FIN/NHL 1995-96 Finnish SISU Limited - No 68 - Reijo Ruotsalainen

This 108-card set is the first super-premium issue released in Europe. The cards are printed on 24-point stock and picture the elite athletes of the Finnish SM-Liiga. Production was announced as 7,500 individually numbered boxes. Each box contained 18, 5-card "packs". These packs were actually boxes themselves, and pictured either Saku Koivu, Teemu Selanne or Esa Tikkanen. The card fronts have a color photo of the player over his ghosted close-up in the background. The back contains another photo as well as a brief bio in Finnish and the Leaf trademark. Several NHLers who played here during the 1994 lockout are featured, including Selanne, Jari Kurri, and Koivu. The Koivu Line super chase card was randomly inserted 1:219 and was serial numbered out of 720.