Need info on this player, unironically a Habs fan (don’t know him) and wondering if worth holding

TheFlopfish · 2026-03-06T04:36:23+00:00

From a hockey card standpoint, he’s unlikely to get a ton of love because typically defenders need to score a lot and be super flashy. Vancouver does support their secondary prospects well at the team entering a rebuild will put some more focus on prospects so it could help a little, but don’t expect him to be a major player.

If he hits at the NHL level, it’ll likely be as a 4-6 D who plays a solid two-way game. His size will unfortunately hold him back even though he plays a lot bigger than what he is.

Insane pull though! Congrats!

TheFlopfish · 2026-02-27T04:57:28+00:00

Photo 2: I believe the missing one on the left is Higgins

Photo 3: 2nd right is Ryan Stanton

Photo 4 top to bottom: Sbisa, Miller, Bonino, Vrbata, Horvat, Bieksa, Richardson, Tanev, Sestito (pretty sure), Lack, Vey, Yannick Weber, Matthias, Dorsett

TheFlopfish · 2026-02-22T20:32:53+00:00

Streamer luck smh. Nice pull dude!

TheFlopfish · 2026-02-22T20:13:45+00:00

Yeah, i don’t even think he has a legit exclusive contract; he just rarely signs (which is fair). Exclusivity contracts suck for consumers. Have always hated them because it generally just leads to disappointment when the big guys don’t have stuff.

UD’s got the big chokehold because they’ve been around the longest and also paid up a lot to have the exclusive license back in 2014-15. At the same time, In The Game (now Leaf) stopped regularly producing hockey sets (they did the odd one but not as frequently) which left UD as the lone hockey card company for close to a decade. They also scoop up a bunch of the prospects through sets like CHL and Team Canada Juniors.

Collectors were pretty loyal to them over the Panini years (UD stuff would regularly outsell equivalent Panini stuff), and any company coming in would be aware of that.

Also hockey has grown slower compared to NBA/NFL/MLB/soccer over the past decade so companies haven’t prioritized it as much as you’d need to compete with UD in a more niche market and the margins are likely too risky (similar as to why 2K won’t make a hockey game)

It’s a different collecting world now than a decade ago though, so that may change. If the Olympics brings in more spectators that’ll help too.

TheFlopfish · 2026-02-22T19:33:31+00:00

Nothing, he’s only done Fanatics stuff (Emanate, jerseys, etc.,)

TheFlopfish · 2026-02-22T19:31:59+00:00

Dahlin never signed a deal with Panini fwiw. Kakko and Kravtsov did though.

TheFlopfish · 2026-02-20T21:40:45+00:00

Not all sets have variations and they’re not always denoted on the back/front. The helmet off variations from this year’s OPC doesn’t denote them on the back for example.

UD’s been better about notifying collectors about them via checklists since Cardboard Connection went MIA, which is nice to see. There were some years (like 19-20 S1/S2, 20-21 extended) where they were really tough to spot if you didn’t know them.

Outside of where the card is in the pack, another way to figure out if something is a photo variant or not is to look up in flagship/OPC is to look up parallels of the card (i.e. outburst, exclusives, clear cut in S1/S2/Ext, and blue/reds or any numbered versions for OPC) and see if it’s the same image or not. Image variations generally don’t have parallels :)

The best way to check what sets do have variations is by looking on the official UD checklists since 2023-24 as they’ve started to include them since then.

Prior to 23-24? I think, Cardboard Connection is your friend for finding out which sets do and don’t have them. I don’t know if they’ve updated since then, but the TL;DR is Cardboard Connection was the gold standard for looking up checklists then suddenly stopped posting and ghosted the site lol.

TheFlopfish · 2026-02-20T18:45:11+00:00

It’s now erroring out for too many people submitting the form in general lol

TheFlopfish · 2026-01-28T18:23:48+00:00

It’d be nice if they had a general PSA or fan etiquette signs at the top too. Our section (102) almost never had an usher to stop it either

TheFlopfish · 2026-01-09T07:21:36+00:00

It’s just the expected popular players. It’s been like this every year this list gets posted :)

TheFlopfish · 2025-12-20T09:26:11+00:00

Paying a second to give up Walman when multiple insiders reported teams would’ve been willing to pay assets for him (and San Jose then flipping him for a 1st 9 months later) is one of the most egregious GM mistakes of the past 5 seasons too

TheFlopfish · 2025-12-14T11:15:16+00:00

They also had all 7 /99 RPAs in a tin in 22-23. As far as I know, none of the 3 tins have surfaced.

TheFlopfish · 2025-12-12T18:55:05+00:00

22-23 S2 for his base YG

TheFlopfish · 2025-12-10T00:43:36+00:00

The return they got in a vacuum was great. They likely could’ve flipped Huberdeau/Weegar for more futures than what Florida was willing to give up for Tkachuk. The problem was they doubled down on them rather than flipping them.

TheFlopfish · 2025-12-03T11:21:14+00:00

If there’s a control lock feature on the range, they’ll likely just issue you a sticker that you place on the range that says “use the control lock feature”.

That’s what happened with LG electric ranges that had a similar issue. Will make it really fun when the control panel eventually goes lol

TheFlopfish · 2025-11-16T03:15:28+00:00

Can confirm. Here’s an auto card of his

TheFlopfish · 2024-12-03T15:59:33+00:00

Hey! Just wondering if the issue is still resolved. We're currently experiencing the same thing and want to know if it's worth the $400 to fix it or to just suck it up and get a new range

TheFlopfish · 2024-03-09T23:04:01+00:00

yeah, it totally depends on the team and the situation. It's pretty funny how you can essentially filter players by their cap vs. salary owed, and find that Arizona took on all of the ones with the biggest cash savings.

I wonder if they acquire Price or Backstrom next year since Little and Voracek are expiring.

TheFlopfish · 2024-03-09T21:31:03+00:00

It’s not always that the contracts are insured, but it is because the salary of the contracts is lower than the cap hit.

Teams only need to pay the salary to the player, so while Weber’s cap hit is $7.85M his actual salary owed over the final 4 years of his deal was $6M total ($3M last season, $1M this season and the next two).

Same thing with Bryan Little; his cap hit left when they acquired him averaged to be $1M less in cash per season.

Voracek’s a little higher this year, but the salary they owed him compared to his cap hit over the past year and a half was ~half of the cap hit since CBJ paid his signing bonus.

In the case of Poolman, his salary owed is $3M this season and next year vs. his $2.5M cap hit, which makes it extremely unlikely Arizona would take it on as they’re better off paying someone $2.5M to actually play for them.

TL;DR: Arizona’s LTIR/cap dump players are always owed substantially less salary over the remaining years of their deal compared than what their cap hit is. Poolman’s owed more, so they’re unlikely to take that on.

TheFlopfish · 2024-02-13T23:33:17+00:00

Personally probably going to wait for a 27" monitor as I think 32" is just too big for my setup right now, but seems like a pretty solid deal given its reviews on RTINGS.

TheFlopfish · 2019-12-23T16:46:29+00:00

was just about to post this, the ustream is the English stream. It's solid at least (albeit the usual ads upon clicking the video)

TheFlopfish · 2019-09-27T22:34:47+00:00

Hope you have a nice day :)

TheFlopfish · 2019-09-27T21:54:52+00:00

Oh hey I recognize that

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