Kool Kuzy & Co. Kards From The KHL

And now, the finale of my Russian hockey purchases.  First, the extra ones that the seller included for free...

These are a series called Two Worlds - One Game from SeReal in 2012-13.

Other player Celebrations, also from 2012-13.

And some of the All-Star Kings from the same year.  Gotta love the figure skaters.  Any of these above are for trade.

 

From BY cards, this is from the 2016 IIHF World Championships.  Team Russia won the bronze.

Here's Kuznetsov and a couple of his Capital pals from the 2019 IIHF World Championship.  All three from Team Russia, who took bronze again.

The back of Ovie's...

 

This one is also from 2019, and is serial numbered to only 22.  I saw another one of these for sale on COMC along with some of the base cards I've shown.  My advice, go to my Latvian friends on eBay instead.  The prices are a lot better.

Jumping back to 2012-13, here are three different All-Star jersey cards, each serial numbered at a different level.  Hockey swatches are so often more colorful than the other sports, and these jerseys are excessively varied and bright.

 

Front and back of a GU of Kuzy's regular season uniform from Traktor Chelyabinsk,  serialized to 300.

 

And finally, a 2013-14 double swatch from the Gagarin Cup Final series.  Dude ~ Yankees?  Really? 

Hope you enjoyed this look at my import hockey haul.  It's quite a collection of Evgeny, but I'm not sure I'll fill out the rest of his NHL cards.  They're kinda mundane in comparison. 😀

Make Less War And More Hockey Cards

Next round of Russian Hockey cards I got from Alaicans on eBay starts with 2012-13 and are going to be all Evgeny Kuznetsov.

This year the silver and gold paralles are a bit more obvious with the foil emblems across the photos.  Gold ones are serial numbered.  The backs are all the same.

There is a subset of Celebrations, which you'll see more of later.

A couple stat leader cards.  Nice to see the home and away uniforms for Traktor Chelyabinsk.

 

Each year there is usually a set of stickers issued along with the regular card sets.

These All-Star cards were in the first batch I got, but I'm showing them again for a complete idea of each year's cards.

On to 2013-14.  Similar design and parallel styles.

 

A game card that reminds me of the Attax that Topps put out a few years ago, which makes sense, since their logo shows up on these.

Now we're really getting fancy.  This year's All-Stars are very shiny with silver foil on the base, gold and red on the parallels, both of which are serial numbered.

Same with the Fastest Skaters.

 

Logo "puzzle" cards are neat.  There's a 9 card set for each team.  These are built for pages and binders.

 

Under The Flag inserts - players from the different countries.

I'm gonna cut it here since that's the last of his regular cards.  The next ones he has are in a Capitals uniform on American cardboard.  

The last post will be the coolest stuff.  Gamers and extra cards.

Mums ļoti Patīk Arī Hokeja Kārtis

 ...which is Latvian for "We really like hockey cards too!" (again according to Google translate).

Like I mentioned, I went back to eBay and searched the Latvian seller (alaicans) for Kuznetsov and Sergei Fedorov.  Then I pretty much bought one of each that I didn't already have.  Surprisingly, the shipping was only $5 base and a quarter for each additional card.  And they threw in a whole bunch of bonus cards too!

Most KHL base sets have a couple parallels, so I'll try to group those together.  I scanned almost every card individually - front and back - since most of them weren't on the TCDB.  But to keep this post under six miles long, I won't show all that.

Fedorov and Kuzy were apparently in the KHL at the same time.  They both have cards in the 2010-11 sets and for the next few years after.  So let's start there...

Here are the base cards from 2010-11 Russian KHL.  The silver and gold parallels can be distinguished by the logos in the top left and the text below the KHL league logo.

 

Fedorov's cards, front and back.  Colors are different since he's on Metallurg Magnitogorsk and Kuzy is on Traktor Chelyabinsk.  I also got the gold version of this one.

These are from the 2010-11 KHL Exclusive series inserts for the All-Star Game.  This is a separate product from the base set.  A lot of the base cards are relics.

 

 Kuzy also has this Super Skills All-star card.   Looks like he won the Shootout competition.

 

Front and back of the silver All-Star for Sergei.  Still missing the gold one of these.

 

The other insert set in the Exclusive Series is After The Game.  Shots of players outside the rink.  Sergei has one of the 18 cards in this insert set.  Nice writeup of his accomplishments.

Their 2011-12 cards get a little more colorful and are now made (or branded) as SeReal.  (Again, I'm assuming that is pronounced like "cereal".)  Got all three versions of both.

 

Here are the backs.  I'm glad they put the years next to the company logos since the copyright dates span five years.  And there's just enough english translations to understand all the stats and things.  The little badges next to the photos denote All-Star appearances, but aren't all-inclusive.

 

Kuznetsov has a Generation Next insert as well.  This is listed in the database as 2012 SeReal KHL All-Star Collection, which hides it from the listings of sets by year.  Those also include these two that I showed in my first post:

Think I'll stop here for now.  The next ones are 2012-13 and then some other miscellaneous stuff including stickers and a lot of other players.