Opening Fun

A while ago, local collector Jeff passed off a bunch of stuff which included a number of unopened packs of different things. These included about 26 packs of 1991-92 O Pee Chee hockey. Now, I have the complete base set and the insert set, but for the fun of opening and seeing what Leafs or maybe error card copies I can get, we will still go through these. 

Heck, I already have all four different pack wrappers in the unopened pack collection, so nothing to save or keep there either. The first big question opening the packs on these always becomes - what is the gum damage going to look like...

Well, in every single pack, the gum is going to be stuck to the insert card. Good news, as I said, I have that set done. Bad news is, those cards are likely all going to be trash because the gum seems pretty stuck...

Yeah, that's not going to work. So, unless there is a miracle, each pack I show will be 9 cards instead of 10 as the insert is trash unfortunately. Now, I have received and opened packs where the gum just slides off and isn't stuck - this all comes down to whether there has been any heat in their storage which was enough to get the gum stuck to the card. At least these packs, I haven't seen gum "bleed" ruin more than one card unlike 1990-91 O Pee Chee where I have seen it go through up to 3 cards in a pack.

First pack is highlighted by Neely - solid All-Star as well as Richter. Just looking at the pack, you know what period of sport you were really into, because you remember most if not all of the names, including guys who, looking back, didn't have much of a career, but you were so zoned in, even they ended up taking real estate up in your mind.

Ah yes, the base set has a tribute to Guy subset. Something we saw more of in the 80s and early 90s as a way to get more star cards in. I remember it more with baseball, but was in hockey too. No Leafs in two packs, not a good start, but plenty of packs to go.