If you are looking for a hockey checklist this is a good place to start, the checklists you will find here will also have images. Often the checklists here will be for products that don’t have teams associated or are a prospects product. For a hockey checklist sorted by the NHL teams you may want breakninja.com.
Major hockey trading card companies of today are Upper Deck and Leaf. Panini recently lost their NHL license and Leaf and ITG are unlicensed to produce the cards.
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One of Upper Deck’s more popular high end products is UD Ultimate Collection, featuring great autographs and very nice memorabilia it is always a big seller. Unfortunately, due to the 2012-13 NHL lockout, Ultimate could not be produced as a stand alone product and was forced to be a bonus pack included in tins of […]
Upper Deck The Cup is the premier product for the company. High end cards that feature autographs and memorabilia are extremely popular with collectors. This edition of the Cup did suffer from the lost rookie class, but the other cards in the set more than make up for it. There are plenty of short-printed and […]
Series 1 and Series 2 are Upper Deck’s flagship products, but the NHL lockout deeply damaged the product. For the 2012-13 collecting year Series 2 was cancelled completely, and Series 1 suffered greatly from the loss of a real rookie class. The product still offered its usual inserts, as well as a few extra kinds, […]
Prior to it’s high-end reboot Upper Deck’s Black Diamond brand focused mainly on short printed cards and limited autographs. The memorabilia that was included was small and mostly single colour jersey cards. It did not include gem pieces or manufactured patches, instead this was a mid-end product that targeted the average collector. Of special interest […]
UD Artifacts is the traditional first product of the collecting season for the company. This means that rookie cards, for the most part, come in the form of redemptions. For this reason the 2012-13 edition was probably the Upper Deck product least affected by the NHL Lockout. As a mid-end product Artifacts offers up a […]
2012-13 saw Upper Deck’s SP Game Used brand undergo a change of format. With this release SPGU now promised an autograph or memorabilia card in each pack. This was the first step towards the hit only product that we have today. Big pieces of memorabilia and stunning autographs were a major draw for this product, […]
SP Authentic remains one of Upper Deck’s more popular products. With several categories of autographs, as well as some nice patches, this is a product that more often produces actual value. The 2012-13 edition was, like all other products, hit by the cancellation of the NHL season. The loss of a rookie class meant that […]
The long awaited mystery redemption lists for new Upper Deck products have finally been released. The most anticipated of these is undoubtedly the 2016-17 Artifact list, which is now FULLY AVAiLABLE. 2016-17 Upper Deck Artifacts Redemption List Base Rookie Redemption Set 40 Cards – 1:9 Hobby Packs; 1;96 Blaster/Retail Packs Parallels: Emerald – 1:53 Hobby […]
Rookie Anthology is the catch all of Panini’s hockey products. It combines sets from several different brands into one name. This means that collectors can expect to find cards from various Panini products, giving them the chance at hits from several products, without having to buy multiple products. The 2012-13 edition was a little short […]
Panini Certified is your standard mid-range product. Offering up plenty of different inserts as well as multiple kinds of jersey card, this product fills the need for an everyday product that will be fun for kids and adults alike. Autographs in this product are most likely going to be sticker ones and the memorabilia will […]