2013-14 Panini Contenders Hockey Cards

Local wally world has 20 card blasters with 2 autos on clearance for about $11 CAD ($ 8.50USD). Is it worth it if I’m looking to sell what I break? Any opinions?

I gave this product a 3 out of 5 for a few reasons. First the number of autos per box is fine but when only one is a Rookie Ticket Auto and the others were the cheap NHL Ink which when you check don’t book well and certainly don’t sell well you are in a hole trying to ‘finance’ finishing the set. Second, the variations for most players also don’t book well and when you have a Rookie Ticket Auto limited to 50 or less $25 seems pretty cheap so obviously this is not a singles sell able product unless you hit something really big. I was also disappointed by the multi auto cards for their lack of serial-numbers, only the gold and black are numbered which leaves collectors struggling to figure out how many silver versions there really are. The card design is acceptable and much like previous years so no surprise there. I guess if I were to say the biggest disappointment for me would be the lousy resale values for most cards in this release compared to the original box selling price upon release.

Regarding the Eights and Sixes and several other of the sub-sets, what are the base odds ? The parallel’s are serial #’d, ok, but I see no base odds or SP/SSP. Thanks.

There are a lot of autos worth not much in this set and a lot of them printed.

But nevertheless these are extremely fun to open. Lots of great possibilities. I’ve only opened two boxes of this product- the first box was okay.. a few rookie autos but no one too exciting.. and a 6 way auto that was mediocre.

Second box I opened— BIG hit 1 of 1 Roman Josi patch auto gold. Tarasenko Rookie ticket auto, 6 way rookie auto with tyler johnson, and another rookie auto morgan reilly.
Overall this product is great for autos- fun to open. The base cards are not what they once were in older sets.

If you are a fan of autos (and a lot of these are on-card) this set is great fun to open. The chase being the limited patch autos.

This is a GREAT product!

I’m kind of new to collecting hockey cards, but this is a great box to crack. You get many autographs – worth the money; you get what you pay for! 3 auto’s is the minimum, but I got 5.

I got 2 QUAD AUTO’S and 3 normal ones. They were:

Contenders Fours – St Louis Blues: Brett Hull/Chris Pronger/Dale Hawerchuk/Grant Fuhr
Contenders Matchups – Buffalo vs. Leafs: Ryan Miller/Jhonas Enroth/Jonathan Bernier/James Reimer – 175
NHL INK – Jakub Silfverberg
Rookie Tickets – Jhonas Gustafsson & Alex Chiasson

Already made my money back! Solid box, would buy again!

Got 1 pack and got a first drafts panini playbook on-card autograph of Ryan Nugents-Hopkins!

I like the base cards’ design, and the variety of different hits but I’m giving 4 stars because I heard bad things of this product by my friends.

I think that it is a great product.

If I can allow myself to chime in. If I would rate a product (not only cards), I guess I will do the best to rate the product independently related to selling price, or at least if I do so, it won’t influence 90% of the rating.

Multi-criteria rating might be best for that (card design, value, insert quality, etc.)

If a car is the best car in the world but it cost 1 million, we still have to consider it is the best car in the world if we want to qualify it. Maybe not the best buy for the price, but it might be the best car. Think if all product where costing the same.

Nowdays, it seems people are either 1 star or 5 stars for anything they rate most of the time. 3 and up pass the test. Below 3 = fail, do not use this, do not buy this at all cost.

And, if you open a box and get lucky or unlucky, that should not influence totally your rating IMHO. If they were all Crosby, Mackinnon, etc. How would you rate the card compared to other Crosby, Mackinnon, etc. is probably a good question to ask yourself.

For ex., a Mackinnon /100 for 250$ is not a “very low” price, eh, you can have some quality Mackinnon at this price.

Do not like product with 10 parallels of the same card (like when you are a “completist”) or like the fun of it (when doing one player collection, and even there), it can be a critic.

If all product have multi rares in all box, that will almost always lower the long term value, as everything will be rare, and so won’t be special. But hey, people are now paying those crazy price, so UD, Panini, etc. won’t stop selling them that high and do that, it has become pretty standard.

Then, even if it is fun to open them. I rarely buy packs anymore… mostly single there and there of what I really want.

3-4 Stars. Rookie Ticket Autos are now numbered to 100 in some packs, implies there are more rookie autos than just the basic or variant contender rookie ticket autos. Basics were supposed to be limited to 50 without numbering. Unsure about the amount of variants produced. Liked the Panini Titaniums better, since signatures are more rare.

not everyone is easy to please. Value is an individual perception. I’ve opened 3 boxes and while I haven’t hit anything huge, I’m pleased because I knew what to expect.

8 Autos one box…including H. Lindholm and O. Palat autos, Lindholm variation…fun

If more they were hoping is to get 8 autos of no names, Good for them, i gave my opinion and this product is one of the worst this year, to get a quad auto in every 40packs or less is very stupid and will get no value in the future, even Mackinnon patch /100 can be bought for under 250$

People giving stars because they got a lot of autos of 3 or 4 bucks each, this product is pure scrap, multi autos are a plague in this product that dilluated the value of them (Quad auto unnumbered with 3 or 4 parallel of this same card is a real fail, cards gone under 30$ on ebay), i got a box with 8 autos no one worth over 2$, the finish of the bases suck, low end product for me.

Amazing

joe colbourne redemption auto…really..

Opened 3 boxes and got 16 auto’s

Thanks Ryan, I just ask because I pulled a card that has the variation home jersey, but it’s a completely different photo from the two that I see on eBay with a variation home jersey. The “stars/no stars” on the back would have been a lot easier!

Stated on the box is “at least three autographs,” but you will be hard pressed to find a box with exactly three. All boxes I’ve seen open have had 4 to 8 autographs. Also, how can you tell the difference between the Variation I and II’s? The update on spotting the variations only listed one variation. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Looks like there is a whole lot of great stuff in this product! Hopefully the patches look nice as it is one of panini’s last hockey products.