Thursday, July 27, 2006

Oil spill?

Another case of mixed up swatches. In this example, the patches on this 05-06 UD The Cup Simon Gagne card appear to be from an Oilers patch and not a Flyers patch. The problem? Gagne never played for the Oilers.



Here's where the patches look to be from on the Oilers shoulder patch:



Another example of the Gagne, this time the patch on the left comes from the rigger's arm:

Tuesday, May 2, 2006

Press Plate mixups....

In the 05-06 UD The Cup set, one of one press plate inserts were placed in packs. However, sometimes the picture didn't match the frames...

The following card says that it's a Colby Armstrong plate from SPx Rookie Update. Colby's a Penguin.



The plate is actually a SPGU rookie card of Stefan Ruzicka of the Flyers:



The same happened with this Rick Rypien Press Plate (top left)


The plate is actually Darren Reid of the Lighting:

Monday, April 24, 2006

Hopefully the redeemed card is right

In this example, UD incorrectly spelled Jason Spezza's name on his 05-06 UD Bee Hive Photo-Graph redemption card. They spelled it Jason 'Speeza':

Friday, April 21, 2006

The Ottawa who?

In this example, there seems to be a lack of spell checking. On this 05-06 SP Game Used Triple Patch card, UD mistakenly called the Ottawa Senators the Semnators: