He Made It

 We will keep the title reference to another Young Guns card, but first, more keepers from the base cards...

We end the base keepers with another Young Guns card. Since there are 30 in total, I'm not going to complete the whole Extended Series base set in these packs, but given Young Guns cards always carry a bit of a premium being rookie cards, even for guys that didn't see much success in the NHL, I'm happy with any I do get here.

Sashe, at this point, hadn't made the NHL so we get his AHL stats which consisted of parts of 2 seasons through 2019-20, but he had his first games in 2020-21 with 5 in San Jose and followed up with another 19 games the year after. A bit more successful than Bischoff yesterday, but that was the extent of his NHL level play.

At least the Leaf pick ups have remained fairly consistent through these packs.

Can I just comment again on the wasted space on some of these. I mean, if you can use more than 5 lines of stats because there is room, please just do it!

No Relation

 With 2020-21 Upper Deck Extended Series, it's really a 200 card base set with 30 extra cards which are Young Guns. This mean with 17 packs of 26 cards each, and on average, only one being an insert or parallel, that we will end up with plenty of base duplicates, and that at this point we will start seeing more duplicates than keepers so still alright getting 8 base keepers today...

A shame time was spent in Montreal as Corey Perry was a good player and didn't deserve such things...

After a decade in Calgary, 2020-21 marked his first year in Toronto after he signed with the team in free agency. He is a solid D-Man, and though never a goal scorer (less goals in his career than Auston last season), he does defense solidly.

If the man wanted to get into wrestling, could have played off a relation to Eric Bischoff no problem! Jake's NHL career is documented on this card, four games with Vegas in 2019-20. That's it. Another case of a Young Guns card highlighting someone that ended up with a dip in the big league. Maybe he could still go the wrestling route...

I give him credit, at least this is an error card as his stats of zero goals and zero assists in those four games, somehow totals to 1 point. Well, being 1 in 4 as a Young Guns card and an error, at least that scores some points with me!

The dupes for anyone interested - please be interested! :)

Hockey For Canada Day

 A Happy Canada Day to my fellow Canadians, and what is more Canadian than some hockey. So, another 2020-21 Extended Series hockey pack for share today.

Not a perfect pack - there are a few duplicates as shown at the end, but a whole bunch of helpers for sure.

The card of the pack for discussion has to be the Kane retro insert. I will say at first, I thought the card may be a printing error with the white down the right side, but no, just the way the picture was. Does make me wonder why this card was picked, but so be it.

As for Patrick Kane himself, I was hoping he would be able to spend his entire career in Chicago, but it wasn't meant to be. It can't always happen, that someone gets to spend their entire career with one team, but nice when it can. The three time Cup winner and future Hall of Famer should be able to retire on his own time and knowing he has done it all in the sport. Though the retro design here isn't my favourite set, I like the concept, and the star power can't be denied.

Besides, at least it has the red going for it on Canada Day.