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Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Year: 1997-98

Set: Pacific Omega - Dark Gray (Rate)

Card: #217 Sergei Berezin


“ Busy design and way too much foil. Must be a Pacific product. ” -hamrlik22
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“ Nice card. I don't like the sideways font for the player's name on the front, nor do I like the "signature" style of it (ditto with the name and position on the back). Back looks OK but having stats would be nice not just a season highlights bio. Also a solid color background works best not one of these fancy design ones. ” -captkirk42

“ Every sportcard I've ever seen where the guy's name is Sergei ... he's wearing skates! ” -BuccaneersDen

“ The more I see Pacific, the more I wish I had been around for them. ” -muskie027
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“ I am not a hockey collector, but a good looking card is a good looking card. Pacific made some of the best looking cards and this is no exception. ” -YoRicha
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Onemorepoint

Posts: 1446
Joined: Apr 2014
Wednesday, August 4, 2021 7:25 AM

Looks a bit confused, like they had several ideas and tried to incorporate all of them. A bit messy and busy.


   

vrooomed

Posts: 14438
Joined: Dec 2012
Wednesday, August 4, 2021 7:44 AM

We were actively buying quite a bit of hockey product at the time, and one thing you have to keep in mind was that these other brands released by the manufacturers were meant to be in support of the flagship brand. So Pacific had the "Crown Collection" (which is rarely called that) and that was the one that had the stats on the back and had a much larger checklist. Then there were brands like Omega and Invincible, that were great designs and had smaller checklists (less commons) and different backs. If we all remember what Score baseball was like in the first couple years with the full stats and large writeups on the backs (that are tough to read because it was so packed on one card), the card companies began to spread that out across brands. Omega's "gimmick" was the foil photo on the front of each card matching the player photo. Meaning unique foil on every card. And no stats on the back. You want stats? Look at his flagship card. :) My biggest complaint about the different Pacific sets of this period - and it's ironic in retrospect when you see what Panini is doing these days - was too many parallels (and in some cases, some were difficult to distinguish from others). 


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Darksnark

Posts: 12
Joined: May 2021
Wednesday, August 4, 2021 4:38 PM

Much better than the Pacific Dynagon product!


   


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