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1997-98 Donruss Preferred (Double Wide Tins)

Packs per Box: 24
Cards per Pack: 5
Cards per Box: 120
Bronze Set Completion: 71.0% (71 of 100)
Complete Set Completion: 41.0% (82 of 200)
Notable RCs: none
Duplicates: 30

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

1. John Vanbiesbrouck Bronze NT #182
2. Joe Thornton Checklist #200
3. Pierre Turgeon Cut to the Chase Silver
4. Claude Lemieux #126
5. Brian Leetch Bronze NT #188

First Pack Contents: A silver Cut to the Chase is nice, but did it have be Turgeon? He's not really a hobby force anymore ...
First Pack Rating: 3.5 / 10

Total: 21
Regular Silver (random) -- 9: Dainius Zubrus, Doug Weight, Jeremy Roenick, Daniel Alfredsson, Mike Ricther, Ron Francis, Steve Yzerman NT, Brendan Shanahan NT, Ryan Smyth NT
Regular Gold (random) -- 1: Jason Arnott
Regular Platinum (random) -- 1: Pual Kariya

Cut to the Chase Parallel (random) -- 7: Keith Tkachuk Gold, Paul Kariya Platinum, Jere Lehtinen, Rod Brind'Amor, Pierre Turgeon Silver, Dominik Hasek NT, Marc Denis NT
Color Guard (#'d to 1500) -- 1: Ed Belfour (663/1500)
Line of the Times (#'d to 2500) -- 2: Ryan Smyth (2052/2500), John LeClair (851/2500)
Precious Metals (#'d to 100) -- 0

Box Rating: 5.5 / 10
Product Rating: 7.5 / 10

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

This was another box of Donruss Preferred that drew blanks. The Golds were both really lousy -- the ship has sailed on both Tkachuk and Arnott -- and the Silvers didn't provide much consolation either. Most of the parallel/SP hits were of guys who have long since departed the hobby: Tkachuk, Arnott, Weight, Lehtinen, Turgeon. Obviously with any older release you're going to have that, but I was a bit disappointed to not get a few "still relevant" hits from those more common parallels.

Of course, as with any box, it wasn't all bad. There was a Platinum Cut to the Chase, which aren't the easiest to pull, and the corresponding Platinum SP of Paul Kariya, a guy I don't mind having around. There were also a couple of nice Smyth hits late in the box and the Zubrus Silver is kinda cool as well. It's not exactly what one buys the box for, but it's not bad.

I guess it's just the nature of the beast, with older releases you are going to get bogged down in guys that aren't really relevant anymore ... sometimes more than others.

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