Back Checking - Anders Lindback

Going into the off-season this year, Anders Lindback was drawing a fair bit of interest from several NHL clubs and I thought that if I was going to get a good deal on a rookie of his, I might want to buy before he is dealt. Sure enough a week or two later he was traded to Tampa Bay which is a pretty good place to end up.

Now Tampa has three really solid goaltending prospects with Janus, Lindback and Tokarski all hoping to land a future starting role with the Lightning.

Here is the rookie card I landed of Anders Lindback. It is from the 11/12 UD Ice set, which features their usual Ice Premiers Acetate cards.

11/12 UD Ice #71 Anders Lindback

Here is the front view. I think UD did a nice job with this card, pretty cool layout and a good balance of "see-thruness" and opacity. The foil UD logo gives the card a little more class and this is a level 2 card so it is numbered to /999. There are also rookies numbered to /1999, /499 and /99.

The back side

Wow. I see a number, a position and a card number. Who is Anders Lindback? What does he do on the weekends? How many DUI's does he have in his home country? Is he a bachelor? None of these answers are on the back of these cards. My biggest disappointment is on the back of this card. Such a solid front design and pretty much NOTHING on the back, just Anders staring back at me. What are your thoughts? Is this artistic or lazy? I love my ice rookies, but this seems like UD didn't care to put anymore time into the design after the front.

05-06 UD Ice Rookie Lot

About a month or two ago an auction was up online for a Zach Parise Ice rookie and a Duncan Keith Ice rookie. I ended up in a little bit of a debate with myself on this one. I own both of their Young Guns, and in the case of both of them I do have another one or two other low end rookies. So, the debate was, "Do I need these cards, or do I just want them?".

I am sure some of us have been in this situation before, so my debate ended with, if I can land them both for under 10 bucks with shipping....then sure I need them.

I threw my bottom line bid in, and luck should have it, I won.

So here are the prizes:

Zach Parise #/999

What I like about this card is he is wearing his number 9 jersey. Many of his rookies feature photos from the preseason with him wearing 51. The card is numbered which is also cool and is valued a little low compared to some of the other cards in that set!

Duncan Keith #/2999
2999 rookies isn't exactly a limited production run when you consider this is supposed to be an upper-end card, but certainly the price was right and I am a pretty big fan of Duncan Keith.

However, with that being said, I certainly don't need this card and probably if I was contacted by a big Keith fan I could be convinced to trade it. Parise on the other hand could also become trade bait depending on the Devils success resigning him. Either way, I felt I did quite well on these pick up and Ice Rookies always look nice in one's collection.