintillating sensation greeted me again yesterday. My primary mission yesterday was to…