It's a perfect record for Pinnacle Hockey Blasters as the Boston Bruins win the Stanley Cup

First there were Fortune Cookies, then the Magic 8 Ball and now we have Pinnacle Hockey Blasters.

I have to admit, I was a little skeptical of the results of our last blaster, the one that predicted the Boston Bruins would take the Stanley Cup with a shut out of the Vancouver Canucks on Canadian Ice.  After all, the two blasters before that yielded a total of 13 Canucks, 14 if you include this Cory Schneider City Lights Memorabilia card.

But it is clear now that these blasters are the real thing.   They also contain some awesome hockey cards, but that is not the point here.  Look at the first card we pulled from the previous blaster.

Who scored the first goal of last night's game?   Ummm...... I believe that would be Patrice Bergeron.   Now take away the 2 goals that really should not have happened, the short handed goal also by Bergeron and the empty net goal by Brad Marchand (who had a great series BTW) and what score do you have?  That would be Boston Bruins 2 - Vancouver Canucks 0.   Where have I seen that before?  Oh, yes, that was the prediction given to us by Tuesday's 10-11 Pinnacle Hockey Blaster.

Time to submit to the powers of these boxes non-believers.

While most felt the Canucks were destined to win at home, except maybe for a Boston Bruins' fan who was the one voice of dissension "We didn't lose to the British, we aren't gonna lose to British Columbia", because of our blaster's prediction, I had a feeling things were going Boston's way.

I don't want to take away from the incredible numbers of the newest Conn Smythe Trophy Winner, Tim Thomas, 246 save attempts with a 96.7% for saves, only letting 8 of those shots get by him in 7 games.  Still, its not perfection like our Pinnacle blasters that went 3 for 3.

The final question is not whether these blasters have mysterious powers, that has been proven, but whether or not there are other Panini blasters that carry the same kind of powers?   Perhaps we will have to consult others in the future.

You can check out our orignal posts for all three blasters of 2010 - 11 Panini Pinnacle Hockey using these links, Blaster 1, Blaster 2 and Blaster 3. 

We know the winner of this year's Stanley Cup Finals thanks to another blaster of Pinnacle Hockey Cards

You already know of the mysterious powers of Panini Pinnacle Hockey card blasters.  These blasters are two for two picking the winners of pivotal games during the NHL Playoffs. (Here are links to the results of the first blaster and the second blaster.)

It doesn't get any more important than Game Seven of the Stanley Cup Finals, so we went to the source to find out which team will get to hoist The Cup.

Let us start with the visiting team, The Boston Bruins.

An early pull, Patrice Bergeron.  That's one goal.

A sweet pull of a Tyler Seguin Ice Breakers!  That's two goals.

And now for the team with the home ice advantage, the Vancouver Canucks.

NADA... A big goose egg.

I had to double check this one.  And then I triple checked it.   In all our other blasters we had Canucks being pulled at a massive rate.   This time there were none to be found.   Coincidence?   I think not.  So in a shocking turn of events, here is the prediction for the seventh and decisive game of the Stanley Cup Finals.

Boston Bruins 2 - Vancouver Canucks 0

Let's see if Pinnacle Hockey Blasters are good enough to go 3 for 3.   By the way, here is our hit for this blaster.

A cool T. J. Galiardi Game-Worn Threads #/499

You can help decide which players will appear on New Topps Die-Cut Diamond Cards

If you are redeeming your codes over at the Topps Diamond Giveaway you know besides trying to hit the vintage cards, Diamond Die Cut cards are a big winner.

Topps plans to add 3 more cards (1 Legend, 1 Veteran and 1 Rookie), to this collection and they want you to help decide which three it will be with your vote.  

Going to their Facebook page, (use this link to get there and then click the “more” link on left side of the Facebook page) enables you to participate.  The “Legends” voting is happening right now.  You are allowed one vote a day until Round 1 of the bracket ends one June 19th. 

Here is the lineup for voting in the first round.

Legends (Round 1)

Don Mattingly v. Ryne Sandberg

Frank Robinson v. Ozzie Smith

Reggie Jackson v. Roberto Alomar

Frank Thomas v. Johnny Bench

The complete release schedule for Topps Prime 9 Hobby Store Redemptions

2011 Topps Baseball Series 2 is live and some of you are pulling cards that look like this;

These are redemption cards for a special hobby store promotion.

Starting July 18th, on a weekly basis, Topps will reveal the “Prime 9 Player of the Week”.  If you have the corresponding Prime 9 Redemption card for that week, you can bring the card to your local Topps HTA store and redeem it for an exclusive limited edition Topps Chrome Refractor.

The odds of finding these Prime 9 Redemption Cards are as follows;

Series 2 Hobby packs - 1:18

Series 2 Jumbo packs  - 1:5

Each card has the bold number of the week on the front that corresponds to the week of the announcement.  The schedule of dates is as follows;

Week of July 18, 2011 – Redemption #1

Week of July 25, 2011 – Redemption #2

Week of August 1, 2011 – Redemption #3

Week of August 8, 2011 – Redemption #4

Week of August 15, 2011 – Redemption #5

Week of August 22, 2011 – Redemption #6

Week of August 29, 2011 – Redemption #7

Week of September 5, 2011 – Redemption #8

Week of September 12, 2011 – Redemption #9

In addition to receiving your Chrome Refractor, the back of each redemption card functions as a special sweepstakes entry.  Make sure you fill out the entry form before you redeem the card and your LCS owner will submit the entry to Topps.  You could win a trip to the 2012 World Series!

We will try to post pictures of the cards as they are announced.

2011 Press Pass Stealth, another All About Cards SPEED-break™

In honor of those who serve, Press Pass offers a salute to the US Armed Forces with this release of 2011 Press Pass Stealth NASCAR Trading Cards. 

Here is our video box break.

The Dallas Mavericks are the NBA Finals Champions for the first time

Congratulations to the Dallas Mavericks on winning the NBA Finals!  What an amazing series and a well deserved win.

The Complete list of SP Rookie Ticket Auto Cards from 2010-11 Panini Playoff Contenders Hockey

The Knight's Lance has been slowly rolling out the list of Rookie Ticket Autograph SP's found in 10-11 Playoff Contenders Hockey.  Today Panini revealed the last short print in this Rookie Card series.

Here is the complete list of short printed Rookie Ticket Autographs.

Cam Fowler - Anaheim Ducks - Card #116
Tyler Seguin - Boston Bruins - Card #120
Jeff Skinner - Carolina Hurricanes - Card #126
Jeff Penner - Boston Bruins - Card #134
Taylor Hall - Edmonton Oilers - Card #135
Magnus Paajarvi - Edmonton Oilers - Card #136
Jordan Eberle - Edmonton Oilers - Card #137
Brayden Schenn - Los Angeles Kings - Card #140
P.K. Subban - Montreal Canadians - Card #142
Nazem Kadri - Toronto Maple Leafs - Card #163

These autos are numbered to 399 or less.  If you want to see what these cards look like, use this link to head over to The Knight's Lance.