2012 13 Panini Score Hockey Cards Box Break Recap And Review

Collecting used to be simple.  Not hits, just base and perhaps some inset cards. But in most case, even those inserts were just another part of the set.  While the huge hits are great, there is something to be said for straight up set building, the essence of collecting.  In Hockey, I can’t think of a better set of cards to do that with than 2012/13 Panini Score.  While it might skew towards less experienced collectors, there is still enough here for serious collectors thanks to great photography, design and content.  In addition the cards are a lot of fun and perfect for set building.

For the purpose of this review, we will classify Panini Score as trading cards even though the price point could easily send them into the fun category.  Score Hockey can be found in many different retail configurations.  We opened a complete box that contained 36 packs with 7 cards per pack.  There are autographs to be found but they are rare.

Here is a look at some of the cards we pulled.

Base Set

 Patrick Kane, front and back

 Jordan Eberle, Bryan Bickell, Marc Staal

 Sidney Crosby, Ryan Kesler, Shane Doan

 Corey Crawford, Zdeno Chara, Cam Fowler

 Patrice Bergeron, Nazem Kadri, Ondrej Pavelec

 P.K. Subban, Eric Staal, Tomas Vanek

 John Moore, Rick Nash, Mike Richards

 Drew Doughty, Paul Stastny, Simon Gagne

 Cody Goloubef, Michael Stone, Brenden Dillon

 Brandon Bollig, Philippe Cornet, Lane MacDermid

 Ray Whitney, Sidney Crosby, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

 Steven Stamkos, Teemu Selanne, Nicklas Lidstrom

 Brayden Schenn, Henrik Lundqvist, Martin Brodeur

 Evgeni Malkin, Gabriel Landeskog, Steven Stamkos

Base Set Gold Rush Parallels

 Jarome Iginla, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

 Michael Cammalleri, Kristopher Foucault

Inserts

Net Cam

 Ryan Miller, Marc-Andre Fleury

The Franchise

 Gordie Howe, Ed Giacomin, Bobby Hull

 Team Score

 Pavel Datsyuk, Henrik Lundqvist

First Goal

 Adam, Henrique, Craig Smith, Justin Faulk

 Check-It

 Chris Pronger

The Franchise

John Tavares

Overall Look

Design here is solid with great backs, an important feature for a mostly base card set.  Photography selection is outstanding as is the design of the insert cards, especially the Net Cam Cards.

Quality and Variety of Players

At 548 base cards, 500 veterans and 48 rookies, you will be hard pressed to notice the absence of anyone.  The inserts provide a little old school flavor with some great legends of the game.

Do the hits hold up?

Though hard to find, the autograph hit cards are outstanding with some of the top names of today and the past including Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, Alex Ovechkin, Gabriel Landeskog and plenty of hit rookies.

Will you want to collect them all?

That really is the point of this set and at the low price point of these packs, it is easy on the wallet and fun to put together.

Rating

5 out of 5

2012 13 Panini Score Hockey Cards are a must for true hockey card collectors and a great fun for set builders.

Review box provided by Panini