A Blog Of Hockey Cards: December 2014

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope your Christmas is full of cheer and hockey cards.
Being a collector, I asked for hockey cards for Christmas. My older brother (check out his blog here: Too Much, I think.) gave me his collection, barring a few of his favourites. He is mainly a goalie card collector, but also a Wayne Gretzky and Calgary Flames person. In fact, he only had a few players of whom he had one card of. I also received a good old dollar store pack and two packs of 2014-15 Upper Deck. Here's a review of Upper Deck:
Left to right, top to bottom:
UD Canvas Alexandre Burrows: Very nice, and being a Canucks fan, a good addition to my collection
Aleksander Barkov: A first season card of the highly-touted prospect. Nice.
Ondrej Palat: A nice second season card with a good picture.
Evander Kane: I love this card just for the picture.
Tyler Seguin: The new Dallas Stars jersey adds a nice look to it. He's doing well in my hockey pool.
Shining Stars Tuukka Rask: I hate to say it, but this is a nice Rask card.
Dougie Hamilton: An all around nice card.
Kevin Bieksa: A very nice one of Bieksa in the Heritage Classic jersey.
Brock Nelson: A good one of the surprising player this season.

DOLLAR STORE PACK REVIEW
Well, it's not the best, of course, but I landed a few good ones like:
91-92 Parkhurst Scott Niedermayer Rookie: Gives me one more Niedermayer rookie.
12-13 Score Dan Hamhuis: Fresh off of the winter games this season.
08-09 ITG Between the Pipes Future Stars Justin Pogge: Hm, just looked him up on NHL.com and I don't know what I was so excited about.
12-13 Upper Deck Johan Franzen: The rarely seen 12-13 Upper Deck series one.

90-91 Star Rookie Curtis Joseph

Okay, now it's time for the motherload of goalies, Flames, and Gretzkys. Maybe a few Canucks and Simon Gagnes thrown in.
CARD REVIEW
Total count:
26 Curtis Josephs
19 Dominik Haseks
7 Felix Potvins
12 Ed Belfours
6 Byron Dafoes
5 Jocelyn Thibaults
4 Jose Theodores
7 Damian Rhodes
2 Brent Johnsons
11 Guy Heberts

98-99 SpX Mike Dunham

5 John Vanbiesbroucks
1 Marty Turco
10 Olaf Kolzigs
7 Mike Dunhams
3 Roberto Luongos
5 Tommy Salos
4 Patrick Lalimes
4 Ron Tugnutts
1 Kari Lehtonen
19 Martin Brodeurs
1 Manny Fernandez, Chris Osgood, Marc Denis, Chris Mason, Patrick Labrecque
12 Roman Tureks
4 Trevor Kidds

99-00 UD Victory Networks Martin Brodeur

4 J.S. Gigueres
2 Fred Brathwaites
5 Mike Vernons
1 Valeri Bure, Al MacInnis, Martin Gelinas, Phil Housley
10 Jarome Iginlas
17 Wayne Gretzkys
14 Chris Prongers
4 Simon Gagnes
7 Vincent Lecavaliers
6 David Legwands
1 Stephen Valiquette, Vladimir Orszagh, Eric Fichaud, Zigmund Palffy, Adam Foote, Rob Blake, Scott Niedermayer, Tobias Enstrom, Kimmo Timmonen, Brent Sopel, Ed Jovanoski, Daniel Tkaczuk, Chris Drury, Henrik Sedin, Jeff O'neil, Paul Kariya, Alexander Edler
2 Marian Gaboriks