2011-12 Upper Deck Series II Retail Tin Break

With just so many cards from the 2011-12 Upper Deck Series 2 lying around on my desk; stacked and unorganized - I decided that I had to make an attempt at putting together the base set and maybe then some.

After putting away all the cards in their numerical respective order, I was 93 cards away from finishing Series 2.

In hopes of pulling a few cards towards the base I went and picked up this here retail tin yesterday.  The goods from the trove underneath the cut.

2011-12 Upper Deck Series 2 Oversized Card

Alex Ovechkin #OS14

There's an oversized card included into every retail tin of Upper Deck 2011-12 Series 2.  I'm not a fan of these oversized cards and unless they're featuring a player who I'm a big fan of I consider them pretty useless.

Dany Heatley #363

Steve Mason #401

Jean-Sebastien Giguere #407

A few of my visually-favorite base cards from inside the tin.  As for the progress in knocking off a bunch of base cards that I've been missing from the set; I only managed to pull 39 cards that I didn't already have.  In the end leaving me with a whopping 54 missing cards not including the Young Guns subset.

2011-12 Upper Deck Series 2 Young Guns

Stefan Elliott #464  Louis Leblanc #476  Bill Sweatt #496

From the tin break I pulled three SP Young Guns cards; Louis Leblanc being the most sought-after out of the lot.  Didn't have any of these previously so they were all welcomed into my collection.

2011-12 Upper Deck UD Canvas

Colton Orr #C196

Young Guns Erik Gudbranson #C225

A fourth Young Gun pulled from this retail tin, not too shabby.  The canvas versions are SSP and look great.  I'd like to put this entire UD Canvas set together but it seems highly unlikely considering the set consists of 270 short-printed cards.  Yikes.  Think I'll stick with just trying to put the base set together for now thanks.

2011-12 Upper Deck 1960s Hockey Heroes

Gump Worsley #HH24

Pulled two Hockey Heroes inserts from the tin; the above card featuring Gump and a dupe of Delvecchio.

2011-12 Upper Deck Series 2 Victory Update

Ilya Bryzgalov #264   Dany Heatley #260   Jean-Sebastien Giguere #254

Three Upper Deck Victory Update cards.

2011-12 Upper Deck Series 2 Victory Rookie Update

Anton Lander #290   Mika Zibanejad #302  Calvin de Haan #301

Not very familiar with any of these guys.

2011-12 Upper Deck Series 2 MVP Update

John-Michael Liles #119

Ugh I don't like how Upper Deck included the entire MVP set inside their flagship product.  Frustrating.

2011-12 Upper Deck Series 2 O-Pee-Chee Update

Marquee Rookie Update Zack Kassian #613

Retro Parallel Update Mika Zibanejad #619

And to end the tin; two update cards from the 2011-12 O-Pee-Chee set - I'm familiar with Kassian as he was part of the deadline trade that sent Cody Hodgson to the Sabres.

So there you have it.

Anyone else collecting this set?  I'm also looking for cards from Series I.  I have a few sets from this year that I'm a few cards shy from completing so maybe I'll begin working on them.

I'll post the winner from the readers contest tonight.