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2001-02 Pacific Vanguard Box Break

Packs per Box: 24
Cards per Pack: 3
Cards per Box: 72
Base Set Completion: 61% (61 of 100)
SPs per box: 1
Notable RCs: Ty Conklin (270/404)
Duplicates: 1

The exact contents of the pack scanned in and used to find insert odds:

Dany Heatley #3
Kristian Huselius Prime Prospects
Brendan Morrison #96

First Pack Comments: Hey, how about that? An insert and a base card I needed for my set, for me that's an amazing first pack. (NOTE: I did not cherrypick by boxes for the first packs, but Vanguard is ridiculously easy to cherrypick, so beware ...)
First Pack Rating: 4.5 / 10

Total: 9
Main Set Rookies (1:25) -- 1: Ty Conklin (270/404)
Blue Variation (1:49) -- 1: Martin Brodeur (45/89)
Red Variation (1:97) -- 1: Tony Amonte (19/38)
Premiere Date Parallel (1:25) -- 1: Dominik Hasek (81/83)
Double Sided Game Used Memorabilia (2:25) -- 2: Mike Modano / Derian Hatcher, Marc Savard / Roman Turek
Double Sided Game Used Patch (1:97) -- 0
Quebec Tournament Heroes (1:25) -- 1: Jeremy Roenick
V-Team (1:25) -- 1: Martin Brodeur
Prime Prospects (1:25) -- 1: Kristian Huselius
Stonewallers (1:49) -- 0
East Meets West (1:97) -- 0
In Focus (1:481) -- 0

Box Rating: 8.0 / 10
Product Rating: 7.0 / 10

Note: For product analysis of 2001-02 Vanguard, check out my other Vanguard break here.

Not a bad box at all. First of all, I hit the longshot red parallel, which was nice. The parallels in general in this box were great: Brodeur, Amonte, Hasek. When Tony Amonte is the worst parallel you get in a box, something's gone very right!

The memorabilia was OK. I really like the Modano/Hatcher dual jersey, Modano for obvious reasons, but to pair him up with one of the best defensive defensemen in the game makes for a very nice dual. The Savard/Turek ... well I'm not especially thrilled about that. Savard is a good player, but Turek ... ugh .. watching Turek makes my head hurt. Pulling a Turek jersey does not rank high on my list of hopes.

The regular inserts were OK. I was kinda disappointed that through 2 boxes I didn't hit any of the long shot inserts (Stonewallers/East meets West), but I did get Brodeur and Huselius inserts which are nice and Roenick's card is good as well (even though he's dipped off a bit in the hobby).

But the parallels are the big story here. All of solid, superstar players. Mix in a very nice inserts and one decent dual jersey and it makes for a good box. Not the best I've ever cracked, but not the worst either. One I can definately live with.

And like I always say when talking about 01-02 Vanguard, DON'T BUY SINGLE PACKS OR OPENED BOXES ... the inserts and jerseys are pathetically easy to pick out, you'll be left only with the chance of a rookie or a parallel, and that probably won't be worth what you'll pay. Stick to the sealed boxes when dealing with Vanguard.

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