Teaser Gallery: Panini America Breaks Open 21 Early Packs of 2014 Boxing Day
Although Boxing Day is officially still three sleeps away, Panini America's 2014 Boxing Day promotion is already underway in hobby shops across Canada. The company's coveted red-foil promotional packs began arriving to participating Canadian Panini Roundtable stores yesterday and the program promises to pick up steam for the remainder of the week. We've provided a series of comprehensive 2014 Boxing Day…
Panini America Previews Autograph Roster for 2014 Boxing Day Set (Gallery)
Panini America's 2014 Boxing Day promotion will begin in earnest this week as participating Canadian Panini Roundtable stores receive their allotment of red-foil 2014 Boxing Day packs and start engaging with collectors looking to land those packs in exchange for qualifying purchases in stores. Over the course of the last week, we've spent quality time here on The Knight's Lance…
Panini America Peeks 2014 Boxing Day Base Set, Cracked Ice Parallels (Gallery)
Now that we've provided a preliminary look at the grand plans for Panini America's upcoming 2014 Boxing Day promotion, we can now begin the full-blown preview parade showcasing everything that's so unique about this year's set. Yesterday we showed you some of the distinct Canadian flavor in the set. Today, we're teasing the base set and Rookie Cards. Oh, and…
Panini America Announces 2014 Boxing Day Promotion for Canadian Hobby Shops
Beginning next week, Panini America is bringing back its popular Boxing Day promotion so that passionate collectors north of the border can celebrate Canada's biggest shopping day of the year in grand hobby style. One year after delivering a phenomenal first Boxing Day promotion, Panini America is following up this year with a set bolstered by rare autograph and memorabilia…
Panini America Shares Another Pre-Release Look at 2013-14 National Treasures Hockey
Treasured Steel. Buried Treasure. Spectacular booklet cards. Notable Nicknames. Sweeter by the Dozen 12-piece memorabilia cards. Booklet cards with 24 pieces of memorabilia. Flawless inserts embedded with real diamonds. Treasured Twigs autographed game-used stick cards. A splendid ensemble of cards honoring the historic #PaniniDoubleRookieClass. Make no mistake about it: If 2013-14 National Treasures Hockey truly is the last Panini America…
Cards of Steel: Heavy-Metal Pioneers Ready to Rock 2013-14 National Treasures Hockey
To suggest that Panini America's upcoming 2013-14 National Treasures Hockey is cutting-edge stuff would be putting things literally -- and mildly. The sizable list of innovations coming to Panini America's final -- and likely most anticipated -- NHL release probably begins with the monumental inclusion of game-used skate blades, continues with the incorporation of miniature metal Stanley Cup replicas and…
Gallery: Panini America Begins Packing Out 2013-14 National Treasures Hockey
The notoriously torrid Texas summer reared its gnarly teeth on Saturday afternoon with a high temperature of 102 degrees on a day when humidity made it feel like a balmy 105. The crazy part, though? It was even hotter inside the Panini America production facility, where Chris Barr, Matt Davis and Jim Stefano were giving 2013-14 National Treasures Hockey the white-glove treatment…
Panini America Seeks the Buried Treasures of 2013-14 National Treasures Hockey
It seems only appropriate that on this day made for honoring championship-worthy fathers (and just two days removed from the Los Angeles Kings hoisting their second Stanley Cup in three seasons), we offer a must-see sneak peek of a truly unique innovation that will make its highly anticipated debut in the upcoming release of Panini America's 2013-14 National Treasures Hockey.…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2013-14 Rookie Anthology Hockey (84 Pics)
Panini America NHL Brand Manager Chris Barr was it again earlier this week, dispensing his own unique brand of hockey hobby hysteria throughout the social media universe with another of his riveting takeovers of the Panini America Twitter account. This time, Barr kicked off our Monday morning by providing live Twitter coverage of the packout process for 2013-14 Rookie Anthology…
Panini America Previews Plans for the 2014 Toronto Spring Expo (Must-See Gallery)
Show-goers making their lists and checking them twice in advance of this weekend's 2014 Toronto Spring Expo are no doubt also keeping one eye fixed on the weather forecast for later this week, which calls for highs in the 50s and lows in the 30s. Not to worry, Panini America is packing plenty of its trademark Texas heat for the…