Ryan's Hockey Blog: Clouts'n'Chara October Group Breaks

On Friday, I received a large package in the mail from Clouts'n'Chara (http://www.cloutnchara.com/ - Username - southbuffalo39). Within the package were my hits from three group breaks I participated in on the site earlier this month.

The first group break broken of the three was a case of 08-09 SPx Hockey. I purchased one slot in the thirty team group break. All teams were chosen at random and I ended up receiving the Montreal Canadiens, which turned out to be pretty good as I was lucky enough to receive 10 "hits." I will showcase the "three stars" from these group breaks at the end of the blog and as always all of the hits can be found in my photobucket at: http://s169.photobucket.com/albums/u234/southbuffalo39/. But for now, the ten hits from the SPx case break were:

SPXcitement

Carey Price

Patrick Roy

Guy Lafleur

Saku Koivu

Winning Combos

Chris Higgins (blue swatch)/Steve Shutt (red/white/blue swatch)

Rod Langway (red/white/blue swatch)/Larry Robinson (white swatch)

Winning Materials

Andrei Markov (red swatches)

Andrei Markov Spectrum /99 (one blue and one red swatch)

Flashback Fabrics

Frank Mahovlich (white swatches)

SPx Rookies

Matt D'Agostini (one red swatch and one red/white swatch)

All in all I was very happy with the break as I think I did very well. There were no major hits, but definitely some solid pickups.

The next group break was broken in the same night. It was a case of 09-10 O-Pee-Chee Hockey. I decided to get in at the last minute and grabbed the last available slot. Amazingly I once again drew the Montreal Canadiens. OPC produces a ton of hits and again, I didn't hit any of the major ones, but got some inserts and retros I needed. I suppose the highlights of the break would be the two Yannick Weber rookies and the Montreal Canadiens team checklist insert.

Finally, a few days later, the guys at C'n'C organized one of the quickest group breaks from initiation to breaking. From the time the break was announced, all spots were taken and paid for within 20 minutes. This group break was for a box of each of the following 08-09 products: SPx, Trilogy, Be A Player and Artifacts. I grabbed two spots in this group break and drew the Anaheim Ducks and Calgary Flames. I started off good in the Artifacts box as I hit an Andrew Ebbett Rookie Card and a Ryan Getzlaf Treasured Swatches (three colors) #'d 100/199. My luck continued in Be a Player as I hit three autos. No one major, but landed Travis Moen, Adrian Aucoin and Matthew Lombardi. The last two boxes, Trilogy and SPx were not so good to me as I didn't get a hit in either box. All in all an ok break. Not as good as the previous two, but the risk is part of the fun of group breaks.

C'n'C currently has two group breaks they are filling up. One is a case break of 09-10 Artifacts, which is expected to be broken this weekend and the other is 09-10 UD Series 1. I have a spot in both and will be sure to share my results from each! If interested in getting involved in a group break, I highly recommend stopping over to C'n'C as there are usually always three or four in the works.

Three Stars

3. Ryan Getzlaf Treasured Swatches 100/199