The Devils Post

This is the New Jersey Devils square of my card album bookshelf. It's full.
 

I only keep base cards in these binders, and the Devils are the first of my four team collections to reach 100% capacity. Which is a bummer because I still need hundreds of NJ base cards. 

Here's a list of cards I need from just the first ten years of the Devils:

1984-85 O-Pee-Chee #116, 361(upgrade)
1984-85 Topps #87(upgrade)
1985-86 O-Pee-Chee #30, 36, 66, 84, 127, 163, 249
1985-86 Topps #66, 84, 127, 139, 163
1986-87 O-Pee-Chee #10, 37, 208
1986-87 Topps #37, 85
1987-88 O-Pee-Chee #101, 135, 140, 157, 191
1987-88 Topps #58
1988-89 O-Pee-Chee #84, 94
1990-91 O-Pee-Chee #27, 73, 172, 178, 224, 245, 284, 306, 334, 358, 457
1990-91 O-Pee-Chee Premier #8, 15, 67, 113
1990-91 Score Canadian #19, 34, 62, 109, 209, 239, 278, 389, 401, 406, 439
1990-91 Score Traded #43T, 63T, 74T, #82T
1990-91 Topps #30
1990-91 Upper Deck French #66, 88, 161, 267, 288, 290, 311, 441
1991-92 Bowman #271, 279, 284-289, 408
1991-92 Parkhurst #98, 317-324, 444, 453
1991-92 Parkhurst French #98, 99, 100, 102, 103, 316, 318, 320, 324
1991-92 Pinnacle - need most
1991-92 Pinnacle French - need most
1991-92 Pro Set #132
1991-92 Pro Set French - need most
1991-92 Pro Set Platinum #260, 288
1991-92 Score #151
1991-92 Score Canadian need most
1991-92 Score Canadian Bilingual #342, 595
1991-92 Stadium Club #24, 47
1991-92 Upper Deck French - need most
1992-93 Bowman #46, 102, 191, 242
1992-93 Topps #513, 516

But... I have a solution. You see, the fourth binder on the shelf is full - just not with Devils cards.

This album holds my complete sets of 1993 SP Baseball and Football. So if I wanted to add more Devils to my collection, all I have to do is buy another hockey card album and move this one.

That would make room for 560+ new Devils cards. And even if I added the pages from the small binder resting on top, I'd still have room for about 380 Devils cards. The small binder holds my 2020s Devils, and I filled the very last page thanks to my most recent order from Sportlots.

Ugh.. I can't wait to be able to scan again.

Picked up some extended series base for 20 cents each, a fantastic deal considering my LCS sells 12-card packs for $14. I even threw in a couple parallels even though my Devils 'hits' box is nearly full.

These red border parallels were also 20 cents each; I had to have the Zacha in particular because, well...

There's absolutely no reason UD should have made a Devils Zacha card in 2023. He played for the Boston Bruins the prior year - as shown on the back of the card.

Maybe he was traded back to Jersey after the 2022-23 season? That happens once in a while, right?

Nope! Pavel played for Boston last year, too. And he'll do so again this year as he's still on their roster today. Upper Deck just doesn't care anymore.

Anyway, I've got room for about five or six more Devils in the parallels/inserts/relics box (fewer if the cards are thicker) Two in particular that I'm trying to secure are Young Guns rookie cards of NJ's top young defensemen, Luke Hughes and Simon Nemec:

These should set me back about $45-50 for the pair, which isn't bad considering their pedigree. Hughes was the #4 overall pick in 2021 and was a Calder (Rookie of the Year) finalist last year at age 20. Nemec was the #2 overall pick in 2022 and had a solid rookie season last year at age 19.

The Devils drafted another defenseman with the 10th overall pick this summer, and have 1st overall picks Jack Hughes(2019) and Nico Hischier(2017) centering their top two lines. If we don't won the effing Cup by 2028, I swear to Satan...

It shouldn't be hard to find a thick card or two on COMC to fill out the box, if and when I do acquire these. However, there's a third section of Devils cards in my collection -- oddballs. I have a box of team-issued sets, ePack exclusives, Tim Horton's singles, and other things that won't fit in the inserts/parallels box:

If I buy another binder and put these in, then push every mainstream base card back.. I'll have room for about 75 Devils cards. That's a much more manageable total, and would give me room to add newer base cards like these:

2006-07 UD Sweet Shot #63
2006-07 UD Trilogy #60
2007-08 UD Ovation #18, 72, 168, 169
2008-09 UD Ovation #31
2009-10 Upper Deck Ice #9
2010-11 Panini All Goalies #48-51
2010-11 Score #300, 302
2011-12 O-Pee-Chee #112, 337, 389
2011-12 Panini Contenders #66
2011-12 UD Artifacts #9, 59, 78
2012-13 Black Diamond #150
2012-13 Score #291
2013-14 O-Pee-Chee #96, 194, 447
2013-14 Panini Prizm #259, 261, 308, 309, 368, 369
2013-14 Panini Titanium #45
2013-14 Score #669
2014-15 O-Pee-Chee #221, 247, 440
2015-16 O-Pee-Chee #140, 248
2015-16 UD Full Force #39
2015-16 Upper Deck Ice #91
2015-16 Upper Deck Trilogy #95
2016-17 O-Pee-Chee #115, 397
2017-18 Upper Deck Ice #91
2018-19 O-Pee-Chee #262, 329, 431, 466
2019-20 O-Pee-Chee #568
2019-20 Upper Deck Allure #85
2019-20 UD Credentials #35, 45
2020-21 O-Pee-Chee #568
2020-21 SP Signature Legends #128, 290
2021-22 UD Artifacts #91
2021-22 UD Credentials #40
2022-23 O-Pee-Chee Platinum #24, 114, 178
2022-23 Parkhurst Champions #55, 70, 281
2022-23 UD Credentials #49, 50

My consolation prize for missing out on the East Coast National this coming weekend could be driving down the Jersey Shore near Asbury Park to check out a new(to me) card shop. I'll be on the lookout for the above listed cards in particular (I'm posting these lists so I can refer to them later.)


Why am I focusing on Devils cards in the middle of August? Oh... no reason...

Thanks for reading!

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