There's still plenty of time on the clock before the Nov. 11 arrival of 2016-17 Leaf Ultimate hockey, but that's just more time to appreciate some of its inclusions.

Some pretty timeless inclusions.

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Buffalo Sabres star Jack Eichel is a Leaf Trading Cards exclusive when it comes to autographs, but the company is giving collectors a chance to get his ink on other company's hockey cards via an upcoming private signing.

According to the company, it's the only way to get non-Leaf cards signed as the former No. 2 pick will not sign them if asked to in-person.

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"Arnie's Army" is in mourning this evening.

Golf icon Arnold Palmer has died at age 87, leaving behind a legendary career and countless fans along with decades of memorabilia and memories. He's heavily credited with helping the sport grow on television, for his personable demeanor, his countless businesses and, of course, his performances against rivals.

“We loved him with a mythic American joy,” his biographer, James Dodson, told GolfWeek. “He represented everything that is great about golf. The friendship, the fellowship, the laughter, the impossibility of golf, the sudden rapture moment that brings you back, a moment that you never forget, that’s Arnold Palmer in spades. He’s the defining figure in golf.”

He won seven majors and 62 tournaments in his career and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004 -- and even that can be found among his trading cards.

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What: 2016 Leaf Pele Immortal Collection
Arrives: October
Box basics: One autograph per five-card box (five boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf celebrates soccer's biggest star, Pele, with a limited premium brand that includes an autographed card in every box.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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What: 2016 Leaf Ultimate hockey cards
Arrives: November
Box basics: Six autographs or memorabilia cards per box (six boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf brings Ultimate to the ice once again with what it says is "an unprecedented combination of autographed cards and rare memorabilia cards."

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What: 2016 Leaf Pop Century Signed Photograph Retail Edition
Arrives: October
Box basics: One autographed 8-by-10 photo per box (20 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf's latest buyback product for pop culture arrives on the retail front with certified autographed photos from the biggest names in Hollywood as well as big names from elsewhere.

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From time to time, Buzz will break a box of something and break down the results here. Like this and want to see more -- or maybe there's a box you'd want to see busted? Send Buzz an email at BlowoutBuzz@blowoutcards.com.

The box: 2015 Leaf Wrestling Autographed  8x10 Photograph Edition
Where to buy: BlowoutCards.com

Packs per box: 1
Photos in this box: 5
Base set completion: 
N/A
Duplicates: N/A

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Leaf is getting into the real-time trading-cards-on-demand trend with the launch of Leaf Live after the death of actor Gene Wilder.

Announced late Tuesday night, Leaf Live will focus on events that collectors want a piece of on cardboard.

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What: 2016 Leaf Lumber Kings hockey cards
Arrives: October
Box basics: Four stick cards per box (10 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf takes another look back to the past with nothing but hockey sticks the sources of memorabilia cards in this release, which "features the most-comprehensive checklist of any stick-focused product ever."

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He was Willie Wonka, he was Dr. Frankenstein. He was that and so much more.

Gene Wilder's roles were both eclectic and memorable and they helped entertain in comedies for all ages in TV and movie roles that spanned more than five decades. He died on Sunday in Connecticut after suffering complications from Alzheimer's disease. He was 83.

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What: 2016 Leaf Metal Draft baseball cards
Arrives: November/December
Box basics: Six autographs per box (12 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf Trading Cards brings back Metal with the lowest print run in the history of the product -- fewer than 200 cases will be made.

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What: 2016 Leaf Perfect Game All-American Classic baseball cards
Arrives: December 2016
Box basics: Eight autographs per box (15 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf takes the Perfect Game All-Americans and creates their own brand with patch autos and Metal autos in boxes that have nothing but the hits inside.

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What: 2016 Leaf Perfect Game National Showcase baseball cards
Arrives: October 2016
Box basics: 25 autographs per box (15 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf makes the Perfect Game a big box with nothing but hits and one of the most-limited ones, too, with just 99 cases made.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Superfractors from 2016 Topps Chrome, Immaculate breaks, digging into Leaf Pop Century and more.

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If you hadn’t noticed, there are a number of boxes with discounted prices this weekend as part of a 64-hour flash sale over on the mothership and they were dramatic enough that Buzz had to sit down and ponder the possibilities in many of them.

So much so here are five boxes that caught this collector’s eye.

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The Atlanta Braves have the worst record in baseball but they'll be one of the most-watched teams when it comes to hobbyists the rest of this season thanks to a call-up that appears to have paid off pretty well on Wednesday night.

Former No. 1 overall draft pick Dansby Swanson arrived and went 2-for-4 with a pair of singles in his big-league debut. The home-state star's promotion is about more than just performance, though, as less than 10 months ago, he was a member of the Arizona Diamondbacks organization -- and now he's immediately one of the faces of a franchise aiming to rebuild. It's a franchise with plenty of hobby favorites in the past and it doesn't hurt that there's a new stadium coming next year, too.

Now, the questions come about cardboard. Will this Rookie Cards now be included in 2017 Topps Series 1 and 2017 Topps Heritage? We don't know that yet -- but we do know he's among today's Topps Now stars on a call-up card -- not once but twice.

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What: 2016 Leaf Autographed Football Helmets
Arrives: October
Box basics: One autographed full-sized helmet per box (three boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf offers "the return of one of the most popular and innovative packaged memorabilia items of all time" with every box yielding either a Hall of Famer, current NFL star or rookie, past stars and even "a few more surprises."

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The 37th National Sports Collectors Convention is nearly here and, while Atlantic City, N.J., will be the center of the collecting universe, we have to note that the BlowoutCards.com booth (No. 1,220) will be the epicenter of the show at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Why?

Well, some of those boxes -- and cases -- in our 18 pallets of stuff out on the show floor are part of the largest Blowout giveaways yet in our history at the show. (And show veterans should already know how big they've been in the past ... this time we're stealing the show.)

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Via @paniniamerica: We are here! Set-up has begun for the @nsccshow #NSCC16

The National Sports Collectors Convention is nearly here and the months of preparation are culminating in the show of all shows for sports collectors the next five days in Atlantic City, N.J.

There will be plenty to see, plenty to do and plenty to buy and Buzz has been watching the developments the whole way. We'll have galleries of images from the show floor and a few nuggets here and there in the coming days but there's already been plenty written leading up to the show that you can all find right here.

Here's a rundown of all past NSCC stories here on The Buzz ...

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What: 2016 Leaf Greatest Hits football cards
Arrives: October-November (TBD)
Box basics: Four buyback cards and one Predictor card per box (two boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf expands upon its buyback products with the arrival of this one, which celebrates everything that's great about football cards."

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are five threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: More big breaks, Leaf Pop Century, collecting vs. investing and The National.

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What: 2016 Leaf Autographed Football Jersey Edition
Arrives: October
Box basics: One autographed jersey per box (eight boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf brings the fabric of the game to the blind-wrapped football memorabilia niche with "an unprecedented selection of athletes including Hall of Famers, superstars of years past, today's best players and hot rookies."

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What: 2016 Leaf Memorabilia Vault
Arrives: December 2016
Box basics: Ten memorabilia pieces per box.

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf Trading Cards follows up its Memorabilia Vault release of last year with plenty of the same type of surprises inside one massive box -- a mix of items from the sports world and beyond.

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What: 2016 In The Game Used hockey cards
Arrives: Aug. 3
Box basics: Five memorabilia cards per box (10 boxes per case)

What's buzz-worthy: Leaf's celebration of vintage hockey memorabilia returns once again with some of the biggest names in the history of the game and legends that you don't see on game-used cards all that often.

Keep reading for more and a full gallery of images.

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He's the co-founder of Nike and its now-retired chairman of the board. He's a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame. He's probably the only shoe tycoon many people know -- at least one who never played in the NBA.

He's Phil Knight ... and even he has a certified autograph for collectors to chase now that he's in the news.

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