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1997-98 Donruss Preferred (2nd box)

Packs per Box: 24
Cards per Pack: 5
Cards per Box: 120
Bronze Set Completion: 68.0% (68 of 100)
Complete Set Completion: 39.0% (78 of 200)
Notable RCs: Steve Shields, Shawn Bates, Epsen Knutsen
Duplicates: 32

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

1. Mark Messier National Treasures Bronze #177
2. Kevin Hatcher Bronze #70
3. Luc Robitaille Bronze Cut to the Chase
4. Patrick Marleau Checklist Bronze #198
5. Sean Burke Bronze #104

First Pack Contents: The Robitaillie parallel (with him in Kings garb too!) is quite nice for me, although nothing else in the pack was really worthwhile ...
First Pack Rating: 5.5 / 10

Total: 22
Regular Silver (random) -- 8: Mike Grier, Pat LaFontaine, Adam Graves, Brad Isbister, Wayne Gretzky NT, Jaromir Jagr NT
Regular Gold (random) -- 1: Saku Koivu
Regular Platinum (random) -- 1: Eric Lindros

Cut to the Chase Parallel (random) -- 7: Paul Coffey, Brian Savage, Vaclav Prospal Gold, Garth Snow, Claude Lemieux, Luc Robitaille, John Vambisebrouck NT
Color Guard (#'d to 1500) -- 1: John Vanbiesbrouck (1347/1500)
Line of the Times (#'d to 2500) -- 4: Joe Thornton (900/2500), Pavel Bure (1528/2500), Paul Kariya (2469/2500), Mark Messier (1139/2500)
Precious Metals (#'d to 100) -- 0

Box Rating: 6.0 / 10
Product Rating: 7.5 / 10

For a product review, please see my first box break here.

Well, I got my first 10 rated box from Donruss Prefferred last Christmas, so I figured I'd try another one this Christmas. Sadly, this one was a far cry from the previous one.

The first noticable thing is the lousy Silvers I ended up pulling. The Gretzky and Jagr National Treasures are alright, but beyond that there's not a whole lot of big hobby names. The Cut to the Chase parallels were similar, there were a lot of them, but just not many big hobby names. The one Platinum in the box being Eric Lindros also didn't help, nor did the lack of any Silver Cut to the Chase cards.

But that's not to say nothing good came from the box. I did get an usually high number of the Line of the Times cards, an insert set I really like. I also managed the parallel of Vaclav Prospal's Rookie Card. It's not the official RC, but it is the next best thing.

This box wasn't a complete loss, it was an enjoyable break and there were a few perks to come out of it. Not like my last break at all ... and this box really illustrates that without a Precious Metals or a rarer RC pull Prefferred is all about the nostagilia and the box break experience.

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