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In The Game previews upcoming Heroes and Prospects set
In The Game released some photos of its upcoming Heroes and Prospects set, which hits the shelves on Feb. 23.
The 2011-12 set marks the eighth year ITG has put out Heroes and Prospects, and this year’s base set has been expanded to 200 cards. That will allow for more prospect cards; in the past, In The Game has debuted the cards of players like the Lightning’s Steven Stamkos, Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin and Evgeny Malkin.
Subsets will include Heroes, International Prospects, CHL Prospects, AHL Prospects, CHL Rookies, AHL Rookies, CHL Grads, AHL Grads and Tributes.
If you like relics, then this set appears to be up your alley. The images included show several game-used jerseys and patches, plus several cards with more than one jersey swatch. Those are always fun to pull out of a pack. There will 20 different subsets of memorabilia, including autographs, and that is a staggering amount. Game-used cards should fall one in every eight packs.
I particularly liked the Complete Logo patch, I thought it was large, bold and well thought out. The player might be playing second fiddle on the card, but it is the logo that will be intriguing, so it works well. The Complete Jersey cards, in which several uniform swatches are displayed, are also pretty nice.
There also will be a non-relic Tribute set, which will honor the four players who died last season: Derek Boogaard, Rick Rypien, Luc Bourdon and Wade Belak. You may recall that In The Game took quite a bit of heat for including players like Belak and Boogaard in last month’s Enforcers series. Those cards celebrated their roles as tough guys; the Heroes and Prospects set will honor them in a more sedate, dignified way.
Hockey fans will enjoy the variety of subsets, the size of the set and the different sizzle cards.
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