The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2011-12 Prime Hockey (Process Continues)
You just thought you saw everything there was to see from the 2011-12 Prime Hockey QC process yesterday. The fact of the matter is that Panini America NHL Brand Manager Chris Barr spent well into Monday evening at the company printing facility ensuring everything in the product was falling as it should. As a result, Barr unearthed the following gems…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2012-13 Score Hockey (39 Must-See Images)
Here's reason No. 3,769 why every day at Panini America is a forever-entertaining, never-a-dull-moment, white-knuckle thrill ride: Just one day after previewing 2011-12 Dominion Hockey, one of the most lavish, super-premium NHL products in existence, we now get to preview 2012-13 Score Hockey, one of collecting's most affordable, bang-for-your-buck bargains. So even as they feverishly work on putting the finishing…
Panini America Offers Pre-Ink Peek at the Peerless Patches in 2011-12 Dominion
Let's be honest: There's never a bad time to preview a product like 2011-12 Dominion Hockey. So even though it's still a ways out on the release calendar with 2011-12 Prime Hockey to come before, I couldn't resist sharing some of the serendipitous scenes I saw back in the Acquisitions department earlier this week. Among the rush of incoming collection-makers…
Panini America Peeks “Cracked Ice” from 2012 National Wrapper-Redemption Set
Two weeks from today, the 2012 National Sports Collectors Convention will -- sadly -- be winding down its final hours. But Panini America is just getting started. Throughout this special Sneak-Peek Sunday, we're going to preview some of the must-see elements that will make Panini America's wrapper-redemption program in Baltimore one of the show's featured attractions. Starting off this Sunday…
Panini America Peeks Primo Penmanship Coming to 2011-12 Prime Hockey (Gallery)
Up to this point, the intense sense of anticipation that has developed for Panini America's upcoming 2011-12 Prime Hockey has almost everything to do with the unparalleled selection of prime memorabilia slated for the product that we've previewed now on a couple of different occasions. But 2011-12 Prime Hockey is about so much more than just pretty patches. It's also…
Panini Peek: 2011-12 Dominion Hockey
Given last season's highly decorated debut of Dominion Hockey as the newest super-premium superstar on the sports collectibles landscape, it would be no stretch at all to call 2011-12 Dominion Hockey easily one of the most anticipated releases of the season. And that's before you even consider the sheer amount of improvements the Panini America Product Development team made to the…
Panini Peek Preview: 2012-13 Score Hockey
The good news: Score Hockey returns for the new season in August to once again provide the best bang for a buck in the hockey collecting universe. The better news: That bang will be more profound than ever before. For starters, 2012-13 Score Hockey is scheduled to arrive in early August, which means -- for the first time since its…
Must-See Video: Gordie Howe Welcomed to the Panini America Family, Signs for Fans
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjO8KyrMjcg&w=585&h=327] Last Friday during 2012 NHL All-Star Weekend in Ottawa, Panini America made major headlines by announcing that it had reached a multi-year trading card agreement with NHL legend Gordie Howe, making it official by presenting Mr. Hockey with a special Detroit Red Wings-inspired Panini hockey jersey inside a packed Panini America booth. With the formalities out of the…
Gordie Howe’s Panini America Appearance Highlights Friday at NHL All-Star Weekend
OTTAWA, Canada -- The buzz was palpable throughout the entire Ottawa Convention Centre early Friday afternoon. Gordie Howe was coming. Indeed, Howe's scheduled appearance inside the Panini America booth at NHL Fan Fair to celebrate his new multi-year trading agreement with the company was must-see entertainment for seemingly everyone in the building Friday, including NHL commissioner Gary Bettman. (more…)
Panini America Inks Legend Gordie Howe to a Multi-Year Trading Card Agreement
Panini America, the world’s largest sports and entertainment collectibles company and an official trading card manufacturer of the NHL®, announced Friday during the 2012 NHL All-Star Weekend in Ottawa that it has reached a multi-year trading card agreement with legendary Detroit Red Wings® star Gordie Howe, arguably the greatest hockey player of all time. The new pact means Panini America…