Panini America On Location: Day Two at the 2013 Toronto Fall Expo (Must-See Gallery)
TORONTO, Ontario -- Quite possibly the filthiest, nastiest, sickest game-worn Chicago Blackhawks card ever made. The Gordie Howe Black 1/1 Prizm from 2013-14 Select Hockey. Two of the most patch-tastic cases of 2012-13 Prime Hockey we've seen. Sal Corrado, the father of Vancouver Canucks defenseman Frank Corrado, stopping by to share his son super collection. An endless run of wrapper-redemption…
Panini America Provides a Final Pre-Release Look at 2012-13 Prime Hockey (Gallery)
Game-worn skate leather and laces. Game-worn glove leather and surname insignias. Team logo stickers and numbers removed from game-worn helmets. Game-used sticks. All-Star Game locker nameplates. Massive logo patches, nameplates, fight straps, ties and laundry tags from game- and event-worn jerseys. Indeed, if an NHL player has worn it or carried it to take the ice during the course of his…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2013-14 Score Hockey Hobby Jumbos
Last week we brought you the glorious first glimpses of 2013-14 Score Hockey with a loaded Quality Control Gallery taken from the product's retail configuration. As promised, today we're back with your first look at the results from 2013-14 Score Hockey's Hobby Jumbo packout process. While the different configurations share many of the same attributes, there are some niceties that…
A Pictorial Salute to the Men, Women, Kids and Pets of #PaniniWildCard (Gallery)
Thanks to one of the greatest NBA Finals ever played and one of the most frenetic, improbable finishes to a Stanley Cup Finals we've ever seen, Panini America's Twitter sensation known as #PaniniWildCard enjoyed a passion-fueled two-week run that featured seemingly as many thrills, emotions and memories as the respective Finals themselves. The collector-centric #PaniniWildCard initiative that began during the…
Market Analysis: 2012-13 Rookie Anthology Hockey Delivering Big for Collectors
With tonight's pivotal Game 4 of the 2013 NHL Stanley Cup Finals top of mind inside Panini America HQ and across North America, it seemed appropriate that Karvin Cheung's early secondary market analysis on 2012-13 Rookie Anthology Hockey hit my email inbox earlier this afternoon. After scouring the first few weeks of eBay activity, Cheung, Panini America's NHL Product Development…
Video & Gallery: The Hockey Highlights from Panini America’s Most Recent Mail Day
If a picture truly is worth a thousand words (and, hey, who are we to argue that it's not?), get ready for 37,000 brilliant ones that will succinctly sum up three good reasons to anticipate Panini America's later-season 2011-12 NHL trading cards. Those three reasons: Game-worn hockey jerseys from Chicago Blackhawks legend Denis Savard, Los Angeles Kings legend Bernie Nicholls and 2011…
Win an Autographed Photo of Winnipeg Jets New Superstar Dustin “Big Buff” Byfuglien
UPDATE: NHL Star Dustin Byfuglien Dons Winnipeg Jets Sweater for the First Time [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HznuPLaNSE] For the last week, Panini America has been giving collectors a behind-the-scenes look at one of the NHL’s marquee events. What we didn’t know was just how popular showing images of Dustin Byfuglien in what COULD be his new uni would be. Just minutes after posting…
New Duds: NHL Star Dustin Byfuglien Dons Winnipeg Jets Sweater for the First Time
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- To be sure, it's been a banner weekend for Panini America at the 2011 NHL Draft. We've entertained the hockey-loving masses with a tantalizing wrapper-redemption program and we've interacted with tomorrow's next batch of collectible NHL superstars for interviews, photos and fun. Oh, yeah, we also were joined at the Panini America booth on Saturday by special…
Before They’re Signed: A Panini America Pre-Ink Peek at 2010-11 Dominion Hockey
Say what you will, but being an office busy body has its advantages. Take, for example, the drool-inducing gallery that follows. I was up late last week playing the role of office butterfly, making my rounds through production, design, product development and acquisitions just to see what was going on. As always, there was tons going on. (more…)