From my collection : Top 10 modern Bruins cards
A short list of my 10 (or so) favorite Bruins cards from the modern era.
Decade : 2010s
I didn't really collect much during this decade, and have had to play catch-up after the fact. Pastrnak is quite easily the high point.
2019-20 Upper Deck
Complete. Missing a rare variation featuring a Patrice Bergeron alternate photo; not really trying for Young Guns variations.
2019-20 SP Authentic
Complete. For the longest time I was missing the Pastrnak / McAvoy Future Icons card, but I finally tracked one down.
2019-20 O-Pee-Chee
Complete. Missing a handful of red and gold border versions, and a few alternate logo/photo variations, but base + retro are finished.
2019-20 Topps Now Stickers
Complete. I have all the Bruins-related stickers as well as a David Pastrnak retro SP.
2018-19 Upper Deck
Complete. Missing a handful of Young Guns variations.
2018-19 SP Authentic
Complete. Ryan Donato signed his cards too late, and they were scattered into the following year's product, I suspect not in full.
2018-19 O-Pee-Chee
Complete. Missing three gold border variations that shouldn't be this hard to track down – Chara, Carlo, and Wingels.
2017-18 Upper Deck
Complete. Base team set is complete, but I didn't chase any of the high-end rookie parallels here at all.
2017-18 SP Authentic
Complete. Of course, without all the patches and inscribed variations and Sign of the Times.
2017-18 O-Pee-Chee
Complete. Missing 7 red wrapper redemption variations, but have all the base and retro.
2016-17 Upper Deck
Complete. Base, canvas, and game jerseys. However I don't have all of the Exclusives or foil parallels from ePack.
2016-17 SP Authentic
Complete. Not a whole lot here, four base cards and two FWAs.
2016-17 O-Pee-Chee
Complete. Base + retro are finished, but still a few rainbow / black rainbow parallels left to track down.
2015-16 Upper Deck
Complete. Completed base, silver foilboard, and canvas.
2015-16 SP Authentic
Complete. Still chasing Sign of the Times for Krejci (released the following year) and Orr.
2014-15 Upper Deck
Complete. All Pastrnak all the time: a PSA 10 Canvas Young Guns and an ungraded base Young Guns. Not perfect, but a pretty good pair of RCs.
2014-15 SP Authentic
Complete. This is David Pastrnak's rookie class, so SP Authentic is a significant team set to complete.
2013-14 SP Authentic
Complete. Took a while to find a decently priced Dougie Hamilton.
2012-13 Upper Deck
Complete. In March 2021 I finally tracked down the missing Jagr.
2012-13 SP Authentic
Complete. Pretty boring release with only Maxime Sauve in the Future Watch subset.
2012-13 O-Pee-Chee Retro
Complete. While there is a Krug RC, this is an unremarkable retro design. A couple of insert sets are more interesting to me.
2011-12 Upper Deck
Complete. Recently tracked down the Canvas card of Bobby Orr.
2011-12 SP Authentic
Complete. Possibly the most boring SP Authentic base set ever, at least for the Bruins.
2011-12 O-Pee-Chee Retro
Complete. Really not concerned with the base set, so I'm going to qualify many of these O-Pee-Chee sets as just the retro parallels.
2010-11 SP Authentic
Complete. Final acquisition was the Tyler Seguin Future Watch Autograph.
2010-11 O-Pee-Chee
Incomplete. No desire to complete the base set (missing 6), but I do have all the retro and Winter Classic cards.
2010-11 Upper Deck
Incomplete. The 20th anniversary parallel is a nostalgic but tough throwback to the first Upper Deck hockey release (1990-91).
The Cup : Master Checklist
Incomplete. Just keeping track of base cards – all the inserts are gravy.
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