Teaser Gallery: Panini America Breaks Two Early Boxes of 2013-14 Contenders Hockey
Word on the street (and by street, we mean social media channels and our very own Product Development and Sales departments) is that 2013-14 Contenders Hockey is, well, loaded. Typically, "loaded" can be a hard-to-define term that tends to vary from collector to collector. But what we can report as it relates to the two random boxes we just opened…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2013-14 Contenders Hockey (129 Images)
Hockey's home of the autographed Rookie Card has undergone an expansion; a staggering, way-better-than-expected upgrade that should make Panini America's 2013-14 Contenders Hockey -- quite possibly the last Contenders Hockey we'll see in quite some time -- a bona fide phenomenon. When the product releases to the hobby one week from today, collectors will notice boxes that promise at least three…
Video: Panini America Rips Two Spectacular Boxes of 2013-14 Playbook Hockey
As collectors across North America celebrate today's release of 2013-14 Playbook Hockey, here's hoping the inaugural edition of the product is making as big an impact on you as it made on us during a sick seven-minute stretch yesterday afternoon inside the Panini Unwrapped studio. That's where Tracy Hackler and a gimpy but game Chris Barr ripped two boxes of…
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…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2013-14 Playbook Hockey (117 Sweet Pics)
Thanks to the nimble Tweeting fingers of Panini America Hockey Brand Manager Chris Barr, last week's packout for 2013-14 Playbook Hockey was largely -- pardon the pun -- an open book. Throughout the afternoon last Thursday, Barr took control of the Panini America Twitter account to provide real-time coverage of what he was seeing live from the floor of the…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Opens Some Early Packs of 2013 Boxing Day Promo Set
We've spent that last few weeks here at The Knight's Lance doing our best to properly prepare our north-of-the-border neighbors for the impending phenomenon known as Panini America's 2013 Boxing Day promotion. We've shown you most of the sweet cards, we've shared the complete list of participating Panini Roundtable shops in Canada and we've brought you an exclusive interview with Angelo…
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…
Panini America Provides Detailed First Look at 2013-14 Totally Certified Hockey
It's no real secret that the inaugural release of Panini America's Totally Certified Hockey was supposed to appear during the 2012-13 NHL season. But when company officials adjusted the product roster to accommodate for the shortened season, Totally Certified was one of the key products impacted. But in late February and at long last, Totally Certified Hockey will become a reality.…
A Panini HRX Video Exclusive: Unwrapping 2013-14 Select Hockey (with a Contest)
Let me just get this out of the way from the top: We're way late with this special edition of Panini Unwrapped starring the still-blazing 2013-14 Select Hockey -- and for that, I apologize. In addition to including the first autographed and autographed memorabilia RCs of the this year's newest rookie phenoms, 2013-14 Select Hockey also was the focus 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…