What's William smiling about? Well, before we reveal the close-up, we'll give you a chance to guess to what Upper Deck card he's holding!

Send your guess to hittheicebox@gmail.com and we'll draw a winner from all correct entries to receive an autographed 8x10 of Hockey Hall of Famer Johnny Bower! Entries must be received by 12:01 AM EST on Monday, Nov. 7, 2011, to be eligible.

New products in at The IceBox!

New in at The IceBox Cards & Collectibles -- 2011-12 Score Hockey! Stop by and pick up a 36-pack box today for just $39.99, or packs are just $1.49!

Also now in stock -- 2011-12 Panini NHL stickers and albums! We have the albums for $2 each, sticker packs for $1 each or 50 sticker pack boxes for $42.99! Collect them all!

Panini announces its plans for the 2011 Fall Expo!

Panini made a big splash last year in their first foray to the Canadian Sportcard Expo, and they're back again this year! Check out the great stuff they'll be bringing on the Panini America blog and stay tuned both there and here for more information!

Just a reminder -- as always, we'll be in booths 1211-1214 at the Expo with Set Killer's Corner, our amazing array of patch cards, the Robert Thomas Collection of autographed cards and 8x10s and much, much more!

See you there!

The 2011-12 Upper Deck Young Guns are coming!

Michael Phillips of Upper Deck was kind enough to send along the information for this year's crop of Young Guns! Here's the list, and check out Upper Deck's blog for more information and pictures!

We'll be getting in our Series I boxes right before the Fall Expo and we are accepting preorders for boxes and cases! Stop by or email us today to reserve yours!

201	Devante Smith-Pelly	Anaheim
202	Maxime Macenauer	Anaheim
203	Greg Nemisz	Calgary
204	Roman Horak	Calgary
205	Justin Faulk	Carolina
206	Marcus Kruger	Chicago
207	Brandon Saad	Chicago
208	Gabriel Landeskog	Colorado
209	Cameron Gaunce	Colorado
210	John Moore	Columbus
211	David Savard	Columbus
212	Cam Atkinson	Columbus
213	Tomas Vincour	Dallas
214	Ryan Nugent-Hopkins	Edmonton
215	Anton Lander	Edmonton
216	Teemu Hartikainen	Edmonton
217	Erik Gudbranson	Florida
218	Brett Bulmer	Minnesota
219	Aaron Palushaj	Montreal
220	Alexei Yemelin	Montreal
221	Raphael Diaz	Montreal
222	Brendon Nash	Montreal
223	Jonathon Blum	Nashville
224	Blake Geoffrion	Nashville
225	Craig Smith	Nashville
226	Adam Henrique	New Jersey
227	Adam Larsson	New Jersey
228	Tim Erixon	New York
229	Mika Zibanejad	Ottawa
230	Colin Greening	Ottawa
231	Patrick Wiercioch	Ottawa
232	Erik Condra	Ottawa
233	Stephane Da Costa	Ottawa
234	Sean Couturier	Philadelphia
235	Matt Read	Philadelphia
236	Erik Gustafsson	Philadelphia
237	Joe Vitale	Pittsburgh
238	Harri Sateri	San Jose
239	Alex Stalock	San Jose
240	Brett Connolly	Tampa Bay
241	Jake Gardiner	Toronto
242	Joe Colborne	Toronto
243	Matt Frattin	Toronto
244	Ben Scrivens	Toronto
245	Cody Hodgson	Vancouver
246	Yann Sauve	Vancouver
247	Carl Klingberg	Winnipeg
248	Mark Scheifele	Winnipeg
249	Paul Postma	Winnipeg
250	Checklist (Nugent-Hopkins, Landeskog, Larsson)	Edmonton, Colorado, New Jersey

Big Shea Weber pull at The IceBox!

Troy and Jasmine landed the 11-12 Artifacts Shea Weber patch/tag autograph 1/1 last night! Congrats to them!

 

We'll be open tomorrow!

If you were wondering, our new store will be open for business Thursday, July 28, at 11:30 a.m.! Come by and check out the new digs, but cut us a little slack -- we're still putting up slat wall and moving things around!

The new store hours are:

MON-THURS 11:30-7:30
FRIDAY 11-8
SATURDAY 10-6:30
SUNDAY 12-5

See you soon at 7975 Yonge Street in Stroud (Innisfil if you're looking to GPS it), in the plaza between the Rexall and TD Canada Trust!

2010-11 Upper Deck Ultimate checklist and odds!

Courtesy of our hard-working friend VodkaLodka on the Hobby Insider boards, check out his spreadsheet with the checklist and pull odds for Upper Deck's 2010-11 Ultimate Hockey:

VodkaLodka's 10-11 Ultimate checklist and odds

Many thanks to him, and drop by the store for yours today!

New at The IceBox!

Upper Deck Ultimate lands at The IceBox on Wednesday, with its standard awesome content of one autograph, one memorabilia and one rookie per pack, plus a numbered base card.

We'll have a case on hand by the afternoon, so stop in and grab yours!

Customers Stu and Jeff went splits on a box of 2010-11 Upper Deck Series II and here's the big hit:
















That's a P.K. Subban Victory rookie magenta printing plate 1/1! Wow! Congrats, guys!