 It is time for my first NHL 23 pack opening of the year. What's going on Leafernation, it's Lifer back again and welcome back to the channel. Today, we are here with, like I said, my first NHL 23 pack opening. We got some big boy packs in the store, I want to pull some big players, get my team started off right for the year, so let's just get right into it. First things first, if you're not in the Twitch chat, you're missing out. You can watch it first and see what I pull in live time on Twitch. Twitch.tv slash, Lifer underscore link will be in the description. Make sure to head over there and hit the follow button. So like Hutz pretty much the same as last year, we're pretty much just going to go straight into the packs. We got some prime times out already, Jason Robertson, Matt Barzell, Gorgiev, Klingberg, David Perron. We got these game day tilt cards, which are pretty cool. They're training camp battle cards. So whoever makes their respective team gets a plus two overall. We know Robertson already didn't make the Leafs because of cap compliance issues. So I would suggest going to buy him. And then we got some more prime times here, Roman Yosebo, Horvath, Brent Burns, Ealer, Zaka, some pretty good cards there. We got some pretty good packs out in the store, power up icons, the usual X-Factors. We're looking for an awesome Matthews, plain and simple. We also do not have my pre-order rewards. We're waiting for that as well. That might be lumped into this video. So we'll see. All right. So pretty much, we got, oh wait, I just got my pre-order. I have 2400 points now, okay. I got my pre-order stuff. We're going to get right into it, X-Factor, IIHF, women's choice pack. I don't know who we're going to take from this. I'm going to be real honest with you. I'm going to like just quickly look at the stats. I don't even know who's in these packs in all honesty. So let's reveal these items. All right, we got, I kind of want to take her. She's like goaded for Canada, man. I want to take Poulin. I'm not going to lie to you. Last X-Factor here, Hillary Knight. Some pretty good cards, but I think I do want to go Marie-Philippe Poulin. I think that's who we're going to go with. She gets up to an 86, or no, an 88. That's pretty good, man. I think this is an easy choice. We're going with Poulin. Next up, we got the Spotlight Player Choice pack. There are so many things to do, man. There are so many things to do. So let's see what's in here. Okay, we got White Cloud, we got David Pasternak, we got Trevor Zegris. I think we know all these cards already. Who is the best out of this bunch? That is a question. All right. I think I made my decision. I think we're going to go Boom Byram. I like using this card last year. If you get them up to an 88, man, this card looks pretty good. Even at an 84, man. 87 speed, 83 endurance. Kind of a decent shot. Not the greatest accuracy, but very powerful shot. I think Boom Byram was a play. I was torn between him and Jared McCann, dude. Former Leaf, Jared McCann at that. I mean, right away, he's at 89 speed. I think I want to go with a defenseman because I know down the road I'm not going to use this Jared McCann card. I'm probably going to find someone better. So I think the play definitely is Boom Byram. Welcome to the team. All right. Pre-order X Factor Choice pack. If I get Austin Matthews, we're obviously going with Austin Matthews. Matthews, McDavid and Mac aren't in this. Okay. Chats informing me that Matthews, McDavid and Mac aren't in this choice pack. Played it simple. Mitch Marner, welcome to the team. I think that was a pretty easy choice coming from a Leaf fan. I'm a mod in this Twitch chat. Welcome to the team. Mitch Marner looking at his card, dude. He gets up to, what, an 86 right away if you upgrade him. 88 speed. Good shot. I enjoyed using him last year. One of my favorite players on the Leafs. It was a no-brainer for me. All right. Now we're getting into the points here. So straight away, we're just going to get into the good packs. We got a Jumbo Elite pack, 20 items with at least 11, 80 plus overall players. Looking at the odds here, for an 86 plus is a 12%, not too bad, 39% for an 84, 92% for an 82. So we're hoping for the best out of these. All right. Here we go. First pack of NHL 23. Who's going to be the first player I pull? Let's see. Who is it going to be? It is going to be Eric Comrie. Interesting first player to pull in 23. Eric Comrie it is. Next one. All right. Jersey number. Mercer. Dude, honestly, I think he's going to be really good for New Jersey. A little decent base card, excited to use him. Teddy Bluger. Oh, God. Laugh. All right. Henry Yoki Haru, OK. Linus Almark, 82 overall, so that's the highest we've pulled so far of getting Dadinov. Spencer Knight, so we got a nice little gold, we're just pulling gold tenders here, Dylan Sips, Simpson, all right, this pack, John Gibson. We're just pulling goalies, I guess, in this pack, Adrian Kempe, and that is about it. So highest overall, John Gibson, it was a goalie pack, this one. All right. Second, we got what? We got three of these, so one more or two more jumbolee packs. That's good math for me, typical. Let's pull something better than an 83 and maybe just not gold tenders in this pack. That'd be great. So Chernak was the first player there. Anthony, OK, that's something. Anzac Copetart, 84 overall, I'll take that. I think I pulled them last year to start off the game too, slow as f***, but it is what it is. Good shot. What was his face off rating there? 84, it's not a bad pull. I'll take it Anzac Copetart. Oh, my God. It's another goalie, but it's a Vasilevski, our first purple. We pulled one, I'm going to take it right away. Second pack into the game, Vasilevski, best goalie in the world. I don't know what he goes for. I probably will use him to start off, but that's our first purple, man. Let's go, Vasilevski, we take a purple, we run with it, man. Brandon Tanev, nice. We take that. Hey, Leaf Legend, Andreas Jonsson, not with the devils. Well, they put them on waivers anyways. I don't know if he cleared it or not. Let's continue going here. Every time I see this blue, I think it's like an icon, man. It's something. TJ Yoshi, okay. All right, Ryan Shea, SL Lindell, Lake Coleman, all right. Not a bad pack, man. Dennis Gorianov as well. Honestly, a lot of players that are going to make the team, but the big one coming out of this one was Vasilevski, our first purple of the year. All right, last Jumbo Elite pack. Let's pull one more purple in this one, please and thank you. Nino Nito Rider, all right. Okay, that's a base icon, Lanny McDonald, Leaf Legend. Okay, look at that stash on him. Noah Hannafin in an 81 overall, not too bad. The Dab, Cam York, okay. Spencer Knight, we pulled them already, so that's our second Spencer Knight of the evening. Jordan Stahl in an 81 overall. Is that Nikita Gusev? It is Nikita Gusev. Oh my goodness, all right. Celebrations. I don't think we're pulling a purple in this one, Chat. Yeah, no. All right, Namestakov, our best pull was a duplicate of a Spencer Knight. Okay, we're on to the Elite pack, 580 plus overalls, 5.8% in 86 plus, 20% in 84. We get six of these, so let's do that real quick. Let's see if we can get in this first Elite pack. Packs have been pretty good to us so far. All things considered, Miles Wood, all right. Let's see if we can pull at least one more purple in this video. That'd be pretty nice. Oscar Clefbaum, all right, Penguins Jersey, Nick Letty. Oh, what's, is this a card if they crack the lineup, they get an 82 overall? I think it is. Neil's Lunkwist, I don't know if he's going to make the stars. It's a pretty good luck in a card, I mean I'll take it. Best pull in 81 at Clefbaum, it could be better, but it could be worse. All right, on to the next. We still got five of these ones. There's smaller packs, which is okay. I just like a good player, Brandstrom, that's all right, 80 overall, all right, let's keep a move in here. Charlie Coyle, all right, man, it looks like nothing else in this, Tanev and Darnell Nurse, who will probably crack the lineup, so not too bad. All right, come on, give me something in this one, Capitals Jersey. Jordan Kairu, dude, not a bad card. I'm actually, I actually want to try him out, so that's pretty good, 88 speed, it's a pretty good looking 82 overall, man, 88 passing, decent little shot, light the lamp, okay, and super starability, puck on a string, okay, so not too bad, we're going through the motions there of the tutorial, even though I know that stuff, Kevin the Bank. Oh, okay, we pull our first prime time of the year, 88 speed as well, looks like a pretty good card, we'll take him, another Darnell Nurse, and that's about it, not a bad puck, one of the better ones out of these ones, all right, well, this is our third one of these pucks, maybe, fourth one, Mikhail Sergachev, 81 overall, ooh, Mortsider, dude, I like that, I'm excited to try him out as well, looks like a decent little card, man, I'll take that, pretty cool little rookie, another base icon, own, tip it, Oscar Lindblum, and that is about it, that's a pretty good coach actually, so I'll take that as well, okay, we start off with a Charlie Coyle here, we pulled him already, and it's a Steven Stamcoes, welcome to the team, Mr. Steven Stamcoes, oh that's a good pull, distributor too, that's a very good pull, man, 89 speed, very good shot, that's a very good base card to pull right off the gate, Steven Stamcoes, welcome to the team, man, here we go, Ryan Merkley, anything else in this pack, that's probably gonna be our best pull, not Martin Leaf Legend, it's Mitchell Marner, it's Mitchell Marner, we can upgrade his X factor, it's Mitchell Marner, it's Mitchell Marner, it is him, it's my boy, it's my boy, it's just too easy, what a puck, like are you kidding me, what a puck, what a puck, dude, Marner and Stamcoes in one puck, crazy, man, I didn't think there was gonna be another good card in here, that is awesome, Mitch Marner, welcome to the team, we're just missing awesome, Matthews, first pack here, give me something good, I mean it's already been a very good pack opening, so I can't really complain to be honest, Aaron Eckblad, that's not bad, just we're building a good team, Cary Price, man, I feel like we've pulled every goalie in the game right now, honestly, Cary Price, not a bad pull, so 82 and an 83 in this one, Jordan Eberle, okay, Dante Fabro, Spencer Foo, Jake Muzzin, okay, Formington, not a bad-looking card there, this is a big boy pack, my god, we pull another base icon, is that what they're called, not too bad, Callie Yarncroak, he's at a 79, interesting, I feel like that's a little low, Kerflet, we can call this a leaf pack, throw Matthews in here and we're laughing, man, that's all I'm saying, two cards left, another base icon, is it Licky and a Chad Rude wheel, so not a bad pack, a big, like a lot of leafs in this pack, best pull being Cary Price and Eckblad, this is the last pack out of these, we pull in, he might make the line-up, so he might get up to an 82, that's pretty cool, I'll take that, can we pull anything higher than an 82 in this pack, back then, not bad, Brandon Tanem with that amazing pitcher, Clefbomb again, forget it, we're pulling a lot of duplicates, which is interesting, Josh Levo, what I'm talking about, it's another purple and it's a gold tender, but it's an eager Shrestakin, we can sell one of them, which is good, so that is good, that is good, we will take an Igor, hey, dude, two purples and one pack opening to start off the game is actually very good, we move, I love seeing that purple glow, man, it's beautiful, let's keep it going here, Nicholas Baxter made an 82, okay, not bad, Jesper Bratt, okay, oh, okay, Alex Carpenter, 84 overall, also notice at the top now, purples last year used to have a white tint to it, it's now purple at the top of the screen, so that's interesting, they changed that up, Andreas Jonsson, again, Jamal Myers, oh my god, that is a throwback, former Leaf as well, and that is about it for this pack, David Perron as well, so not a bad pack, couple 82's, and an 86 overall, you're Shrestakin, see if we can get a better than an 81 plus in this pack, Carter Hart, okay, I need him to have a good year, I have him on my fantasy team, we'll take a Carter Hart, it's another gold tender that we're probably not going to use, but for team builds it's just good, Gabe Landyskog, okay, not bad, again, he'll probably crack the lineup, man, he's not that fast, but he's got a very good shot, good pass and good puck control, good hand eye, good strength, we'll take an 84 Gabe Landyskog, we move Justin Hall, another Leaf there, I swear we've pulled every Leaf in the game, Andrew Kopp, I forgot he's on Detroit now, man, that's crazy, anything else in this pack, probably not, I'd assume after pulling that, all right, Manicheck, another gold tender, Victor Arvidsson, is he speedy this year, 87 speed, not bad, got the distributor as well, and that's it for this pack, let's take a look at what we pulled out of all those packs, we're saving 12k again because it's for the Monopoly series, but let's see what we pulled, honestly, not too bad, Vasilevsky, Shostakhin, we pulled Mitch Marner, Kopitar, Landyskog, Stamkos, Kobasu, it's a pretty decent pack opening, anyways guys for our first pack opening in NHL, not too bad, two purples, we pulled the Mitch Marner, good 85s, good 84s, couple good 83s, man, it's not too bad, I honestly can't complain, but guys that is it 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